New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-02
Only Two Men
Left OF Giants
Old Champions
Burns and Sallee on Team
When McCraw Won His
Last Pennant i'm 1917
By r. !. Kellv

1t is only four years since the Giants
Won their last pennant. or the twenty
three players eligible 60 represent the
New York National League Club in the
approaching worlds series. only two
took part in the annual classic, in 1917,
and only two others have had previous
experience in any other worlds series.
George Burns and Slim Sallee were
members Of the Giants in 1917, when
the local team went down to defeat
before the Chicago White Sox.
Dave Bancroft was the star of the
Notwithstanding Phillics, in 1915, and
casey Stengel was member of the
Dodgers when they captured the league
championship in 1915. Of the four
players mentioned, only two-.Bancroft
ana Burns-are expected to play a
prominent part in the coming clash
with the Yankees. The other members
OF the team have not been tested under
the FIRE of worlds series
Bancroft started his baseball career
with the Duluth club Of the Minnesota
Wisconsin League in 1909. He Joined
the Superior Club of that league in the
by the Portland Club Of the Pacific
Coast League in 1912. Three years
later he was purchased by Pat Moran
then manager of the Phillies, and he
proved the find of that season.
Traded for Art Fletcher
Bancroft remained with the Phillies
until the middle of last season. when
he was traded to the Giants for the
veteran Arthur Fletcher. Bancroft is
five feet eight and half inches tall,
weighs about 145 pounds and is twenty
nine years of age
Burns first came to the Giants in
1912, having been obtained from the
Utica Club Of the New York State
League. He became the regular left
fielder in the following year, and had
played there ever since until he was
shltted to center field, after the acoui-
sltion of Emil Meusel from the Phillies
IN the midst of the present campaign.
with the exception of Bancroft, the
Giants infeld consist of players who
nave had only few years experience
in the major league. George Kelly, the
first baseman, after receiving several
previous try-outs with the team, was
again recalled by the club from the
Rochester team of the International
League in 1918 and has been a regular
since the start of last season. johnny
rawlings, the second baseman, played
with the Braves during the early part
o. 1920 and was later sent to the
Phillies in the trade that brought Ban
croft to New York. He came to the
Giants in the middle of this season in
another transfer that sent Goldie Rapp
to the Phillies. Ff
Frank Frisch, the brilliant third
oaseman, is the only member of the
Team who is local product. He es-
,aollshed quite a reputation as col
lege player while with the Fordham
University rino II, I
signed by the Giants at the end Of the
collegiate season. Scarcely more than
a month later he became a regular and
mas remained one ever since.
Inc Giants catching burden during
the coming series will be divided be.
tween Frank Snyder and Earl Smith
the former veteran Of mauv a cam
paign and the latter comparative
youngster Snyder played with the St.
Louis Cardinals from 1914 until the
spring of 1919, when he was sold to
the Giants. Smith was obtained from
the Rochester club in 1918,
Young Succeeds Robertson
Ross Young, the Giants right fielder.
was obtained from the Sherman cluh
of the Western Association in 1916 but
was turned over to Rochester in 1917
and then recalled in the following year.
J Dung became the regular right fielder
in 1913, when Davey Robertson refused
to report to the club
Emil MeusePs first major league en-
gagement was with the Chicago Cubs
in 1917. He was sold to the Los An
geles club, of the Pacific Coast League,
in the midst of that season and was
purchased by the Phillies in 1913. with
whom he remained until last summer,
when he was traded to the Giants.
OF the Giants first string pitchers
Fred Toney is the oldest in point of
major league service, having first
joined the Cubs in 1911. He was with
Cincinnati in 1915, 1915 and 1917, and
on July rs of the following year he
was sold to the Giants. Arthur Nehf,
Nc Graw's star southpaw, first signed
with the Boston Braves in 1915. the
year after that club won the worlds
championship. He came to New York
on august il, 1919
Phil Douglas began his career with
the Chicago White Sox in 1912. He
has since been with the Cincinnati,
Chicago, Brooklyn and New York Ma
tional League clubs. He came to the
Giants from the Cubs in 1919. Jess
Barnes joined the Braves in 1915 and
was traded to the Giants in 1918 in
the deal which involved Larry DOYLE.
HerzOc and cayarat xl,nor.