Clifford C. Cravath, outfielder of the Philadelphia Nationals, was born at San Diego, Cal., on March 23, 1882. He jumped from his work as a telegraph operator into the Pacific Coast League at Los Angeles in 1903. In the fall of 1907 he was purchased by the Boston American League Club. He failed to make good in the spring of 1908, and was shifted to Chicago and then Washington in the American League. In the middle of the 1908 season he was sold to Minneapolis of the American Association. The Philadelphia Nationals purchased him at the close of the 1911 season for $4000.