The Washington times., 1922-09-03
RUTH THINKS
DUNN'S LADS
WORTH TRIAL
Disagrees on Strength Of Club
as Major League Contender
After Playing In Exhibitions.

as Major League Contender
After Playing in Exhibitions
BY BARE RUTH.
His first "a games this year. %
His iirsi 81 game. last year, I:
This date last year Cin 1so games1,
40 home runs. m
NrEw YORK, Sept. 2.--It is
IN reported and not denied
that Owner-Manager Jack
Dunn, Of the Baltimore Orioles,
will do a "Connie Mack" next
winter. BY this ] mean that ne
Is supposed to, be planning 70
scrap the machine which has DOM
mated the International League
for the past several seasons, not
because he wants TO, but because
the other clubs in the league
threaten serious reprisais unless
he does.
Several years ago. after. selling q
flock OF high-prieed youngsters 70
the majors, Dunn declared that he
was all through with that sort ol
thing, that the Orioles had served as
Feeders, for the majors for the last
time. He would keep the stars he
developed, he said, and make Balts
more a big league city in fact u
not in name. IL
To this end he assembled one OF
| the greatest minor league ball clubs
ever organised. This club, with very
| few changes, already has won three
consecutive pennants and Is winning
another with ridiculous ease. No
other club in the league is in the
same class with the Orioles nor has
been for the past four years.
Has Hurt Circuit.
Dunn's experiment has been no
less successful financially than artis-
+! tically--but only for Baltimore.
Other clubs in the international
League, unable TO cope with the
Orioles on the field, complain that
the invificible Orioles have ruined
! the circuit" by sitting competition
4 and threaten to vote for the restora.
! ton Of the draft unless Dunn whit
ties his club down to their size by
/ selling some OF his stars.
According to current gossip, Dunn
has agreed TO relinquish some Of his
players as the lesser Of two evils and
viii throw them on the market, to
be sold to the highest bidder. at the
close of the international League
season. Among the stars" he pro-
poses TO peddle are Pitchers jack
Bentley and Jack Ogden, sInDelders
| George Boley and Max Bishop, and
Y lnu.kNa,lA.s t. q
/ Bentley In a big left-handed pitcher
known as '.The Babe Ruth of the
minor leagues" He had a try-out
with the washington Senator'S six
years ago, but his arm went bad" I"
and he was sent to Dunn as a first
baseman. Long and careful treat
ment finally restored his arm, and
for the past several years he has
been the most successful left-handed
pitcher in the minors.
The Giants, are supposed to have
offered $4,000 for Bentley. Boley
and Ogden, only to be laughed at. It
Is understood that Bentley viii be
sold to the Cincinnati Reds, who hi-
ready have offered $4,000 for him,
and are prepared to goeven higher.
Boiey is Brilliant.
Shoftstop George BoIey. by many
competent. critics regarded as the
finest prospect on the Orfole roster.
is a brilliant defesive player, and at
last accounts was batting around
.39S. He never had q try-out in the
majors, but II Is said that he will
have q trial with the Yankees next
spring. Max Bishop, the Oriole sec
ond .baseman, has been Handicapped
by injuries this year, but was easily
the best second sacker In his league
last year and may ne worth the SIb,-
900 that Dunn isssaid TO ask for him.
Merwin Jacobson is by all odds tbe
most effective Of Dunn's outfield.
and a couple Of years ago was con
sidered big league timber. He is not
so highly rated now, probably be-
cause he no longer is a youngster.
Ogden Is a right-handed pitcher who
won thirty-two games last season,
eighteen OF them IN a row, and Us
doing very wen this season after. a
bad start.
have played a number OF exhibi'
ton games against the Orioles our
ing the past three years and know
that Dunn has a great minor league
club. do not agree with Baltimor'
feans who insist that II would be .pp
among the leaders In the majors, but
I do believe that some OF Its players
are at least deserving OF try-outs IN
the big time, and that two OF then,
probably would make goodM "sept
up" by Dunn. III
- tcopyrisht, 1891, BY christy WALSH