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Show WHAT POSITION I ' HAS MOST STARS If Fan Puts Question and Monty j Goes Over List and My. Replies. J ji' MANY STAR PITCHERS IH jii ; II Palm Is Awarded to Catchers j t ' Names Selected for an If Ail-Star Team. HI L !'' (By MONTY.) i 1 1 New York-, Aug. 14. "What Posi- U tton is best supplied with stars in the lUli I two big leagues at present? l nni f I question, put to us by a fan of lonfi h acquaintance, who periodically bobs mw i up with requests for quocr dope, proy- Q ' ed a real facer. He expected-his Ml ' answer ofMiand Just like that. i ffi think first base," he said. What po-1 I - sitlon do you favor?" He was a bit IF' peeved, when he hesitated about If agreeing with him. Before giving mil ; our answer, we went over the list. m J American League Stars, ft l Taking the American league first. IE o found Stuffy Mclnnis of the Ath- f letlcs, Dick Hoblitzell of the Red Sox, it Chick Gandll of the Washington Sena- Ml tors and Walter Pipp of tho "iankees. K meeting our qualifications to be called II Hi S In 'the National, we located Jake 1 Pi Daubert of Brooklyn. Vic Saler of Chi- 1 I cago, Charley Schmidt of the Braves m ' and Fred Mcrkle of the Giants. That H; made a total of eight, or one to each m v two teams. We could not rate the Ifli P other eight as stars, for each had M 5 a weakness or else did not average Hi Hi very high in general all around worth. Kjll Top Line Catchers. H Next attention was turned to catch- H ft ers, and topping the brigade is Frank Up Snyder, the young giant of the St. I IjuIb Cardinals, who is leading the ml National league in hitting, according Wt ; to vjnost unofficial (compilers of fig- m ures Other catchers In the star M ciass are Ray Schalk of the White M Sox TVallle Schang of the Athletics. 'H l Forrest Cady of the Rod Sox and jffi i ' John Henry and Eddie Ainsmith of Wp Washington, the full quota, of first- !' wM 1 class men in the American. Turning HI flit! back to tne National to pick out Sny- EilllKI der'B rlvals we name BU1 Klll,fr of MM tho Phillies, Jimmy Archer of the IB; Cub8 Charley Dooin of the Giants. I 1 r Hank Gowdy of the Braves, Otto Mll- ! H I nGr of Brooklyn and Tod Clarke of I ffl Cincinnati. That makes seven in I liltl the National and five in the Amerl- 1 lill I can or a total of 12 altSQther. w f Many Star Pitchers, lliil i "Are Pltcners included in your reck- fllfcll' oning of stars?" we asked our fan j Ifci j friend. He replied: "No, there are, I Ifllf course, more star pitchers than lllill ' men n anv otner departments, for Hill F tQC s5mDe reason that each team has ill! Hip anywhere from four to eight or more ill ol- tnem-" IJ HI' Leaving out pitchers then, we pass- Jfj I ed on to second base, next took short- stop and then third base. Not more IH than five or s!x men stood forth In mr ' an nese Positions as really of J If f ' no star Srade. Second provided if c Johnny Evers of the Braves, Eddie I lid! I Collins of the White Sox, Lute Boone II jS l of the Yankees, George Cutshaw of j! ffllj" Brooklyn, Miller Huggins of the CaV itl M I dlnals and Derrlll Pratt of the J JI I Browns. At shortstop, we found j Iffl t Walter Maranville of the Braves, I W I Charley Herzog of Cincinnati. Owen I II 1 1 ' Bush of Detroit and old Hans Wagner I Hi i of the Pirates- Third base was very i poorly provided, with only Fritz Mai- sel of the Yankees, Hans Lobert of the tho Giants and Red Smjth of tho Braves as capable all around performers per-formers of high excellence. ' Outfielders Not Included. Our fan friend did not wish the outfielders out-fielders included in this size-up. So the figures, that mean nothing, but nevertheless are offered, read thusly. First base, 8 stars; catcher. 12; second sec-ond base, C, shortstop. 4; third base, 3. This awards the palm to the position po-sition of catcher. "Now, who would you pick for an all-star steam if you had to do it?" asked the fan. "We would rather not have to do it," we replied, "but if you wish, here goes." Snyder First String. I We made Snyder first string catcher catch-er with Schalk next. For first base we chose Daubert In preference to Mclnnis and the others, largely because be-cause he Is a harder hitter. At second, sec-ond, we placed Collins; at shortstop. .Maranville, and -at third, Malsel. Even" oho of those chosen Is a .300 hitter this year except Maranville, ond he so far outclasses his rivals as a fielder that he is assigned to short. If an outfield were to be named, it would be a cinch to pick, composed of Ty Cobb of Detroit, Tris Speaker of the Red Sox and Joe Jackson of Cleveland. Pitchers of top grade also would bo easy to find and a powerful pow-erful world-beating staff could be made up of Grover Cloveland Alexander Alexan-der of the Phillies, Al Mamaux or the Pirates, Walter Johnson of the Senators. Dick Rudolph of the Braves and Nap Rucker of the Brooklyns. |