Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-04
AS MFTELD CHANGES
LIKE OIL QUOTATIONS
Not One Guardian OF Inner
Defense Who Started
1919 Season in Mack
Line-Up at This Time
TWO OF SEVEN REMAIN
BY EDWIN j. POLLOCK

fNHE1 say Connie Mack tore down his
1914 ball club. How about his 1919
ball club? A mere skeleton remains of
the team that began the campaigning
for the AS down in Washington on
April 23. There is n brand new in
field in the box score. OF tie seven
infielders and outielders wh3 started
two are left. These are Whitley Witt
and Nanny Kopp. Roth and Shan
non have been traded. Burns, Thomas
and Dugan are sick. Walker did not
play opening day.
The personnel Of the daily Mack line
UP changes ike OIL stock quotations.
az. The way way Mack has traded during the last
being chucked around from club to club Mt
present, any one Is liable to think it's
Heine Groh who is third baslng for the
-, pMladciphions p are as accustomed to scctno
the As inde'd as thcu arc Of seeing the
Presidents name linked tCith Kid Norfolk.
Game Thrown Away
TT WAS this very infield that kicked
Il victory toward Al Sothoron and the
st. Louis Browns Saturday. OF the
hve Burke runs two were earned re-
sulting from home run swat off Bill
Jacobson's bat. Both OF the AS tallies
were untainted. A pair of boots by
Whitley Witt and wild chuck bv
Terry Turner opened the way to admit
three western counters.
At that: Harry Dduts isn't sprinpino ann
comedy tsIe1t he puts witt before the public
at the Keystone.
b. Lew . Groh may he, he good bal peycr; but
better man than Lew IL. Hcne Groh
Errors hcl3cd JiT,ly Burke go north In
the percentage table Saturday with Soth-
oron pitching.
Anent Luderus
TT Is pleasing fact that in the season
l. he surpnsses the worlds record for
play in consecutive games. Fred I.ud-
erus. veteran Of thirty three summers,
is hitting the ball at a spcedier clip than
he has in stretch Of four years. Right
now Iudy is playing better than he has
at any time since the Phils copped
the flag in 1915. He is playing a fair
fielding game and is soaking the ball at
.293. Four seasons ago he was knock
ing out .315.
In these prohibition days. Fred Luderus
Is the guy making Milwaukee famous.
Both &c Gene Pauette and Ludy are playing
him?
.Brnliant as Ludvs long run Is. IT doesn't
Compare 1Uth the lengthy dash OF one johnny
HGvcs at London in 1913.
Herzog Champ Wanderer
DUCK IIERZOG, who has just been
- traded to the Cubs for Pick and
Mann, has wandered around the Ma
tional League circuit in a variety of
uniforms. In 1905 when he was a col
legian playing with the University of
Maryland he was given a trial by the
Phillies. Three years later he started
his big league career with the Giants
In 1910 he was traded to the Braves
ana the following season he was back
with the Giants. In 1914 he was sent
to the Reds and the next year he became
manager. Nineteen sixteen saw him
back with McGraw and during the last
campaign he was with the Braves.
1$oW ue CnlcagOan.
Herso0 Is touched neither bu time nor er.
Derfence. He's been IN the biz leaoues eioreu
Ieors and yet he's a Cub. wv 81"
II George, stsllings could uncover a re-
'cruit named Shovel. he'd have an ideal
worklng combination in Mann, Pick and
some Victories. Wy
National League clubs will find the rubs
stronger when they try to Buck Mersog,
Pat Gets Outflelder
DAT MORAN has obtained IN out
- fielder to plug up the hole in left
held. Cueto. the Cuban, and q consid- =.
cradle amount of coin was turned oyer
to Rochester for Charley See, who is
leading the International League in hit