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SIX
Declined to Put Up $1,500 for the Great
Cleveland Player—Comlekey Would
Get a Managerial Job for George
Davis.
With the scout system in vogue by
the big leagues at work it is pretty
hard for a good player to escape the
clutches of the major baseball organi
sation magnates. But here area
couple of "fan yarns" that show how
two of the present day stars were
overlooked for a short time.
LAJOIE TO PLAY Fl RST FOR CLEVELAND
The great second baseman of the Naps Isto be switched to the initial
'•erner to make room for Turner In the Infield. Lajoie haa shown that he
•can play the first sack aa well as the second and Manager McGuire figure*
the arrangement will greatly strengthen the Infield.
WOULDN'T RISK $500,
LOST STAR PLAYER
MIKE FINN REFUSED TO BUYcent
8PEAKER, WHO IS TY
COBB'S RIVAL.
SELEE OVERLOOKED LAJOIE
Larry Lajoie was In the New Eng
land territory right under the eyes
of the deceased great manager, Frank
Selee, and although everybody touted
Lajoie off to Selee, the latter failed
to got his man. Selee could have had I
him easily enough. He had an option
on hla man. He knew perfectly wall
that the Philadelphia dub wan attar
Lajoie, and he knew exactly what price
waa out on Lajoie. It waa $1,500, with
Phil Oeler thrown In to boot When
It waa put up to Selee to boost this
price he refused to do so and said:
"Lot them have him." and so
thethis
greatest second baseman of his day
and one of the greatest ball players of
all time went to Philadelphia to load
the coffers of Messrs. Reach and Rog
ers. Like other National league mag
nates these magnates failed to meet
the offers that Lajoie received when
the American league started opera
tions, and thereby lost their man,
whereas had Lajoie been kept by the
Philadelphia club the Athletics could
not have secured the prestige that be
came theirs.
Boston picked up Tris Speaker from
the Cleburne club of the Texas league,
but he did not look good to Jim Ma
gnlre, who offered him to Mike Finn,
the Little Rock manager. Boston
wanted $600 for Speaker, but Finn
could not see this at all, and said he
would borrow the man for a year. So
Speaker waa sent down to Little Rook.
Finn put him to work and forgot all
about having him sign a contract,
thinking at the time that Boston had
him tied up. The Boston club thought
all the time that Little Rock had
signed him up Immediately, and the
consequence was that Speaker played
for nearly a month with Little Rock
and under contract to no one.
Finn finally woke up to this fact
and shoved a contract at Speaker
which the youngster signed without
any trouble. He waa absolutely a free
agent at the time and could have
Signed where he pleased, but he did
not know It Had he known this and
been as well known then as he Is now
he probably would have had every ma-
jor league club In the country hot on
bis trail.
Trie proved to be the sensation of
the Southern league that season and
every major league club In the coun
try waa after him, but Little Rock had
to turn him back to Boston without a
In return. This one deal was the
worst blow that Mike Finn ever re
ceived in his long career In baseball,
and he never got over It. Because he
would not risk $500 he lost a player
whom he could easily have sold for
$5,000. Finn never told the story on
himself, but It made the Little Rock
club owners so sore that they let It
leak out.
It is a peculiar thing the way peo
ple call Charley Dooin "the old vet
eran." Dooin has been in the league
a long time, but be is not 30 years
old even now. He Is the lightest
catcher in the big league.
Bd Walsh, although considered one
of the greatest pitchers In the game
to-day, was guilty of making three
balks last season. BUI Burns, also of
the White Sox, tied his team mate.
Roy Thomas has started active work
as baseball coach at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Believing that many young first
basemen fall to make good In major
leagues through fear of the runners'
spikes, Manager Fred Lake of the
Boston Doves Is working on a patent
"glove" aa a protection for the ankles
and feet of the men who have to
cover the bag.
Blaine Durbln, who haa helped
warm the National league benches for
the Cubs, Reds and Pirates, will try
to rosily earn his salary for Omaha
season. Durbln Is one of those
players who would rather actually
play with a minor league team than
draw a big league salary and warm
the bench.
Bert Keeley, who pitched for Wash
ington In 1908 and who finished last
season with Omaha, is another dinger
who haa decided to eliminate the
"spit" ball from his repertory.
Walter Devoy, the SL Louis ama
teur who went around the last circuit
aa a member of the Browns last fall,
haa notified President Hedges and
Manager O'Connor that he wants to
try for first base.
Manager Jack McCarthy of the Dan
ville club of the Three-Bye league haa
signed Walter C. Jantsen, a Chicago
boy, to play second base. Jantsen's
friends considered him one of the
finds of the season and think he Is
a second Johnnie Evers.
George Davis, another of the White
Sox old guard, la slated to go. Ho
will make the second of the veterans
of Comlskey's staff to leave this year,
Isbell being the other. Comlskey 1B
looking for a good managerial berth
In one of the minor leagues for Davis.
If he falls in his purpose he will re
tain George, but it is believed certain
that he will succeed. He has his eye
on the American association or the
Eastern league aa the most suitable
place for Davis.
Harry Lord, third baseman, who
was the first of the Boston American
players to sign for this season, haa
been appointed captain of the Speed
Boys by Manager Pat Donovan.
BILLIARD AND POOL
TIRES CHANGE HANDS
CLINE BEATS DEMAREST AND
KEOGH DEFEATS HUE3TON
IN CUE CHAMPIONSHIP
GAMES.
Calvin Deraarest. the young Chicago
an, did not hold the 18.2 balkline bil
liard championship very long. It is
about three months since Demarest
won the title and the first time he
was called upon to defend it he went
down to defeat at the hands of Harry
Cline of Philadelphia.
Cline and Demarest played in Chi
cago, the champion having only 1,387
points when his rival scored the final
I in the 1,500 point contest. Cline'e
highest run was 147, while Demarest'f
best was 122.
About the time Demarest was losing
I the billard championship. Thomas A
Hwston was being deprived of th«
same honor in pool. In a 600 poim
game in New York Hueston lost tc
I Jerome Keogh of Rochester, N.
Hueston scored only 546 in the thret
eights play. Keogh adopted the safe
ty system while Hueston was arratic
and snappy throughout. A purse ol
$1,000. the diamond emblem and
$250 side bet went to the winner.
HE WANTS LONGER RACES
Thomas F. Ryan, New Turf Patron
Favors Four-Mile Run for the
Thoroughbreds.
An effort is being made to revive
long-distance horse races in America.
The principal advocate of the races
that demand speed, endurance and
courage in one of the latest patrons of
the turf—Thomas Fortune Ryan. The
traction magnate has been consulting
some of the stewards of the Jockey
club on the subject and trying to in
ject into them some of his enthusiasm
for this particular branch of racing.
This subject of long-distance races,
the four-mile kind—heats, too, if
horsemen will see it that way—is a
hobby with Mr. Ryan. He has a
deeply rooted conviction that races
over long routes are the contests be
fitting thoroughbreds and not the
present-day sprints of five, six and
seven furlongs.
Mr. Ryan believes that under pres
ent conditions the struggles are so
short that an advantage gained at the
start very often decides a race. Un
der such conditions, the very thing
sought after by breeders—extreme
•peed—frequently is placed at naught
because the horses that possess that
high quality may be hanaicapped by
ground lost at the rise of the barrier
Pirates Sign an Umpire.
The Pittsburg champions will plaj
ball under a salaried umpire from the
first time they don a uniform at Hot
Springs until the close of the cham
pionship season. Umpire Van Sickle
of the American association, a Chi
cago man, will get the job. Clark
thinks players do not do the same sort
jf work when another player or some
spectator is umpiring and requested
Dreyfuss to get a real umpire.
Where the A. A. Teams Train.
American association teams wit
train in the following places: Louis
rille at West Baden Toledo at Rome.
3a. Kansas City at Excelsior Springs
Mo. St. Paul at Excelsior Springs
Mo. Milwaukee at Champaign, 111.
Minneapolis at Des Moines, la. Co
lumbus at home Indianapolis al
Havana, Cuba.
Griffith's Men to Be Vaccinated.
All the Reds will have to be vao
clnated before they report for spring
training, says Manager Griffith. He
has come to the opinion that It Isn't
•afe to risk having his men exposed
to smallpox in the south.
NEW WHITE SOX CATCHER
Jimmy Block, who played with Min
neapolis last seaaon, has signed his
contract and aays he is going after the
honors of premier catcher of Comls
key's lads, long held by Billy Sulli
van.
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