Show I EXPERIMENTS IN S AMERICAN lEAGUE MA Y CEASE SOON SOO Clubs Getti Getting ng Fortified I Youngsters Outside of Pitchers Pitcher's Box n BY DY HE R P. P EDWARDS ED American leu League lIo clubs ml bo lo able ahle S to tn cease experimenting with recruits recruit S out outside of ot the batt batteries rles within two a or r three years as b by that time it Is ex ox expected ex- ex that the majority of or teams will I 1 h h. h H w wull s eil H fortified with young oung men wh who possess the requisite bl big lea league ue stuff S. S Outside of tho the box hox the thc Athletics are an all youngsters Boston has only three S reu real Veterans veteran Stahl Wagner and Car Car- rigan L nt and that tho T Turn latter nn FH ii IH A not T A. A old n lx In I iI UI 4 UTU U i the time vets of ot tho Nape Naps while land and am and I Car Carsch havo have served etl man many years ears a aM 4 professionals Out Outside ido o of ot Walsh White 5 Sullivan an and Callahan the White So Sox hav have havo few to toto to worry about and ComIske will scarcely think about a a. successor Ito I- I to 10 Walsh Inside the next few years Crawford and Da Davy Jones aro arc tho the old old- with Detro Detroit t. t Jack Powell ann and lobby Hobby Wallace ollace are aro the sole representatives representatives represent represent- es of or time tho tt veteran ran class with St. St Louis and cw York cannot bo be said to have ha a single h timer old In Its ranks Tom Torn Hu Hughes hes ami are arc the o old leI men muon of ot if the time Nationals With With-t Ith twenty ono exceptions all nf of S I the limo American lea leaguers urs have havo entered th the thu circuit Inc fine 1105 which mak makes i the Ban John Johnson on or organization extreme extremely youthful Th The cause rna may be explained briefly When hen the time American league expanded anti and decided to become a real rca L big big- league instead of ot a v. feeder to the I National It raided tho the older oilIer tion grabbing a cm number of ot star tar play lila lo ore ers Only men of experience were tak tak- en on Most rost of ot tho time new clubs tm fillet their s with stars a r men mon who had hind been beer 1 famous for tor several years Those Thoo men could not bo exp expected to tc go on ors forever The They began to show signs of 01 ag oge and on one by oy one they gra grad slipped Into the minors minora became becan I managers manager or quit the tho pastime eth- eth er The National 1 league 0 ln ha having beer been I deprived of ot ninny many of or its best bost men was I forced ten years ears ago ngo to recruit from I tho Cue minors As a result the they built better bet bet- ter tee for tor tho the future than them did dM tho the AmerIcan Amer Amer- ican lean Thus Thu It happened that tho the Cubs Cub I twice outclassed the TI Tigers Tiger er In tho time bat bat- I tJ tics 8 for tor tho time worlds world's s 's i I l Hegan l It was WaR about 1908 that tho the American I lea league teams found their veteran pla player players play play- er ers elK slipping The eastern clubs clubB made math t tho the discovery cry first It wa watt was forced upon I them wh when n Detroit Cleveland Cle Chicago I and amid St. St Louis finished ht rl ono wo throe 5 four at the em end of ot the campaign The They immediately bc began nn to recruit more mor strenuously than Tho Time western stern clubs club flushed ll b by their theli success stood PUt pot anti and suffered as i a L result Detroit being the only ono one to tc come back stron strong But all nil tho the western estern I clubs profited b by the experience The They also alJo began to tr try to strengthen the points weakened b by tho ho aging ot th Ir former stars Th The minor leagues leng were raided with dragnets and I In n the last four years J hundreds of youngsters youngster have hse been bean given trials hi b by tho AmerIcan Amer Amer- ican loan league teams Tho Tue result resul t of ot these trials has been bean the tho dev development of or suc such diamond artists as aft Speaker Baker Daker Wood Gardner Darr Barry Col Cot lies lins Ford Cobb Pratt John John- son Milan Gregg Jackson H Inn ding and a host of ot othe others Tho old oM saying Youth will b be he i set served Is particular particularly truo of ot base base- S hail ball The American league to today n Is t I built up of ot young young- men inert The National Nation I Ica league which recruited el eight ht nine and anc ten years age ago to replete the inroads I of or tho the younger league finds fintIs Itself Itsel loaded tip up tip with more et veterans rans than tho thc I American But nut the lie demand eleman I upon the thin minors minor t to tn strengthen the thc en big big- league I I teams ha has been remarkably great r nt and tho supply sup sup ply was vas not equal to the occasion Some of oC the time theVe Ve weaker teams have hn been unable i to acquire the nt necessary strengthening material but thy the time line seems close at al L hand when the minors minor will vili b tie be able t to deliver cr The Time reason will be bo that the tin big leaguers will not need as ns many re re- re They will have havo C fewer wea weak pots spots for tor of or most of th them m are nrc made mao ui up UI stick young In men who should b bo abl ablo t to fast company for tor several sc years No 0 1900 Veterans Tho The American n len league rosters fail faU t to show a 0 single or of ot th Ii son m of oC 1900 the inaugural hll Of lot the time circuit Plank nih aliI and Dill Billy Sullivan the lie ar aro i only onh ones l left Itt ft from froni tho those c who win played In In the time American s league ue from run 1 1901 Jimmy Callahan and Davy y Tones Tone I were also In the time league that year hu hut but t neither has played league continuously in let the tin Of the 1903 crop of or Hu Hughes Georgo recruits Jack Tom Toni Dann Danny Powell Murphy and Bobb Bobby Wallace tJi the I are aro lon Powell lon on only were vere survivors hors and Vall Wallace p and approaching the veteran class oven even then them The Time following brought In BelMer Bedder Doc season tahl White Jake lako and amil Sam Ram Crawford Craford while Turner Stovall and Walsh are arc the tho members of or the 1904 class chess stil with us Cobb Chase Cicotte and anle In 1905 Schaefer having L been en ono one of or tho lie 1900 charter members who who served time In the minors later Inter |