Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-30

day OF professional baseball Pine Bluff
will have one OF the fastest teams
in the world next "Wednesday in the
Detroit American league team Base.
ball critics of the northern cities |
where the ability of the men com
posing the Detroit team is known, unite
in saving thai Manager Barrow has
gathered one of the strongest teams
in major league circles, In fact. a
number er them Ge even farther than
Manager Barrow as he does moi make
any claims of 4 penHau winning nine.
but says he Knows his bunch viii be
8el III IN The first division while a
number et sporting critics haXe at
READY picked III" team aa tte Ameri-
can le9sto pe4naut Winner
Gue thing sure is that the club is
fi#e iarsest when inches are consider
ed over gotten together. No less than
elevon= Of the twenty men ON The team
aga 7jX feo'. or within an inch Of IT,
while six of the men are above that
mark Charlie Carr. the first base
man is the tallost. standing six feet
fotr inches Ed llurlburt,. he Mem
phis boy who led the Southern league
| catchprs last season, is next, with six
! feet two and a half inches To his cred
| it. Others over the six-foot mark are
Pitcher Donovan, Outfielder Crawford,
| Pitchers Deering and Eason.
Some of the best known names in
| the baseball world are on the Detroit
roster wild Bill Donovan is con-
ceded by the authorities to be one
of the best pitchers in the world and
has more Apeed than any other man
in the business. Frank kitson is an
other star Of the twirling world. Both
| these men We're with the Brooklyn
E, National league team last season, and
ii cost the Detroit management neat
sum to secure them for this season.
+ George Mullin and Nal EasOn are two
| best in the business. This is only
| Mullins second season in. fast com
pany, but already predictions are be
! ing made that he will lead Them all
before the season is over IIason was
with Chicago and Boston National
: league teams last season and is a
strong man at all departments of the
pitching game. In youngsters who
are Just breaking into fast company
year with the champion Now Haven
team Of the Connecticut State league.
Kssinger, Michigan boy, who had
Eis first trial with the Detroit team
| late last season, and made good right
/ from the start and Sis Hopkins,
The lefthander. last season with the
Chattanooga Southern league team.
He has four good men behind the bat
in Buelow, McAllister, IIurlburt and
Lille. Giant Charlie Carr is on first,
while al second is George Smith, who
is also the captain Of the team. Smith
was with the New York National
league team last year and Manager
Barrow made a ten-s1rikc a few weeks
ago when he inveigled "Muggsy' Nc
| Graw, the New York manager, into
trading Smith for kid" Gleason
whose ballplaying days are nearly
over. Smith had made a success OF
managing the New York team before
tie advent Of McGraw, and jealousy
on the part OF the latter was the
chance that gave Manager Barrow this
star Smith has no peer when it comes
to playing the bag, and as field gen
eral is in class by himself Scrappy
"Kib" Elberfield holds down the short
field, while at third Joe Yeager, las
season one of Detroit's star tWirlers
is making a good name for himsel
in his new position.
The oGtfield is the pride OF Manager
BarroW's heart, and there are few Il
equal it and none to excel. In lef
Sam Crawford last season with Gin
cinnati, and one of the Nationa
leagues hardest hitters, is stationed
Center field is held down by Jimm.
Barrett, fast man on the bases ant