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Show PHILLIES ARE A HARD HIT TEASI I Completely Broken to Piece: in One Year by Inroads of the Feds. (By Monty I New York. Jan. 30 There is nol another instance in baseball histon of a team being completely broken tc pieces so quickly as the Philadelphia I Nationals have been during the short space of one year. In that stretch ol I lime enough players have been grabbed by the Feds or been traded or sold to form a Philliet; Alumni nine that compares favorably with ncarh any outfit that will take the field during the coming season Consider this lineup Catcher. Red ('barley Doom: pitchers. Tom Seaton Ad Brennan. Cy Marshall, first base man. Fred Beck, second baseman. Otto Knabe: shortstop. Mike Hoolan, third baseman, Hans Lobort , outfielders, outfield-ers, Sherwood Magee, Runt Walsh and Jim Duncan. Considerable team, that. With all these fellows goln-at goln-at 'he normal speed, there are stars of first calibre in Dooin, Seaton, Brer, nan, Marshall. Knabe, Doolan. Lobcrt and Magee Queer Kinks of Game. It is one of the queer kinks of the game that the bulk of these losses fell upon the Phillies just before the 1914 season began. The Feds at that time grabbed Brennan, Seaton, Knabe Dolan, Beck. Walsh and Duncan. The departure of the first four of these was a deathblow to the Phillies' chances for the National league pennant. pen-nant. If that quartette had been In line there is little doubt that the Quakers would have won. even conceding con-ceding all due credit to George Stall- i-nw ...t tKi r ........ t .1 . i .-. .1 ArL'Oll 1 t 1 I his Boston Braves. Other first class men in the Quaker lold were ruelxTJ Alexander, Mayer, . Rixey, Oesehger and Marshall; Catchers Catch-ers Doojn. Killifcr and Burns; lull lu-ll fielders Luderus. I.obert and Byrne, land Outfielders Magee, Paskert, Crav-I Crav-I ath and Becker. It would have been a walkaway with that -ang on the job. But the Feds caited away that great double-play team of Doolan and Knabe and also two of the best pitchers pitch-ers In the league, Seaton and Brennan Bren-nan Imagine the Braves losing Ev-i-rs and Maranville Rudolph and James. That would be the same sort of a blow, no worse. Fates 5tih ATter cjuaners. But the unkind fates were not satisfied sat-isfied with what they did to the Phillies Phil-lies last year. They set upon the club again this winter, and now four more good players are gone from the team Charley Dooin, a crack catcher catch-er when he Is right, has been deposed from the managership of the club and sent to Cincinnati Three other stars uot sick of Philadelphia Phila-delphia and demanded walking papers. pa-pers. Hans Lobert, one of the best third basemen In captivity, has been traded to the New York Giants. Sherwood Sher-wood Magee. one of the best two or three outfielders in the league, has been shipped to Boston. Cy Marshall, as promising a young pitcher as then-was then-was in the land last year, has made the leap to the Federals. William F. Baker, president of the Philadelphia club, branded Charley Dooin a-- a failure In a manager's berth When he deposed him two months ago and appointed Pat Mo-ran, Mo-ran, former catcher and veteran coach of the club, to take Dooin's place. Did Dooin really prove himself him-self a failure ' There are many who don't think so. and who point to the fact that, in spite of all these strokes of hard luck over which Dooin had no lonlrol. the club still has quite a number of good ball players left, for all of whose development Dooin deserves de-serves the credit. Including the men obtained from the Giants and Cincinnati Cincin-nati by trade. Moran has quite a legacy, leg-acy, including Pitch'ers Alexander, Elixey Meyer Demaree and Oesehger; Catchers Killifcr. Bums and Adams, Infielders Luderus. Byrne, Bancroft.! Stock and Nlehoff and Outfielders Pa8kert. Crasath and Becker. , |
