Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-02-16
MGR. DUNNMAY SIGN
n. CAROLINA NATIVE
AS CUB M0UNOER
TWO NEW 81 AIRS MAY BE ADDED
TO CUBS NINE THIS YEAR
M'WHoRTER OF MOLINE CLUB
10 A GOOD PROSPECT AS LEAD
ING HuRLER OF TEAM FOR 1922.

ING HURLER OF TEAM FOR 1922
With the opening of the 1922 base
ball season drawing close at hand
Manager Dinny Dunn of the Ottow0
Cubs team has already started e
scout around for pitcher to I'LL tn
vacancy left by Jimmy Lynch. jim
my won't be here this season as b
leaves the 2Sth OF this month for
Dallas. Tex, where he will join Tri.
Speakers Cleveland Indians. so The
Ottawa manager is forced TO give III.
field OF prospects the once over.
or course, il wouldn't be a har
thing for Dunn to get hurler I.
don a Cub uniform, because tn,
woods are full OF them. But the 10
cal management is DESTROYS Of giving
Ottawa devotees of the great nation
al sport game some first first class
baseball and in order To- do that they
must employ first class mounder
Good Prospects.
According to statements this morn
ing by local baseball officials, Nc.
Whorter of the Moline Three Eyes
is the most probable prospect who
will perform here when Dunn issue
his initial call However there has
not been any final signing Of con
tracts or anything like that but never
theless it locks as though McWhor
ter will don a Cub Uniform this year
Won &c Games for Moline.
McWhOrter, whose home Is IN
North Carolina, is crack hurler He
together with Pitcher Sullivan, was
given the credit of having won tbs
Three Eye league pennant for the
Moline club. During the season he
won twenty-six games for Moline. He
can handle the old pill in an aston
ishing fashion and can make it do all
kinds of tricks when he wants to,
1t will be remembered that Me
Whorter was called to ottawa last
summer to help the local club out
He was supposed to have pitched fol
the Cubs one Sunday, but for some
reason or other he didn't get q chanc
to display his wares. Nevertheless
Dunn and his associates were inform
ed by several who have seen him il
action that he is a regular perfOrme
aud McWhOrter at that time hinteC
that he would like to be a regular
member CT the Cubs team this sea
son. Of course, there are severa
others with when Dunn has beer
dickering and there is a possibility
that one of them may be signed, bu
McWhorter stands the best chance
Of them all.
May Sign Clancy.
Besides a new mounder there Is
chance Of having another new MAJ
added to the team Manager Dunn
announced that a young fellow b.
the name Of Clancy. who has bee
attending st. Viator's college nigh
possibly be signed this year as tn
guardian of the initial sack OF course
this dope is little premature be
cause Dunn hasn't carried on an
communications with either NCWho,
ter or Clancy since the time that tn
1921 season closed, but nevertheless
local officials are going to max
strong bids for those two men,
Clancy is the lad who played wit
the Minonk nine last year. He is a
excellent infelder and very cleye
hitter, and should be he signed
play with the Cubs the team will b
greatly strengthened.
Potts To Return.
It is almost a sure thing that POtt
who played third base for the Cul
a short time in 1920--wil be baC
with the club again this seaso
Potts was released after a game wit
Aurora when the Cubs first Organi
ed. The team at that time had .
off day. played a poor brand Of ba
and allowed Aurora to swamp thel
At q meeting Of the directors Of Il
association which was held fOllCwtr
the game it was decided to relea
Potts, but against Manager Dunn
wishes Dunn wanted to keep hi
and predicted that the kid was
conner However. the others couldn
see it that way and Potts was give
his little yellow slip,
Potts then went up to the Canadi
IebSue anu uldu6 DlS MT. ne w
muhicated with Dunn and said tn
he would come back if wanted. I
ports came in to Dunn thick a
fast of Potts big success and now
looks like a sure thing Fans W
be glad to see him back as he was
clever inielder and heavy HIT
Should he return he will prObat
play second base in Padernis pla
5runny Says "No."
Brundage. start third saCkeT for I
Cubs, who is now making his ho
in Ottawa is running around W
three or four contracts in his po
cts from the Bloomington Three +
club. Bloomington is crazy to 81
Brundage but he says there is
chance, and that he is going to p
with the local club again this $
son
Charley Roth will also be back
the cid harness and as soon as Du
gives the word he will be on hs
to do the backstopping for the tee
Muggles and Wilmeroth also h;
chances to sign with other tea
and have been sent various contra
the local manager they assured !
TO sign, but in recent statements
that they would be back.
The Guinea Stamp.
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