Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — Cramdall Ball Players Making Good; Old Admieres Glad of It. [ARTICLE]

Cramdall Ball Players Making Good; Old Admieres Glad of It.

Goodland Herald. The NewJTork Giants, today the Up notchers in the National league, have many staunch supporters in Goodland. The principal reason for this is that Otis Crandall, of Wadena, just south of town, is a regular member of the Giant pitching staff. He is one of the most talked of young pitchers in the game today as an all around player. After Otis played several seasons with Wadena, Gtaxlland and Brook, in 1905, he was called to Frankfort and made good, that fall he was given a try with thfe Cedar Rapids, lowa, team in the Three-I and made good. During the season of 1906 he won many games for Cedar Rapids. The spring of 1909 he was given a tryout with the New York Giants at their training camp down in Texas and made good on the jump. ,

Otis is twenty-three years of age and one of the most remarkable players in America. Last year he led the National league in hitting and topped all the pitchers with, a record of nineteen victories and four defeats. When the league officials went over the records they found that Otis had made one of the greatest all-around averages of any playerthe history of the game. He was not only declared the AllAmerican 'pitcher for 1910, but was named as the All-American star since the history of the . game—a record that will possibly never be equalled by another player. This season Otis is making good to the satisfaction of all his friends. While Otis is being praised, his brother Carl, for the past two seasons, has been the regular short stop on the Memphis, Tenn., team in the Southern league. His manager would not dispense with his services for love or monby, that fact being demonstrated when Boston tried to buy and trade three men for him. Carl is doing good work and 4s strong with the bat and is a good base runner. Their mother, Mrs. Mark Crandall, is proud of her-sons and receives daily papers from New York and Memphis, and- the base ball news is all that interests her —and why shouldn’t it?