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Show Inflelders Are Scarce. NEW YORK, Oct, 21. Only one in-flelder in-flelder In the Eastern league who shows skill enough to warrant his promotion to the National and American leagues. Hugh Jennings of the Baltlmoro team is quoted as advancing that opinion. Manager Kelly of the Reds is reported to have said: "Conditions regarding inflelders In the big leagues are getting to an alarming alarm-ing stage. Take our own team, for instance in-stance We have need of one, and perhaps per-haps two, good inflelders, yet wo are able to get only two promising inflold-ers inflold-ers from the minor leagues, and if both these should fall In the spring wo would be in a sad plight, Indeed, The scarcity scar-city of inflelders vho arc ready for fast (company is best shown by a talk I had with Hugh Jennings the othor day. Jen- nings has been playing In the Eastern league all season. I asked Jennings If there were any good Inflelders in the Eastern, and he reiilied. " 'There Is JusUone man In tho eight teams who looks to mo aa though he might do In fast company, and that is Lewis, tho shortstop of the Baltimore team, over whom the Brooklyns and New York Americans had a Bquabble. Lewis has all tho earmarks of being of big league caliber, and ho Is the only one, too, of whom I can say that.' " |