Show DAUBERT'S CAREER I IS ON THE DECLINE By United Press NEW YORK July 28 Always Always tr troubled trou tron- Ibl bled with extremely m Y brittle fill legs and d ankles Jake Daubert Brooklyn first sacker and captain of that National league club app appears ars to be on the chutes that l le led d to minor Daubert I has been out of the game almost continually continually continually con con- this season Very few completed contests stand in his record Wilbert Robinson shortly after Daubert's Daubert's Dau Dau- berts bert's injury declared that Fred Merkle would have been worth twice what the Brooklyn club received for him from Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago if he had only been present to take the place of the busted up captain Merkie Merkle Merkle Mer Mer- kle kie has been playing splendid baseball for Chicago toBb Bb Batting N figures dont don't t mean all there Is Isto isto to ball playing S Some of the games game's best e hitters have been at other angles f of the gfa game A Occasionally gc f lr however k there er are re players s who ho combine all virtues and these are the greatest stars of the game Daubert entered this class long longn ago He is a splendid en fielder el always a has been n fast tISo on the g bases e and f for several J I years made p. p a specialty of leading the I National league In hitting I Jake had a terrible time getting started I Ion on his career as a ball baIl player No one seemed to think much of the former I Pennsylvania miner After leaving Kane where he played semiprofessional baseball for a couple of years Daubert broke Into the ranks of ot the professionals with Marion Marlon In the Ohio and Pennsylvania league He never had played any position except first base and it was there he opened up in that league Daubert's first batting average for th the year of 1907 shows he clouted at a clip There must have striking about the way Daubert did things for tor Cleveland picked him up from Marlon Marion The budding star however drew small consolation from Cleveland for tor he didn't play sufficient games to get Into the American league averages He was sent to Nashville from where he was purchased by Toledo Again he went to the Southern league this time to Memphis Memphis Mem Mern- from where he was picked ot off by Brooklyn which had an agreement that provided it could take any member of the Memphis club Daubert has been the clubs club's regular first sacker nearly ev i 1 since He has hit or better for Brooklyn Brooklyn- six years Tom Seatons Seaton's brilliant start for the season amounted to very little The man who did so much to put Philadelphia into the running for a National league pennant pennant pennant pen pen- nant has been sent to Los Angeles Bill Donovan started the season with witha a a. yelp about his pitching staff Overburdened Overburdened Overburdened Over Over- burdened with he expected his Yankees to ge get a a. wealth of good curving Before the season was half over his pitchers were going good and his hitters rs weren't hitting bitting |