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Show DIFFICULT TO PICK BUSHERS Case of Bill Rogers and Dave Bancroft Is Cited Latter Is One of the -Best in Big Leagues. You never can tell about those minor leaguers, as the following will show : Big league scouts gave a look H the Portland club last year and all of them at once made a mad scramble to get Bill Rogers, captain and second baseman base-man of the outfit. Cleveland landed him. Cleveland gloated over it. Rogers Rog-ers joined the Indians, was given a thorough tryout and was released. The fellow who was short-stopping for the Portland club at the same time Rogers was playing second base was a fellow named Bancroft. The scouts saw him but none wanted him. However, How-ever, because the Phillies needed a shortstop they finally decided to take Bancroft, not because they really wanted him or really thought he'd f : mmmm i Dave Bancroft. amount to anything, but because they needed some kind of a youngster to put In at short until they could get a good shortstop. They put in Bancroft when the season sea-son opened and Bancroft today ranks as one of the best shortstops in the game. |