Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1917 — PHILLIES GET SCHULTE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PHILLIES GET SCHULTE

Former Cub Player Is Secured by Manager Pat Moran. Veteran Has Several Years of Major League Baseball 'in Hie System— Probably Will Replace Whitted In Outfield. (By JACK VEIOCK, International News " Sports Editor.) Ole Frank Schulte recently made his third move as a major leaguer when he went to the Phillies. He was sold to Philadelphia by Pittsburgh for the waiver price of sl,500 and, according to all reports, Pat Moran jumped at. the chance to land him. We say “Ole Frank” because Schulte is in his thirty-fifth year. When a ball player passes the “three-ten” mark he is called a veteran, yet veteran that Schulte is, his services are still in demand. Early in the season Schulte cracked a floating rib in a wrestling match with one of his team mates. As a consequence he was out of the lineup for a time and his hitting fell off. Jimmy Callahan decided that he would sell Schulte and give some of the young buckos of the Pirates a chance to fill his shoes. When he asked for

waivers Pat Moran made a flying tackle and landed Schulte, whom he had tried to purchase from the Pirates last winter. The confidence shown in Schulte by Moran indicates that he still has several years of major league baseball In his system, for Moran doesn’t take on flivvers, and he has uncanny habit of nicking off ball players who are cast aside by other clubs and molding them into a winning machine. . In all probability Schulte will take the place of Whitted or Cravath in the Philly outfield if he shows signs of stinging the ball in his old-time form. Schulte is a vet, but he is one of the old-timers who hasn’t lost the snap from his legs. He can still canter around the gardens and haul down the tough ones with as much agility as many of the cumbersome youngsters who come up every year. The fact that Cravath’s legs have been troubling him makes Schulte an asset to the Phillies, for Cravath can be kept on bench if Schulte can fill the bill In the garden, and Gavvy’s hitting will be enlisted in the pinches as usual. Schulte was a teammate of Moran’s on the old Cub champions and aside from Evers he is the only member of the Cub champions of 1906 who Is still fightin’ off the lusty punches of Ole Doc Time. 7 7~

Frank Schulte.