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Show SLIM SALLEE GOING GBT1 ill Veteran Southpaw Hurler Big Help to Reds These Days. Among the members of the Cincinnati club, which Is going great guns in the old league scramble, is a long, lean, laconic la-conic gentleman from the Ohio farm lands who will bear close scrutiny. Harry Sallee, more frequently referred to as "Slim" or "Sheriff" though he never did any sheriffing to amount to anything any-thing is the genetleman in question. The long-limbed southpaw so the records rec-ords say obtained his first major league i engagement back in 1905 with the Merid-I Merid-I ian club of the Cotton Stales league. He was a trifle too good for the boys in I that league, and in June of his first season sea-son was sold to the Birmingham club of ! the Southern association. There he re-i re-i mained until the fall of 1906, when he I was picked up by the Yankees. Lacking 1 experience, he was released to the Wil-liamsport Wil-liamsport club of the Tri-State league the following spring, and that summer was drafted by the Cardinals. Sal stayed In St. Louis for nearly nine years, and Just when the Mound City fans had begun to consider him a fixture he grew tired of the town and announced that he didn't care to play there any more. John Mc-Graw Mc-Graw saw in the big: pitcher's Indisposition Indisposi-tion an opportunity to strengthen the Giants and bought his release. The Sheriff served faithfully under the Giant leader for two years and a half and then decided to retire from baseball. Just before the Reds started south this spring. Pat Moran, seeking to bolster his pitching staff, persuaded SaHee, who had received his release from the Giants, to join his club. In coming to termB with Moran. Sal took into account only the fact tha t Cincinnati is but forty miles from Higglnsport. It scarcely occurred to him, or to Pat either, at that time, that the Reds might break into the UOit f world's series. At any rate. Sal has g1vet i of his best to the Cincinnati pilot and is ( in no small way responsible for the sen- ' sational rise of the club. I It may have been that when Sal broke ' into base nail he tried to throw every ball past the baiter. Certain It is that in recent seasons he has registered on an average about ha'.f the number of strikeouts he used to ha r.g up. The passing years have endowed him with , more craftiness In a pitching way tha n ( usually comps to a player, and one of the . lessons he has learned is to try ;o make , his opponents hit the ball whp.rt b wants i them to. For this reason he frequently ! allows nine or ten hits in the course of a game, but out of the nine or ten safe ! swats the opposing club is lucky to draw! on e or I wo ru r, s. He lets t r e boys hit! the ball, but he dosn"t let them hit ;t vcrv bard when they have nrm on the baser. This ys'em is not original wi'h I Sai Chrietv Ma'hewon was on ah t-x- J ronent of :t n fe- years aco but he is i following it with e xce.ient res j Its. |