Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-07
YOUNG BASEBALL
PLAYERS ARE IN
DEMAND, CLAIM
Well Balanced Teams I'm:
possible on Account OF SO
Little New Talent Being
Developed at Present.
nv GEORGE CHADWICK.

fspeciai Dispatch to Morning Journail
Copyright 1921 by Albuquerque Journnn
New York. Nov. eff there
were a hundred and fifty young
and fairly promising ball players
scattered around the United States
| presume that every one OF them
could get q position nov with a
major league club" said Charles
". Ebbetts, owner OF the Brook
lyn team. when he was asked
about the outlook for next years
players.
~ think the New York Ameri-
can league will make some chang
es in 1922, but 7 am only speak
ing in a general way" said Col TIL
Huston, Of that club. 1--WE are al
ways looking for good ball play
ers. My motto is to have as good
men in reserve as you have regu-
lars and to have plenty being
brought up In the primary schools
7 wish we had more In 1921.
Gould one hundred young
players find q chance this COM
ing year If they were good? The
surest thing you know. I venture
to say they could find it any year
If they were good enough"
There Is always an opening for
a young ball PLAYER" said Barney
Dreyfuss, Of Pittsburgh, "but
where are they? Where are the
young ball players who will meet
the expectations Of those who have
been fed on major league baseball
for the last quarter century? You
tell me where they are and I'll get
after them"
1.-THE western teams can stand
plenty of new talent in both
leagues" said Garry Hermann
There has been so little new tai
ent since the war that we cannot
put the same we'll balanced teams
In the game that we did before
1914"
"In what position In baseball is
least prepared OF all?" was asked
of Wilbert Robinson, the Brooklyn
manager.
Everywhere" he replied, with a
sweeping gesture of his hands.
Then he proceeded to answer in
detail. at Is always the pitchers"
he continued. There never is
enough of them and there never
will be. There never has been a
time in the history of baseball, IL
you stop and look back, when you
could say that every club In the
major leagues had we'll balanced
lot of pitchers.
Suppose that each club had
only two pitchers. Will you tell me
of year when there were sixteen,
two pitchers to each team, and
each pair about as good as the
others? Only sixteen, mind you,
You cannot remember such a
year and neither can I. That is my
specific reply, then, to your ques.
tion. Always pitchers. Let 800
boys grow up together and see how
many will make good pitchers pro.
viding you were training them es-
pecially to be pitchers. You'd be
lucky IL you got six. I don't re-
member how many pitchers I
have caught and how many I have
tried in my baseball days, but /
can name the really good ones on
the fingers of both hands. The
National league hasn't a Mathew
son today but here is this Kii
Hoyt getting away from the Ma
tional league right under the
noses of everybody and pitching
baseball nearer right than any
kid Of his years since before the
war. If there were fifteen more
like him what do you suppose
they would be worth to baseball
clubs that could get hold Of them?
Thirty thousand dollars a pitcher
as pitchers go now. But you
wouldn't get all the clubs to pay
that amount because they haven't
got 1t to pay"
els there any way by which ball
players can be transferred from
one club to another without SELL
ing their services exactly as you
would chattels?" the writer asked
Of man not club owner but
who Is a deep student of baseball
problems.
"Yes," he replied; "release them
outright, Just as they do in other
businesses"
what effect would II have II
the players were not sold?"
''1t would make the managers
earn their salaries" he growled
"A manager nowadays has a snap.
He buys them ready made"
What clubs will stand pat for
1927" was asked of a scout for
one Of the major league clubs.
Not a darned club" he replied.
unless II is the Giants, and they
are likely to 60 after players II
they can get anything which will
lnnk big In nrinf and come hiph In