Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-02
ALEX SEES MANY
CHANGES IN PILLS
Mot One Member Of Present 49,
rregation Worked With Great
Hurler Seven Years Ago
mAcKMEN DROP ANOTHER
nv JOSEPH T. LABRUM


THE life Of a big league player is a
short one at best. While the rain
rms transforming the Phillies' l'ark
from n smooth. dry field TO quagmire
Yesterday afternoon the scribes talked
shop. And the subject concerned tne
rapidity with which the makeup Oh
teams change. .,,.,.,
tbo phili;es to their first and only
National League pennant. Or thaI
sreat team of fence wreckers and bril-
liant nitchcrs and felders nary one
.omoins today. Grover Cleveland Alex
ander. whose pitching was the main In
,strunent in bringing the title to TINS
o;tr In 1915, sat on the Cubs bench
tn,vsan showers, glanced across the field
% Tho pills bench and failed to see y
sirgle face that swapped stories with
Kim IN the halcyon days.
Alexander two short years after the
rinninc of the pennant along with MS
hattery mate, Killifer. now the man.
soer Of the Cubs. was sold. ihat
started the disintcgrntion OF the best
team in modern National League base
bali in this city, used to last place
teams. :. ,.-
.,-oJ n The four corners. Gabby Crav-
sth Fred Ludcrus. Eppa Rixey. Chal...
rosrs, Brennan and the others have all
tretkci out of the city for other fclds,
some out Of baseball altogether: ,thers
81 teams in the league and still others
% .cintillatc where the going isn't so
fast. .,
In noint Of service. Cy Williams Is
Tho oldest member Of the Phillies. He
came here in 1917 from the Cubs. and
since that time has been the real star
AZ tho team. Leslie came only year
a. sro. So did Rapp. Walker and Hem
line Meadows has had a couple of sea-
snns with the Phils. Art Fletcher has
been on the payroll for three years.
though he was out Of the game a year.
Mokan arrived only recently, while
Iebourycau. Singleton, Weinert. With
crow, Peters and Pinto are products Of
tbe bushes. George Smith and Wilbur
Hubbell came from the Giants couple
Of years ago. and Jimmy Ring from the
Reds. Wilhelm, the manager. has had
but two years Of service with the team.
The same story is true of the Cubs.
The entire personnel of the team has
been changed since 1917 until Alexan-
der. Killefer and HollOcher are consid-
cred old timers on the club. Hollocher
came uD ITOIl Iuc DuSheS anu tIV
Ger and star pitcher were purchased.
The remainder of the team counts not
q veteran in it's makeup. SO it goes
all over the two circuits. The Giants
and Yanks are conglOmerations of any
number Of teams. The others have new
men and old ones purchased from other
clubs The life Of big league player
Is a short one.
The retirement Of Lee Meadows from
the game yesterday at the start of the
third inning because of sore arm
caused no end of comment in the press
stand. Several times this season the
veteran hurler has been forced to leave
games because of troublesome wing.
Last year for several weeks Meadows
did not throw a baseball because of the
pain that crept into his arm whenever
he raised it to fling the horsehide.
When the rain came down yesterday
the Phils and the Cards were dead
locked at one allf the Cubs counting
in the first and the Phils in the second.
Alexander was on the mound for the
visitors and after Meadows left the
premises Sheriff Singleton was called
upon. The game will be played as part
Of a double header late in September
on the next trip East of Killefer and
bis band.