Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09
OMAHA TEAM FOR THIS YEAR
Manager ROurke Gives Out His Line for
Coming Season.
YOUNG BLOOD IS MxLO wITH QUO
Fast outaeId OF Bast season Rein
forced by Good Inaeld and whole
Wen Topped with Strong
Battery Material.

Manager William A. Rourke OF the Omaha
base ball club yesterday announced the
personnel Of his playing stan for this
season. He will begin the year with twenty
men on his team list, as follows:
Catchers-Johnny Gonding, Arthur Hayes,
Jack Thomas. Guy Reed.
Pitchers-Frank Owens, George Brown.
Dudley Risley. Podge Alloway, Dusty Coons,
Eddie Gordon, Charles Graham.
fnnelders-Dave Calhoun. FIRST base; Ace
Stewart, second base: Ed Hickey. third
base; Joe Dolan. short stop; Peter Burg,
utility innelder.
Outdelders-Robert Carter, left field
Frank Genins, center field; Tom Fleming,
right field; Will Stone. utility outhelder.
That Is the best base ball team that
ever represented Omaha" said Manager
Rourke. Il shall start the season abreast
Of any Of them and ahead Of several.
have all my best men Of last year back
again. and some very valuable new ones.
True. a few are young players. but even
those ave their pronounced merits. A
ball player is the result Of development.
anyway, and l shall see what can be done
with these youngsters toward bringing
them out. That's the only way to get
them.
BhA On nv ANa
Take this list right down from the be-
ginning. and I'll give you the history OF
each man as ! know II. Among the catchers
everybody knows Johnny Gonding, and
what a valuable man he was last year, He
10 In better shape physically now. Then
Hayes is a young fellow from Superior.
Eeb., who gives promise. Thomas ! have
taken entirely upon the Recommendation OF
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Thomas played with a team at Belleville,
ILL.,, last year. His home is at st. Louis.
Reed is another youngster. He comes from
Gehoa, Neb., and Is chiefly known In base
ball from having played with the Nebraska
Indians for several years.
with my pitchers I am especially strong
have a stan there that cannot be sur
passed. First there are Coons. Alloway
Gordon and Graham Of last years team
Their work Is known. Gordon and Graham
should improve much this season, being
novices last year. Coons is now at hf
home in Newcastle, Ind, Alloway in Peters
burg, Ky, Gordon Ia In Lincoln and Graham
in Greenwood, Neb.
THE new pitchers are all stars. Frank
Owens has. thrown for Detroit the last two
years. and Is a foxy, experienced man. His
home is in Y~psilanti, Mich.
Two new whiriwInds. =
George Brown IL to be the real meteor
of the team. II he fulnlls promises shown
last year. He is the coal miner who made
his frat appearance last year with the
Terra Haute team, and made such q bis
tear In the baseball world. They we're all
after him this season. He lives in Rose
dale. IND, and came right out OF the mines
there to play bail. Ace Stewart took after
Brown for me. and told me that he would
land him for Omaha IL he had to Pa,
Grove him. l feel mighty lucky to have
secured him.
Then Dudley Risley, the Last of the
pitchers. 10 no SLOUGH. He was the star
twirler Of the Spokane. Wash, team last
year. which is the one that took the cham
pionship in that northwestern league. He
wrote me q week ago saying that he had
been offered 500 a month more than / am
giving him BY an eastern team. but / have
got aim. He is out on the coast now. One
OF Risely's strongest points is that he is a
crackerjack infelder for any emergency OF
utility.
Likes His Inaeld.
Coming to my inheld, we all know old
Dave Calhoun. the best batter In the bust.
ness. He is in town now. Ace Stewart
needs. no N He is wintering al
his home in Terra Haute. Ed Hickey is q
third baseman that cannot be beat, and q
fair hitter besides. He Is not the Hickey
who played with Denver last year. but Il
the man who has Just finished his fourth
season with the Indianapolis club. Hickey