New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

leagues and the American Associat
major circuits, the annual lottery is
vows The good old times when sixts
Dushwhacker and the winning club,
gone, and forever.
Commissioner Kcnesaw Lardis most
pched ms start to New Orleaas for the
american Legion convention lust to
PRESIDE over this momentous draft
meeting at Chicago Sunday, and he
might just as we'll have let his Office
boy attend to ii. OF the sum total of
nineteen players summoned for sery-
zee py the major league magnates. the
shfee local clubs accounted. for FIVE,
,Wo each for Brooklyn and the
4ankees, and one for the worlds cham
pions. John j. McGraw put in a bid
Tor catcher from Beaumont. Texas.
answering 10 the name of Anderson. If
MeGraw is still willing in the Jolly
sprlngtime, Mr.. Anderson will display
his wares at San Antonio or what
ever other place the giants may pick
Tor their mobilization.
PRESIDENT Charles II. Ebbets comes
TO bat with a detailed description of
the two players who were caught in
me Brooklyn draft. One is j. r. Stew
art, second sacker, who hit .30l for
birmingham in the Southern League
TINS season. Stewart has been on the
rosters of the Cardinals, the Phiilies.
and the Pirates at various odd mo-
ments since 1916, but he has never
put in airy regular sessions at the
dining tables of the hotels on the
major circuit. He hopes to sign his
food checks at the expense Of the
Squire of Fiatbush in 1928. 1t might
be good idea for the Dodger mag
fn roff h,,a, ~,
batting ayerage--.400 emitting him to
four dollars per diem for all solid
and liquid nourishment.
The other capture by the Brooklyn
owner is G.. Hargreaves, a youthful
catcher from the Pittsfeld club of the
Eastern League. He hit 300 on the
Appleknocker Circuit, and mis- addi-
tion gives Uncle Wilbert five catchcrs
to choose from. De Berry shaped up
well in his first season. and Hargreaves
will have to battle Hungling, Taylor,
and our old friend Otto Miller for
place on the Robins receiving depart
ment.
The two men caught in the Yankee
net arc johnson, Of Aberdeen. South
Dakota, and Lavalle, of Worcester
Mass. Cousin Egbert Barrow, of the
Yankee business office, said that he
didn't know the first names of these
- estimabie gentlemen, and perhaps he
never would. 1t depends on how they
look to Miller Huggins as to whether
their baptismal names will ever be of
interest to anybody but their immedi |
ate friends, relatives and dependents.
The Johnson person is a right-handed
pitcher, and Lavalle is an outfielder.
who was spotted by Paul Krichell last
summer. Bob Connery pleads guilty
TO the Johnson charge.
In this connection it may be stated
that if the Yankees participate in the
1923 worlds SERIES some gentlemen
who were on the favored list for tickets
this year will be out in the cold, cruel
streets on the next occasion. The
Yankee officials checked up to see
whether the persons applying for a
refund were the same as those who
had originally purchased the paste
boards. Tho revelations were interest
ing and instructive.
Luke Urban, the former Boston Col
lege football star, was listed as re-
called by tho Yankees some time ago,
but he will not be seen with the Hug
men in 1923 if present plans go
through. He started in baseball as a
third sackcr, but was converted into
catcher with the Buffalo 1nternationais.
He Will stay with the DISCUS next year
as part payment by the Yankees for
the purchase of Bengough, the first
string catcher Of the same team.
Bengough will go South with the Hug
gins clan.
Others on the recalled list" of the
Yankees who will not be seen by local
fans are Wescott Kingdom, who is
painlessly moved from the Bridgeport
team of the Eastern League to place
in the inheld of the Buffalo tribe of
the International circuit, and Oscar
Roettger, right-handed pitcher. who
has been sojourning at Sioux Falls this
season and may be there again next
year. Likewise Corner Wilson, also
a Sioux City pitcher; Glenn Killinger,
Jersey City, infeldcr; John White,
Chattanooga, infielder; Hinkey Haines.
Reading, outheldcr; o. d. Tucker, New
Orleans, outfelder, and Ed Neusel, AL
bany, outfielder.
It doesn't seem TO be gene rally known
and it may not be very important, but
the Yankees have also purchased
Burney Acton. of the Wilson club of
the Virginia League. an outfelder dug
up by Bob Gilks, and Elton Langford,
OF Lubbock, Tex, of whom nothing
is known except that he thinks he can
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