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Show M'GRAW FALLIBLE IN HIS JUDGMENT It is seldom that a young baseball nlaver banished to the minors by John I McOraw manases to find bis vav back into the blK leagues with another club Few playera have broken brok-en into the majors who could say that they were one turned loose by. the clever leader of the Giants This soring however, ao fewer than five youngsters who were turned loose by the little Napoleon" have won permanent per-manent berths with other Hubs in the major league? Dick Rudolph, now with the Boston Bos-ton Braves, belonged to the Giants in the fall of 191 and following soring George Pierce, the Bouthpaw twirler with the Chicago Cubs, wont south with McGraWs clan in the spring of 1912- ; Benny Meyer, the outfielder now with the Brooklj n Su-aerbaa Su-aerbaa was given a trial by the leader lead-er of the Giants in the spring of 1908. lack Johnston, an outfielder with the SI Louis Browns, went to Marltn with th Giants in the Bprings of both 1911 and 1912. and Hugh High of the Detroit tigers," also an outer Karden-er. Karden-er. wa? on the "rk roster In the winter of l?11 Rudolph the twirler from whom George Stalling expects much aid In reconstructing Boston club, came to the Giants In the fall of i9io from I the Toronto club of the International league He pitched In a few games 'for" the Giants that fall and went 80Utll with the team in the spring, but was sent back to Toronto short lv after the star of be championship season He lingered with the Maple Leafs a couple of seasons, during which time several major league teams tried to bring him back to the majors, but the Toronto club refused to part with him This spring, however. Rudolph decided de-cided that if he had to slay in the minors during his entire career he would rather quit the game A few days after the start of the International Interna-tional league season he carried out bis threat and nub the Toronto club Realizing that he was In earnest, the owners of the Maple Leafs sold him to the Boston Braves for 'Buster' RrowD. a pitcher, and a large cash consideration. 11" has done well dur- i Ing his stay In Boston. Fierce, the young southpaw twirler with the Chicago Cubs. Joined the I Giants in the spring of 1912. He had j sained a fair record while pitching in the International league the previous pre-vious year, but lacked control, and I when McGraw asked for waivers on I him the Cubs put in a claim and se-: cured bini. He did not linger lone j with the Cubs. He was sent to the Scranton club of the Trl State league. ! where he made a Fplendid record and was repurchased hx the Cube in the' with them as yet. but being the only I lert-bander on the staff, will the ex-'ception ex-'ception of the veteran Ieifield. he Is I certain of being retained. Benny Meyer was secured by the Brooklyn club last winter from Toronto To-ronto in exchange for Hub Northen , He was expected to win a regular berth in the Brooklyn outfield, but his poor fielding cost him the Job In right field, and be Is warming the bench most of the time. Johnston of the Browns was with the Giauts in the spring of 1911. but was sent to the minors for more seasoning, sea-soning, and came back to the club in the spring of 1912 Though advised ad-vised by Wllbert Robinson to hold Johnston. McGraw could noL make room for him and he was sent to Toronto. To-ronto. He could not even hold his place in the International league and was sent in turn to Montgomery in the Southern association There he burned up the circuit and was drafted draft-ed by the Browns in the fall. He made good immediately and won a regular berth in the outfield of the St. Louis team. He is a line fielder, a good thrower, last on the bases and a fair batsman. |