The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-27

"They never come back?
 That's one of sportdom's favoritc ex- pressions which is shattered by fre- ouent happenings in every field of ath- letic endeavor.
 Jake Daubert, of the Dodgers, was labelled as "all in' during the 1917 season. His legs were reported as gone and his batting eye was "dinmed forever" And now in 1918 A. D. this same baseball wreck" is fielding in brilliant fashion and travel ing the baselines at express train speed.
 Hal Chase was sold by the Yanks
 to the White SoX, played in only so-so fashion for them and then Hal jumped to the Feds. He played good baseball there, but when the Feds quit opera tions, Hal was jobless. His Fed own CTS tried to sell him to some major league club. Garry Hermann decided to take a chance on him.
 Don't do it." Garry was advised. That guy is all through" But Garry bought Hal-and Hal led the National league swatsmiths in 1916 and today is ranked as one of the greatest of first basenen. Cactus Cravath was labeled "all through" by the major league clubs of 1909. So he went to the minors, lin gered there for three seasons and then performed startling comeback" with the Phillies Just the other day Cra- vath eclipsed the circuit clouting re- ord of Hans Wagner by hitting out his 101st homer.
 Larry Doyle was chased as through" when the 1918 season came along, and almost everybody who is anybody in baseball said right out loud that Fred Merkle's day was done. But right now Doyle is the leading swatsmith in the No md To ic [ ner-up with .375 or so. After hitting beyond 300 for eleven seasons, the mighty Lajoie slumped to | .299 in 1907 and dropped to .2ss in 1908.
 'Larry's through" the wise ones an- nounced.
 And then Larry showed 'em up with .S24 in 1909, 1884 in 1910, .365 in 1911. .S6S in 1912 and 1885 in 1913. Jack Coombs discarded by Connie Mack in 1914, is now one of the Dodg- CTS mainstays. Rube Marquard through 1916, 1917 and again this sea- son, Is classed among the best left handlers in John Tener's league. a1- though in 1915 John McGraw turned 1 him adrift.
 Jim Vaughn, the most dependable twir1er in the Cubs roster, was yro- nounced "all in' by the Yankees and Senators in 1912 and was showed off to the minors.
 'Rube" Bressler. an Athletic discard came back from the bushes to rank as one of the best Rhineland hurlers. Leon Ames, given the gate by the Giants and Reds. is starring for the Cards. Two years later he went to the minors. He came back in 1913, and his work for the next season as a Tiger shot the they dor't come back" target to tall cum, powder. 'lH"W
 
 dred and more baseball comebacks.
 A racehorse breaks down.
 They don't come back" assert the wise ones. But they're wrong. Turf history is rich with sto-inc oe "~~---~- backs" of horses thought to be "all in- which, under intelligent nanu,iil, i aided by a rest, performed the sup posedly unexpected.
 Among the most famous comebacks was that of Old Rosebud. As a t,yo- year-old he was champion In one of the early races of his three-year old career he broke down. It seemed that he would be crippled permanently. But in 1917 the champion of champions on the American turf was Old Rose- bud. With mended leg and the benefit of a long vacation Old Rose- bud came back, tussled with the speeGi- est and most perfect ho-ses in train fng--and he beat them all!
 In 1901 and again in 1903 William A. Tarned won the national tennis cham pionship. Five seasons elapsed-and Iarned failed to regain his title The they don't come back" element wore T told you so" expressions. But in 1907 Larned won not only the national championship but also the all-comers title and followed these victories by successfully defending the national chamnionship through 1908, 1909. 1910 and 1911.
 Frank Gotch won the wrestling championship from Tom Jenkins He rave Jenkins a return bout--and Jon Sins got back his crown. Then Gotch
 ured Jenkins into another match and turned the tables. Later Gotch was defeated by Fred Beer. Given chance against his conQueror a few weeks