Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1917 — FRED ANDERSON’S RISE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRED ANDERSON’S RISE

Only Ex-Fed Hurler to Share In World’s Series Coin. Was Ushered Into Citizenship Twenty. Five Year* Ago at Statesville, N. C.—Valuable Player to Call On In Pinch. Fred Anderson, who came to the Giants from the Buffalo Feds, Is the only ex-Federal league pitcher who shared in the cutting of the world’a series melon this fall. Incidentally, Anderson’s rise to major league class has been a rapid one, for prior to Joining the Giants, in 1918, he had only a glimpse of big league company, and he probably has the Federal leargue to thank for the fact that he came into notice as a pitcher who possessed league class. Like Rube Benton, one of his pitching mates, Anderson is a native of North Carolina. He was ushered into citizenship at Statesville, N. C., somo twenty-five odd years ago and, like Benton, he started pitching independent ball before he was eighteen years old. Several years ago the Boston Americans got wind that a young hurler named Anderson was going great guns Ln professional ranks “somewhere below the Mason-Dixon line and a scout was sent South to give him the up and down. As a result Anderson got a tryout with Boston, but was turned over to a minor league club in New England for more seasoning. About that time the Buffalo Feds were scouring the minors for pitching material, and as Anderson was dissatisfied they had no trouble getting bls name to a contract. Then, when the Feds busted up, McGraw picked him from among a host of Federal league pltchets and he has succeeded in making good. AndetSon is a right-hander, and although not the most sensational of McGraw’s pitchers, Is a hard worker.

He uses a good assortment of twisters and is capable of taking his regular turn, in the box, but because McGraw’s three southpaws have been going great guns this year the ex-Fed wiggler has not been called upon to do a great amount of work. When the Giants went-South last spring many of the scribes who accompanied the team thought that Anderson would be forced to step aside for Jimmy Middleton, the right-hander secured by McGraw from the Louisville club, but when the weeding-out process came it was Anderson who stuck, and still there. Anderson is a valuable man to call into the box as a pinch pitcher, for he has good control and is steady under fire.

Fred Anderson.