Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-19
Harris Sees Victory Stretch Run Third Sace1s Star in Past Wo,
Bucky Has Climbed to Dizzy Heights From Deep in Coal Mine
II-STANLEY RAYMOND HARRIS
\ TANLEY RAYMOND HARRIS,

q TANLEY RAYMOND HARRIS,
manager and second baseman
- of the Nationals, just cannot
help being a ball player. His birth
place naturally made him take to
base ball, basket ball and foot ball.
He was born in a house on Ball
street in Port Jervis, N. Y, Novem-
Der 3, 1876.
He gave up foot ball some years
ago and stopped playing basket ball,
too. when he realized it might mar
his career a S a base ball player. But
he has chung to base ball with such
marked persistency, probably in
herited from his Welsh ancestry, that
he has made himself a nationally
famous character in professional
diamond ranks.
Ball Streets influence did not as
sert itself while Harris lived in Port
Jervis, for his family moved To
Hughestown, borough adjoining
fittston. Pa, when he was but
years old. And it was in that coal
country that has given to the big
leagues Jennings, Shorten, McNally
the O'Neills, Coveleskie and many
other good players. that little Stan
ley took to sports. He did not have
much time to devote to the various
games, for he went to work as
breaker boy in one of the big coll
ieries near his home when but ID.
Yet he managed to play with the
Hughestown Midgets on the gridiron
n the Fall and during the Winter
transferred his activities to the
basket ball court.
Chung to Base Ball.
Harris worked so hard for these
teams that when Spring came around
he was nearly worn out physically.
But his spirit would not Permit him
to idle, so during lunch hour at the
colliery he was TO be found on the
diamond and that was his playground
after work until dark
At first, he was much more pro-
ficient at basket ball than base ball
and so developed his ability at the
former that he promised to become
one of the best players of the East
Yet he never gave up base ball
although the gridiron sport had been
stricken from his list of activities
after couple of seasons of it.
Finally Harris got a better job at
the colliery. and with a little more
base ball seriously. Every good week
day in Spring and Summer he took to
the dia mond after the work at the
mine office was through, and Sundays
meant just one game of ball after
another.
Played Against Yankees
Playing anywhere from second to
third base, he attracted much atten-
tion throughout thu, Wyoming Val
ley, where every little borough has
regularly for Pittston. in the Inter
urban Amateur League In 1915 the
Yankees came down to the coal fields
to play an all-star teal Of the region
and Harris was second basemau OF
the club opposing the big Leagues
lie got real money for his work, too
That was his professional debut
The next year Harris went to Wax
ahatchie. Tex, with Detroit; given
the chance to show his worth by
Hughey Jennings. a fellow towns
man. then managing the Tigers Bur
Harris was considered too frail to
stand the gaf of the big league and
was sent on to Muskegon of the Gem
trail League. In 1917 he started the
season with Norfolk of the virginia
League. With the United States in
the world war. though, business was
poor in that circuit, SO after five
weeks in the Old Dominion the young
athlete returned to Pennsylvania TO
play independent ball with the Lee
hightons.
For His Brothers, Job.
In July Harris heard that Reading.
OF the New York -Pennsylvania
League wanted a second Sack.r and