Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
.DRAF TED PLAYERS
ARE MAKING GOOD
About a Dozen Overlooked
by Scouts Likely to Be
Kept in Majors.
BY BRIAN BELL,
Associated Press Sports Writer,


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they say "better later than
never" They are drafted athletes who
were selected" last Autumn after they
apparently had been passed by the
scouts.
Twenty-Five players were selected
from minor league clubs, IS by the Ma
tional and 10 by the American. Two
have changed clubs since they were
promoted, but decided majority have
retained major league status for the
time being, and at least half promise
TO go into the season as big time
players.
Hal Rhyme was drafted by the Atl1-
leticS from San Francisco and claimed
by Boston when Philadelphia decided it
could not use his services. He has made
good In the Red Sox infleld. Harold FL
lot, a pitcher drafted by the Cardinals
from Waco, has landed with the Phil
lies. The Cincinnati Reds have asked
waivers on Walter Lutzke, but the in
f1lder will not go back to Newark until
the other clubs have spoken.
Perhaps the most sensational Spring
performances of the drafted players
have been turned in by Earl Shelly, first
baseman, late of Sacramento, and
Johnny Kerr, Hollywood second base
man. Shelly took over the Pittsburgh
first base assignment and was the only
Pirate inf1elder to survive the training
trip without injury. Kerr stepped into
the second base job without a struggle
on the Chicago White Sox.
Pitchers Making Good.
More than half of the 10 pitchers in
the draft list probably will make the
grade. Luther Roy and Phil Collins
have done well with the Phillies and
Win Ballou seems certain to, remain
with the Brooklyn Robins Mike Cven-
gros can make himself useful as left
handed Chicago Cub and Cincinnati
may be able to find room for Marvin
Gudat, former Cardinal Archie Camp
bell, ex-Yankee, has had some good and
bad days with Washington but the good
ones have outnumbered the bad. The
fate Of Leverette and Peery with the
Braves and Estrada Of the Browns has
not been decided.
The pitchers bid fair to fare better
than the catchers on percentage basis,
but Dick Smith, taken by the Braves
from Montreal, and Tom Angly, for
mer Georgia Tech player, who can hit,
DuL mas weakness IOr 1Oul QleS, drafted
by the Cubs, have shown promise. The
chances of Leo Dixon with the Reds
and Harvey johnson with the Browns
have not seemed so bright.
Charlie Gooch, inf1elder, drafted by
Washington from Little Rock, has put
up hard fight for a utility assign
ment, and Jerry Standaert, formerly
Of Memphis. and Bob Barrett, advanced
from Buffalo. have had the same OBJ
jective with the Boston Red Sox.
Three prominent major league play
ers, all in the National, found fame af-
ter coming up by the avenue of the
lowly draft. Hack Wilson, the smuggling
Chicago Cub outflelder, was drafted In
1925 from Toledo after he had been re-
leased to the Mud Hens by the New
York Giants. Arthur Whitney, third
baseman of the Phillies, who made good
with rush last year and batted in
more than 100 runs, was drafted from
New Orleans in 1927. He was formerly
the property of Cleveland. Hal Carl
son, now a Cub pitcher. broke in with
the Phillies by the draft route from
Wichita Falls in 1928.