The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-06
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. MONDAY MARCH g. 1905
HAS HIS TROUBLES
Brooklyn Manager to Pick Team
From Fifty-seven Varieties

BROOKLYN, N. Y, March 5.-With
fifty-seven varieties OF players to choose
from Ned Hanlon is naturally having some
trouble in selecting his team for 1905.
Large punches of the minor league men
secured by draft have been turned back
to the clubs whence they came, bat in the
meantime Brooklyn has been annexing a
few young men to contracts for the COM
ing year.
One of them is Emil Batch. the young
third baseman. who did so well with the
team during the later part of the season OF
1904. If he plays third with the same
speed which he showed in those games at
least one place on the infield VIII be well
taken care OF. He went at the job like a
veteran last year, and the beautiful man
ner in which he handled bunt hits com
mended him to the good graces of every
body. Not only that, but he batted well
most of the time. He is not a consistent
hitter, but when he does meet the ball it
goes where the outfielders have their own
troubles in getting IT. In his first game
with the Brooklyns. which he played at the
Polo grounds last year, he gave as pretty
an exhibition of hitting as has been seen
Red" Owens has also signed with, the
Brooklyns for the coming season, and so
has Goodwin, young pitcher with a
frank, manly face and pair OF shoulders
that look good enough to pitch plenty OF
good ball for the SuperbaS this year. Good
win not only has a propitious name, but
ne mas Deen IOIl4ndlC pilCit-
er, since he has been with six champion
ship teams out of the eight attempts dur
ing his career with the minor leaguerS
With Jennings back in Baltimore and
Dillon to go to the Pacific coast, IL looks
as If first base would be taken care Of
this year by 4lcGamwell .-.
lie has always been. a. fair hitter and Is
said to have improved in his fielding. so
that he <xill be able to hold. his own with
the team. In any event the chances are
that he will have trial, and If he is good
for anything Hanlon will not let him out
of the national game. No one will deny
that the outfield is promising-in fact
more than promising, If Sheckard gets
back to his usual speed this year.
The Brooklyn catchers are all right and
there may be more success with the pitch
erS than some imagine. Those who play
ed with the team in the latter part of the
season of 1904 showed more than average
ability, and beginning this year and con-
tinuing all the season with the other
players is likely to be much to their ad-
vantage.
OF course, the infield Is a problem, and
it is the general belief of all that Hanlon
will have his hardest fight to face in that
department of the nine. The fact that
Lewis has not been returned to Balti-
more seems to assure his retention by the
local team, and it may be that he will be
If he is the infielder that he has been
cracked up to be he is as likely to be a
good second baSeman as he was ShortStopr
and If he should play fast game at Sec
ond and Batch should show equally good
strength at third there is no doubt that
Babb will pick up at short. Babb is one
of those players who are affected a great
deal by surroundings. Put fast man on
either side of him and he does not act
like the same player