The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-30
HUCCINS FINDS 0UTFELD STAR
 HARD TO LAND

New York, Jan 3o--There may be harder tasks in baseball today than finding an available top-Cankiny out fielder, but you can't convince Miller Hugyins.
 Higgins has tried 1t, Is trying It now, in fact, but he has had no more success than the melancholy youth of the song who vainly pur- sued the pretty rainbowa
 An outfie3d headIiner on the hoof at current market prices Is worth his weight in sugar. But 1t is not the cost that concerns Miller Higgins He has 9 bulging bankxOu at his disposal and abundant player ma .tzrial with which to barter
 The trouble appears to be the un- precedented shortage of first class outneader-a condition now looming as a menace to the future Of the sport Where once the game knew many high grade outf1e1ders today they are fewer than the once nu1- ttudious auk-
 Naturally major league managers who have such players are not per hitting rival leaders to flirt with | them, no matter what the price Amid the heiter skeIter scramble to fortfy all clubs against the approaching seampaign, the management tendency is to hold tight to all good players particularly the outhe1derSs pitchers and catchers.
 So HuEgdns has sent forth an alert posse not only to search the major league trail but to go far into the hinterland of the sportthe minors ito find an outf1elder of sufficient skill 10 fit in with Duffy Lewis and Babe Ruth
 There are half a dozen outheldera in the American League Huggins would like to buy OF obtain in a trade, but thus far they are not pro- c1rabIe- However, tho Yankee chief Is putting forth every effort to get the man he wants. Who he is we know not
 Now that the Tobin bubble, that scared prom1singly for a few days, has gone bIooey, Huggins has switch ed his guns in another direction Word comes from the West he is keenEy interested in an outfielder o1 the Chicago White Sox- The names of Happy Felsch, one of the greates' 1ielders in the sport, and Memo Lei bold, the best 1ead-of man in tho American League, have geen men t1oned- Hug professes to know noth- ing about it
 The Chicago report, so far as T Il 44OnCPTnS AG1DCIGY 1S A0G4OSAAS pAdA- sfbIe- Higgins Is as poor as Jobs Turkey m lead off men The Tanks need speed They need far ranging eutAedder. a player already seasoned lin the major league game, one to col 1aborate at the outset with Lewis and Ruth without additional training Huggins, aiming flush at the pennant cannot df1fy daily with experiments He rnnss have an outhelder who ca.l deliver without delay - deliver both afead and at the bat
 All this LefooId could do. unqueS fionab9y. He has been reared fEs tfae Soxan school, is cool as a Siberian Blizzard in & pinch and would give f5ae Yankee outf1eld just the required touch of class
 | Beyond Ruth and Lewis, if the faf' fer te signed, Huggins will not taks s particularly impressive group 0 rzrfae1d candidates to Jacksonville The .,rotaaole retirement Of Baker fs1rtherrnore, makes most urgent an other efficient batsTnan in in ouc field
 Consider for instance, the outfeif candidates Wick has had two sea sons of long trials but has not ye
 arrived Nor has he shown anythfn beyond a crude ability to hit earl season pitching upon which to oas
 hopes of his future development