Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-01 | Page 6 | Donlin Pans Texas League

II OONLIN PANS j TEXAS LEAGUE SAN FP. AN'CTSCO, July 1 Base-hall Base-hall player-! today are getting more niom-y than they ever did and are; Uoing less for It. according to Mike ponlin. years ngo a Pacific coa-,t haacball star and later a heavy-hitting member of the New York Giants Donlin le In tho far west this month doing scout duty for th Boston R. d Sox. Ho was In Texas recently "In the Texas league I found a majority ma-jority of the players 111 with a strange disease consisting of absolute refusal to run out flies or grounders thot ook like easy outs," he said. "That kind of ba-hall Is beyond me. 'I saw Texas league plaver.s gut-ling gut-ling as high as 700 month loafing on ballH hit to the infield and running run-ning to the bench on high flies. They eouldnt do It and get away with 11 in my time ' When I was starting $300 n month W1R a big salary and. believe mo we earned all we got We ran o i 1 L,Uk ,h5ta ln tnoso da and. not . only that, we had to fipht ov.,--- ...i. I.tlheW,.JMt al"ne wlth sP'r,t w-ith our fists." Donlin. unlike oorne other baseball men was not staggered by the big deal In which Willie Kamm San White Sox for aioo.c the gre Donlin thinks Kamm Is a hlghlf de-X de-X SH ffb H mechanism th.t V 8urpn;jnK Mature to me was Donlta aald "The first time I law him he looked like a uJl- le-iirn kSrti'5I,vh w"nd" Kept him ln the minors."