Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-14
MINOR TRYOUTS
HAVE NOW ENDED
Annual Pilgrimage Back to the
Bushes is Taking Place;
Yankees Ship Nineteen.

Chicago. June 1.-THE annual try
out of scores OF minor league baseball
PLAYERS by ma jor lague teams has end
cd and the youngsters who failed to
make good have poined in the yearly
pilgrimage back to the minors for
further experience, some 10 return for
another chance next year, but many
to remain in the bushes.
Every season two or three hundred
youngsters are taken on the spring
training trips by managers hopeful
Of finding at least one Cobb. one Sisler
or one Walter Johnson among them,
but when May 3, the day the clubs
must reduce TO 25 players each, comes
around the tryouts are ended. and
most Of the youngsters are back in the
minors.
This year sixteen major league clubs
have sent 161 men back 10 the lower
leagues for seasoning. Most of them
are pitchers, for the heavy batting Of
the past two years has sent managers
and scouts scurrying to even the
smallest leagues in the hope of finding
one or two good hurlers. but there is
also a good proposition of outfielders
and a fair number of infielders and
catchers.
The New York Americans, with nine
teen recruits sent back, lead both
leagues, in the number of players
found wanting. Manager Huggins
kept only a few of his youngsters and
with the exception of his pitching staff
is depending almost entirely on his last
years team.
The Chicago White Sox, crippled by
the loss of eight stars through the
baseball scandal, took nearly fifty men
south, but nineteen of the new players
have found to be below major league
caIibre and sent back 10 the minors.
The White Sox, however, probably
have kept more youngsters than any
other club. Sheely, Falk, Johnson, Null
ligan and A1ostiI being recruits who
have earned regular positions in the
broken up club.
The Chicago Cubs were third in
youngsters sent back: Seventeen of
the men tried out by Manager Evers
were found wanting. The Philadelphia
Americans came next with fifteen
| turned back Washington occupies q
/ position unique among the major
! leaguers, for not man has been re-
/ leased. Manager George Mcbride
started the season with a small mum
Der Of players and is holding all OF
them.
Virtually all of the men released
Were recruits, although there We're
few veterans, such as Nick Cullop Of
the St. Louis Browns, who has playee
} 1.,ta 1osaor ptlshG nnla
/ to eventually return TO the minors
each time. Don Ayers and Bernie
! Boland were others who might be
classed as veterans. Both We're re-
LEASED by Detroit, but Boland is get
ting another tryout with st. Louis.
/ Many of the youngsters tried out this
year were fresh from college and the
/ number Of semipros given chances in
/ the ma iors each season seems 10 be in
/ creasing. At least one of the college
/ men has more than made good. He IL
/ Stephenson Of Cleveland who came
I from the University Of Alabama tc
1 play second base when Bill Wambs-
ganns broke an arm, Stephenson rank,
in the first ten batters in the league
and has a good fielding record.
A ma jority of the players released
were sent back to the minors witt
strings attached and win get another
chance in the majors next year. Sorhs
Of them already have had severa
| chances. but these men are Away.
cheered up by the numerous instance:
they had several tryouts in the senior
Of players who did not make good unit
! circuits and then became stars.