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Show game for the Highlanders this -season and looks like a fltu;e Tinker. Wagner and Doolin ua del)hia are the best men in the Rational Ra-tional league. Tinker i. one of the great ball players of the national game Ho learned .the . game under Frank Sel?e and 1b a finished ball play-I play-I er in every department Wagner of Pittsburg is a sure man in the field, one of the beat men in the world to take a throw at second. Then the German has the best arm j of any man In baseball with tho ex-, ceptlon of Konoy, of the Cardinals. A good arm Is Indispensable to a shortstop. short-stop. The short fielder works deeppr than any Inflelder. and .lt takes a stout arm to make the long throws from back of third and over second. Wagner Is awkward In his work but he generally gots there, and la as sure-a sure-a man under fire on the field as ho Is when at the bat. Doolin of Philadelphia has a gTeat WAGNER THE BEST OF ALL SHORTSTOPS mat Position Requires a Player of Considerable Ability. - The National league seems to have , better lot of shortstops than the American league take them as a whole. Wagner, Tinker, Doolin, Dah-f Dah-f n and Hulswitt arc the best men li the National league. . Wallace. Wagner, of Boston, and McBrlde, of Washington, are tho best men in the American league. There was a time when Terry Turner threat-t threat-t rnke the American league arm and covers a world or ground, lie ranks a trifle higher than Hulswitt McElveen, the new man with Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, la a Nashville recruit. He played play-ed great ball for the Tennessee volunteers. volun-teers. This team won the Southern league pennant in 1908. Dahlen of Boston has been playing major league ball for nearly 20 years and Is almost at tho end of his ropo. Bill played a good fielding game last season, but his arm and cyo aro going back on him, Bridwell, tho New York shortstop. Is only a fair man in the field, but he hit well last season. McGraw uses him when he hits. Fletcher works on the job when Brldwcll's batting takes a slump. . honors awav from Wallace, but Ter-ry's Ter-ry's arm has been troubling him the past two seasons and he no longer ranks with the topnotchers of the gamo. Bush of Detroit is the best young shortstop that, has entered major league baseball since Turner graduated graduat-ed from the Columbus team. Like Turner Bush finished up in the Amer-' Amer-' lean association. Ho worked at short : for the champion Indianapolis club last season. Bush Joined the Tigers while Jennings' team men were flght-' flght-' ing desperately for the pennant. The youngster mado good from tho Jump and fooled the wise guys, who flared that ho would develop stage fright and fall down. Wagner, of the Boston Americans, ig a moit finished fielder and probably covers more ground than any man in tho game, with the exception of Wallace. Wal-lace. But the Boston short fielder Is a Tery light hitter. MoBrido is handicapped han-dicapped by the samo weakness. The Washington infielder plays a phenomenal phenom-enal gam of ball In the field, and many American league followers rank him with Wallace. Freddie Parent, of the Whito Sox, played a brilliant short for Boston the year Jimmy Collins' team won the championship of the world. Although still a young man, he slow- ed up in his game and dropped out of the running with the remainder of Collins' champions. Comlskey figured that a change of clubs would bring Parent back to his old -form, but Freddie failed to make good at short for Chicago, and Tanne-hlll Tanne-hlll is now covering the position. Nlcholls, of the Athletics, played great ball his first year In the American Amer-ican league, then slumped and is now on the bench, Austin, the youngster with New York, .played with Omaha last season. He Is putting up a grand |