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Southpaws I W iJ ill n hi Figure sP sPill in Big Series Williams Reuther-Williams Battle Is Likely to Occur OccurS ALT rAKE LAKE fans will be bo doubly Interested Interested in interested In- In S SALT in the 1919 world series for forthe forthe the reason that each team has ex- ex Coasters on its roster and primarily because there are arc two Bees ex on each h contending cl club b. b The Reds have Morris Rath nath and Walter WaIter Reuther and the White Whit Sox boast of Claude Williams and Byrd Byre I L Lynn What t is more dont don't be surprised if It two Salt ex-Salt Lake pitchers strangely enough I both southpaws happen to lock horns in Lefty Letty Williams has one of ot the games been there before but it will be Dutch I Reuthers Reuther's initial appearance in a baseball classic Reuther of 0 course is not a as well known know to to Salt Satt Lake fans tans because in his earl early career he was EO so wild th that t Cliff Blankenship Blankenship Blankenship Blanken Blanken- ship found it impossible t t. t to use hint him a ai as often as ho ha wanted to I Reuther first attracted the attention o othe of ot the baseball world when pitching for St. St Ignatius college San Ran Francisco l h belet he be let the Chicago White Sox Sot down with two hits while wJ they were on a U spring training trip although losin losing the tho game 3 I to 1 1 I IThe IThe The Chicago Americans won In th the e ninth by getting a break and as a result re result result re- re sult of or his fine work Reuther obtained columns of ot stories in the hometown journals Journals journals Jour jour- nals the next day FAME QUICKLY WON Sport writers with the Sox wrote at length of 0 the kids kid's pitching The box score of ot the game the one that started Dutch Reuther on his way to baseball glory received wide publicity Overnight Reuther was made Scouts from every neck of ot the woods were on his trail Frank Pop Dillon of 0 the Angels Angels Angels An An- gels sent for him Before Defore the pair agreed upon terms Barney Dreyfuss of 0 the PIrates Pi Pirates Pirates PI- PI rates stepped in and obtained the youngsters youngster's youngsters youngster's young young- ster's signature to a contract and he wason was wason wason I on his way East Bast Reuthers Reuther's stay with the Pirates his first professional engagement was of one months month's duration Long before its expiration ex expiration expiration ex- ex his left-handedness left asserted itself It Itself It- It self and at the end of his thirty days' days sentence Reuther was on his way back backI to the coast I SECOND FAILURE DISMAL His second fling ling at professional baseball baseball baseball base base- ball was with the Angels Once again he failed to get away in proper style When Dillon chased him he caught on with Sacramento and once more fell down dismally Reuther wound up the 1913 season pitching an occasional game gahie among the semiprofessionals in small towns near San Francisco The year 1914 saw him trying once more to break into the game and stick This time he went to Vancouver in the Northwestern league Reuthers Reuther's work with Vancouver was not startling in his first regular engagement engagement engage engage- ment He did establish one record forthe for forthe forthe the season however however hitting hitting two twenty-two batters in the ribs with the baseball atypical a atypical atypical typical left-hander's left record The spring of 0 1915 again found Reuther with Vancouver His work was goodenough good goodenough goodenough enough to attract the attention of or Cliff Blankenship because he was not only a great pitching prospect but one of ot the best hitters in the Northwestern league as well Salt Lake held Reuther for the balance of the year but in the spring of 1916 traded him to Kansas City In the deal which brought Morris Rath to the Bees Danny Sha Shay then managing Kansas City informed Blankenship that he could not handle Rath and expressed a willingness to trade him for almost I any player on the Salt Lake squad Blankenship was reluctant about letting Reuther go but finally picked him as theman the theman theman man to go to Kansas City Reuther refused re refused refused re- re fused to report to the Blues and finally drifted back into the Northwestern again LEFT HANDEDNESS IS BAR With Spokane under the handling of Nick Vii Williams IIams Reuther found himself a alast at last and ho finished the season with Portland the Chicago Cubs taking him himon from the l lC C Once away w from the on cee ceel Vi ra d dable influence e of Nick Williams who seemed able to get work out of him Reuthers Reuther's left-handedness left kept him from making malting the grade with the Cubs I Cincinnati took him at the waiver price That was shortly after he ho reported to Chicago in the tho spring of 1917 Before Dutch had much of 0 a chance to show Christy Mathewson l then manager of ot the Reds how he appreciated his Isis friendly interest old John W. W War Var took a hand and Reuther took up shouldering a musket musket mus mus- ket at Camp Lewis His work with the Reds Reels this season has been the sensation of 0 the National league And by the way theres there's Mrs Reuther In San Francisco who calls up the sportIng sporting sporting sport sport- ing departments of the hometown papers every day to see what Cincinnati is do- do Ing She wants to tell Walter Waiter Jr who is rather interested In his daddys daddy's work how the tho Reds are going 1 l r I I r i n DUrCH jl u L |