Arizona republican., 1922-03-14

The collegian Is cutting quite A
swath in the big league training
camps these days.
Realizing that the minor league
field had been greatly curtailed be-
cause of the failure of the draft plan
to go through, major league scouts
must have turned their eyes to the
college ranks.
Last year the New York Giants
We're good enough to win the PEN
nant in the National league, also to
capture the worlds series, yet a lot
OF college ball players are working
out with the Giants
Ralph SINNERS. who cost the
Giants $4,000, first jumped into pop
ularity as player with Marquette
college. McGraw hopes that Shin
ners will make him forget about
George Burns.
Eddie Hale, who starred at foot
ball last year with the University of
Mississippi team, is trying out at
third base. While Hale has no
chance OF supplanting either Groh
or Srisch. still he looks like a conner.
Howard Berry, the former Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania star, is being
used at first base in the spring work
outs. Evidently McGraw hopes that
the former star all around athlete
will develop into worthwhile first
sacker.
1t is the same with every other
major league ball club in the south,
All of them have from three to six
ex-collegians in the list of recruits.
The New York Americans are right
after the Giants in the matter of
collegians. AS matter OF fact the
Yankees in Hinky Haines and Glenn
killlnger have two Of the most wide
~ known college athletes in the
country.
This fellow Killinger. who was
such a sensation in football and who
has been much boosted as a ball
player, may suffer from too much
publicity this spring.
The fans have been hearing so
much about the prowess of the for
mer Pen State star that they may
expect too much from the young
ster. There is quite a gap between
the brand of baseball played in the
colleges and major leagues.
The Cleveland club has at least
half dozen college recruits. most of
them pitchers. The success that the
Cleveland club had with Joe Sewell
and Riggs Stephenson has caused
Owner Dunn and Manager Speaker
of the Indians to believe the coHegian
is worth a trial.
AS rule college players have their
greatest trouble at the bat often
some of them are able to field up to
requirements. but find big league
pitching a trifle too difficult to fathem
right off the reel.
College pitchers. like most recruit
beavers, suffer from either lack of
control or the keen eyes of the ma
jor league batsmen. They soon find
that the big leaguers pass up many a
pitch at which the college player
took a healthy swing.
1t is in the spring that the young
pitchers are referred to as second
Johnsons and Alexanders, that the
outfielders are compared with
Speaker, Cobb and Roush, that the
infielders are likened to Hornsby
or Collins, that the catchers are pro-
nounced second Schalks, O'Neills or
killifers.
The major league recruits each
year are the cream Of the baseball
talent. The phenoms from every
section Of the country are gathered
for tryout. Every now and then
some recruit makes good from the
very start, like Walter Johnson or
frankie f'risch.
Usually these phenoms find the
jump from the sticks to the big show
quite distance. A majority of them
soon fail by the wayside. The small
town sluggers discover big league
pitching is considerably different to
hit. The small town pitchers find the
big league hitters are much harder to
fool