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Show Player Who Had Trial With Connie Maek'a Team Tells Why Ho Became Oall Scout Tom Turner, scout for Connie Mack for several years, who goes to tho Portland club as scout and coacn, tells a story on himself. It relates to how-he how-he became a scout Instead of a mere pitcher. Turner, though nn Inhabitant of Philadelphia, had spent most of his hasehnll career pitching In the minors of the West, but In 1015 he managed to land with Connie Mack for a trial. Now let him tell It: "At Inst I appeared above the surface sur-face In baseball. I was a big league pitcher. Mv career In tho maintop was brief, however. It actually began when Connie sent me In to pitch a gnmo against Cleveland-It ended when Joe Jackson hit one over behind the score board with three on. I decided for myself that my pitch-Ine pitch-Ine days were ocr. The readiness with which I had made that decision teemed to make quite an Impression 'n Mack. Ho told me. In his drol war that he wos looking for a scout woo know when a ball plarer was no good. I had convinced him that I knew I was no good. Anybody could get enthusiastic en-thusiastic about bush league stars, Mack told me, but it took n bird like "e to el1 whm U,cy W0M,,,n,t b' n"y manner of means do. "And so, by deciding myself unfit for big lengue compnny as n player, I became a picker of others who might be." |