Show I WAR GIVES VETS ANOTHER CHANCEl CHANCE By Special News Service PITTSBURG Sept 29 The Tue The hoary old veterans of baseball are having a a. big year The call to arms that has re resounded resounded resounded re- re sounded throughout the country and that has been answered by the young blood put the baseball managers in a dilemma With all their young and single ball players players players play play- ers enrolled for the national army It was waa deemed advisable to bring the old pas timers back into the fold and any veteran able to hobble around the diamond dia dIa- mond mend was corr corralled led and pressed into action I OLD TIMERS COME BACK Such old fellows as Chief Bender Honus Wagner the most picturesque character In b baseball eban Edward Walsh Rhody Wallace Wallace- George Georgc Gibson Fred Bobby Byrne Jack Murray and Sherwood Magee are ue still playing ball Byrne was released by the Phillies t this is year but the Chicago White Sox Sot grabbed him immediately Magee Mageo played with the I Braves but Stallings believed him him allin all allin allin I in and released him Sherwood Mathewson Mathew Mathew- son Eon of the Reds Heds however Immediately claimed the former slugger WALLACE IS OLDEST VET YET The oldest of the veterans Is Rhody Wallace Vallace who began playing ball in the major leagues two years before Wagner agner broke In Rhody Is la still good and has been used at thud third base by the this St. St Louis Browns Ho lie still believes he ho has a a. few years of baseball left heft in him The greatest of the comebacks Is our own Chief Bender Bender Bonder won six straight games before Benny Kauffa Kauff's home run dimmed his fame in that disastrous dis lis- lis series in ill New York But the chief certainly will startle the baseball world and it Is quite likely that Moran 1 will stick to this old youngster Jack Coombs takes a little credit to himself for the successful return of Bender He told the chief to use his hla t head ball d ds s stuff In pitching tC Bender f and nf followed lI cut e out Uj Jacks Jack's a the s speedy advice and tried it out with success on teams in New Haven Then Moran reclaimed I I him WALSH ABOUT THROUGH I Ed Ei Walsh was signed for the Braves by Stalling Stallings- this year Ho He fair fall ball In two games until Mule Watson of the Cards him Walsh was used against Brooklyn recently and was wa touched up for sixteen hits and lost his game Whether he can stay in iii the league or not is a question as many wise ones claims that thet Walsh pitched his hie arm out several years ago working every other day dav da for Comiskey's White Sox Sos The veteran catchers have done yeoman yeoman yeoman yeo yeo- man service for their respectIve teams team George Gibson I of the Giants r and Fred neg fi sC of the Braves Gibson counted all in stepped into the catching breach at New York In and after aeter two 1 regular backstops were Injured he he- caught for the remainder of the year He steadied the pitchers and threw ac accurately accurately ac- ac but was poor on hitting Jacklitsch has been bee catching for the past twenty years He Joined Boston In Inthe Inthe inthe the earlier part of the year and after Hank Gowdy joined the army Jacklitsch helped out Jack Murray of the Giants is through as a hitter but fields well For lor that reason McGraw took him and held onto him for the season Besides Murray is over 31 years of age and that makes him highly y valuable in these war times |