| Show I I SIGNS 1 A ATLANTA A GA I Well Known rn Local Southpaw Southpaw Southpaw South South- I paw Again Performs forthe for forI forthe the Southern T Team am I WILL GO TO BIG I i LEAGUE IN 1910 Great Things Are Expected I of Roy This Year Led J Southerners in 1907 Ho Koy Castleton one of the best left handed hande pitchers hers ever e turned out in tb the west and a Salt Lake Lako boy has returned Ins lis si signed ur contract to Manager Smith of the the Atlanta team tram in the Southern league and will n again nin be with that team durin during tIme till coming omin season cn on no Kov ov learned his baseball on th the cornor corDer corner cor cor- cor- cor nor ner lots of Salt nIt Lake aud and began henn as the tho star pitcher of the time strong tron Cleveland Clove Cleve land hand Commission ion company TInn team which I 5 ia c r F Fi i 1 Is t HM f S p j ti j S ROY was one of the fastest in the tato state durin during dur dur- during in ing 1904 1901 and 1905 1005 Hn Ills Ji work attracted tim attention of harley Charley y then m tanager manager of the tho Salt SnIt Lako tp tam Di in ni the Pacific National league u According 4 to s 's way ay of thill thing h ho lie was not fn fast t enough no h for him ho however O Ogden joined tb the league at about this t limo and wa was a I exceedingly l short hort of players to In open the reason with Gimlin tho the Ogden OJen manager man I a ager pr hail had taken a 3 fancy to Castleton and when ho he saw W th that t Riley did not I intend to uw us-o tn the Salt SaIL Lake Lako Boy Foxy Fox I C Gim im Gim mado made Riley an offer for tho the Youn southpaw To Gims Gim's surprise Riley told to take him liec Ic less s to to Fa say pay Gim Gini took him C Castleton n soon toon proved himself ono one of Gimlin's mainstays IJ in tho box an and hesi such meu men as Gus Thompson Peto Pete Howling fowling Ira Hastings an and Kirb Kirby Hoop TIO 1103 was a R. terror to Pacific National le league e batsmen batsmAn and local fans will well remember what he lie did diel to Charle Rile Riley's Rileys Elders that yc year r whenever tim tho opportunity presented itself Toward the tho nul of that 5 season Gim mm lin hits received a letter from front Clark CIuk Grif then III manager a un I of tho the X New ew w York American asking regarding Cu Castleton's Castle Castle- tle ton toil tons ton's S 'S 5 ability G lint Gim lost JOt no time timo in in recommending re TI- ro- ro commending ud Ji the tho youngster hr with the re- re j suit th that t Roy Boy w wont went nt to New York lork Roy Rov reported to ana amid while tho tb Ne New Ne' NewYork I York team was waR training mining at Atlanta the latter hatter management ment took a fancy to Cue COB I tieton S 'S work and made mado it pO possible to tt I secure a farm on the tho young oun southpaw for the tho Harson of WOG wailed waded r right ht in in a rind arid d won the time Southern l league a pennant for fot Atlanta that year Car car and led Jon the thC pitchers of that league by hy a n comfortable margin At the tho close of or tho the American league season he returned to New York anti and won two I out of If three e games Jams for that team lenin Ho Roy Hoy again in returned to Atlanta last I tpring spring and amid nd opened the tho t I season cason by hy winning win win- mug ning eleven n out oat of fifteen games anH S when I ho he was taken ill ii with ith typhoid fever He lie was confined to tom tho tIm hospital during a aI I period of s six six x weeks nail was nas then given i permission to return to Salt Lake Lako so 50 I that ho IC mj might ht recuperate During nil till this tulle time lime his salary wa was allowed to to- togo goon go goon o oon on and all nil his expenses were paid bv by bythe the Atlanta management HO so that tn there i is little wonder at wh why Ro Roy is go so anious an- an ious dous IOUS to return to Atlanta Ho Roy Boy hah huuk a 5 Sore soro spot pot in ill his heart n against Clark lark Griffith anti and alleges t that at the former fornier New Xe Yorker held hint him from rom going oin to faster uter company Griffith it ap ap- ba had bad KJ ninny many old pi pitchers pitcher that tho t ho 10 could find on place for Ca Castleton I Detroit and Cleveland cland want want- 1 I cd ell Ho Roy ba 1 badly but ut Griffith not nut I I I sell Bell or rl release i o him At tho the end of last season Atlanta secured RoO Roys Roy's release from froni Xo Now New York so 10 that he now is the property of tho the southern town Ono One of the tho provisions pro provisions in Castleton's Castleton s 's 5 1000 lOOP contract is that ho he can have hi his choice between en going oin to Detroit or tTA after tho the close of nf tho the season i providing these teams tams will want vant him him when tho the coining season is ig over Castleton has ha entirely recovered reco from fromI his recent illness 8 and amid looks hooks tho picture of health Ho Ire has haA on considerable weight which ho he can cnn carry comfort ably however howo and will report to AtI At At- lanta a. a in line flue condition for the opening t training ru J ir H |
