| Show DEACON SCOTT SCOrE MAY BE ROM FORCED FORCED FROM BASEBALL BAS ALl Veteran Shortstop Said to Be Getting W ak Leg Ailment BY GEORGE Gr OR E D CH CU Jh I Correspondent of The Stan Standard Examiner Copyright 1923 1923 NEW YORK July Arp 14 H 14 Are Deacon S Scotts Scott's otts ott's legs giving out If American Amerlean to 00 and a man close to the Amer AMer- ican lean league champions say My they hev a are re the great shortstop ulio ho has played in his hi thousandth tI tIe the e game this season and Ij Ii going Is 13 likel k b to pass oa out of f the big show before etor long When a a ball ba players player's legs cs begin f to bother him the light Is fadine- fadine on tIe the th 2 stage La tare e Failing legs r retired Cap Anson Aaron when he h could till stilt hit and throw Buck Ewing one of the games game's grandest players had to quit when his underpinnings underpinning Went back on him Jimmy Ic Me ilc Alec Aleer the Tris Speaker of his Ills day In covering ground In rl ld de eloped legs that doubled under him while John McGraw went out as third baseman because his Ie leg went out George Davis ocr oice an lent of the tho Polo grounds ground grounds passed ed by edby the same tame exit Bays Bay's lets let gave way ay too and lie he h could run os ea a wallow swallow skims Even Egen Billy Sunday first failed In the legs although yOU suspect it now Arthur Devlin one of the great modern third basemen finally broke down at the th knees Once One duty required that a It fa- fa famous famous fa famous danseuse be b Interrogated as to asto the weak point of ot her art hen age drew on Of the tho tb questions the embarrassed reporter had to ask sk one on bad had to do with whether j she he felt Inability creep creep- ing creeping on ort first in her toes toe on which she so 00 fearlessly Ot 01 In her In knees which of necessity necea were submitted to very violent effort or in the thighs M where there was also presumed to be b a great TeaL strain HI He apologized profusely expLaining that ho he h Wa was preparing a a cries on athletic training The Tb lady laughed gayly lad and In Inthe inthe Inthe the merriest possible manner m ncr re- re replied re-pird re plied Oh la Ia I 13 la Ia you mean my legs lep Pray have no BO need to make apologies for to a dancer CT las Its are legs Otherwise she h would woold Lot zot be bea bea bea a dancer It isn't the legs that fail faU first for a 0 dancer AS s age ag comes on because ago must come corn en con as days pass pa by It I lg 18 not riot the legs leg that fall fail Your Tour note attentIon note for not please plea Insert dash comma comma hyphen exclamation point Note now ended Also prohibit A ANO NO TROUBLE Ton You see I have haT no trouble In Inthe inthe inthe the high kick u as you call caU it It Mid aid the dancer as a she hc concluded her demonstration although many maDY many years year have bT I boon been bec a prima ballerino which I 1 do not d deny ny It Itis ItIs is 19 not that which bothers the dancer It is I the face f c which will no longer make up With the th ball bail player It is just the other way The face may carry Its own ved gray fray stubble but It if the legs will not carry the bur bur- burden bur bur- burden burden den the tho th ball player Is joIning the you remembers and the th bos bo s of tomorrow will forget that he played ball for tor Dad today unless like Everett Scott he h did so 90 no- no nothIng no nothing thing wonderful during his day on the diamond The Th dance dancers dancer's dancer s still will keep kp her in the th spotlights spotlight's glare when the th wrinkles on her face can no longer be disguised The ball baIl players player's player falling failing Wilt wll not keep ke p him in la fast tut company though his hi face may stilt beam with lIth youth But uk ask a k the th baseball fan tan what It Is La that puts put bull ball players out of business And he h prObAbly win Ihl say sy The They cant ont throw Their Th lr arms get dead They cant can't hit arid and nd that slops atop top em m Sometimes that is i true tru but It ItLa Itis ItIs La is not true so often otten as s It Is loss ot of power SLOWS UP BP It If Interested in baseball you hue have beard heard that Bill Bill has slowed uP to most molt folks that means that Bill cannot hit hilt an any more The reason he h does do not hit Is that his bis hi wavering legs lg fall fail to get him to first base b by that one o o step that once landed him th there re lust ahead ot of f the th ball baIL The Th Infielder who slows lw up cant can't quIte quit make that 2 24 inches to extreme right ot of him hint that he did In his prim prime prim His legs will n not t give They hey ha have haTo vo lost thou elasticity He H is up If It It Is true tru that th t Scotts Scott's Scott legs leg are arc r feeling the th stress of battle batti lie h Is encountering the th same ame old arch archenemy archenemy enemy who hu hILS laid in wait alt for ball players ever ver since lac we e had bad eat em m But his hi legs leg have hav done don that which no other baseball legs lein have ever vr don done carried done him through more than 1000 successive iffe moats ments Some Som legal leg leg Perhaps the th dancers dancer's legs had carried 1000 battles of o the stage stoe Information on o that point was completely overlooked but the b ball ballplayer ballplayer ll player was not net ot In mind and Scott had d not played 1000 1010 ball bali gaines then MAybe Mayb she h had In more than 1000 1 0 Maybe matinees and Some well wll 1 |
