Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — MANY PLAYERS FROM COAST [ARTICLE]

MANY PLAYERS FROM COAST

Last Year’s Crop of Recruits Hat Kept Big Leagues Going Quite Lively Thio Season. California is noted for its big trees, line climate and gold; also, "hardly a year goes by that the Pacific coast does not turn loose to the big leagues a crop of ball players who make good. In fact, very few of them are turned back. What Is more, the Californians who are shipped to the big leagues get in the limelight right off the bat They seem to develop into the kind of stars that the fans want to see every time they appear in any city. Scouts skip about to all kinds of leagues .and. get ball players, who are tried out only to be sent back, but the golden west sends them on and they stay. Twenty-six players from the coast are now in the American league dr-* cult, and all are making good. The New York Yankees have five. Chase started out there where they have fine oranges and all kinds of other fruit Harry Wolter, who covers right field for the Yanks, is another. Otis Johnson comes from out that way. Then the Yankees have Wilkinson and Fitzgerald, also from the Golden Gate city. Lynch was another who came from that country, although he has been turned over to the Bridgeport eiub. • ... . The Boston Americans have Harry Hooper, Lewis, Madden, Pape, Moser and Hall. ....ConnieMack is not very strong with California players, but has just secured Leonard of St. Mary’s college, .and it is rumored that the player will surely make good. Washington has Johnson, who is one of the star pitchers in big league baseball. In addition to Walter Johnson the Washington club has Street, Groom and Gray, and they are all making good in the American league. The Cleveland club Is well supplied with players from the coast It has Gregg, who has been touted as one of the best pitchers ever turned over to the big league from the minors. They also have Krapp, Olson, Easterly, Fisher, Gratffcy and Harkness. The Naps think all of these players will be the goods. Ping Bodie, who is getting a great big send-off in the American league as some swatter and from the coast. He is with the Chicago club, as are Zeider and Dougherty, who were also in California and come from that baseball country. The Tigers can only boast of one player, but Jennings thinks he has a fine young pitcher in Lively from the coast, who is making good for the Detroit nine. Bobby Wallace has Meyers, W. Hogan and Halliman with the Browns, and seems to be well pleased with those players, and, what is more, Stanage is well known in that part of the country.