The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-06-13
MASTER MINDS
FAMOUS BONERS
McGraw Dropped Hack Viii
son for Poor Hitting.

You have often heard it said that
this player or that player pulled a
boner on the ball field. Here are some
of the boners made by the games
master minds.
McGraw traded Roush and GrOh to
the Reds and later bought them back
at a stiff price. Roush previously
(1913) was discarded by the White
Sox because he couldn't throw.
Connie Mack didn't think enough of
Joe Jackson to hold him in 1908.
The Detroit club refused to buy
Schalk from an obscure minor league
because he was too small TO make
good catcher.
Iris Speaker released Stephenson
from the Cleveland team in 1924.
The Yanks, Cubs and Giants under
estimated O'Doul's hitting ability. He
topped the National league with 1893
last season.
In 1923 the Pirates shipped Joe
Cronin to the minors. He's starring
at short for Washington.
Dazzy Vance was a Yankee in 1916
but his worth was overlooked.
The Browns tried Charley Root in
1923 and sent him to Los Angeles.
Pat Malone would have remained
Giant if McGraw hadn't erred in 1922.
So would Hack Wilson if McGraw
hadn't sent him to Toledo in 1925 be-
cause he couldn't hit.
Earle Neale Of Parkersburg, w. Va,
former football coach at Washington
and Jefferson, West Virginia Wesleyan
and University of Virginia and former
player and coach with the Cincinnati
Reds, has signed q contract to coach
the Ironton Tanks, professional foot
ball team, next fall.
The Kentucky derby will hence
forth have battle to retain its pres
tige on a par with several other events
of growing consequence. The Ameri-
can Derby, the Arlington Classic and
the Belmont Stakes are the closest
rivals Of the Churchill Downs feature.
OF them all the real prestige ought
eventually to be accorded to the Bel
mont derby, or Stakes" because it is
at the derby distance of one and one
half miles and comes at time when
all three year-olds will have had time
to round into condition.
Ralph Lovshin, 175-pound husky
standing six feet tall, is the Outstand-
ing track man uncovered in Coach
Guy Sundt's University of Wisconsin
track squad. Lovshin has done II
feet inches in the pole vault, 6 feet
one-half inch in the high jump and p
feet inches in the broad jump.
Joe Schultz, manager of the Hous-
ton Bluffs of the Texas league, passes
this on as a typical letter fIem the
ambitious busher looking for trial
in fast company. The letter was writ
ten by an apL""ant to a team man.
ager in the Texas league. In part, it
follows:
II am 5 feet 81 inches high and
have good control. l can chuck that
old apple over that there platter every
inning.
81 pitched eight games last year and
was winner of them all.
II struck out 10 swingers in one
game last year. Believe me, I sure
had my stuff that day and was plenty
good, even If 1 do say it myself.
"My arms are never sore. I pillow
most of the time and am strong
aplenty, kid.
II want to inform you that 1 have
a real serious outcurve and a sweet
incurve.
please see what you can do for
me-"
Kid Gleason, one of Connie Mack's
lieutenants, is booster for Jimmy
Foxx. He says of him:
MARK my words, Foxx is going to
be the greatest ball player that ever
lived and I don't bar Ruth, Cobb or
any of the others. 1t may be by fall,
too"
Chick Galloway, who was driven
temporarily from baseball two years
ago when he was struck on the head
while watching fellow Detroit player
at batting practice, seems to have re-
covered and probably will play again
as a regular. He had gone through
the training period with the Athletics,
his old team, in satisfactory shape,
and while he had little opportunity to
hit at the time, he was not afraid of
the ball. "Why should he be plate
shy?" asked one of the Athletics,
''he wasn't hit at the plate. He
wasn't even near the plate"