New Britain herald., 1926-12-24
SCARCITY OF GOOD
 MINOR PROSPECTS
Ex-Big Leaguers Are Cluttering
 Up the Smaller Leagues
By George Noriarty

Asheville, N. C., Dec. A - The various flaming bees at Asheville plainly revealed the scarcity of good ball players in the minor leagues throughout the country. f,
 Inasmuch as the minor league ranks are thinned out annually. it behooves the go-getters of the small CT loops to dig up new prospects for the year ahead.
 Many of the smaller clubs depend upon the service of the big league athletes who have slowed up, and submit to the inevitable ride down hill. These old timers, as they go back through the minor league channels, furnish minimum amount of ability mixed with broad experience, plus the tricks of the trade" and by those virtues the youngsters are taught the essentials of the game as they progress to- ward the higher assifications.
 Bob Quinn, the Boston Red Sox
 
 existence since he succeeded in placing the destinies of his club in the hands of Bill Carrigan. Mir. Quinn is being congratulated on all sides, and he is therefore, very happy. Since his retirement sev- eral years ago, some of the most in fluential people in Massachusetts have beseeched Carrigan to return to the game as pilot of his old love, the Red SoX. But all to no avail.
 When the situation seemed more hopeless than ever, Joe Conway, New England league magnate, boarded rattler for Carrigan's home, whispered some magic words into Bills ears, and 10, the next day. the former backstop walked into MT. Quinn's office and parked his sigma ture to the important document in five minutes.
 Mir. Conway is in Asheville, but has not yet divulged what he said 10 Mr. Carrigan. The baseball sharks concur in the opinion that Carrigan needs only few breaks in receiving some good material 10 again be an imposing figure in American league circles.
 Jack Teller is one of the cele- brities at the meeting. MT. Teller appraises ball players after the fashion of the Tifrany experts who look for flaws in diamonds and oth- CT precious gems. t
 The minor circuits form one vast pattern in the recesses of MT. Zeller's thinking apparatus, and he had recorded the fewest possible misses in that particular branch of picking promising ball payers who do their stuff in the remote places.
 His expert discrimination has earned for him the recogniztion of being a super-scout.
 The imperfections that other ivory chasers are unable to detect, are as plain &s q tri-colored ad on q billboard 10 Mir. Iellcr.
 Jack Dunn, the Baltimore mag nate, burstcd into extravagant praise for Joe Boley. the shortstop who was the key to thes Baltimore in- field seven years, and will make his major league debut with Connie Mack in 1927.
 What type of ball player is Boley?" he was asked. "Boley's style of playing makes me thing more of Hans Wagner than any other short stop I have ever seen," replied the ;. Oriole boss. He is a wonder on those half hops and difficult bounds. saw many a ball shoot past q third baseman's left side that looked like a hit, but Boley always sprouted up right behind him, and came up with the hardest smashes.
 He is great double play artist, and will prove it this coming year with Bishop as a partner.
 Last but not least, he will prove that he is good hitter for Connie Mack"