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Old Alex, Down and OutIaSoRides Freight Train toJoin Barnstorming TeamlYthHero of 1926 World's SeriesStill “Good Fellow/' SaysBill Killifer.Training CampiGossip(By The Issoeiated Pro*)OrthoKV MII.MAM BRUTHIR NEA Service Sport)* EditorThe story drifted into New! leans at the traiulug camp ofCleveland Indians that Grover Clevri land Alexander odo day in the early spring had stopped off for lunch at 1*11 Paso on his way to a baseball training camp at Bisbee, Ariz.It seems iliat the train which Alex had been riding didn’t earry a diner. It was in fart a slow freight.The man who hade his matesBoot* Bother h i lie ter.West Palm Beach. Fla.—Manager Bill Killerfer of the St. Louis Browns is displeased with tin* way his men have been fielding lately, and ho is not making any secret, of it. Killefer. however, is just as happy over the way his players ha\e been hitting as he is unhappy over the fielding.inmtod»of0!Breadon Make* I «*l Bid.1 keep your shirts on in the curcialgame of the 1926 world series, and then stepped up and won the game with splendid pitching, was wearing a mackinaw sweater that dated hack to the old days of the Chicago Cubs under Bill Killefer. He was trying to find some kind of a job at that tinw to tide him over until his pay checks | as a pitcher for the House of David team started drifting In.Klllefer’s Memories.YVhen your correspondent visited the Brownies at West Palm Beach, .'Bill Killefer explained carefully the dilemma he was facing, lie had heard that Alex was to pitcli for the House of David in an exhibition game with the Browns.I wish I could have onlt; of Phil Ball's airplanes that day, said Bill, so 1 coujd fly about 88 miles away the day this team plays the House of David with Grover Alexander pitching. 1 can think of a million things I'd rather see, than Alex barnstorming with a freak team.” Bill used io catch Grover and tried to befriend him in Big Alex best days. He was traded with him to the lt;ubs iu 1917 and he w s be hind the log m that season of 19:• when Me\ won 27 games fo. if.Chicago team.No Regard for Mlt;»oey.lie was too human,” said Killif* r. 'He had absolutely no regard for money. If the people who owe money to Alex would repay him h i would have a small fortune. H* was a good fellow’ with all of them wheo he had it. He’s still a ‘good fellow,’ but he hasn’t got it.*Bill Kille-er’s fare wears an intensely serious look now and then. Almost like that of a boy who has been spanked. Bill felt pretty badabout it.In fact it appeared to me than Bill was at that raomeut with l-100th of an inch of having n goodBradenton, Fla. President Sam Breadon of the St. Ixmift Cardinals disclosed today he had offered Chick Hafey, hard-hitting outfielder, a one-year contract for $12,500 and added the club would not go any higher. Hafey is demanding $15,000.Tiger** V* iu Two.rlt;Los Angeles—Detroit’s Tigers, slammed out 39 hits against Pacific j coats leaguers yesterday, but most of the slugging glory went to un-heard-ofs of the second team w ho defeated Seattle, 24 to 14. at Woodland, and collected 27 hits, the regularspounded out a mere dozen safeties todefeat Los Angeles, 9 to 5, behindgood pitching by Hoyt, and ITile.coboi:tis. ItllIIlls]Get Healhcole.Tampa. Flu.—The acquisition of Clifton Heathcoto. utility outfielder of the Chicago Cubs, by the Cincinnati Beds has tilled n hole in the reds garden. Though Heatheote hasnot been a regular. Mauager Howley expects his speed in the field and on the bases to help the HodsIndians' 1 folding P«*«»r.Now Orleam The ( levelnnd Indian have been piling up an irapresHvo record iu exhibition contest, but there's another side to it. In eight games they have made 21 errors, a pace which if continued would ret;i roonrd for sloppy fielding.cry.This Is Pitching.Oakland. Calif, tub pitchers, whowere used tip at the rate of foui end five a game toward the end oi Inst season, have made a great i bout-face. In four games with their great National league rivals, the Pittsburgi Pirius. tin; Cubs used exactly four pitchers and each won his game. They were Charlie Boot. Boh Smith, Guy Bush andSheriff Blake.
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Burlington Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Mon, Mar 23, 1931
Page 8
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