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Show ACQUIRES HABIT OF FINDING SHORTSTOPS Ox ' Iky t xVl W is., ? I--k-- , y fVAf OLSOY SHORT FIELDERS UNEARTHED BY M'CREDIE. Walter McCredie, Vianager of the Portland coast league club, is ready to send another shortstop to the major leagues. Charley Hollocher, he declares, de-clares, is ready and will stick just as surely as some of the others McCredie bas turned up. McCredie has accumulated a habit of sending shortstops to the majors. Sprinkled around over both circuits is ft smattering of former Beaver short Belders. Roger Peckinpaugh, now captain of the Yankees and one of the smartest apd cleverest ball players in either '.eague, was McCredie's first donation of any importance. McCredie dispatched dis-patched him to Cleveland, but he was dropped there because shortstops were too frequently scattered around the Cleveland park. : But he went to New York and immediately made good. Ivan Olson was next. Ivan isn't a whale of a fielder or a demon with the stick, but he is recognized as a smart ball player, one of the wise fellows who are invaluable to a baseball club. Then there came Dave Bancroft, starring every day for the Phillies. It has- been said of Bancroft that it was due to him that the Phillies won a pennant pen-nant in 1905. Of course, everyone admits ad-mits that Grover Cleveland Alexander had something to do with it, but the Phillies certainly would have looked funny without a shortstop. And Bancroft Ban-croft was the only one of a half-dozen recruits that year who showed anything. any-thing. Chuck Ward is this year's contribution. contri-bution. McCredie calls him hard "ball hawk." He never has a hard chance. He is one of the easiest-working in-fielders in-fielders in the business. McCredie believes be-lieves he will prove one cf the stars of the National league in a very short time. He is making an attempt to fill Hans Wagner's shoes at Pittsburgh. |