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about; ability. personality, which also
Is identified with the faculty of being
talked about.
| These faculties are not necessarily
given in the order of their Importance
Perhaps ability comes first. Yet abil-
| ity alone will not make star. unless
of the transcendant ability of Cobb,
| Speaker, Johnson, Sisler, Maranville
| and Alexander. The star must scintil-
late. The more qualifications he has,
as in the case of Cobb, with his skill,
personality and effective limelight
ways, the brighter he scintillates.
Your star must be one whom you
would unhesitatingly and with all con-
viction pick out for the top of the
three sheet. In doing that you wouldn't
pick out every fine player you thought
of, but only those who have something,
intangible and hard to define though
it may be, beyond being a fine player.
Here, then, are the real stars OF
baseball. There are no others. No
others, much as it may jar you to leave
some of them out, qualify for the
charmed circle:
! American league-Cobb. Speaker,
Ruth, Sisler, johnson, Collins, Baker.
| National Observation-Disclosures, Vaughn,
Gowdy (will be this year, because of
popularity gained in the service),
Kauff. Chase, Maranville, Groh.
That's all. First base, second base,
shortstop, third base, the outfield and
the pitchers box are represented.
There is no catching star of the emil
nence of Ewing, beyond peradventure
the best backstop of all time; King,
Archer, Martin Bergen or Bushong
By the very dray-horse nature of the
work, much of a catcher's native eff
} fulgence is dimmed. He is there to be
pounded and doesn't have opportunity
! to release brilliance, as do the more
exposed and less hampered occupants
of other positions.
So a catcher, to be star, must have
rare personality or extraordinary abil-
ity. Killifer, O'Neill and Schalk, the
best present day catchers, are crack a
lacks, but though they have exception
al ability-not as much as Ewing, Ber-
gen or King. Further, they aren't
talked about, they don't impress them
selves; their names aren't on the
tongues of the fans, as were those OF
the luminaries mentioned, who have
gone before.
Cobb has all the qualifications. His
mechanical ability is extraordinary;
his personality is supreme; everybody
knows who Ty Cobb is. Fans pay
their way through the gates to see hin
play and some come only when he
plays. A few years back Mathesor
was the brightest star in baseball. To.
day Cobb is.
Speaker is popular, card and thu
best outfielders in the game. Witt
his skill he is swift, graceful and a fin,
player on offense. Baseball abilit,
rather than personality, though he Il
not without the latter. make him
star. Ruth has q stalwart, aggressive
= brute strength personality, is a gian
= in skill and physique, is one of the bes
: pitchers and with a free ,murderin,
;. swing and unbounded confidence cal
= lam the everlasting wadding out of
= baseball He is sensation, and n,
man on the ball field is so nearly tn
, center of attention, except Cobb, a
Ruth.
. Sisler is less on personality thai
6 skill, but he possesses more natura
skill, albeit without the fire and man
nerisms to make the most of it, thai
+ any other player in either league. Hi
h physical skill is so great and REVEALS
q in such a clear -cut, though unaffecte
a way, that 1t alone has created a per
: sonal following of entrance fee produ
= GERS.
~ Johnson, like Alexander, is peerless
as a pitcher, and the two, unassumine
G workmanlike and utterly withou
n grandstand ideas. do their work witt
q such pleasing, artistic ease and thor
Il oughness as to be indelibly stampe
n master" Ruth, Alexander, johnson
: and Vaughn are the pitching stars.
a Vaughn enters the class because h
has the ability, because he is car
and because he is fine figure of
man In the box, with a boyish grac
8 and placid indifference to the multi
s tude all his own and all the more ap
: pealing to the multitude because Q
: that seeming placid Indifference. Whe
8 1t Is known that Ruth, johnson, Alex
h ander or Vaughn is to pitch the at
II tendance increases.
Collins can do everything well 1