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Show i COAST LEAGUERS I ' WILL 00 EAST American and National League r Teams to Give Pacific Coast r Players Tryout 'Ducky Jones Goes to Tigers. ' I Chicago, Jan. 11. Eight Pacific II Const leaguers are coming to the r II American and National leagues for I trial next spring and seven oC them (. j "tvill attempt to make good with the Pjv Ijj teams in Ban Johnson's organization. V j This shows that the American ' I league scouts were more favorably II impressed "with the players in the j , Coast league than were the National ,,,' jj sharpshooters. h The following arc the men: ( Jack Ness, -first baseman, comes &' -from Oakland to the White sow Bats f I .373. throws right, bats right. ti J Claude Williams, left-hand pitcher, L, I . comes from Salt Lake to the White - I Sox. Won 19, lost 10 games. Bats .210, throws left hand. Robert (Duckyl Jones, third baseman, base-man, from San Francisco to the Tigers. Tig-ers. Bats .281, fields .90S. " t Roy Corhan, shortstop, from San Francisco to tho Cardinals. Bats .267, , fields .933. j Joe Gedeon, second baseman, from Salt Lake to Washington. Bats .315, fields .951. Called fence buster. '' , Fred McMullen, second baseman, fc 1 from Los Angeles to Washington. JC ' 'I Bats .293, fields .9G1. f, I Zeb Terry, shortstop, from Los An- I geles to Washington. Bats .257, fields ,944. H , Walter Schmidt, catcher, from San X Francisco to Yankees. Bats .267, fields ,9S3. k H The most prominent of the group js Mr Nescs, for he is considered the slug- t HIl ger of the lot. i, HIl . Ness Sets New Record. HI Ness set a record for the coast and to' i all parts of the United States when 1 III ne Bot a safe nit In forty-nine consecu- 1 1 tive games. lie finished the season Jill with a batting average of .373 and H proved that he was a pretty nifty I man at first by fielding .991 This If fellow Is certain to receive a thorough H trial with the Sox. for they need a u first baseman above all things. fSr III I Two of tlie otner mInor league stars If Hit came near landing with the South F fffl Side team. McMullen, second base- l man, and Terry, shortstop, both ot hJI the Los Angeles club, are the men ; ' HJI The news went the rounds that they mi had been booked for the Sox, but j I there was a switch at the last mo- f. Ml ment that sent them to Washington, f. ' ill where all that Terry has to do to ' become a regular is to oust George McBrlde from his position at short. h II J Corhan's Second Trial. j- 1 J Clark Griffith has been going strong fi JJ on second basemen and has another f candidate in Joe Gedeon, who played II with the Salt Lake team last season. n This will not be the first timjc that Roy Corhan has gone south with a I major league team. Years ago he I traveled to Mineral Wells with the t White Sox and looked a corker. And ( fee was until he was "beaned" by a pitched ball, whereupon he lost his effectiveness and drifted to Frisco. I. Out there they say that he has re-I re-I covered from that experience and it that he is one of the best men who I ever played on the coast. ' l j : " Tho Sox have one other in this P' I group of whom they expect much. "?. H Williams, southpaw pitcher, is the v H lad. He won nineteen and lost ten I with the Salt Lake club last season and the advance dope is that he is good enough tor one Rob Russell. believes that he will develop into a great player. His batting average last season wns only .229, but what pleased McCredle is the number of chances he accepted, in 124 games he handled 244 put outs and 349 assists as-sists and made but forty-three errors. Dill Stumpf is entitled to hold down third base. Hoag, a northern California Cali-fornia youngster, will get a chance to show his wares at the Sacramento camp. Tho make-up of the pitching staff is giving Mac more worry than anything else. It is more than likely that McCredle McCre-dle will call on Fielder Jones for a couple of twirlers in case ho forms an alliance with the St Louis Browns, which seems very probable now that the Cleveland club is to be sold. |
