The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-31
LEMONS ALL STAR Tam
OF ALL STAR BALL
PLAYERS
LOOKS LIKE BEST IN LEAGUE
Practice Games to Begin at Lex
ingtOn Park About April
10 Gossip of Other
Clubs.

George Lennon, proprietor of the local
baseball club, has returned from his
pleasure trip to West Baden bringing
back with him baseball gossip that is in
teresting. On his way back to st. Paul
he stopped at Chicago, where he met
Jimmy Ryan, who has been busy secur-
ing players for the last two or three
weeks. AS appears from the list Of play
ers which Mr.. Lennon now has in his
possession, the Chicago veteran has been
wasting no time in the Windy City for
sWatters and Corners and twirlerS and
wing spielers have been secured in goodly
numbers. The men under signature are
as follows:
Catchers-Wilson. Hunt, Bearwald,
Holmes and Keefe.
Pitchers-Jones, McGnl, Myroski and
L. Gore
Intielders-Werden, Huggins. Whealen,
Holly, Mackey and Ziegler.
Outhelders-Ryan Parker, Larson, KAY
aGagh and Johnson
Mr.. Lennon said yesterday that Werden
viii play first base, Higgins second.
Holly shOrtstop and Ziegler third base.
Ryan will be lefthelGer, Larson center
fielder and Parker righttielGer 1t was
thought originally that Jack Crooks
would cover second, but he has been
turned loose, and higgins will undou5t-
edly fill the place more satisfactorily.
Besides those mentioned above, two adj
ditional National league players will be
secured in less than a weeks time and
they are said to be topnotchers. 1t is
also expected that Jack Revoyer will be
signed. He IS looked upon as another
Patterson, and has held his own against
the heaviest stickers of the old Western
league.
st. Paul has now got a good list of
men. and, when they report for duty on
the Lexington grounds April 10, the prog
ress of their work Will be watched 7,,th
considerable interest. It was taken for
granted that the Sanity City would come
In for some good players when it was
first announced that Jimmy Ryan had
signed and would be part owner of the
club. The fact shat he is rzIt owner
OF anything means q good deal. Ryan
does not bob around from one place to
another like dog in high grass He
sticks, fact which Chicago will testify
to any time, even though in his depar-
ture the city lost one Of the most brilliant
players who ever wore a uniform.
The last year Ryan PLAYED at Chicago
he put up as good a game as he did the
nrst. Whenever a hit was needed he
made 1t. In one respect he held all the
left-handed felders safe, and almost all
of the right-handed ones, as far as that
IS concerned. In a throw to the plate,
he always followed the rule that a
tween two points. 1t was Just as good as
carrying the ball to the catcher. Thls is
remarka bic. Fielders who throw with
their left arms are seldom to be relied
upon, for the ball takes fancy shoots and
plays havoc in the game. Not SO in the
case of Ryan. He was always up to snuff
and could hand the bali Il fnybodv in
sight from any part of the field He has
strong arm and knows how to use it
PLAYERS ARE ToPNoTCHERs
In view Of these facts Ryan ought TO be
able to pick out a good team for it takes
good player to tell a good player, ana
1t is ten to one shot that he is
no exception to the rule. Some of the
men who have been signed by Ryan are
not very well known locally, but others
are. In the case of Miller Higgins a
Veritable ten-strike has been made for
the local club. Both Lennon and RYAN
are tickled to death over the fact that
he has been secured. The Cincinnatic En-
quirer SAYS Of Higgins, as follows:
Yesterday Miller Higgins, one of the
greatest second basemen that was ever
graduated from the amateur diamonds In
and around this city, attached his sig
nature to Western league contract and
sent 1t on to Manager Ryan. Higgins is
without question one of, the cleveresr
youngsters who ever donned a uniform.
He can field, bat run and think. For
the past two years he has been tied up
with an Interstate league team Last
year higgins played with the Fleisch-
mann Mountaineers, and his work from
one end Of the season to the other was
OF the highest order Enough offers have
been made for him during the nast
tWenty-rour months to fill a small-s1zed
trunk But 1t remained for Jimmy Ryan
10 complete successful negotiations with
the clever Cincinnati boy The new
western Lacquer is rather small in stature
and somewhat light, but withal rafting
good player"
IlegIer, the third baseman. is another
finished diamond, as 1t were He is y
VerltapIe Trojan at the bat He bobs
up with his singles and doubles and
LrI2Ies whenever he gets the chance.
ana When 1t comes to circus catches
lnere VIII not be a man in the team
VINO can hold candle to him. He
puzzes around after ball like a hum
ming bird after an insect, and he snaps
and lets go with grace that is astonish-
ing. He has never heard of the word
punky," and the "Phillies'' will be IN
against 1t without his playing. Accord
ing TO his past record, Ziegler can't score
low by mistake 0N'1o
Holly, the shortstop from Chicago is
announcer man whom Ryan and Lennon
swear by. He is a man who has been,
much sought by Connie Mack. a fact
tWhlch speaks for itself. AS to Larson.
1t may be said that last wear he n1avedi
with the Illinois Steel company team IN
chicago. Though he gained quite a local
reputation, he is not well known here