The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-13
Big League Scout Has Toughest Job in Baseball.
The Ivory Hunters Are the Boys Who Build the Great Clubs
But You Hear But Little About Them

two fellows I scnt tN look bf Alex.
pudcr when he was with syracuse.
Thyv both saw Ale, pH,hlUE %
double header aE1.ua' WNkus. lArrc
ono afternoon when Nr had every.
thing Hc pitched U,u wonderful
ball games that afternoon. wilkes.
Rnrru shut ont his team Zoo % I'm
the first game ana then Alexander
turned around and Eluf 900. Wilkes
Uarrc. { 40 q lIo hold tutt bail
club to ono run tn two ball rImoa iu
ono afternoon, and yet IhvE ,Huiut
recommend him because ho hbt "a
had side-arm delivery And D lost "a
chance to get Alexander
lt is the habit future baseball
stars have Of turning un bro 'ho most
uut.ur-thc. way places ihHI makes
Iup MO of the nta,hIN scout one
long series OF h.gE hutols alfalfa
afternoons and pie for breakfast llo
knows every rub, town hui NuiHt-
ling post from llohni,yu tu liHdcs
aud back again, and is an expert on
mates crops, tho boil W'cNii bed
bugs. the IlrNsiuu fy the are NJ
ossuaEtrg a thirst u a prohibition
country. fiction writing us displayed
lu the tcrsc quotations NJ an "N-
pcnse account. the dirorlblc merits
sandwich. and ON almost any other
subicCt that human conversation can
devise.
The Snuthpaw ShOrtstup
Down In Paris ToNis. I met a
scout who had just returned from a
trim OF "A thousand miles to look al
a "lcft banded fhurtHtop. And
your baIeball IAN knows how i'm
possible is left handed short
stop.
1t is the constant occurrence ot
such experiences that make cyrlc
VI tho big league scout and has
gained him rcutation for being
q "crab" In every village from Puget
Sound TO tho Everglades. His dis
appointments are so ALFRED ire
oucnt that he won't believe any ball
ball playcr has any qualifications to
commend him until he has proved
Il 10 his own satisfaction through
personal observation.
This most interesting and least
known character of the baseball
world Is tho stepchild Of our national
pastimc. Minor league managers
brand him as "bonehead" because
he doesn't appreciate the work ot
their stare. eBotistlcal bush
players with big league ambitions
Eamn nifN Win tntit Nlhhp nFNNhif b
major league ciuh owners won't be.
llcvo him on oath biR league players
regard him with suspicionfnns ono
who iB hunting for somebOdyto take
their Jobs ana the publlo---the pro-
ictnrint Of tho bleaohera the bnur-
geoisie Of the grandstend and tho
plutocrats of the private boxes
filch from him the credit Tor his
best performances while they get up
on their hind legs and cheer the
manager he has made. Yet In the
majority Of cases his only fault n
/ that he can peer further into the un-
certain future than can thore about
| him
The worst disappointment the
scout meets, and the one that causes
/ him to lean up against the scenery
/ IN Some remote portion Of the glRbt
and III tho pure country air with
|tupcration, ls when he exercises al
his care and concentration on 4
player and finds that the object ol
his sollcitudo has everything that Il
required OF big league star and
/ then gets wire from the homo
office se ying cant use Smith. Get
/ to Wnllu Walla so0n az possible and
wire report on jackson, outflcldor,"
/ And the scout has 70 drift on and
soc his STAR picked up by another
club. oven though he may already
/ know that Jackson, OF Wslla Nalla,
/ liz a ham.