Show Rookie on Indians' Indians Farm Drives Runs Runs- Across By FRANCIS J. J POWERS VERS Special to The Telegram CHICAGO July 22 Henry 22 Henry P. P Edwards manager of the American Ameri Amen can leagues league's service bureau was vas telling of pf f the tremendous hitting being done by Geoffrey Heath an outfielder with Zanesville in inthe inthe inthe the Mid Atlantic ic league He has has batted in runs in 66 games related Edwards Ed and that made you want to know something fur fur- I ther about the young manI mani man I 1 first heard of ot Heath last winter win win- ter when vacationing in Miami continued Edwards One Ono morning I went out to the baseball school conducted by Leslie Main the old ld National league outfielder Mann was as enthusiastic about a kid outfielder who was a member of the amateur team he tio toc to Japan His name is Heath and ho is going to be one one of the great great- of all time Hes He's a natural natural nat nat- ural raJ declared Mann T To what major league club are re you yea going to recommend bim I asked Found by Kamm I I 1 was too late sighed Mann ann Heath is tho the property of the Cleveand Cleveland Cleveland Cleve- Cleve land and Indians Billy Kamm found him last summer and signed him to a contract You will recall that when Walter Wal Wal- Waler ter er Johnson and Kamm had a disagreement dis dis- dis agreement cement last season the Cleveland Cleveland Cleve- Cleve land and club paid Bill Bm in full for tor forthe the eason season and gave him him- a a. roving raying as as- as as scout on on the theP Pacific coast Kamm wanted to repay Alva lv Bradley for his generosity and pent his time watching sandlot layers Somewhere along the Pacific Pa Pa- coast he came across He Heath th and and recognized a ta potential star In Inthe he the untried kid Cleveland turned Heath over to New Tew Orleans last spring but he lack d experience and arid was sent ent down to Zanesville the Indians' Indians class lass B farm In tlc tIc compan company com corn pans pan he has been a a. a sensation anda and a n. doz dozen n major league e B sCouts sCouts' o h have ve tamped stamped him as ar surefire comer cpm comer r. r Hero is what Ithe the kid had done att at atho t ho plate up t to last week e k In n 66 games and antI tm times times' s' s at bat bats Heath had US hits Including 28 8 doubles eight triples and 21 home lome runs and rand scored 79 times But his production of runs Is Js astounding In times at bat Hal Trosky of Clev Cleveland land drove in 74 71 runs and in times of the he Cardinas Cardinals produced 77 and they are the major league leaders Heath probably will graduate to New Orleans Or Or- leans cans next year and to Cleveland in 1938 although there is the thc chance that hat such a a batter may make mako the I leap from class B to the majors in one jump even as Stuart Martin did for tor the Cardinals Develops elop Stars Star Cleveland has been very fortunate in the development of stars on its few farms On its present in infield in in- field Hughes Berger and Hale came up via the New Orleans pasture and Trosky and Knickerbocker sprouted sprout sprout- ed at Toledo when that club was a Cleveland affiliate Galatzer and s' Weatherly came Caine up tho same samo and Earl Averill and Bruce Campbell are the only outfielders secured on the open market Denny Galehouse a ayoung ayoung ayoung young pitcher developed by way of ot Zanesville and New Orleans and Thornton Lee came from Toledo So by nd bYa and large the Indians have done much better with their farms than several other major clubs If Heath makes good for tor the tribe Bili Kamm will have seen Heath claim he is just as much oCa of oC ofa ofa a natural as Joe DiMaggio was when the Yankees first dropped their lasso over the brilliant Italian |