Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1920 — GRIFFITH TO FIGHT FOR OUTFIELDER SEE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GRIFFITH TO FIGHT FOR OUTFIELDER SEE

Wants Slugger That Champion Reds Paid SIO,OOO For. Washington Management Not Willing to Permit Herrmann to Keep Player Waiver* Were Asked fools Natural Hitter. When Garry Herrmann, boss of the Cincinnati Reds, recently asked for waivers on five of his athletes and samed Charley See as one of them, be got a quick response from Manager Clark Griffith of the Washington American league club, who refused to waive on the former star slugger of the International league, although he was passed by all the other clubs. • This ordinarily would have assured See becoming the property of the Washington club, but Herrmann decided he had acted rashly in agreeing to let go of a player who had cost him $10,900 for one-quarter of that sum. He now wants to retain him and has notified Griffith to this effect. Under the rules waivers cannot be withdrawn, once they are asked, so Herrmann is going to have a battle on his hands to keep title to the youngster, See ereated a - sensation in the International league last season. Bein£ picked up by the Rochester club from the sandlots in Brooklyn after the season was well under way, the Flatbush phenom rapidly forged to the front by reason of his ability to slug and attracted the attention of Pat Moran, who needed a gardener to replace the aged and ailing Sherry Magee, and paid a record price for a practically untried juvenile. Moran corralled Pat Duncan about the same time as a precautionary measure .to bolster up his club for*its drive pennantward and.

finding the latter the better fielder of the two, kept him in the lineup and assigned See to a bench-warming role. See’s feat of pounding out 114 hits in 78 games with Rochester, to lead the league with an average of .385, indicates he is possessed of natural hltting ability and that is what Griff Is looking for. The Brooklyn boy is said to possess many rough edges as a flychaser, but he is only about twentyfour years old and if iie can maintain a high hitting pace his shortcomings .as a fielder can be ironed out with practice. ,

Outfielder Charley See.