Show MAJORS IS WILL IT NOT ITSELL SELL BALLPLAYERS BALL PLAYERS Seattle Scout Comes to Grief Griefin in His Efforts to Buy Stars By Bob Cronin July 30 We are up S SEATTLE against It and thereby hangs a tale of ot the plucking of ot the goose that is laying the golden egg Some two weeks ago the Seattle ball baU club sent a scout east to look o. o oer d' d the major league material that might be se secured secured secured se- se cured and report the sale sile price to no the Seattle club It was the first time In the history of ot baseball that a a. minor league club invades invaded the sacred precincts of ot the majors In Inquest Inquest inquest quest of ot talent prepared If It necessary to outbid the big fellows for a likely lookIng lookIng lookIng look- look Ing youngster Tile pussy foot work of ot the th-e scout Joe Devine has been hopeless so tat tar as s 1 toe ine majors' majors preserves are concerned HE SENDS THIS WIRE Here Is the telegram that hat was received by President Brewster yesterday esterday from his hireling abroad i Have talked with Mitchell McGraw Stallings B C Cravath Moran Robinson Gleason Griffin and and Huggins and nothIng nothing nothing noth- noth noth noth- ing doing All AH of ot the aforementioned are big league managers PIttsburg has Werner for tor sale and Mitchell may sell Pitcher Lear The small leagues want an awful price and It Is Impossible to get getgood getgood et good men up here Shall I go Into the bushes In further search Get thee Into the bush and beat the JImson weeds the sassafras clumps the greasewood stretches the red clover patches get thee hence and grab a tI HOCK flock of ball players even though ye find It not to thy liking a few tew of them birds Anything to bring unto your town three Inti infielders elders and a deceiver Spare not your words nor tighten up your poke for tor much Jack may be had In these parts If It the right kind of ot an ath-a ath lete ath-a-lete lete can be tumbled into the flume and landed In this yero yere town WILL PUSH HIS PROTEST Brewster Intends to push his protest against the other Coast Coasts league eague clubs having eighteen to twenty men on the payroll to the detriment of the Seattle club which Is crying for tor ball players He has asked President Baum to give Seattle Seat Seat- Seattle tle some protection In other words If It the rest of ot the clubs are forced to cut down to sixteen men Seattle may havea have a a. chance to grab some of the surplus players who are of ot Coast league caliber The league at large larSe has given no help at all to Seattle which Is In mark marked d contrast contrast contrast con con- to what occurred in 1909 when Vernon Vernon Ver Ver- non and Sacramento were admitted to the league Each club was compelled to give a a. player to Vernon and Sacramento nu 0 u that they might get Into the field with a chance to win Seattle received not a single player while Portland fared better having Farmer P Penner and comIng coming coming com com- ing from Salt Lake on account of ot previous ownership I THEY CANT CAN'T SEE ANYTHING I The league eague Is rejoicing over the attendance attendance attendance at at- at Seattle yet not one duo wm turn over a player like Ray Bates or Zinn Beck to help the Rainier out of ot their dilemma Some of ot the concrete heads Inthe inthe In Inthe the Coast league which has been the most mismanaged league In the history of the national pastime and Is a success In spite of ot Its directors cannot see Eee that the goose and the golden egg may soon be nomore no more If It It so 50 hap ens the league has only its directors to blame |