Salt Lake Herald | 1908-01-19 | Page 22 | Lumley May Not Shape Up

LUMLEY MAY NOT NOr SHAPE IP UP UPHard U Hard Hitting Brooklyn Player Will Hardly Be Able to Play x This Season New kew New York Jan Tan 18 Charles Ebbets the Brooklyn magnate still hopes to put through a deal with Boston that will give the George Brown the Both Ebbets and Don Dono Donovan Donvan van despite reports l ports from the judge are afraid that Harry Lumley will so feel the effects of the injury that put him out of the game toward the tue end of ot last season that he will be unable to do himself elf justice next nest n t sum summer summer summer mer They figure it will take at least leasta a 1 year for a man of weight to fully recover from a broken log leg and allI that woul t leave Brooklyn without a regular until more than half the schedule s had been played Lumley is wintering in NY N Y a smalltown small town near ne r Binghamton and writes he will surely be ready and fit except perhaps for a little extra weight when the spring training starts But contracts are being belD sent nt out now and a baIl ball player is always in the pink of f condition at such h a time even e n though some one has to steady his hand while he affixes his signature What makes the situation doubly se serious serious serious rious is tie the fact that Whitey Alper man was also badly battered up in the thelast thelast last campaign If It I he could sur sundy ily de depend depend depend pend upon both of these those men to play up to the mark next summer Ebbets would be satisfied to let Jet the team re ye remain rema main ma n as it stands now that has been signed But if the infield has been patched up the other works without Lumley will be bt weak unIe a grInd iran can an l be se ur ud d 10 to fill flU I hole z c