Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-25 | Page 20 | Why Laev Scouts and Groundkeepers Out ?

S I Why Leave Scouts and Out A New York scribe wrote a critical st story ry the other da day in which he lie divided dl the various classes of ot people connected with the progress of baseball Into these sections Magnates players umpires the fans and the press His list lIast Is by bv byno byno no means complete Where here do the tile old scouts couts conic como in In the the ivory hunters hunter of tho tim sticks Lets Let's see see theres there's Dick Larry Sutton Billy Murray Charley Chancy Barrett Arthur Irwin and about a do dozen en cn or moro more others other barely lese a illustrious These specialists of the tho gem In iii the rough Hurel surely have e had sonic some part In the of the present present pres pres- ent eat B system stem As a n. matter of ot fact about four fifths o of the players in the big leagues right now are arc there because of a recommendation b by ono one or more of the ivory on hunters some time back The is another national Institution Compare tho the condition of the average big league park toda today with that of twenty years cars ago T Those who played along alonA In the thc ear early DOs OOs or before be be- fore know full well that it Is a far cry from the tile playing surfaces of or those days to the d diamonds of tho the present The Tho work has become an exact science In tho the last few years I I