Show V r GREEN PASTURES GREAT FIELD FOR CASTOFFS Fine Performance of Several Players 1i Who Have Been Traded Shown Wisdom of Policy The splendid performance of the Browns a team of castoffs from P a other major leaguo teams is but living 11 liv-ing proof of oftrupentcd contention k that a chatiKo of pasturage will maku fat calves The players McAloorhas 1 secured from other teams make the dd Browns look like first dtvlslmilHts air i tho way When some of tho trades of the past J aro recalled when the fans consider i Homo of tho apparently dead timber t that wlso managoru have permitted to slip through tholr fingers only to Hen l them come to life and play mnrvelouH ij ball for some one else It Is easy to bo hove that baseball Is the strangest and always tho most Interesting of sports For Instance Clarke Griffith had o string on Nig Clarke and let him I S slldo without much regret ClnrkoN a star today Another dual that shown I I up Cincinnati lo ono in whlc > Jolt 6 Overall and Harry Stelnfoldt went to r the Cubs for Wolmor and Wicker Tim i last named pair woro rated as fall pitchers and Overall did not show enough to mako Hermann enthuse But Chance know big Jeffs ability e I and he got him with Steiny How the Cub loader ever bluffed Harry Hermann into releasing Stolnfoldt will t always bo a mystery but ho did and I Harry Is now n worlds champion Harry Davis the Athlollca crack 1 first baseman couldnt deliver for Louisville but with faith In himself 6t Davis refused the judgment and now ho Is an Idol of the Philadelphia fans u Claudo Ritchie and Dandy Beaumont v Beau-mont wore canned by Plttsburg when i Fred Clarke decided ho must have Abbatlcchlo at any price Doth Beau and Ritchie have played grand ball for Boston Georgo Davis was canned by New Yorkand has boon a wonder In tho Sox luilold ovor since It was his magical work that did much tc help tho Sox into n worlds championship ti champion-ship shipBut Kcoler and Stone offer time j most remarkable case on record In t tho American association Stone was a marvel and Bottton was lucky to got him Jim Collins made the mistake of his life when ho let him go to Ht Louis for Jesse Burkett Keolor wn chased out of Now York before the old Baltimore days Frank LaPorte who couldnt fit into l tF tho Yankees Infield has been playing k e like a house afire for McGuire this r = year Hobo Ferris and Jimmy WII c Hams are tho two most prominent examples ex-amples just now of castoffs who have made good They are going llko wildfire wild-fire for St Louis and have don much to help put the Browns into t 5 their present position Boworman m McGann and Browne are playing fins 5 ball for Boston and Tcnny and Need ham are starring for McGraw ts t f |