The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-07
SPORTING NEWS.
Major Leagues Are Preparing
for the Spring Campaign.
Several Ball Teams Have Start
ed to Training Grounds.
LIST OF THE PLAYERS.
viii Probably Not Be q Change
In Boston Americans.
Washington Club About the
Weakest Of the Lot.

New York, March baseball play
ers in the two major leagues have dug
their uniforms from the bottoms of
thelr trunks and are getting ready for
an active season. Some of the teams
have already started for their spring
training quarters, and others will be-
take themselves to warmer chimes this
week. An idea of what the big league
teams will look like may be of interest
The roster of the Detroit club is as
follows:
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City, and Derham independent. Pitch
ers--Donovan, Mullin, Kitson, Stovall
| (Cleveland), Ferry (Buffalo), right
hand. First base-Carr. Second base
Burns (San Francisco). Third base
Gremlnger (Boston, NationaD. Short
stop-O' Leary (Des Moines). Left field
1-Mclntyre (Buffalo). Center field
Barrett. Right fie1d-Crawford. Extra
l-Infield, Robinson Washington: out
field, Hoffman wilmington, Del.)
IN the regular makeup of the Boston
American league team there will not be
single shift, probably. There will be
other new faces, however, and some of
the old ones will be missed. Already
Collins has signed ten men. They are
Farrell, Criger Young, Parent, Ferris,
Stahl, Freeman, Gibson, Doran,
the new catcher from Colorado Springs
for whom killilea paid 81, 500 and O'Neil
the new utility man from Milwaukee.
Winter, Lachance, Dougherty and
Dineen have not yet sent their signed
papers to Collins, but word is expected
from them any time.
The Philadelphia Athletics have re-
tanned their regular men and all have
signed with the exception of Captain
Lave Cross. The new men are Pitcher
Hartley, Utility Inf1elder Mullen and
Pitcher Bruce, an Indian. The make
up of the team will be Davis, first base;
Murphy, second base; Lave Cross, third
base; Monte Cross, shortstop; Hartzel,
Hoffman. Pickering and Seybold, out
fielders. Schreck and Powers, together
with new man, to join the team later,
will do the catching. Pitchers will be
Plank, Waddell Bender, Coakley, Nc
Gheegan and Hartley.
Washington is in bad shape and but
little has been done towards securing
signatures to contracts. The men who
will probably compose the Senators are
Catchers, Kittridge, Drill and Clarke;
pitchers Ortiz. Townsend, Wilson, A.
Hillebrand. Patten, Lee, Dunkle and
Winters: first baseman, H. Hillebrand
and ]. Staf1l.5 second baseman, McCor-
mick; short stops, Cassidy, Osteen and
Moran; third baseman, Coughlin; out
feeders, Setback, Hendricks. Ryan, ia
| cobson The only new faces among
these players are the Hillebrand broth
ers Jake Stall1, Cassidy and jacobson.
The Cleveland team is practically COM
plete. The roster is: Moore, Bernhard,
Joss, Curtiss Central 1eague). Hickey
(Paciffc National league), Rhoades,
Hess (Western league), and Glendon,
pitchers: Bemis and Abbott, catchers;
Hickman first base; Lajoie, second
base: Turner american association,
short stop; Bradley, third base; Lush,
Bay, Rossman Connecticut league) and
O'Hare Pacific league), outfielders;
Schwartz Qocal amateur) and Pastor
New England league), utility felders.
The roster of the st. Louis Browns
follows: Pitchers. Petty, Siever, Nor
gan, Hise Of Corsicana. Tex, and Glade
of St Joseph; catchers, O'Connor, Sug-
den, Kahoe and Shannon: first base,
Jones of Baltimore; second base, Pad
den, Gleason and Demont; third base,
Hill; short stop. Wallace; outf1e1ders,
Burkett. Heidrick. Hemphill, Swander
and Huseman. The Browns may lose
Powell.
The men whom the master of the
White Stockings expects to take south
with him number seventeen and are as
follows: Catchers, Sullivan and Berry;
Dougherty, Walsh. Strieklett and Fla
herty; inffeIders, "Jiggs' Donahue, Cal
lahan, Clarke. Dundon and Tannehill;
| outfielders, Holmes, Green and G. Jones.
When the drafting season closed last
fall Comiskey had thirty-two men on
his list of reserved, drafted and pur-
chased players The other fifteen have
either been released. traded, lost or are
not under contract.
Following is the probable lineup of the
Highlanders of New York: Pitchers,
Clark Griffith, j. D. Chesbro. Tom
Hughes, w. O. Wolfe. Elmer Bliss, Am
brose Putnam and Harry Howell;
catchers, NJ. BevilIe, Kleinow and Jim
Mcguire: first base, John Cancel: sec
ond base, w. T. Williams: third base
W. Conroy: short stop, Norman Fiber
field; right field, Billy Keller; center
field, Dave Fultz; left field, John Ander-