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Show National League Catchers Examples ofy Men Who Kate Bench Warming. . NKW VOnK. .la ii. A soo! n-.any bu-i'i,ali iiiamiJiTs hol'i onto players voar a'.'li'r year Invauo ihi-y are i-ou- :I-:-ar i-.-rr'-'Tini' -'. ua.v it; an.l i-iay out. ' .Thi- is true in the leagues, as it in the minors, and tiinuli a ball player has to have a certain amount of i-la;s in anv rnrnpHiiv. lie eoes not have to be tin ei-e;itiouall y brilliant i pendrni.T to iiobl a job it' he is eon- j -i-teutly yoO'l. : The player who e-hat'es on the licn-'h i a valuable asset to anv ball elub. He is the player who loves to be in j there playing the jrnmc for the game j itlf. He isn't ofrerinsj alibis that will keep him on) of the lineup on pvcrv possible -occasion, an. I he is ivortti twice as much as the versatile star who has the temperament ot a prima donna. ... , In si.inii up plavers ot this class it is unfair to .leal with the second string men who do not have the opportunity op-portunity to eet into the lineup that is .-riven the Wgulars. And " Kl:1''- , inr over the National league, tioldiug i averages for the i-ast season it appears ap-pears to us that for the amount of work thev are failed upon to do in a , ball game the catchers have the call! when it comes to mention for consis-i tent playing. V'lavers in other post- tions mav be in there just as otten. but thev do not figure in as many I plays as tlie backstops, and when it comes down to brass tacks. they haven't the same amount of thinking . to do. either, i Three National league catchers who were mainstava during the season of 1917 donned the mask and protector ind caught more than 100 games . -(piece. We'll snv that was a good -eason's work, the trio in question , composed of Bill Killefer. Tvy Win-j Win-j of tlie Keds and Bill Kariden of thn : Pirates. Kariden was forced to shoulder shoul-der the heavy work behind the bat 'with the Giant's when Lew McCarty was put out of the game with a broken leg early in the season, but Bill is a gent who' loves work, and he is at his best when he is in there nearly every day. : The fact that lie has the ability to . ateh so many games shows that he I knows how to handle himself behind the bat. During the past season Rariden caught an even 100 games for the men of-McGraw. and that is .just, about an average season- work for the hardworking hard-working Tloosior. "When Kariden was with the Boston Rraves. before he took the hurdles to the Federal league, he was the first-string catcher for the. Hub team, and in the "outlaw league" he was known as the hardest working catcher. Bill Ivillofer, famous as the battery mate of Grover Alexander, caught 20 games of ball for the Thillies last sea-j sea-j son. and his work was of the same high standard flinty has ranked him as I one of the greatest catchers in the j game for the past few years. Ivy Wingo caught a like number of games for the Reds, and his work behind the bat with both the Cardinals and Reds for the past four or five seasons has stamped him as one of the greatest catchers in the game. Frank Snyder of the Cards was also a hard working individual during the recent campaign. Snyder caught ninety-four games of jall for thy Cards, as did Tragressor ' of the Braves, .who w-as called upon to shoulder the heavy work when Hank Gow.ly enlisted in the army. Rowdy Elliott and Art Wilson Wil-son of the Cubs and BM1 Fischer of the. Pirates, were among the hardest working bac-kstoppers in the National league last season, with sixty-five or more gabies to their credit. |