New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
Alexander Signing
Players "Ouev There +"
Great Pitcher Has Gathered
Six Of Them Into the
Big League Net
By w. ]. Macbeth

Major league players OF experience
who are IN the service, either actively
engaged abroad or in training camps in
this country. will have an opportunity
TO turn their experience to account in
case the war ends this season.
Such competent experts as Grover
/ Cleveland Alexander and Johnny Evers
write from France that the national
game over there the past season dis
closed the fact that the overseas forces
simply bristled with gems Of "purest
ray serene" whose light had been hid
den under bushel before regimentsl
pride prompted them to disport their
wares publicly.
Alexander has already signed no less
than half a dozen such embryo stars
for Fred Mitchell's Cubs, the lot includ-
ing couple of pitchers and several
heavy hitting outfelders. Evers de
! clares the class of the better army
mines superior to that of even the
better known minor leagues What
holds good for France should hold
equally good In many Of the training
camps here, for al the colts As yet
have not been sent overseas.
Majors Keep in Touch
Certain it Is that several major
leagues have been keeping in touch
with the talent at our homo training
institutions. Rags" Faircloth. West
ern Association pitcher with the Great
Lakes Training School. has bean tenta-
bvf fu~ uav lv,~
ager of the Cardinals, who IS soon to
go to France for the Knights of
! Columbus
Faircloth, who won twenty-eight
| games and lost eight with McAllister
/ last season. says at least dozen OF
/ his acqualntances in the big training
camp have been interviewed by big
league scouts. Joe Doyle. . third base
man of the same camp, has actually
signed with the Cardinals, his contract
stipulating that he shall report to ST.
/ Louis Immediately he is mustered out
of the service.
Most Of the major league clubs have
I several players in active service These
VIII be in position to get good line
on players capable of making good in
fast company. Baseball owners pay
boys who dig up diamonds in the rough
may count upon being rewarded accord
ingly.
Military service on the part of base
ball players should greatly smooth the
1,ounles n OF major league managers
Discipline Is the keynote of army or
navy life and there has been a most
lamentable lack of dsci pine in base
I ball ever since the Federal League
! took the field. Furthermore, even the
highest saiaried stars are likely better
TO appreciate than formerly the easy
lie of the pampered athlete as witness
the following screed from Corporal
bennie Kauff. Giant slugeer. now sta
toned at Camp Sherman. Ohio:
For the first two weeks of nv train
lgg at Camp Sherman" writes Bennie
was as thoroughly dissatisfied
rookie as ever wore khaki.
hen the thing reached out and took
hold on me that takes hold of every
selected man who is not Stacker at
heart, and now wouldn't change places
WIN any man on earth. I'm where 7
pelong- That thought makes II easv
LOT me 70 DO lot of things you couldn't
baseball players have a pretty easy
'ime. It's different in the army. You
rise at command, go to bed at command
ana oeVotc most of the Intervening
rlme dong things at command. For
"hile FOUND 1t hard TO adjust rnvseIf
70 'hIs constant discipline. but after
snort time 1t became second nature"
ne racing programme at Pimlico to
Gay IS an especially attractive ono and
the New York colony will 90 down IN
aorce Tor the week end one Of the
post important two year-old stakes of
ne Eastern racing season will feature
me programme. In addition there is
ene flmllco Remount Breeding Purse.
~ ~ "nlch the army is intere sted. and
sne Green valley Steeplechase Handi
cap, which has attracted the be.+ re
the timber toppers.
Inc feature race, however yh;.h
calis the crack two-year- Of Tho
season to the post for a mile comnet;
Ion, is of itself we'll worth the trIn 70
baltim ore Only one thing is lacking
20 make this one of the truly great turf
events OF the year. That is the prea-
ehce OF Eternal, which beat Billy Kelly
~ ;;t me special race at Laurel. The ma
4orlty OF turf experts are IF thp onir-
ION that, great as he *. Eternal 0p,m, pr
more more through superior horsernanship
man man class Il was hoped that Mr.. Nc
LELAND would match his great col.
against Billy Kelly and the other pood
ones 3.S today over the mile route.
ne alden, however, will not lack for
c'ass II an those nominated 20 to the
post CoIfmanderJ J. K L. Ross eyiJen,i,.
intends to see just how good his recert
s."go-year-oid purchases from A
nacomDer ". are, for he has named botb
ar remnant and War Marvel 70 sion
IN company with the great Billy KeIJy
IN y m his colors in this particular eIass;c
biNy Kelly has been asked 70 skoulder
~ heaVy 1m5gost OF i32 pounds. Other
ZOO, yooe ones likely TO start are Cirrms
Mormon: Milkmaid, Translate NJ
Halter, Be Frank and Thundsrs,arr. ~o