Show T 11 AT Al OLD SUBJECT WHO SUBJECT WHO UG UP p W WALTER At IER JOHNSON f fope Books of 1907 1 Show That It ope pe Was Cliff Blankenship j By Dy W W. D. D BRATZ j 1 dat while delving through gh the pages of an old ord scrap crip book I Ir c 1111 TM ct r it cro r fl Q little tte clipping dipping which at OIt this spreading of the Ink to r t n tot lot m more to tho baseball fan In this neck of the wooda wood than 1 time when I pasted It In Into to the dope book especially In view of t subject of the story tory Ic Ie now a 1 most prominent figure In local v the 1 tI tIA t tho clipping coder u- u I. I ken from a Welser L A it t Here It iii 18 June JS of the theD D' D c. c team Is Ie I on D C C. C present presen THing 4 t the object t is to got sot Watt Waln Wal- Wal n I kid pitcher icher t oaf and Se ac It ho fl t I ton lon club th le 11 r. r ht Mt heard heardt d It t t d that io ho decided to the with him beCause cau e he het heI A tn the et t J and spare sp J I If R should rand hard loss us on nt thIs our be ft OU C tAlked to Sal Wat- our has hoP to ke keep p cd be bent bet betM be- be other not ot er bright u are ltd t 1 told her son on to use his tM r- r nt Blankenship says sas he c cX eX i nd sleeper him and to offers tho ticket kb Walter will Jlko 1110 no OW leaks It nd leave leA with the thep S J d wonderful ball lJ pitched p J has has' Blankenship sa says tJ ind tod kT U S a kId tid as far s ea-s east t. t as ast De spread t 1 book farther on the dope ittle JIt I jat from a II a I which reads 1907 30 June or Cf I been who hM las r B the tho r lt c touting trip for c ca a lon lone while Injured fin fin- OD tin no I bw hul been let 1 his feet fHt since going 0 row to picking up an I J d In J Milan eald to bo be a has hils he pd f for his club named t A young joun oun t pitcher 2 Blankenship ft who ho thorough tr tryout out a n. r IJ In i kin of ot the bu M a sU l-as with right He lit I Is A we tig I p. p s that to perhaps this m ht I S A fair AW fairly lIucc successful scouting io tU oun oung s man nan yen sir Ir he is Ia jai Old who ho will Id the dull dull- I fall Lakes Jaes BeeS In the 1915 race 1 Coast league eagUe 1 i n Catch hii dub Club did not desire 1 Ii Catcher Blanken dJ drawing 1 I rt nb e hanging around with l a t fter so It p cent nt him out on s trip Blank did ns as he was Uri returned with two bushers 4 QU JIUn iCan and Walter WAiter Johnson Johnson to to jj Jf te the tU Washington on club for tor the thc 1 It paid him while he was vms is utu tU to his club F A I tT t of or th lh l who have hav 4 i fv If t eUI m to rob BlankenshIp of or for tor dl up Walter Waiter John John- hu arUM Vet Yu but Cantillon tim felm to Idaho to look Johnson 1 11 a True Blankenship may have o 1 iff sect sert t but bat the fact tact remains that u saw In Iii him a future futuro star elar Wai- Wai alD al D looked like e anything but Jut kwae prospect ct when ho loft left hero here I tit tt tail sast in 1 1507 07 Blankenship saw nm irm up Lp nothing more and c Mm tini immediately This Thin after other big I league arue scouts And m 1 eli ua had looked him over and him vp lp John McCloskey paid p Bin 1 i ee bushers now A ocr ocr- Northwestern 1 league manager 1 I 1 n spare are a a. uni for tor him |