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Show . ifc ANOTHER GIG I v 9k I Sometimes Players Who r Get Too MuchGlad. Hand y , 0 anateS FRED CLAPKEL I Pittsburg, Pa.-The nrates an-nouncc an-nouncc (lie release of Pitcher .Martin .Mar-tin OToole t (lie Columbus team of the Aineriran Association. Tucked away lu an obscure little corner In practically every sporting page in the country, the above notice no-tice appeared a few days ago. Of itself, it doesn't mean much merely mere-ly that one more young and ambitious ambi-tious ballplayer has found the pace in the big-time arena too fast. But that little paragraph marks the passing of one of the most famous figim 3 in modern baseball to the minors He may come back and we hope he will but It is a bad bet Three years ago, one of the most flramatic pennant races in the National Na-tional League was taking plat . Down through the months of July and August, the Giants, Cubs and Pirates came hurtling, neck and neck. The three teams were bunched bunch-ed so closely ihat chances in the first three positions came with every game. The Giants and Cubs were setting a fearful pace and the Pirate iw liters li-ters were faltering the veterans were taken out day after day to allow al-low somebody to replace them and hold the opposition safe The Pirates Pi-rates were winning on their bitting and fielding, for their twirling str.ff was shot through and through Bar- , ncy Dreyfuss and Fred Clarke wen ecounng the bushes for piichcrs and at last they found one Marty OToole. 1 And then came The real fight ' Realizing that ihey jtosscssed a gem of the purest ray serene in the p P-eon P-eon of O Toole, the St. Paul magnates, mag-nates, who held his contract, determined de-termined to "bleed" the man who finally bought Marfy-and Barney waatiicman. The price demanded at the start was around 15 000, the usual honorarium paid for a elass A A player, but fifteen other major league teams also wanted the s rv-lees rv-lees of the spit-ball artist -and then the fight began. Gradually and gradually the price for OToole went up. until Barney called all the other fellows' bets with a fiat sum of :J2,-500 :J2,-500 and au additional sum f W.- ' GOO for the release of Bill Kelly. then acting as Marty's battery mate. Once Barney had secured OToole and Kelly. t is said he start - .1 to make preparations for th worlds series in the smokj town, foi thi star battery was ordered i report immediately. Bui alas for Barneys well-laid plans and preparations OToole reported with a sore arm. v an arm that has remained soiv for three seasons. At the same time, Hans Wagner. Hie mainstay of the Jolly Rogers for Dearly a score of years sprained his ankle, and Brr- i nev was compelled to be content with third place, Hi ;ianis COPPjnfi the bunting and the Cuba timslnng second. H lfl After OToole's purchase, he pitched pitch-ed five games for the tottering Pirates Pi-rates in the remainder of the 1911 reason. He seemed effective enough, but his work was characterized by a large number of passes which he issued gaining for him the reputation reputa-tion of being wild. The following season he figured in J7 contests, starting and finishing 17 and relieving other twlrlers or being himself relieved He finished twenty-seventh in the list of National Nation-al League pitchers, getting credit for winning 15 and losing 17, a percentage per-centage of 169 He allowed an average av-erage of 2 .72 runs per a nine-inning KHUIC. On August 31 of last season, Bar-nev Bar-nev Dreyfuss asked waivers on OToole. McGraw being the only manager to refuse to waive, and Many was shifted to ihe Giants. He pitched but one game under scrappy scrap-py John, however, winning from Brooklyn 4 3. on September 3. Then McGraw shipped him back to Dreyfuss Drey-fuss and the comiDg season will see the highest priced baseball stai ever purchased again toiling awa in the league which gained for him much publicity and fame. Some lime ago, after the end of last year, the writer was talking to Marty, and when asked what he thought was the reason for his failure fail-ure with the Pirates he said, without any semblance of blaming himself ' The success I had with St. Paul was very pleasant while it lasted it fairly blared my way into the majors ma-jors and 1 think that was one of the reasons why I was not the success suc-cess the fans and Drtyfuss thought would be, because the player who gets a mass of publicity when he makes his debut into the faBt com-pany com-pany finds that much more is expert ex-pert ed of him than one who has been drafted or sold for a common sum He must deliver the punch at Hi. start in his first game, in fact or the fans call him a failure. There is no lime given him in which to make good, which is allowed the newcomer who hasu't been heralded as a second Ruste or Walter Johnson. John-son. 'The man who ( nines up through the draft can take his time about making his success and even if he. doesn't succeed, people think uoth-inK uoth-inK of his failure But there are thousands and thousands of crities w ho are only loo w illing to pass snap judgment on a player, taking his first performance as a criterion and these are the ones who are always al-ways looking for the Initial signs of weakness in the high-priced p.layei and are only loo read io start the chorus of lemon ' Success that comes in the very early part of a man's career is more than often liable lia-ble to prove more smoke ihan flame. Any Kind of success to be lasting must be won in the regular order of events "Coming down to my own case, on ' ' - " ' 4 ""' V ';' ' '" Joining the Pirates I found myself given more publicity than I had ever thought I would receive 'To he sure. I had tried my hardest for St Taul and had been fairly suc ful. as success goes, but I couldn't understand then and I still .Inn t now why there was such competition compe-tition to get me I guess these National Na-tional League teams didn't want their rivals to be strengthened in the slightest and so they shoved the price way up to the sum that was paid for mo "If I remember correctly, that year with St. Paul. I had wou 15 games and lost eleven, a percentage of .577, while the club finished with a percentage of IS in seventh place. Of course, that wasn't a had showing, but it certainly would ucv-er ucv-er set the world on fire, and it certainly cer-tainly was not my fault thai I had such a healthy reputation attached to myself. "Of course, it is not a very easy task for the minor leaguer to make good in the big-time circuit, as is the case in any other trade or profession. pro-fession. .Naturally he Is anxious to succeed and that very thing is apt to prove ins nemesis more than anything any-thing else. 'When I joined the Pirates if was late in the season and they were in the thi k of a hot pennant light Naturally Nat-urally I wanted to elo inv share and show Barney Dreyfuss that he had made no mistake by paying sin h a price for my release. But on ac-count ac-count ot my sore arm. cOnct rnlng which I will tell you later. I was only able to get in five games and of these five I won three. "Besides ilie sore arm. I had to contend with another accident and also against the bat h of press it b-lk;i b-lk;i which tie reporters had given me and these unfortunate happenings, happen-ings, I think pla ed BUCCQSS far from the reach of my grasping bands "I was still a membei of the si. Paul if am on July 1 HH1, and if you can remember back tit far i can assure you I always will it was hot as blazes, some persons go-in go-in so far as to claim it was one of the hottest clays we have ev r CX-pc CX-pc i ie u eii i pitched the a fternoon game and SI Paul was as hot lhat day as liquid steel. The thermometer thermome-ter was hovering about the 110 degree de-gree mark and that pitcher's box was the hottest place on the earth, or so it si emed io m' I got through the first inning, all right, but In the second, 1 started to get dizzy, hut I continued to work tor six innings until i was so instead thai the manager was compelled in take me put of the box I suffered from the i tfects of that day for some lime, although I did not think it seriOUS the main result being a continuous headache. Fiualh I became alarmed alarm-ed and weiii H, a doctor who said ii was due to the overheated condition condi-tion of the brain. The only remedy was to le( ii uo for there was no cure, and that pain lasted, with but SH-HBI a few slight, irregular let-ups for over two years. "My last game as a member of the St. Paul team, before I came to Ihe Pirates, took place about a week bc-1 bc-1 w a s transferred and I pitched pitch-ed through a drizzling rain which k pt up throughout the entire game. When the game was through my arm felt dead and absolutely tired out. It was stiff and sore and would not lend itself Io the treatment administered ad-ministered to it in the hope that it would again loosen up In fact, it didn't come around to shape all that season. "As I have mentioned before. T figured in five games for the Pirates that season and the opposition did not connect with my delivery for many hits, my main failing being v. i Illness I seemed faJrly effective when 1 got the ball over, but 0, tho difficulty in getting it over. The passes 1 gave played a large part In the number of runs scored by the opposition and then ihe fans began to say I was wild, although I had ne ver possessed that reputation before be-fore and even now, I hardly thiuk I deserve it. The bad condition of my pit lung arm resulted in the many bases on balls When you try to pitch when your arm is out Of whack, it is a great deal harder than when it Is in perfect shape. You are compelled to use much extra effort to get the ball over and to gel something on it and this extra effort is bound to weaken something. And it usually results in your Inability In-ability to locate the plate with anything any-thing like your accustomed speed and 'stuff "Ever since I was sold to the Pirates, Pi-rates, I seem to have been 'jinxed and 'jinxed' right everything went wrong. 1 was married in the winter of 1912 and my wife was taken sick with appendicitis in tho midst of the baseball season of that year. Within With-in a week, I, myself was taken sick and was compelled to stay out of the game for nearly two monthB. My illness weakened me and when I was able to take my turn again, I was not yet in good shape and lost several games as a result This double sickness was a great disappointment disap-pointment to me for I had started to save for a home and It also played havoc with my work during the remainder re-mainder of the season 'M arm has bothered me considerably consid-erably and prominent Burgeons hae .-.ml that it Is over-developed. This Is a hard condition to remedy, for by constant use of the pitching arm, ii develops more and more with each exercise." And so it Is not entirely Marty's faull that he has failed in fact, "he has tried his hardest, but fates seem allied against him. If ho bad come up from the St. Paul club through the draft route, or If he had been bought for an average price, he might uow be one of the brightest Mars in the constellation of major-h major-h ague baseball. But he wasn't, ho was one of those ill-fated hlgh-prired hlgh-prired minoi-leaguers, who are doomed to fail almost before they are advanced into the Mecca of all ball players, from the kniekcrbock-ered kniekcrbock-ered youngsters who play on the sand lots In the big cities, the coun try boys who perform In the cornfields corn-fields to the stars of the minor-leagues, minor-leagues, who tread on the green sward in the smaller cities. And by a queer twist of fate, this "22.500 Beauty" is to go to the Columbus Co-lumbus team in part payment for outfielder Bill Hinchraan and Short- B. I I stop Gerber who are now training H I with the Pirates. f:. And thus passeB from major- I 1 1 league annals, the highest priced iV-;' baseball player who was ever pur chased. Breaking It Gently. fr 'tf' A workman engaged in a building operation in Nicetown, a few days i':ffv ago fell from the scaffolding and was painfully, though not fatally, ''-v injured. J'J The foreman, after sending the lL.5 man to the nearest hospital for cV? treatment, beckoned to one of his kl; subordinates J "We must send some one to break ' : it to Harrigan's wife," he said. "The I. poor chap'll be laid up for a month V'' or so, and she ought to know. Who 1 can we send to break it to her grad- ual?" J' The other man thought a while, J I and then he looked up at his "boss" , with the light of inspiration in his I . I eye. "Send Smithers," he suggested, I "he'B just the fellow to break it gradual. He stutters," Pleaded Case on Merit. ! A man traveling westward on a through express, one day last week, !j left kis scat in the crow;ded dining !i car. Just after he .had' ordered his ' luncheon. We went to get some- tning fie naa rorgotten in une Jfuli- t- man I I When he returned, in spite of th , I fact that he had left a magazine on J the chair in the diner, he found a , handsomely dressed woman In his I place. He protested with all the po- I liteness he could muster, but the woman turned on him with flashing eyes. - I "Sir." she remarked, haughtily, "do you know that I am one of the I directors' wives?" I "My dear madame," he responded, "if you were the director's only wifo j I should still ask for my chair." Boiling It Down. There Is a rule in most newspa- I per offices that matter shall be "boiled down." and that the short method of expression shall be used when possible. This boiling: down process is done by the editors, of course, but here is a case where a ! compositor got In his work, and It went through without detection. An enterprising press agent for one of the theaters wrote an advertisement in verse for a certain play, two lines Of the effusion being: ij "From half past eight to half past ten, You laugh and laugh and laugh again." Now, the compositor, thinking. ' doubtless, that this was a case for condensation, made It appear in the paper thus: "From 8:30 to 10:30, You laugh and laugh and laugh again." j'H You may be sure that one man, at I least, didn't laugh when he saw the lines, and that was the press agent. j Adam's Punishment. I A visitor to a Sunday school ask- ed some question to test the children's chil-dren's knowledge of the Bible. Ono class of girls looked particularly bright, and he asked one of them: "What sin did Adam commit?" "He ate forbidden fruit," was tho answer. "Right Who tempted Adam?" . "Bye." Q "Not really Eve. but the serpent. And how was Adam punished?" Xhe girl hesitated and looked con-fused. con-fused. Behind her sat another girl, who raised her hand and said, "1 know " "Well, tell us. How was Adam punished0" "He had to marry Kve," was her reply. What It Was. The minister was addressing the Sunday school. "Children, I want to talk to you for a few moments about one of the most vital, one of the most wonder- I ful. one of the most importaut or-guns or-guns iu the whole world " he said. "What is it that throbs away, I beats away, never stopping, never ceasing, w hether you wake or sleep, night or day. week in and week out. month in aud month out. year In and year out. without any volitiou ' on your part, hidden away in the depths, as it were, unseen by you. throbbing. throbbing. throbbing rythmically all your life long?" During this pause for oratoricaJ effect a small voice was heard: I "I know; it's the gas meter:" 'I |