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Show ah ct iiiir niYOTCTOi , . ' Jost bow baaeball faaa srs engrossed . "is figuring out where this remarkable battery of O Toole aad Kelly .really eome from. Ths cube were after them,' tha pirates got them, ssd sll ever ths country tba big laagas boss wert tkir-. miahlag to gst ths first pick of ths ; buses. , '. ., Now, ssy tlave that a battery st-tracts st-tracts all thst attention, what tka pitcher has ssd what the etc her doss srs worth roeordisg. ' .-' O Tools is s spitbal pitcher. Strictly Strict-ly a apitball pitcher, meaaiag that if ba waa auddanly bereft of saliva he wonld ba left with bit glove and a" prayer. Aad to hear tkeae aaeociatien batters talk yoa would get the impree-aioa impree-aioa that they would quickly knock the glove off. OTool is a big chap aad tbey say S game one. Ha halls from the east, from the New Eaglaed ststee, sa a matter f . fact, being a active of Broektoa, Mae . Ha looks th gam pitcher, all right. Hia hair la rd O Toole ie a big fel- . low, which ia 4 Bother reason why the magnate of th major league loams srs aftar him. For the managers sll like toe big, etrappiai. bueky individuala. (-banc aepeciaily likes the big fellows. They ssy bs is osa of those smart, bright, qniek thinking Irisbmea aad i the game every minute. - ' OToole ia betag touted as another Ed Walah. That's the reasoa the magnate mag-nate are falling dver tbeoieelvc la ea effort to get bim gwev from the Bt. Paul team. Ha waan 't ao much thought of ia tha rring of 1910. He wag thee with tha Cineinaatt rods aad was turaed over to th fcUonx City team of the Western leagse. Ha went 'from there to Bt. Paul. Kelly looks good. He is hitting well about the .300 mark. Aad the elu--ing rate here ar ao as numerous aa they once were. What ia mora eurwtinj la that he la fleet oa the haeeeaod led the aaaoeiatioa in etolea baaee for awhile. They eay h baa s great ." . Breeaahaa of th eardinela, who at ia with a big bid for the pair, once owned the catcher. That waa two years eg. He had plenty of catcher, thaa and picked Kelly as on of tb men who would have te go. The atcbar went and the r. Louis emb revd .70 for him. Now Kelly ia ea-half a bettery that Bresnahaa waste at 1V 600. - |