The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-30
Cooley Downs Mi|Ier's i'm Run Barrag
Scott Padded Shoes to Escape Being Cut;
Played 1907 Straight Games at Short
BY HARRY GRAYSON

BY HARRY GRAYSON
l.. Everett Scott was a sob
er-faced little fellow. which Is
why they calleG one of the more
remarkable shortstops Deacon. ~
No ball player was more pop
ular among teamates and OPP
ponents than friendly Everett
Scott.
Scotty had card sense, prefer
red hearts and bridge, entertain
ed with card tricks. He excelled
al solving mathematical prob
lens. He was a crack bowler.
He travelled far and wide in the
pursuit of game A big red hound
was his most cherished posses
sion.
While he stooi no more than
feet 9 ID and would have had 10
hold a rock in each hand TO
weigh more than 100 pounds,
Scott natl of Bluffton, Ind,
was an Iron man.
Because a shortstop is IN so
much more danger of being Spik-
ed or hurt, SCOTS playing in
1907 consecutive games is per-
haps more remarkable than Lou
Gehrigs participation in 2loO
at first.
To preserve his consecutive
game record he frequently play
ed when he resembled a travel
in, emergency ward, more often
than from attacks of boils.
Scott was a little gentleman,
but also knew how to dish 1t out.
Heinie Wagner, who preceded
him at shortstop with the Red
Sox, taught him the tricks.
Scott and Larry Gardiner, his
teamate at third base, were the
only two infilders who wore
padded shoes to escape being
cut. Scott came out of plays
with his shoes looking like a
remnant sale at ribbon count
er. but his little tootsieS were
intact.
SCOTT BATTED IN RUNS
Scott led American League
shortstops so long it got so no
one noticed it any ore--He
holds the record for leading ma
ior league shortstops over a
stretch - eight years with the
Boston club. He has the highest
fielding percentage - .976 with
the Red So& in 1918 and 10.
He was in five World Series
49, three with the Red SoX, two
with the Yankees, to whom ne
went with Pitchers Bullet Joe
Bush and Sad Sam Jones in the
winter Of 21-22. He was IN only
one losing World Series, the
Yankee debacle of %.
Scott knew the hitters, had a
keen sense of anticipation, got
the ball away quickly.
His life time major league
batting average was .265, but he
was always we'll up in runs-bat-
ted-in. He was a right-hand bat
ter, not much for distance, but
moved up in a clutch He was a
grand competitor. He was not
overly fast, yet an excellent
baSe-runner.
SCOTS was a quiet type of az
gressiveness. He would fight for
a decision or protest -Nlgor=
ously, but knew when to stop
talking to an umpire.
SCOTT STEADIED PITCHERS
Scott was steadying influ-
ence on a ball club, the balance
wheel, a whiz at pulling pitch
er together.
Carl Mays recalls his first
World Series appearance, and
how Scott relieved the pressure
when the submarine slir5er re-
lieved Ernie Shore of the Red
Sox after Brooklyn had scored
five runs to cut his sides lead
10 one. The bases were loaded
and there was one out.
Scott told Mays the first bat
ter never got a hit in his life
and that the second one was
worse. Mays got rid of them
both. They were Zach Wheat
and Jake Daubert, who finished
one-two in the National League
batting race.
Everett Scott established a
record for tenacity of purpose,
endurance and courage while
playing shortstop so stylishly
that fans still talk about it.
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