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Show Dutch Reuther Got His Start in 1915 With Salt Lakers The voting left hand flinger who o ea-ih heat the Chicago White. Sox i . rdav wan with the Rait Lake Beea for a brief period in 1915. the first pear thll town was in the Coast league. He w;is not effective aa a pitcher, but fen w,i? a real nlugcer, and Manager Rlankenship kept him on Ihe payroll b( 01180 of his hitting ability. Reuther ibattei in tw. nu fi e games. He was up twenty-nine times, scored six runs and pot nine hits. Two of thnse nine were home runs and three were doubles. dou-bles. His batilnc average was 31V In fieldintc he handled fifteen chances without a nerror. As a pitcher Reuther wasn't much, although he had a "lot of stuff and also a delivery, which, with control, has since made him a wonder Hi cross-fire w the best ever seen in , t bis league. For Salt Lake be pitched nine games, working ?,i 2-3 innings H was faced by 132 legal at bats, allowed al-lowed 43 bits, bit 4 batsmen, walked 1 21 and struck out 25. His opponents 'made Z'l runs I'ti of which were rhar-l.'ible rhar-l.'ible to h!r; pitching. His earned run I record reads 6 10 per nine-inning game I Reuther wa.s horn at San Francisco September 18, 10:?. In 1913 he had ft I trial with Pittsburg. H finished I he I eason with Sacramento In 1914 hej went to Vancouver, from which club me lo Salt Lftkfl In Novemh. r. Of that year he was traded to Kansas aa pari payment for Morrle Rath In lfJlfi he waa with Spokane and Port-land, Port-land, In 1917 he went to the Chic igO Nationals, by whom he was sold to Cincinnati in mldaeaaon. After pitching pitch-ing two games in the 1918 .eaon he joined the colors and pitcher the Camp I Lewie club to numerous victories. In the spring of the present year Salt Lake ws on the point of getting him in exchange for Rath Had the 'deal gone through the curious colnci-Idenca colnci-Idenca would have been presented of I two ball players being twice traded for j u b other by the same club. How viT, Garry Herrmann of the Reds hired Pat Moran just aa negotiations were being completed and Pat called the deal off. Salt Lake was paid ca,sh for Rath. So the two trades found themselves on the same club. |