Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
SCOUTSpASSED Up
FRISCO GARDENER
ivory Hunters Overlooked
Him While Doting Over
AveriII and Johnson.
BY GEORGE MORIARTY,
Big League Umpire.

IN ONE BUSH, new manager OF
the Chicago White Sox, hurled
q direct challenge at the base
ball cynics when he put his
sanction upon the deal which landed
Outfieider Sn,ead Jolley of the San
Francisco Club with the Comiskey
forces.
For three years Jolley has gazed hope
fully across the Rockies toward the East,
waiting for q big league club to grab
him. Till the first week OF last NO
vember it appeared that the die was
cast against Jolley, one of the greatest
minor league hitsmiths of all time.
II Jolley makes good in big way with
the Sox in 1880. 1t will prove the con-
tention that he should have been IN the
major league last season. 1t will also
guesses regarding his ability were wrong.
In 1929 Joliey for San Francisco
punched out base hits to the tune Of
1877. That Is something for his home
town to rave about. AS the game is
now dominated by the fellows with the
fail, it is difficult to understand why
there has been no mad scramble for
Jolley's services.
They All Saw Him.
During the Summer Of 1928 virtually
all the major league scouts were in
Coast League grandstands taking an
official peek at Jolley. However, his
teammates, Averin and Johnson. pur-
chased by Cleveland and Detroit, re-
spectively, commanded the spotlight.
Nearly everybody was ballyhooing those
jiffy in the majors.
It now seems that unintentional
camoufage played a big part in the
reluctance of the major leagues to take
a chance on this great smuggling demon
of the minors. Jolley has been the
victim of circumstances. His two ball
hawking ex-teammates, Averill and
! johnson, seemed to dim his true lrster.
| We know that a new automobile Is
doubly attractive when it IS put on
| exhibition apart from others OF its
class. On this theory, Jolley as q mem
Der of any other Coast League team
would have been boosted to the skies,
which would have resulted in his sale
to big league outfit long before.
Therefore 1T Is plain that Jolley's
| handicap was the one of playing beside
two flasher stars than himself and he
was compelled to hide his light under
the bushel, or, rather, two bushels
Averill ana johnson. It has remained
Ior LONE 6uSn 10 Ug nun OUT Oh uiS
predicament.
Likes Coast Players.
Bush has a strong leaning toward
Coast League material. probably be-
cause the walloping Waner brothers
captured their first flies in the sun
kissed regions before they pulled
miracles for the Pittsburgh Pirates
| under Bush.
The surprising part Of the Jolley
| status is that slim minority of Coast
League players and officials continually
| harbored the conviction that Jolley was
equal to or better than either Averill or
johnson. If this is true, Bush has
whanged a managerial home run on his
first trip TO the plate.
Bush realizes the need Of batting
punch for the White Sox. They lost
too many games by slight margins last
season. Jolley's 210 pounds, distributed
over height of 6 feet and inches,
give him terrific wallop when he cow
tails the ash on q connect level. White
Sox supporters are hoping Jolley the
jolter will set the entire team afiame
at the plate.
| Copyright, 1890, by North American News
| PAPER Alltsnce.D