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St. Louis National League Team Has a Sure Comer in Lee Magee
recruits who have made good in bid leagues
No. 4—LEE MAGEE.
(This is the fourth of a series of
8 ,-tides on youngsters who made
good in the big leagues the past
season.)
By Sam Crane.
lEE MAGEE, of the St. Louis
Cardinals, is a youngster who
won his spurs as a big
aguer last season. His resem
, ance in face and form to the fa
ous Ty Cobb is marked, and
die he may not attain the repu
tation of the wonderful Tiger, he is
H new player who gives great
promise and is on the high road
. fame in his chosen profession.
Magee has all the characteristics
. a marked degree of an up-to
,;ate ball player —the speedy kind.
He is by far the fastest man on
the Cardinal team and one of the
host all-around players Manager
Hr. stiahan had in his line-up. He
will take all kinds of chances on the
bases and has won many games by
it- fleetness alone.
He was played mostly In the out
field during the past season, but oc
aslonally filled in at infield posi
ions and invariably made good.
While playing second base for a
while during the disability of Mill
er Huggins he played so well that
difficult position that Bresnahan
■ad no scruples in endeavoring to
make a trade with the Cincinnati
lub which included the disposal of
Huggins; but the deal fell through
owing to the objection of Mrs.
Britton, the owner of the Cardi
nals.
Made Hit With Bresnahan.
It was Bresnahan’s intention to
play Magee regularly at second
base, showing how favorable an
Impression the fiery, energetic
youngster had made with his man
ager.
The situation is different now.
Rresnahan having been released
and superseded as manager by
Miller Huggins, the player he tried
to trade. The conditions now will
probably prevent Magee securing
a permanent infield berth, but with
out doubt he will be played regular
ly in the outer garden, where he is
bound to make a hit.
For a youngster, Magee’s batting
fast season was little short of phe
nomenal. He played in 124 games,
was 446 times at bat and made 130
»afe hits, giving him a batting rec
ord just a shade inside the .300
mark.
Magee is a great ground coverer
In both the in and outfield. His
wonderful speed enables him to get
long drives that it would be impos
sible for slower runners to get
near. He has a splendid arm and
was the best throwing outfielder
on the Cardinal team.
He is an enthusiastic youngster,
ambitious and full of pepper. When
h> started with the Cardinals late
in 1911, his youthful exuberance
■ aused him to take almost too
many chances, but it was a com
mendable fault, and under the care
ful coaching of Bresnahan he has
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developed into one of the most
valuable players the Cardinals
have.
Magee is a clean-cut youngster,
built on the lines that denote speed.
He is rangy and quick in both mind
and body. He was unusually suc
cessful the past season against the
Giants, and it was rumored that
Manager McGraw proposed a deal
for the youngster during one of
the Giants' trips to St. Louis dur
ing the seasoti. but Bresnahan
turned the offer down. He was in
big demand by other National
league managers as well.
Magee is a most willing boy. He
was anxious to learn, and never
failed to take the advice of his
manager or players with more ex
perience than he. He is a very
popular youngster with his fellow
Cardinals and with the St. Louis
baseball public. The fans of the
Mound City consider him one of the
FODDER FOR FANS
William H. Locke, secretary of the
Pittsburg club, is slated to succeed Hor
ace Fogel as president of the Philadelphia
Nationals. We haven’t the pleasure of
Mr. Locke’s acquaintance, but we risk
the prediction that the Phillies can not
make a mistake in changing.
♦ » s
It is justly alleged that a man who can
please the “Four Ps“ is a successful
baseball manager. The “Fours Ps” is
code for: President, players, press and
public.
♦ * ♦
For the first time in history, a ball
club from the United States will .train
under the British flag. It’s easy enough.
The Yankees are going to Bermuda.
♦ *
It’s getting so a man has to win the
pennant or get a new job—especially in
the big leagues.
« « «
Some statistician has figured that if
McGraw canned all his boneheads he and
Wilbert Robinson would have to go in the
game to make out the nine.
• * •
Apropos of the late ending of the base
ball season and the early start of spring
training, some baseball' player has re
marked that he doesn’t get any chance
these days to egt acquainted with his
family.
Somebody has suggested that the 10 per
cent fund that now goes to the national
commission out of the world’s champion
ship be split and that 5 per cent be
handed to the commission and 5 per cent
be placed in a fund for old and indigent
ball players. The idea will undoubted
ly make a large hit with the commission.
* • ,
The Connecticut league has grabbed a
new name. It’s now the Eastern league.
Add proposed managers of the High
landers: Bill Carrigan.
♦ V ♦
They have some weird names tacked
ion to players in the. Wisconsin-Illinois
I league, as. for instance. Pieh. Kench,
Skinners, Lien, not to mention Wachtel.
« * •
In every deal the Reds propose they
offer Artie Phelan as one of the men they
are willing to let go. The former Baron
doesn’t seem to be much of a hit with the
Reds.
♦ * •
Harry Steinfeldt is scouting now -scout
ing for a job as manager. He prefers
the coast, but isn't awfully particular.
* * »
I Mike Kelly, the new manager of the
Indianapolis club, has been given permis
sion to be the real big chief of the In
dians. He doesn’t have to ask anybody’s
permission to do anything.
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F. B Dickerson, who owns the Lud
ington team, of the -Michigan State
illE ATLANTA GEORGI AN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1912.
best "finds" of last year, and pre
dict a brilliant career for their fa
vorite.
Magee played with the Louisville.
Ky., club of the American associa
tion during the season of 1910 as
second baseman and shortstop. At
second base he played 115 games
and made the remarkable fielding
average of 949, having 719 chances
and accepting all but 37. His bat
ting was comparatively weak as a
Colonel, though, he having an av
erage of .215.
In 1911 he was sent to Seattle,
and played there until Bresnahan
secured him for the Cardinals the
latter end of the season. He played
eighteen games at second base in
1911 as a Cardinal and had the very
high fielding average of .975. He
batted at a .261 gait.
Magee is surely of big league
class and will be heard from next
year. Watch him.
league, claims the distinction of being
the youngest mogul in organized baseball.
He is 26.
♦ ♦ *
Charley O’Leary claims he can get a
lat job if the Indianapolis club will kind
ly let him loose. So far that kindness lias
not been extended to him. •
PENN STATER PLAYED FOR
7 YEARS WITHOUT INJURY
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20. -Seven years
on the gridiron without an injury.
That is the wonderful record of Dexter
Very, the speedy right end of the Penn
sylvania State college eleven, who is be
ing mentioned as an All-American end.
Very plays football because he likes the
game. No player ever got into more
scrimmages. Even in 1911. when he cap
tained the State eleven, he would not
rest as is customary in some of the early
week scrimmages. He insisted upon get
ting in every play.
Three years at Mercersburg academy
put him in excellent condition. In that
time he never missed a game and went
through each season without so much as
a severe bruise.
Then he started his college career at
Pennsylvania State in 1908. From the
very first he made the varsity team.
Very has gone through his .seven years
of football without wearing any heavy
armor. He does not believe in shinguards,
headgear or heavy pads. He is a wrestler
and is unusually strong.
PRESIDENT OF CARDS
QUITE READY TO QUIT
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 20. —President .1. C.
Jones, of the Cardinals, is willing to step
out of his high office—that is, if Mrs.
Helene Hathaway Robison Britton is look
ing for a successor, Jones will retire
without a murmur.
Mr. Jones made a statement in response
to the rumor that Lacey Crawford is be
ing gromed for the office, and said it
was immaterial to him whether he is to
bo retained or some one else put in the
chair.
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According to an official an
nouncement issued by Con
nie Mack, of the Athletics, he owns
half of the Athletics’ stock and the
grounds at Twenty-first street and
Lehigh avenue. Mack is securing
the recent stock, now shares with
the Shibes» the entire ownership of
the Elephants.
The deal by which Mack lias dou
bled his baseball holdings makes
him one of the largest owners of
baseball stock in the major leagues.
Connie secured his additional stock
from Frank L. Hough and Samuel
H. Jones, who have been directors
of the Athletics since 1902.
In announcing the deal Mack
said:
“The proposition to sell out their
interests in the club by Messrs.
Hough and Jones was made some
time ago, and It did not take long
for us to come to an agreement as
to what their shares were worth.
They disposed of their stock in the
club, as well as in the ball park, to
me. so that I now have a one-half
interest in each. How much money
was involved in the deal I would
not care to state.”
When Messrs. Hough and Jones
deckled to sell out President Shibe
made no efforts to get any of the
stock. "Uncle Ben” made it one of
his Ironclad rules when he con
sented to become a magnate in
1901 that he would n_ot own more
than 50 per cent of the stock. He
is said to consider that n<> one had
a better right to purchase the stock
than the. man who had spent so
many years In bringing champion
ships to Philadelphia.
Manager Mack also set at rest
some reports that have been in cir
culation about his players.
"When in the West this week,”
said Connie, "I saw in newspapers
that Manager Callahan, of the Chi
cago club, was trying to purchasjp
the releases of Bender and Oldring
or to induce me to make a trade
for these men. I desire to say pos
itively that neither Bender nor
Oldring is on the market. I intend
to retain both of these players for
next year.”
DUFFY BESTS THOMAS.
CLEVELAND. OHIO .Nov. 20. Billy
Duffy, of Lockport, N. Y., outpointed Har
ry Thomas, the lightweight, in a furious
12-round bout at the Earle?club last night.
New Yorker May Give Clarence English Surprise In Battle Friday Night
YOUNG MOTTO’S WORKOUT PLEASES LOCAL FANS
By Left Hook.
ACCORDING to a number of lo
cal boxing fans who saw
Young .Motto work out yes
terday, the unknown young gent
from New York is likely to give
Clarence English the surprise of his
life when they clash at the Dixie
Athletic club F iday night.
The writer was not present at
the workout, but from reports I
have Heard Motto showed a lot of
fancy boxing as well as a kick In
both hands. Well, I hope that he
will be able to give the fans a good
run for their money, for Atlanta
followers of the game sure deserve
a heap of good treatment for some
of the bunk that has been handed
them in the past.
The Dixie club verily means to
get the best men possible. Henry
Norton, who was president of the
Gate City club, is president of the
new organization, but Henry has
ridded himself of some employees
who did not break their backs in
trying to see that the game was
run on the level.
Norton was simply inexperienced
when connected with the Gate City
club and listened to bad advice. He
has learned his lesson now, and he
really means to give Atlanta box
ing fans the best bouts he can se
cure.
z“x NE middleweight will be eliml
nated in the dash to determine
the championship of the class when
Billy Papke meets Frank Klaus De
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famous by Georges Carpentier and
the fashions. Georges was a regu
lar- hero there until Billy Papke
stepped into the country, sent
Georges drooping from the ring in
the seventeenth round, grasped all
the laurels—and currency—in sight
and decided that the gay French
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Now the aforementioned Ke
wanee is a bigger town than New
York, Chicago or Atlanta, in
the eyes of the Parisians,
writes Al Lippe. who persuad
ed Papke that he must have
a manager that could understand
the chatter of the folks abroad. For
how could William get his meals
or laundry in Pails, protected by
nothing more than Spring Valley
English ?
"France demands another sight
of the American champion, as they
call him, in the ring before they’ll
let him return,” Lippe further uses
the mails to inform. “And Papke
HARVARD IS FAVORED.
10 TO 8. TO DOWN YALE
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Nov. 20 - The
Harvard squad was put through its last
practice scrimmage of the year today. A
light drill is planned for tomorrow and
the eleven will then leave for Farming
ton, Conn., where it will remain until
Saturday when it -meets Yale at New
Haven in the deciding clash of the year.
The team is "on edge’’ for its Yale game
and Brickley, the wonderful hooter, is
placing the hide between the cross bars
with startling regularity in games
against the scrubs.
Odds which favored the Crimson team
at 19 to 9 on Monday have jumped to
10 to 8 and in some cases to 10 to 7 be
cause of the excellent condition us the
Crimson regulars.
CUMBERLAND COMES TO
LIFE FOR ONE CONTEST
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. Nov. 20.
Chattanooga was assur'd a real football
fray for Thanksgiving today when arti
cles were signed for a game here on Tur
key day between the I’niverslty of Chat
tanooga and Cumberland university. The
negotiations have been under way for
some time.
<'umbel bind lias prii'-tieaili discontinued
football this year, but will la- a great
drawing card because of the fact that
several Chattanooga men are on the
eleven.
wonderful; am now relieved almost en
tirely of tile troubb I have expe
rienced ami am gaining in wt Ight and
feel almost like a new man. 1 can not
find words to express my appreciation
and benefits of this preparation.
Vrfry respectfully,
J O. EWING.
Several of the boys remarked, "V hat
are you doing to get so fat?” Now.
this ease should convince all persons
suffering w ith stomach troubles of great
benefits and cures that thousands of
people are receiving who are using the
wonderful Quaker Extent that has
been introduced ill tills city. if 1
will beat Klaus easily. 1 have an
offer of $7,000 to meet Bombardier
Weils at Monte Carlo in February
and may accept.”
Papke is still worried about that
SSOO an ounce he paid for his own
flesh, even when he didn't particu
larly want the extra portion. Car
pentier claimed a SI,OOO forfeit
when Papke was slightly over
weight, and Billy has been worried
ever since.
But to reach the real import of
the December struggle: Whoever
wins will have to fight Eddie Mc-
Goorty, and the battle with the
Oshkosh boy if a tilt of any dis
tance must be regarded as a cham
pionship fight.
YALE SCRUBS SMASH REGS
AND MAY MAKE BIG TEAM
NIIW HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 20.—With
the big Harvard game only three days
away the coaches are uncertain as to the
line-up of the team they will send to bat
tle against the Crimson squad when they
meet on Yale Held Saturday.
Ihe way the scrubs tote through the
ale line in practice yesterday gave the
coaches much to worry’ over today and
it seems certain now that two or perhaps
three subs will replace the regulars with
the starting of the game.
PumpeHy, whose wonderful drop-kick
ing the last few minutes of play Satur
day saved the Blues from defeat, seems
a certainty for one of the guard positions.
Gallagher, sub . nd. may replace Bomeis
ler, whose injured shoulder and knee
threaten to keep him out for a time.
The (•••aches, working for speed, will io
doubt order the use of the forward pass
<»n Saturday and give open football a
thorough try-out.
“Lefty” Flynn's booting pedal has been
sending spirals for 50 and 60 yards in
practice and he is looked upon to keep
the ball out of Yale territory.
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