Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1916 — PRAISE FOR YANKEES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRAISE FOR YANKEES

Lee Magee Rated Second to Ty Cobb by Manager Stallings. Would Not Be Surprised to See Rejuvenated New York Team Lead American League Catcher* Are Doubtful Quantity. In the opinion of that performer of baseball miracles, George T. Stallings, manager of the Braves, Lee Magee, outfielder of the Yanks, is second only to “Ty” Cobb as a ball player. Stallings also declares that" It would not cause him the least surprise to See the rejuvenated Yanks lead the American league this y°sr “Lee Magee is the ace in the Yankee deck,” was the way Stallings put it. “Some people have questioned my sincerity in rating Magee Just behind Tyrus Raymond Cobb as a ball player. Yet that is where I place him. “I would have paid anything within reason to get him for the Braves. If he isn’t a sensation in the American league this year I’ll be sadly mistaken. “The Yankees ean,win this year. It will be a close race, I imagine, in the Johnson circuit. Given fair catching and a few breaks of the game, Donovan will bring home the bacon.” “I honestly believe that your Yankees have a wonderful chance to win the pennant in the American league

this season. The only thing: that lam doubtful about is the catching department. ’ “The Yanks have the pitching strength, a clever infield with Baker, Peckinpaugh, Gedeon and Pipp, and a remarkable outfield with Maisel, Magee and GUhoaley. “Nunamaker I know is not a great catcher. Nor Is he even one. The youngsters must come through. Donovan must find in Alexander and Walters a backstop above the average.”

Lee Magee.