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' 2 THB SUN, SUNDAY AUGUST. 27, 1916. f7,a You Pay for a Busher That Counts Your $400 Man Mdy Be a Star and $20,000 Beauty a Quince DAME FORTOHM SPEAKER BROUGHT $400; O'TOOLE COST A FORTUNE , STARS WHO WERE ACQUIRED FOR A SONG, OTHERS WHO BROUGHT BIG PRICES, AND 3 "BEAUTIES" WHO FAILED ------- MMM -p-l , . . ffl 5 i PLAYS STELLAR BASEBALL ROLE Acquisition of Great Major Leaguers Is Largely Matter of Luck. max y high priced mex are failures Mr SHORTSTOP. The subject under dlsciie-slon was the Athletic. No tallender in bnsebalt history ever evoked the conversation which has been spilled over Connie Mack' "terrible" mlsflta. The night of thla turn grovelling In the duet, after It had been cock of the walk for many years, has opened many channels for thought. "Ths more I ee of baseball the mure X am convinced that the development of baseball stars Is entirely u matter of luck," said the old time fun. "Take the case of Connie Mack. He has brought results; he Is the only manager who ever won six major league championships and three world's cham pionships. Yet to-day he has tho mwt miserable tallender of all baseball his tory, a team which Is an Insult to Amer ican Lesguo fans. I understand that Connie Mack has tried out over a hun dred players, and his teum looks worse ow than before. Just a fortnight ago the team ended a lowing ntreak which was worse than anything ever hung up In baseball forty-one defeats In forty three games. Tho question I now want to ask Is, 'Was it the keenness of Stack that enabled him to build up that In field of Haker, Collins, Harry and Mc Innls from an obscure minor leaguer, two college stars and a schoolboy or did the element of luck figure almost entirely In tha development of this Inneldr Does Lack Figure f Ttn alack ever bring together such M Infield 7 If he can, then he deserves the title of the 'wltard of baseball.' However, so far Connie has tried out bout two dosen players on third base, collegians, minor leaguers, seml-nros. catchers and outfielders, but Is he any nearer to a second Frank Ilaker than when he atarted?" The veteran fan who opened this ar gument knows baseball. He has seen many high priced minor league phenoms blow, while each season he has seen sev eral new obscure names recognised as stars. He ssys from personal observa tion at least 90 per cent. of. the little leaguers that bring thousands to their owners are bloomers and, that avery thine In baseball hinges on luck. Shortstop would not string along with him on all his dope, but his reasoning was sound and hla questions and state ment were pertinent and to the point Is there such a thing as the develop ment of a baseball star or Is his discov ery and subsequent development entirely a matter of luck? Shortstop will not aejr "entirely," but he will say "largely," Bench Coarse 'ot Needed. I believe Connie Mack or some other nret class manager can tell a youngster who Is possible of development from an absolute dub, but after that nelthsr Mnck nor any ono else can tell how that player will act under big league fire or what several years of baseball tuition can do for him. From closo observation Bhortstop does not think much of the bench method of development. When permitted to carry a large roster Mc Graw used It successfully In the develop ment of Merkle, Burns, Fletcher, Hobett son and Hnodgrass. Yet would not Burns or Fletcher have been as good If they had been put to work Immediately, as was Doylo? The Ilornsbys, WatNom, Mamauxes, Blslers. Marnnvllles needed no bench course to finish their Instruction. On tho other hand HcOraw carried Art Wilson for five full seasons, and when he needed u man to take Chief Meyers's place In 1913 lie was forced to go out and buy harry McLean, drover Hartley put in three full years on the Ulant bench and Isn't a better catcher to-day than when he joined tho Giants In 1011. Fcrdle Bchupp was carried three full years before McUraw entrusted him with games, and after showing flashes of rare form he has developed Into un In and outer. Schauer mine n few months after Bchupp In 1913, and In his fourth year knew no more about big league pitching than in his first. He had natural ability, but no head. To-day Schauer Is going bad In tho minors. Did his long bench term In New York enhance or re lard his development? Flank Star From the Start. But wo sturted to bring out the point s to whether a manage r can tell how an obscure ball player will act In the big leagues. In 1901 Connie Mack heard of a young pitcher going great with Get tysburg College. Mack sent turn a con tract. Hla namo wok Plank, who then was 25, He was a star as soon as he pitched one big league gam- Sixteen years Inter Plank still Is pitching the game kind of ball and recently permitted five hlta In thrco consecutive nine Inning games. In 1908 Mack sent a contract to the all around star of the Colby College team, Jack Coombs. Coombs reported and won a shutout In the tlrst game against Washington. A few months later ha won u twenty-four Inning game , ngalnst Hostcn. Coombs then pitched. Just mediocre ball for three years, but I tn 1910 he won 33 games for Mack, 13, shutouts and 3 World's Series victories ever the Cubs. The other day he held the Cubs to one tilt, and only 27 men faced him. Now for the other sldn of the story. A young man named Hasselbncher wan pitching us great ball for Penn Stato this spring as did Kddle Plank fnr Getty burg In 1901. Mnck sent for htm. An other young man, Williams, pitched In vincible ball for North Carolina: Jlng- llng Johnson was a star ut UrsluuH;; Mlnolt crowell pitched as grand ball for Urown as any college pitcher ever flashed. All were culled to tho Athletic colors. So fnr none of theo boys has shown anything, nnd after getting Homo fierce drubbings Hannclbacher and Crow tll havo been released. I.urk a Illic Factor. Who can say that any tnannaer could tell that Collegians Plank and Coombs would be Mars of the llrst magnitude almost from the minute they camo Into fast company and that Ciowell and Has-1 elbalier would fall? Was It not a! frrn element of luck In Mack's favor that Plank and Coombs turmd out the players they did? Why dors Connie Slaek brim: his army of college pitchers to fihllio Park? Is It not In Km hope that nut nf the lot he may dope to find another Pender, Plank or Coombs? Let ut lake tin another phase of tho situation. 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Ho is now somewhere out in the clicks, Hero were two youngsters of remark able, swnttlntr ability 'n Class II circles. Neither had much hut hitting to recom mend him, ii h Palter did not have the club from the llrst clay of tho Heaou, . crace of a, SlHler when ho broke Into the lliilulilng hl Hint i ear with nn average American League In 1908. linker hit if ,305. llalur was nun of the giuat big league pitching even harder than the hitter of tho game after he was In the league a weik. In llill the lllanls purchased Art Hues, a third baxi man, fium the Seattle club of tho Northwestern League, also a Clan li league, linos led his leairue Clam i brand ; but against big league pitching Hues was a "but." Wan thorn any way of telling In ad vance that ono would bo a star and the other u club? When Mnck rebuilt his club In 1008 the tlrst man he selected to with an aveiage of mid siiiunliecl I till old Jimmy CoIIIiih'h shoe was Frank nut 2 Inline hum that year, and he trut a lot of spueo In the New Yin It paper that winter, lie innilo tlm Ulant training ennip, but lasted J list lung enouuli in eat a sandwich In New York. He went to Jeisey City and was later ll;iler. When hn tried finding a succes sor for .1. l'rauklln It wasn't so easy. IId nut Dame I'oitune mulle sweetly on Mack when his green country boy turned out to be such a star? It reully la u wonder that big league club owners are willing to pay real big money for great minor league pjaytrs. The old timer who started this argument points out that 90 per cent, of tho highly touted minor leaguers are rank failures, He uses that as an ntgument that It Is entirely a matter of luck whether or not a player will mako good In fast com pany. Kspeclally In recent years have bo many of these "big money" minor leaguers turned out to be bloomers. Those who have failed have a big margin on those who have made good. Charley Weeghman of the Cubs recently claimed he paid more than the O'Toolo price (I22.G00) for Shortstop Chuck Wortman, Wormian looked like a million dollars in the Association, but so far he has not set tho National League on fire, He Is barely hitting over .200 and piling up a young mountain of errors, Still, It Ih too early to pass Judgment on Wortman, and be may not belong to the O'Toole class. However, nobody ex pects Wortman to develop Into the player Maranvllle Is, nnd tho ltabbit cost tho Ilrnvns less than a thousnnd when they bought him from New Bedford In 1912. $1,000 Leiuona la A. A. Especially has the American Associa tion raised a great crop of thousand dollar lemons. If Wortman, who was bought from Kansas City, falls he will not lack precedent. Through soino rea. son or other the Association seems to bo uble to get much bigger money for Its stars than the other two Class AA leagues, the International and the Pacific Const leagues. The first big lemon from tha Associa tion was "Hull" Durham, who came to the (Hants from Indianapolis with Mar ciuard In 1908, Tho Ilube brought til, C00, the highest sum ever pnid for a minor league plnyer up to that time and Durham JC.OOO, Duihum was put to work the same afternoon that Marnuard had his first blowout In ths fall of 1901. Hull, who Is now In the roortee, atruck out tha aide when be made a start as a Giant, nnd then he never put out an other big team batsman. Hut for MiOraw's patience nnd the Inability to thlp Marquard out of the le.iguo on waivers Marquard might hae remained the 11,000 lemon to the end of his days, (llnnt fans well remem ber the poor ltubo In 1909 and 1910 when he couldn't earn hl salt. In the spring of 1911 McGraw planned to ship him over to Joo McQInnlty in Newark, hut the Giants could not get waivers on the player. Mariunrd's Case an Example, Itube, coached by Wllbert Itctblnson. hit hW top form In the early summer of 1911, and for three years he practically was unbeatable, except when he met linker, If Marquard liud been shunted to Newark In 19J be might never have come back. Was there not nn element of luck In the fact that waivers were not granted? Tho most hlstoilc A. A. bloomer, of course, was Marty O'Toole, whom Pitts burg purchased from ft. Paul In 1911 nftcr some spirited bidding, tho price paid being $'.'?,r00. His catcher, Kclley, aim) was bought for Munethlng like 18,000, but both wcro flzslns and aio now back In the minors. O'Toole couldn't even hold on with an Association team. He "recently waB sent to the Western League. Then Charley Comlskcy paid some thing like 120,000 for Larry Chapptdle of Milwaukee In 1914. An early Injury Incapacitated hltn, but h never showed any big league hitting ability, He was thrown In with Iloth, Klepfer nnd J 30, 000 when Comlskey bought Joe Jackson from Cleveland, and Is now back In tlm Association, where he always seems to bo able to punish tha bull, During tha last year of the Fed war, 19t!i, big league clubs were not paying big prices for minor league talent, and the player who brought more than any other was Tipple of Indianapolis, who stood Messrs, Ituppcrt and Huston 111, 600. Uhortly alter Tlfvle w&a bought &8Sm re..:..;?, ..u . si i.viv.v i.,-.o . .. 't' 5 MxjaBBBaf ' bb'bbbbbbw'' I lit I i w1 ggga - BBBBUBjaBJBB IBS '.lt4B..BBl . JSt S W, rjB BBBBBBBBm-3t 1 a?0 'V .ft dan tipple, he cost more than any 191sbusher- pa BUT WENT BACK TO THE BRUSH some real gold among the drost, rt,, Hchalk, his great catcher, and i Kelsch, tho Hex centre fielder, bath ,,, In tho neighborhood of $20,ono. and easily worth lu " Hut tho 8ehalks. Chaset and KeKde, players who graduate from the lnct, ; minor Icagiies nnd retain or l.,.(trr ,h,l Class AA standard In tho big ieanu.. are the raritite. fc "u"' Vnknonns the Heal .Slurs. Who are the real star f tllP but tho boys who come frmii Min,u ,.i scuro country town and played ball i som ellttlo minor league? A Mar nKut one ever heard of Hodgeis liornsby bu, his parents, relatives, school cliunu and the Texns League f.inx. To-day th( twenty-year-old Cardinal InMelilcr In reo. ognlzed ns tho greatest outig tr in tho National League. Two months ngo "Mtilo" Watvon, nlw of tho Cards, had never been heard of except In southwest Texas. llc si.,rttd big league random about a month agu b winning a shutout game from the giti Alexander. Last week he beat Salleo to 0. Perhaps he Is anotlur 1M Wali'h he Is acting like one. ' .Seventeen years ago u name, "Mathtw. son," appeared lit a Ulant ben senrt Tho papers snld "a wild rembpro llnlnhci tho game." Now York neer gave Mntly a tumbto then. He was sent hack to Norfolk, and the Heds cliufted him. Then the (ll.inta thought niajbe tluTe wi something to this MathewMin after a'.I, and got him back In a trade for ltuale. Did anything luckier ever happen to t ball club? Imagine a club lctii..g a mj!i like Mitthcwson go, and then Kilting him back before tho other club lud a ihann to try him nnd see what a find It laid o:i Its hands. Here's Where I.ueU Klgared, You oflon hear the iiieslnn "VYhtt alls tho (iluntsV They ate droppm away for tho Icjks of a MatheWKin. t'.ia any ono say how many of his five pin. nants McGraw would have won had Cin cinnati kept Matty In 1901" How many of his six pennants would Connie. M.ick liao won had the young Gettysburg tel. leglaii, Plank, turned out to bit a llarxl. bucher, tho lean skinny Indian from Carlisle (Itender) a baseball Thorpe, ai.l the tall youth from Colli) a Crimen'' Klevett years ago. a name i'lb started to appear In the Detroit linn;. A Detroit fan might have afktd t-.in Crawford. 11111 Donovan or rmu other old Tiger. "Who's Oils Cobb" The an nwer would have been, "Oh, Home frt-fh kid the)' picked up MJIltcwIlere do 11 hinitli, vvho thinks lie can hit. We got to lick lm In the clubhouse every day to tone hint down." Yes, Cobb brought tho FNind sum of f'OO when the Augusta club sold him to Detroit. Any other club could h.tv had him for 75i). They say Clark (Jr. Illth, then managing the YanUm, could have had Ty In it trade fur nemt mcdliuTH pla.vcr, whose nume I have forgotten. Giving Jennlngn, Donovan, Crawfnril, Mullen und the !! TIkith full eredtt, Detroit never would hat vvnii a pennant without T), Whin i team plckb UP a pla)er like Cubb it .1 Iut.l. Hits Paid $400 fu Speukrr. Who ever heard nf Trls Speaker urtll he began tn startle Atnerlean lntn 'atidom In 1909 .' TrU was a slur la , Texan League, and went so gnml tint II, Minn purchased his releut-e frnn llustnn for the muiiltlecnl sum if 1(11. lie played tun games with II' -t n n 1907, and in 19ns he w.tn ,rr,t ti Mickey Kllili of Little Hock, w t' tli privilege to buy him back fur I 1 Speaker then binned up the S' Jthi-rn Ai-soclntlnn. .Several i lubs were after him, but Kinn, who hadn't ev.n a wr". ten agreement with ltnUnn, stitik ti gentleman's llgleelllellt, and let H - n buy h.in bai k fur S.'iiin. Who ever heard nf Ta'tT .T hnvi lint .1 ho eame to the tnlletid Wasliler tons In the fall of. 1907 a yniitiuf' with terrltlc i-tieed, who annoyed th veteran Washington Uieksl T bees in they couldn't hold tiny such cannon balls? Ono of the few w Im irl of this semi-pro marvel nf Wil-er, ld"ho, was Fred Clarke, then manager ' I "tts burg. The We'ser manager begsM I'laike tn give Walter a trial, l"d Pt. btirir wouldn't even send tra fare Tvv couldn't be botheied wl'h I ir w.iv n'Jt In Idaho. Joe Cantillnti nf V u nn'n then agreed tn tnku Walt' r nn ar.'l evetY una kii"WS the reud ' it' luck play right Into the Wa t club's hands .' Alexnnder (Ibtnlneil lij Draft. Orover Cleveland Abnaudr won twenty-nine dimes and Inn f-nirtee-i fr the Kyraeuse New' York State Lesim In 1910. the Inclliinnpnlls eiub havlr farmed him to Kyraeuse, Seviral erout looked Aleo over, and any fne cmld have bought him for Jl 00u but no did. The lucky Phillies put ti a en f' for him and gI him for a tew lull IreJ dollars, Pel Imps the old tinier was riiiht Jl says baseball Is entire y a nailer f luck. Do you agree with him? he lost nine straight games with Indian apolis. Ho showed nothing at the Ma con training camp of the Yankee laet spring, and has been farmed to Haiti more, where his work hai been only fair, lie was leialled last week and will get another chance to out it his big price, On the other hand I'rban Shocker, who looks like a real llud, was picked up In the draft for a few hundred dol lain. That Is the way baseball luck breaks. other famous bloomers wcro Lena Ulncltbtirnr, the Providence shortstop, who cost Comlskey $",50i) (a very high prleo fnr International Leaguo players) In 19UK, nnd Lefty ltusell, bought by Connie Mack from lialtliuore for Ml'.ooo In 191(1. Thla Itussell Is an older brother of the Allen Itussell now with tho Yanks, and one of tho few players Mack dug deep In his Jeans to get. Kussell shut out the lied Boa with three lilts In his first game with the As and was called a successor to Plank, lie never won another game, and h now playing tlrst base lur tho Haltlmoro Internationals. Yet It la lint fair to asi'iimo that all high priced minor league players lire failures. The (i.ant.s dug up DJ.OOO fnr Chief Meyeis, ami hu h,ih worth all of It, and Hal Chao lived up to his minor league reputation when he Joined the Yankees In I'.ni.'i, Krltz Malsel cost tho Yankees 112,000 and tho re lease of Daniels and .MldkltT when lie was bought Irnm Haltlmorn in 1913, and Piunk Gllliwiley aNo vindicated the big money that the club tvvlen paid to lliteniatinn.il l.eiglie clubs fir hla re. lease, despite the tact that Cliance let him out In 1911 after he hit ,3J0 In the preceding fall. Comlskey Is generally regarded as the most foldbrlckud niaguata, but he found ONE ON PITTSBURG. Plrntea Tvtler llnj- Curcin llll'f'. NnrtlinrMern Mar. Along In 1911 a ynung-'e I a" " 1 I'' nee was proving a n baseliall team nf the V t' ' gnn and a crafty and t.i' burg scout signed h m .ml body back In Pittsburg icb without even so niU' h a-, a tr youngster tlnlshid ccliool and vv nt to make lis way In baseball. A couple of weeks ago tV t' club pain JS.oon to Turniiri f ' tract lie Is the same Car- W f Or: r i-t. l released by Pip.slnirg without ' over In 1914. The rt oil's w watched his work sty he is n a T Cobb, but rather h- Is i He Heeler lie Is a Utile- f. ' ' a Hash, who can hit, run ir ' tinles the dope I" nil wn k ' be n star in the game for s ' t come. F .if 1 in! 1 REPORT "PERFECT GAMES" Pitching must bo good d -w . C.iroliiias. Within the nn.- ' "' ilay-s two coriespoiidenis n 1 t:i ' of "perlivt games." At Lu-nhen N ('., Ivco Stone, pitching fnr Lur 'on ng.ilust Hat-ford, both Ind, pendent ''r' did not ullow a man to rn'-u t.re' 1 " At I'mintatn Inn, S f ' . sain Li " pitching for l'nuutr.ln Inn sg'i i ,,fb lull, bnth teams l.el. t, .cleffll '. ' not let a runtn r s. e Hie iiiii M was with Annistnn In t'" lie i. v h.inia League until that i tcin' ts season, while Lanlnld once r' ' " New Orleans In the Southern. Il '' 1 sensational colkge pitihir l n i" -"f WARD LOOKS CLASS Chuck Ward, tho 1'i Mi.ind made a flue impies'ion on Hi van, tlm Detfn't si 'Hit nnd pnrted lie had advi id I - Waul has taken e.m nf year nnd played g ul ball, w eiiulvalent tn Fa)lnit hn was n I Ut la bis conduct last toasou,