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SAIER IS HARD HITTER
Cub Is Getting to Be Real For-
midable With His Bat.
First Baseman Has Ten Homers to
His Credit and Is Ranked With
Schulte-Zimmerman Class of
Sluggers—Hitting Is Surprise.
Players on the Chicago Cub base-
ball team are taking their turn In
leading the organization in the home
run department. Three
the National league with a total of
21, the largest number ever accumu-
lated by a single ball player since
Juck Freeman of Washington hung
up his mark of 25. Schulte did so
wonderfully well that season that ev-
mark in 1912.
the ranks of the homerun
The third
year at the top of the league bat
better this
first home-run getter of the team.
club's longest hitter this year, but
the youngster is developing so rap
idly and playing such wonderful ball
that anything he does from now on
should not surprise a soul
Jake
league's best first sacker,
not outclass the Cubs’
is the opinion of many
players in the National league
athletes, and also several com
ers, declare that Sailer 'ls without a |
question the greatest first baseman |
who has come into the organization |
since Daubert was introduced
Saier has improved in every
partment He has
mensely, is showing a lot
the bases, and has learns
portance of aggressiveness
hitting so well that he has now
driven home than
other player on the club U
last eastern trip Zimmerman
head of the t in that resp
he has been shoved
but he does
zinge red
more runs
back
Vic Sailer.
Sailer. The latter has driv-
neariy ov men,
given credit
The ten home runs Saier has made
up to the time this article was writ
ten prove conclusively what he is
for scoring
capable of doing. To some ten four
base cracks may not seem lot,
but when it is figured he has
made most of his homers away from
the West side lot that is quite
17 home runs chalked up for him
While no effort i8 to be made to de
prive him of due credit, it must be
sald his achievement {8 not so won
derful as that of Sailer
Philadelphia grounds, where
is also easy
left-fleld bleachers,
Saier has not made his homers off
the weak pitchers. He has demon
strated to the National league's best
that it is anything but wise policy
to give him a ball inside about waist
high. Not long ago Teereau, one of
the league's leading hurlers, passed
Zimmerman with the intention of find
icg a snap in Saler. The young Cub
initial sacker declined to be belittled
and proceeded to do what Zimmerman
might have done—samashed out a home
run, scoring three men. The twirlers
off of whom Sailer has collected his
decade of home runs are Adams,
Steele, Alexander, Ames, Ragon,
Hess, Tesreau, Wagner, Mayer and
O'Toole,
Players’ Friend.
Bonesetter Reese is the ball play-
ers’ best friend. Reese lives In
Youngstown, O,, and hundreds of play:
«rs go to him every year to have their
limbs fixed. He has saved many ma
jor leaguers from a minor league
berth by resetting “Charlie Horses”
and other dislodged muscles. Reese
has a natural touch that discerns the
allment immediately.
Mundy Looks Good.
Mundy. the Red Sox's first base
man frora the Virginia league, is not
a very big fellow, but seems quite ac
tive. He Is a left-hander. In the first
game Munager Carrigan jerked him
out that he might go in himself as a
batter in a pinch, which was not very
encouraging to a youngster and hardly
the way to test his gameness,
Rochester (N, Y.)
Quinn formerly was
the biggest man, ph
Nationals
ysically, in the
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Sheckard Is Big Eater,
Four members of the Pirates,
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entered a little store near
When
slop
3 “xe “88 O
g league
rode from St. Louis
a 26-hour train
wed to put )
train not to exceed $2.50
ere three meals, yet practicall
the players sidestepped breal
supper, having a big feed at th
n hour. When the train reached a
ve been Poughkeepaie-—several play
hurriedly
and a bottle of milk, while the othe
arriving at the Grand Ce
made a bee line for a coffee
ntral station
and cake
room When Jimmy Sheckard was a
both of the
bought by the Hoston
Americans. Schmidt is
tional league
been
INNS NSIS El a
$18,000 PAID FOR A PLAYER
Comiskey of Chicage White Sox las
Latest to Pay Fabulous Price for
Hard Hitting Player.
of the Chl
Owner Charles Comiskey, 1
cago American team, is the
latest magnate to go into the
league
! base
{ ball market and pay a
for a ball player The
White Sox has purchased Larry Cha
i pell from the
fabulous price
head of the
club of the
Milwaukee
American association, at a price that
This makes
| Chapell the second highest priced ball
the
players, the actual cash o« ideration
being $12,000, it is id, the two play
ers figuring at 33.000 aplece Outfield
er John Heall was one of the men trad
ed to Milwaukee in the deal, the oth
er being a catcher urned
over to Milwaukee
Chapell goes
touted as one of the most sensational
outfielders of recent years His bat
ting in the Americ
the »
association
been in yorhood of 370, ar
was this mark that drew
tion of
the atten
than half of the bis
league clubs The Chicago Cubs and
the heaviest bid
lers against Comiskey, Murphy even
{ Cleveland Naps were
eating irregular oals
used to leap off the train while on
devoured those things addition to
the regular meals in the dining car be
cause he always was hungry
Sheckard was an excouption
eral rule
to the g
NOTES orthe
D MOND
ang, Connie Mack's wonderful
young receiver, has a batting average
spend $30,000 for players who can
win a pennant.
* » *
Long Larry Mclean, now catching
for the Giants, is developing into a
fast base runner,
» » »
Hugh
new minor league rookies in an effort
to strengthen the Tiger outfit.
*
paugh will develop into one of the
best shortstops In the league.
- * *
Building up a ball team from noth.
ing ia not the easiest job in the world,
as Frank Chance is quite willing to
admit,
* » -
Mark Stewart, the young back.
stop purchased by the Cincinnati
Reds from Norfolk, is being touted as
a real find
. * *
In their search for talent the big
show scouts are looking over the
semipro ranks as well as scouring
the minor leagues.
* - .
Not much choice between the two
St. Louis major league teams. Both
the Browns and the Cardinals are
putting up the same brand of base.
ball.
*. * »
Candy LaChance, famous first base
men of days gone by, recently appear.
ed as a substitute umpire in the East.
orn association, but not because he was
looking for a job, only as a favor be-
cause of a shortage of arbitrators,
Larry Chapell,
wiring that he would better any other
offer. When Comiskey set his final
price via long distance phone, Mur
the ante,
Chapell’'s ascension to
been meteoric.
home town, McCloskey, 111,
club.
manager at Milwaukee, picked him for
ia star. Duffy dispatched a represen
tative to the Wisconsin burg and in a
few days the representative was back
with Chapell, for whom he paid the
meager sum of $200.
Chapell joined the club in the mid
dle of the season and began to im-
prove wonderfully under Duffy's tute.
lage. Last year he continued to pick
up and finished the race with a bat-
ting average of 274. This spring he
started off sensationally, and in no
time had big league scouts watching
him. He is a big fellow, twenty-two
soars of age, bats left-handed and
| throws right.
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