Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-19
MINOR LEAGUE PLAYERS
RECEIVE ANNUAL TRY0UT
Few Recruits Retained by Major
Clubs, hut 1G1 Arc
Returned.
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CHICAGO. June lS.-The annual
,ryout Of scores OF minor league base
ball players by major league teams
has ended. and tho youngsters who
failed to make good have Jjinci in
the yearly pilgrimage back TO tho
minors Cor further experience. some
TO return for another chanea next
year, but many TO remain in tho
bushes
Every season two or three hundred
youngsters are taken or the spring
training trips b. managers, hopeful
0f finding at least ono CUbh, one
Sisler, or ono Walter Johnson ampne
them. but when May 10. the DAY the
clubs must reduce to twenty-five
players each, canes arouah the try
outs arc ended ana most OF the
youngsters are back in the minors.
This year the sixteen major league
clubs have sent IGl men back to the
lower leagues for seasoning. Most
batting of the pas, 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 good proportion
OF outfeldcrs and Il fair number OF
inheldcrs and catchcrs.
The New York Americans. with
nineteen recruits gent back. lead
both leagues In the number Of play
crs found wanting. Manager ling
gins hcpt only' a few OF his young
stcrs, 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 If
" men South. but nineteen OF the
! new players have found To be below
major league calihcr and sent back
to the minors. The White Sox, how
ever. probably have kept more young
| sters than any other club. Shecly.
Ialk. johnson. Muliigan and Mos
Ill 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 Erers
were found wanting. The Phi!adel-
phia Americans came next, with nf-
| teen turned back.
Washington occupies n position
| unique among the major lcaIucrs,
for not a man has been released
Manager George Mcbride started tho
season with n small! number Of play
I ers and is holding all of them.
Virtually all of the men released
were recruits. although there were
| few veterans, such as Nick Cullop,
OF tho st. Louis Browns, who has
| played with several major league
| clubs. only to eventually return TO
the minors each time. Don Ayers
and Bernie Boland were others who
might he classed as veterans. Both
were released by Detroit. aut Bo-
| land Is getting another tryout with
81. Louis.
MANI OF the youngsters tried out
| this year were fresh from college
and the number of semi-pros given
chances in the majors each season
seems 10 be increasing. AZ least one
| Of the college men has more than
made good. He is Stephenson, OF
| Cleveland. who came from tn: UNI
vcrsi,y Of Alabama TO play second
| base when Bill Wambsganns broke
an arm. Stephenson ranks In the
| first ten batters In the league and has
good fielding record.
4 majority OF the players released
were sent back TO the minors with
| strings attached and Will! get an
other chance in the majors next year.
| some OF them already have had sew
eral chances. but these men are al
WAYS chccrcd up by the numerous
! instances of players who did not
make good until they had several
| tryouts in the senior circuits and then
became stars.