The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-15
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
MANAGERS GETTING BUSY.
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the bunch will be retained and others
released early in May.
William Binkey OF the K. l. T.
League, batting average, 325. will stand
guard at the initial bag. He led the
above league last year in fielding and
batted near the top. He is a fast base
runner and covers a large territory in
the right shortfeld.
Harry TRULY, second base, with last
years Bloomington team, in the Cen
trail League, with a batting average of
800. He played 102 games and stole
twenty bases. He has a national rep
utation and is the most expensive
man on the team. Although a big
man, he is a hustler and covers stacks
of ground. He was with a pennant
winning team last year. Strouthers
looks upon him as a sure man to pin
faith to in a push.
At short-stop Strouthers will play
either Joe Young of Cincinnati, with
a great fielding record and a batting
average of S0O in the Central League,
or Harry Crotty, of the K. /. 7.
League, with a batting average of 312
Young graduated in the same school of
baseball as DeArmond, the Cincinnati
third baseman. Last year he held down
third for Cincinnati while he was on
the sick list. Crotty is fast man on
his feet and comes from a pennant
winning team. He has a record of
twenty stolen bases for last year. He
was the leading shortfielder of the K.
I. T. League.
William Spratt will play third base.
He is from the Southern League and
Il good man with a batting average of
275. He was with Montgomery last
year and the year before played with
Strouthers at Chattanooga. He has
been in the Southern League four years.
Last year he had a record of fifty
stolen bases. The year previous his
record was much better with Chatta-
noosa. He is sure in the field and at
the hat.
OutheIders.
Fred Frank will play leftfield. He is
from the Little Rock Southern League
team, and has a batting average of 300.
He was with Atlanta two years. His
stolen base record last year was thirty
five baGes.
Guy Murphy will be tried out for
rightfield. He is from the Western
League and a great base-runner. He
played with Duluth last year and bat
ted in the 300 class.
Con Himself in Centre.
Strouthers will play centerfield, and
when he is not in the game the reserve
catcher will be in the position. Strouth-
ers began his career as manager in
1894, with the Kansas City team. He
was manager of Detroit in '95, played
with st. Louis In 90. The following
year he went to the Pacific Slope.
Next he was with the Omaha team as
manager. Coming into the Southern
League he was manager of the Bir-
mingham team and then the Chatta-
nooga team. He is recognized as a sure
fielder and a 3O0-batter in the above
fast company.
President Boyer is due to arrive in
Savannah one day this week. He was
needed here the first of the month to
commence the work of getting the
grounds in shape for the opening of
the season. as a game will be played
here on opening day, April 26. MIR.
Boyer could not get possession of the
grounds, however. until the Philadel-
phia team finishes its spring practice,
as they had a previous contract. 1t
will take two weeks hard work to get
the diamond and outfield in shape for
good ball. and all the while this work
is going on the team will have to prac-
tice as best it can on parts of the lot
that are not being sworxed on.
The official schedule has not yet been
adopted. as was announced some time
| ago. The schedule which was sent
out from Augusta was not official, and
! President Boyer is still waiting for re-
| ports from some of the managers as
to dates that are in dispute. The off,
cial programme will be printed in the
Morning News as soon as it is made
| public by President Boyer.