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Show SIGN NEW TALENT FOR MAJOR LEAGUE List of Young Players Who Will Report in Spring. Last' senson the Nntional league culled about one hundred rookies from the bush and a score of them made the grade, out of which number a dozen flashed as stars. For the coming sea-eon sea-eon the National will have only about seventy-five recruits from which to fill Its ranks against time's attrition, and bolster its defensives and add zeal to its offense. The names of these rookies mean little or nothing rit'ht now. They are untried and callow arid obscure, but it Is to them that the league must look for its strength and standing and fame a few years hence. Not in 20 years has the old National had such grand and promising young material dealt to it from the fateful hand of the mysterious mysteri-ous "bush" as in the last three seasons. Another such haul will give the Heyd-ler Heyd-ler circuit a great foundation for preeminence pre-eminence in the seasons from 1928-30. Pittsburgh heads the list with 14, while Chicago and Boston come next with 11 each. The Phillies have 9, St. Louis, Brooklyn and Cincinnati have 7 each, while New York comes last with only 6. Of the 75 rookies 39 are budding pitchers. The Texas league was the most popular recruiting ground with 12. The Southern league furnishes 8 and the Coast league T, Virginia State 5, College 4, Western league 4. The International league furnished only 1, the least of all. The following is the complete ofiiciai list of the brand new players, their positions, po-sitions, their records and the club with which they will make their try for big league fortune and fame: Boston. Catchers Fred Schiller, a semi -pro from St. Louis. Oscar Seimer from "Worcester, spent most of last season villi Hutchinson of Kansas league. Pitchers George Hartsgrove, free a-nt, with Fnrmington, Maine, last stason. Joe Ogro wdowski, semi-pro from Elmira, N. Y.; recommended to tlit Braves by the same man who told them about Genewich. Ed VanBrunt, semi-pro from Bradley Beach, N. J. h.tielders Burrus. drafted from At-la At-la it ta. Marriott, drafted from Mobile. lurry Snyder, purchesed from Kocky Mount of Virginia leaRue. (.tut fielders Dave Harris, purchased from Greensboro club of Piedmont league. Herb Thomas, purchased from luytona of Florida State league. James 1 1. Walsh, purchased from Seattle, this dfal involving $50,000 in cash and players. play-ers. Manager Bancroft has high hopes of Walsh. Brooklyn. Catchers L. B. Hartline, from Augusta. Au-gusta. Ga. Pitchers Guy Cantrell, kid of twenty, twen-ty, from Ft. Worth, Texas league. J. II. Hush, purchased from Water bury, Kfistprn lwieue: he is t wentv-nine years old. a husky 1 8 0 - p o u n (1 e r , over si x feet high and graduated from the Kansas-Oklahoma league only last year. Charles Schwartz, a free agent of Great Falls, Mont., strongly recommended recom-mended by Burleigh Grimes. U T. Williams, Wil-liams, college player. Atlanta, Ga., recommended rec-ommended by Nap Rucker. ! Outfielders Dick Cox, from Portland ; club of Pacific Coast league. Chicago. Catchers Clarence Jonna rd, from Wichita Falls. Pitchers Guy Bush, from Wichita Falls, where he won nine and lost six games last year. Percy Jones, from Seattle, where he won 13 and lost 1 1 last year; home in classic settlement of Goose Creek. Texas. Dick Morgan, from Wichita Falls, won 12 and lost P ; a Iso a native Texan. George M Hist Hi-st ead. from Marshall, Texas. Joe Westnedge. from Danville, Ya., whero he won only 2 and lost S games last year. Herbert Brett, Wichita Falls. Charles Hoot, from Los Angeles, won 21 and lost 16 In Coast league last year. Out fielders Clarke Pit longer. Salt -I,ake, batted .326 last year. Ed K earns. from Beaumont, Texas league, batted .802. Ralph Michaels, from Little Hock of Southern league. Charles Ta y lor. from Beaumont. Texas, batted A2i last nea son. Mel Kerr, a semi-pro from Saskatoon, Canada. Cincinnati. Pitchers James CI a rk, dra f led from On eon t a of the New York -Pennsylvania State league, won 7 and lost 17 (tames Inst year. Nea 1 Brady, senil-pro senil-pro of Eii d low, Ky has had a long minor league experience, up with the Yankees several years ago, 'also with Toledo; great record last season ; still under thirty; known In the Kentucky Blue Grass country as "King" Brady. Joe Einnemnn, a college and semi -pro pitcher. Mike Collins, purchased from Pan Antonio of the Texas league. Ed Morris, purchased from Nashville of The Southern league; has a yood pitching pitch-ing record. Inflelders Harry Copel, a first baseman base-man drafted from the Oneonta club; he hit .325 in that league, class B, and stole 39 bases. New York. Catchers None. Pitchers Hugh Magevney of Notre Dame. Jim Tunney of Holy Cross. Wisner, purchased from Rochester of the International league. Outfielders Ralph Eraser, secured from the Canadian league, where he batted .400 last year. Crump, from Portsmouth, Ya. Walker, purchased from Rocky Mount, N. C, also in the Virginia league. Philadelphia. Catchers None. Pitchers Ulrich, one of the star pitchers of the champion Waterbury club of the Eastern league. Knight, purchased from the Texas league, where he had a fine record last year with Houston. Raymond Pierce, purchased pur-chased from Topeka of the Kansas league. Dana Fillingim, left-handed minor league veteran who has been up in the majors before, comes back this time from Beaumont, Texas league. O'Neill, purchased from Beaumont Beau-mont in a f 1 0,000 deal that also involved in-volved players. Manager Fletcher expects ex-pects great things from Knight, O'Neill and Ulrich. Inflelders Huber, purchased from Beaumont, was considered one of the best players in the Texas league last year. N. L. Hawks, first baseman, purchased pur-chased from Nashville of the Southern league. Walter Klmmick, purchased from Yernon of the Coast league, was with Cincinnati the year before ; Fletcher has been after this third baseman base-man over two years, and is very sweet on him. Outfielders Yordy, purchased from Waterbury; one of the leading hitters and outfielders of the Eastern league last year. Pittsburgh. Catchers Uoy Spencer, purchased from Birmingham of the Southern league, twenty-four years old and lives at Norfolk, Ya. Pitchers Joseph Brown, purchased from Oklahoma City, a husky six-foot right-hander; won 33 and lost 3 In half-season of Oklahoma State league; won 12 and lost 13 In Western league, but was sick most of the li-4 season. Bernard Culloton, purchased from Norfolk Nor-folk of the Virginia league. Calvin IEuIIbs, purchased from Greensboro of the Piedmont league. Carl Demarest, purchased from Beatrice, Nebraska State league; in Willlamsport under option during most of the 1924 season. sea-son. Louis Koupal, purchased from Omaha of the Western lea gue. C. B. Shelton, purchased from Durham, N. C, Piedmont league. Don Songer, a left-hander, purchased from Oklahoma City, pitched for Kansas City and Augusta Au-gusta ( Ga.) teams. Inflelders Joe Cronln. free agent, San Francisco, only nineteen years old, shortstop. Albert Niehaus, the much talked of first baseman, secured from Chicago In the big trade last fall; one of the sensations of the Southern league last year where he played with Chattanooga. L. Fresco Thompson, purchased from Omaha of the Western league, a Columbus university uni-versity boy. Royce Williams, free agent, from Hendrlx college, Con way. Ark. Outfielders Maurice Frew, free agent, Greenwood, S. C, of the Carolina league; was a star athlete at Washington Washing-ton and Lee university. John Sherlock, Sher-lock, drafted from Quebec, of the Ontario- Vermont lea gue. St. Louis. Catchers Albert Bool. purchased from Lincoln of the Nebraska State lea gue. on option to Fort Smith, A rk., last year. Accounted a good hitter with an unusually good arm. Pitchers Clyde Day. purchased from Muskogee, Western association, is a i big, impressive fellow and had a wonderful won-derful strikeout record with his league last year. William Hallahan. a lefthander, left-hander, purchased from Kalama v.oo, Mich. "Duster" Malls, the famous lefthander left-hander who was waived out of the American league, purchased from Oakland. Oak-land. Charlie Eh em, the Clemson college col-lege boy. who made such a ft reat strikeout record for Fort Smith of the Western association last year, where he pitched a no -hit game. A"! n cent Shields, a semi -pro from east ern On n-a n-a da : has an underhn nd dMi very that makes Carl Mays look as though he Is standing erect, when he delivers a boll. Outfielders Ralph Shlnners. the former for-mer New York Giant, dra ft ed from Toledo. |