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Show SCOTT SHOWS HIS ABILITY Formerv White Sox Pitcher, Termed Has-been, Leads Coast Twirlers SAN KP.AXCISCO, Aug 30 -Death ! alley" jini Scott, leading pitcher this , season or the Pacific Coast basebal league is disproving th. theory that a baseball player ne-.er can com. oa'ck unci a world series star but later released as a has-ben. Scott has 1 forged his way to the head of tho ; ' "ast league In a manner thai has attracted at-tracted widespread attention Bothered for several years iv rheumatism ihat made it increasingly difficult to get into condition, ami h some extra pounds of wcictit that did ! pal disappear until the season was w-el! under way, Sett spent all of last 1 w-inter hunting In the forests of 1 lo gon and appeared in fine trim this 1 spring. The results of his extra months or training we're apparent in his pitching, which has been as baffl- , Ing to Coast leagub pitchers this 'season 'sea-son as it once was lo ma 'or- leaguers Scott, was among the leading pitchers pitch-ers of the Chicago White Sox in the ! days when they wen known as the I "hltless wonders." and was one of the flrai baseball players to don uniform when the United States entered the war In H17 Bciotl left firing a Locomotive on des- I erl trains for baseball. He began by deoting his spare hours to playing In the Imperial Va!l.-y Winter league- 1 Where White Sox scout found him In the winter of 1904-05, ivhen the Chicago team came out to California for winti-r training. The young pitcher was signed up Hid ins.- to fame almosl immediately n. .1 t oiw pa 11 ion 10 1 mm I'.uwarii 'White "piano Leg" Smith .md ti,.r jhurlcra of the hit less wonders, his last I ball and the number of his strikc-j strikc-j outs being notable in 1917. a month before the orxm-ling orxm-ling of the world series, but after the I Chicago team had clinched the Am-: irlcan league pennant h' usked I onv Iskey for permission to drop out sol he could enter the officers' training! camp at the Presidio of San PrahciSCO I He was given a leave of absence and I received his share of the world Berles I money, despite the fact that he did not ( plav in the contests j Scott secured a captain's commission commis-sion and at Camp L wis. aft or win-ining win-ining Came as a grenade thrower, was 'made athletic officer of the camp. After the war. he was given a release re-lease and joined the San Francisco luth of the Coast league but made no 1 great showing until thl: year when 1 I he gained and maintained first plai 'among the league's mound men. |
