Show Ball Players Consider Burns the Best Outfielder 0 EW YORK Sept 16 We Wc Vc are all fa familiar fa fa- with the greatness o of Ty Cobb Tris Speaker er and Milan of tho the American league lenue ensue but if it you OU were asked today the name of oC the greatest outfielder in the National league what v would be the answer answer an an- DouL Dont answer Cl quickly or the chance are arc a great reat ball player will be done dona an Injustice That question was put up to lo seven sc ballplayers ball hall players tho the other day three of or them from and tho the replies were all the tue same Burns Bums Is tlC tic Guy George Burns D Didn't think of or this tills quiet youth from rom Si St did you jou It is Js a peculiar thing s-ald s oal pon on that we have ri right ht here on tho the Giants on one of oC the greatest outfielders that ever evel lived and I dont don't believe bell I over ever even een heard him bum mentioned d I such fielders as Cobb an and Speaker Even on the road roul tho the public does docs not realize tho tIme t ability of ot till this young youn fellow tellow But the ball bail players know It ma may be bo that ho Ito is 19 too close to us or that the public hasn't got ot on eu on but one look 1001 at the tite records ought to be he the tip- tip 0 off Cf Is lii of or the opinion that it H is the quiet unassuming disposition of Burns Burn that tha t keeps his light under a bushel measure men mea sure lure but there Is 18 no doubt In the Giant managers manager's mind as Ill to tIme the star slur outfielder of or the National league lIe He declared himself himself him him- self sel on that point a year car a ago o. o There is not another man In Burns' Burns class clasia says aR McGraw w and maybe mabe when he gets old and read ready reads to quit somebody will vill flail find it out when Its It's too late Better Than Thau Dave Even when Demon Dave Robertson was going at his best recently and the pap papers s were full of oC the new pher-om pher it ml may not have o occurred to the average fan tan that at that t every time Burns was wall leading heading the demon emon Southerner at the hat bat and that he heva was va the to of oC the whole league lea aim is a run getter gutter Did he get et a rumble He did die not There Is still another angle an Did you OU ever hear anybody mention the name of Burns in the thc n award ward of that automobile for the most valuable ble manto man manto to his club asked Vied Fled Clarke Clarko of the Pirates while the time question was under die dis- dis c Honestly Bonc tI I dont don't believe tho the Judges even e thought of It Anti And still he did a. a as much as anybody to land hand the tho pennant pennant pen pen- nant for the Giants' Giants I dont don't understand It No Xo an arid and 1 nobody l else le doc docs Lacks Personality Just to give ivo you Oll an idea idea- The other day it wan san brought ht out In Jn many of oC the newspapers that t the leading run getters of or the tho two lea leagues ues were Eddie I Collins and George Geore Bu Burns lei Tho Highlanders were playing here then theil and a visiting writer I after acter looking up in surprise admitted that lint t Jl he lie had hind never heard of or Burns Burrum The Tiso only wa way I 1 can figure it said aid Chief Meyers and the chief probably has the right to an answer I ls j that Burns Is lacking In III just one ono thing thing distinctive distinctive pe personality lie He docs not swing three bats bat and there Is ficO about aboul his I pIa play He does docs lila his work so uniformly well oll that nobody notices It If It he lie yelped a n little more an and would get up there make faces at the pitchers there I is no doubt but that in a n few years George would be looked upon a as one i or of C the gloat gloat- cst cat tho the game ever produced c Briefly here Is what wha t Burns ha has done dOIl this season e H He has driven In more runs any man In the league He lie has made more hits lilts than an any man on tho the New cw York club dub He lie has thrown out more runners runner than an any member of oC the tho team cain an and he lie Isone is isone isono one ono of oC the leading heading t. t ba batters Hers of the tho Ia league ue He lie Is one of othe the be best t ba base e runners runnelS l' l ondis and ond andla nd la is one of or tho few fen who ho can an do the hook hoole slide lIde to the I left Ct or to the right with nith equal effectiveness |