| Show Players Player s U Deliver the Goods L purchased players arc are the tho onos ones that ako first fint class clubs A As a rule players arc ro of oL no account Seldom eldom do the they mako their presence own own and ud become ablo able to command rge ge salaries Of course courso there aro arc but as a rule rulo the drafted club remains with a big league but ut a few weeks aft after r the training Reason aBon ason is ended is not so difficult to The reason If a minor league shows foal cal eal class ho he is purchased before tho rafting fUng season seaton arrives In recent years the major league I clubs have hava their scouts out all summer summer summer sum sum- mer and mighty few men that pos possess ss the class clars are lre left when they thoy get through showing their rolls to tho minor minol league magnates Such is 15 the tho policy that has haJ been adopted by the big leaguers in recent recent re cent year Scan tho the list litt of or naps and seo see who came to Cleveland by purchase and who arrived via the draft route Following aro are the players who were bought Catchers Clarke Clarko and Land First Baseman Stovall Shortstop Turner Turner Tur Tur- ner Utility Infielder Perring Outfielders Outfield Outfield- ers Birmingham Hinchman Josh Clarke Clarko Goode Sullivan Altizer and Pitchers Leibhardt Chech I Berger Bergor Ryan berg and Foster Tho list of those that have been j drafted who are now Naps consists of one big blank as not a a. player who I Ia I a Cleveland nd uniform at the tho end of tho the 1908 season on came into Somers' Somers and Kilfoyl's KU- KU KilI KUI I foyl foyl's 5 net in that manner Last fall I Cleveland drafted Lattimore Graney I Downey Breen Sp Spears ars and Hillo AI AIx All Ad six rix x went wont back to tho the minor but all sU but Lattimore and Downey arc lre still on Cleveland's 5 reserve list but are aro not ox- ox to th appear in Nap uniforms next season Pew Fey Clubs Arc Any Luckier Take a 3 glance Blanco at the tho other men drafted draft draft- cd ed a year s ago o. o Boston acquired five men that way and not one ono of tho five appeared in a lea league ue gamo game this year car Detroit secured E seven and not one played with the Tigers ers until Bush was as repurchased from Indianapolis ho lie having hay hav haying ing been drafted last fall on behalf of Charley Chancy Carr Descher another draft recruit was turned over to Dayton Darton and purchased this fall faU by Cincinnati Of tho the seven n men inca drafted by tho the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago o White Sox Catcher Weaver who had been up in the bi big Jea leagues es before i was tho the only one retained and arni he was utilized principally to earn carry bats and do other chores bore about the field Connie Mack drafted no le less s than eleven cloven men men- last autumn Fritz was turned back hack to New Orleans Durham was sent back to I Louisville Flater was turned back baek and then tried out again in inthe inthe the tho fall Pitchers Maxwell and Carter showed well in the spring sprin hut but were ere later farmed out McAleer c. got ot six men through h the draft chaft for St. St Louis Blue and Schweitzer er or were retained Schweitzer really made good but hut Blue BIu was unloaded by br McAleer on Connie Mack ack in et exchange han e for Catcher Sid Smith Cantillon Keeps Three I Ten players constituted the bunch drafted by Washington ton Cantillon fared better than his rivals for Burns made good from tho start and Edmondson Edmond Edmond- son and did good work after they were recalled in the fall faU from from- the tho clubs to which they have been farmed Easterly Easterla a catcher recently drafted from Los An Angeles eles by Cleveland was one of the men that were not retained Ten Make Malte Good in National About the be same ratio of drafted 1 payers layers made good in in the National league Out of eight men Boston kept Manager r Too Joe 00 Kelley Kehley and Catcher Graham Boston kept Mc Me- M Millana from froni a 3 total of seven drafted Tho Cubs kept nono none of their drafted material Cincinnati grabbed eleven cleven men by br draft and retained Spade Pitcher McCarthy however made good with Boston The Giants with ei eight ht candidates picker up live ones in in Crandall Crandall Cran- Cran dall dali and Herzog Pitcher Mallarkey al also 1 lasted for or a f fw fow w months Pittsburg drafted nine men and l kept First Baseman Kane Iane and Outfielder Wilson The Cardinals got ot two men this way wa nail and kept them both Infielder both and Outfielder Shaw Shaw was really a find but 0 lacks class Greater In vestment Pays Results were s secured Cured from investing a a. few extra dollars in the purchase of minor leaguers before the drafting season season season sea sea- sea sea- son began Bo Boston ton bought seventeen men and picked up such good men as Pitchers Burcell Steele Arellanes Arel Arel- lanes Infielders Lord and McConnell Catcher Donohue and Outfielders Gesler Thoney Speaker and Cravath Chicago bought ten players and kept Atz Man Man- uel uel Purtell and Olmstead Cleveland purchased four four four-Chech Chech Josh Clarke Daubert and Lister and Lister-and and retained the first two Seven men wore aU all that were wera purchased by Detroit Summers was the only ono one who really made good but was handed to New York while mile Cleveland bought Pitcher Philadelphia Qi Qiu Gough u h this l y year ar from Saginaw Saginaw- also bought seven that looked ready surely did cud make good as did Sid Smith did well enoUgh At any rate McAleer I who ot him got in exchange for Bert Blue Intends to keep him for no next 1 year From Prom nine rune men secured by purchase Now York picked up promising recruits in Pitchers Manning and Lake and Catchers Blair and Sweeney Pitcher Zeller was taken sick and did not pitch all year Washington Picks Up Live Wires With seven even men bou bought ht McAleer man man- a aged cd to keep Outfielder Criss and Pitchers Pitch- Pitch ers era Bailey and tind Graham Grahan while Joe Cantillon Cantuba Can Can- tuba tillon certainly used good g judgment in the c PL men he Purchased ilo lre Te invested Wa Washington X cash in in seven en players Pavers among whom were First Baseman Freeman Freeman Free Free- C man Shortstop McBride de Outfielder Mi Mi- Ian lan Catcher Street and Dd Pitcher Gates Cates The National lea league was a not so fortunato fortunato for for- in its expensive investments In fact fact the only who ones kept on tho the payrolls pay pay- rolls roUs of the clubs in in th the old league all JI season seabon wore warp Campbell Pierce and Hulswitt o of Cincinnati Merkle Merkie erkle of New York YorI rk oxen Foxen of Philadelphia Becker Beck- Beck or er r of Raymond Gilbert Sallee Sallee Sal Sal- lee Charles and Delehanty Delehant of the Car Car- dinah But in in spite of the fact that the managed to pick up so many mapy promising men they finished last while whilo Washington with all JI its star etar r re cru ls finished in seventh place in the American league ua Same Old Story This Fall As 5 usual each e of the big league nc cague clubs has purchased ed and drafted a a. large e num her ber of players for delivery deli next season In act fact Goode Bush Wilson Baker Bat Lapp Coveleski and a host of others oine th their ir clubs before the season sea Ilea son ended There is is no doubt of many of these men nicu makin making good but it is a al mo most t a cinch that most of those that arc drafted will ill b bo be back hack in in the minors next s summer r. r In fact Easterly is the only man drafted by Cleveland 1 that looks look's as if he had a 3 chance chanca of drawing any pay from irom the Cleveland Cle ma magnates nates in 19 Summed up in a few words worde ono one pur puT phased chased player is a L better asset than six six drafted d m men n. n One Marquard or Bush ii JH iK better than a dozen or Blues |
