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Show 'Former Coast Stars Who May Get . Into World's Series Contests I 1 t I 1 I ;:-:' mx . zS;,.,-1 x;V v x K . : , . i rn " above 1 M ,, i ; U . ; -"A rr?:f W KrX.n. ir.-' 1 - k a VV?f ItXl X iXX; .vX - ;; X . J " 1 pV0C5 tt! T ' " y ' W QJ7? X. SPLFD s.kf CURLY zkpertca n TTx X;X-XX v Six Former 'Coast League Ball Players Will Probably Prob-ably Be Given Chance to Show in the World's Series; Roy Mitchell and Jack Farmer Are Only Pacific Coast League Men Who Failed to Stick in Majors. AXt;MBER of big league managers and eastern sporting writers . have made the remarkable discovery dis-covery that ball players from the late Pacific Coast league can play baseball. Some discovery, especially after it is known that fans throughout the country have been aware of the fact for some time. The last days of the major leagues ' have brought quite a few of our "former "for-mer coast leaguers into prominence baek there. The Angel tribe appears to be the coast league club which is entitled en-titled to claim the larger number of representatives in the majors. Such players as Fournier, Terry, Crandall, Brown and Pertica went back east to show up to advantage in class No. 1 basebalJ. Oakland contributed Speed Martin to the Cubs and Pick of the Seals was sent to keep bim company. In addition, the Friscoites sent ' 'Silent ". John Hummel to the Yankees, and it is interesting to know that the old-timer is busting the ball over the .400 mark. 'The Bees supplied Jean Dubuc to tie Red Sox, and jack Farmer to the Indians. In-dians. Sacramento sent Pinelli to 'the White Sox and Art Griggs to the Tigers. The Bengals contributed Quinn, Dcvor-raer, Dcvor-raer, Chadbourue and Roy Mitchell. Out of this lot only two have failed to deliver the goods so. far Rov Mitchell Mitch-ell and Jack Farmer. Mitchell had a brief trial with the White Sox and was voted to the junk heap. Farmer got off od the wrong foot on his first day with the Indians and lasted but two weeks. Jack Quinn has not lort a game since he has been with the White Sox. His work has been brilliant, and around Chicago Chi-cago they are wondering how he remained re-mained in the old P. C. L. so long with all that major league stuff he has been displaying. Manager .Rowland unhesitatingly unhesi-tatingly declares him to be the best spitball artist since the time of Ed Walsh. Quinn was recently voted to the New York Yankees by the National commission. com-mission. It appears that the Wbite Sox negotiated with Quinn personally rt the eml of the season, while the Yankees Yan-kees communicated with the Vernon club i'or Jack's services. The commission commis-sion declared the circumstances "peculiar "pecu-liar and unfortunate,'' but finally decided de-cided that the New Yorkers had the better claim. Fournier, after a bad start, has come through splendidly for the Yank"). He has not only been hitting th old ball regularly, but has scored oodles of runs and svolen innumerable base?. Jcoue.-has Jcoue.-has changed his style o batting somewhat some-what since his last appearance in a Seraph uniform. Instead of trying to kill the ball, he is barely meeting it, and although he is not knocking out a? many home runs, he is gathering in a larger number of hits. Due to tn:-ehangc tn:-ehangc of style, the alow ones are notj tooling him as they did in the other days in tiie big show. Terry is a elcac-np hitter with 'be Pvavps. end is de!i crying trc go is. His fie'die.g hs rcen one of -h- .-. -sa tions of the last month of tiie National ier.imo season. Chet c'na 'bourne is working in the ccnt-eriieid garden. He has also baaa doing sterling work, hit ting well and making a mess of fine catches. . Oto Crandall haa pitched excellent ball for the Braves, showing up particularly particu-larly well as a pinch hitter. Pertica, Brown and Dubuc have had little or no chance to show with tho Red Sox, as the Boston club has been having a tough old time in trying to capture the American league, pennant. Speed Martin has demonstrated his class to the. Cub fans. He recently won a -corking good ball game from Ote Crandall of the Braves by 'a 2 to 0 score, it being the only game for Ote to lose since appearing in a Brave uniform. uni-form. Speed is expected to pitch at least one of the games in the big series this year, although with Jinr Vaughn and Lefty Tyler going along at such a fine clip, it looks as if they will be delegated dele-gated to shoulder the major part of the burden. Charley Pick has been playing a niftv brand of ball for the Cubs, although second base, wdiere ho has been stationed, sta-tioned, is not his regular place in a lineup. Deal has been playing on the third sack. When the time for playing the series rolls around, Pick may be changed baek to third, although nothing about it has been definitely settled. Art Griggs stepped iuto the first ha?e job in Detroit and started to hammer the ball from the start. Art has demonstrated dem-onstrated the fact that he is a bitter in any man 's league. Hummel, DeVorraer and Pinelli have been doing good work both in hatting and fielding. So far the Bee's contribution contri-bution to the Bed Sox, Jean Dubuc, lias been used only in the role of pinch hitter, hit-ter, but he may be given a chance to star in the series along with ''Curly'1 Brown and "Bill" Pertica. Charley Holloeher, the youthful shortstop short-stop with the Portland club last year, has undoubtedly been the sensation in the National league this season. His pls-ving in a Cub unie has been nothing short of marvelous, and although he has contributed a number of misplays, he has eertuiiily made up for thorn in the large amount of snceseful chances handled. He is being picked to be one of the outstanding players iu the coming com-ing world 's series. Holloeher will go into the army im-mediatelv im-mediatelv after the pdaying of the series, for he has given it ont tiint he v-ill not try for a job in a shipyard but will take his chances "over there.'' Some of these days the east will wake op to the fact that they play regular ball not in the old P. C. L.. and it is indeed prob&Me that nfter the w-ar the Coast lesg'.ic will be given a maior b-pg ie rating and figure in the world 's scries. The boys br-"k thre n--w are helping to convince the eaM; tint, the bnse'r.al! world doesn't e:i- when you get wcct of the Mississippi. |
