The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-04


that the Tadpoles carry OFF all three
OF the games.
The bets are good from the other
mans standpoint and il there is the
same sort of blood in the city whence
hail the "Hauty Hens" it is more
than likely that the money will be
placed.
The Dope He Banks On.
In substanuation of his theory con
corning the local team he has prepar-
ed a review of the two organizations
and has submitted 1t TO The Bulletin.
Il is as follows:
For Cairo-Haryey, as a back stop,
cannot be beat and any one who saw
him work last season can testify 10
the truth of the assertion. Gray, the
new catcher, will make many a man
trying to steal second sack wonder
where the ball the second baseman
has in his ha d came from, and when
t comes TO hitting he will make a
good many OF the pitchers in this
league look sick before the season Is
half over. And Harvey is there with
me stick too. and there strong. Thas.
for the men behind the bat.
In the Pitchers Box.
For the men in front Waggoner
and Bittrolff as slab artists are too
well known to the Cairo fans to need
boosting They are the best TO be
| found in their class and with the as.
s.stanee of Ashley, Witt and Eek
stone the team will have a supply OF
pitchers that cannot be beat.
THE old reliable Dummy" Hughes
on first sack is enough said 10 satisfy
the fans without a doubt he is the
best first sacker In the X. l. T. league
and that fact will have to be admitte
by the members of the various team.
before many games have been played
Roland. as captain of the team
and second baseman, is beyond Z
doubt and without question the bes
man for the place that ever wore Z
uniform in the K |. T league,
Bell, on third. is a stick artist anC
1
er sackers in the league backed cleai
off the boards. That much We know
and he will soon prove it to doubter'
from other cities.
And old Thomas. the man of thu
minute. at short, well, all you can d.
is to take off your hat and yell whei
you see him picking balls out Of TIL
dust and pulling them down from tn
air where you would say that no bal
ever existed.
"Bissell in left, Cuthbert in cente
and Holycross or Larsen in right, con
plete a team. that would give man
OF the giant league teams over tn
country the battle of their life, an OF
ganization well worth placing you
money on
How Henderson Looks.
In the Henderson organizatio
there is DeWesse, catcher, who wa
! released by Little Rock last week a
Q not being fast enough to work wit
the remainder of the team. But the
4 Little Rock is way up in the ball eli
cles and the chances are that DeWess
+ is good man at back stop. But h
won't compare with the men name
above
4 They bring with them two reall
good pitchers, Cubitz and Morgan, on
! Of whom will pitch today. Morgan
the man who carried on twenty-il
/. ming game against Holycrcss at Hel
derson last year and he Is undoubte'
" good man. On the pitcher alor
! will the brunt of today's battle ia
j and II is to them that the team mu
look TO win the game. With such su
o port as they deserve they will max
the game decidedly warm one. 81
they will hardly get it.
Z Long. who viii play left field II
. the Hens is the man who jumped
contract with Henderson some yea
! ago and played about a dozen game
with Padueah, The games were afte
= ward thrown out and declared illeg
= because OF the fact that they we
: playing man signed by another tear
Dennis, the center fielder, is ca
j off from the Terre Haute organizatiC
! Of ball tossers, and what he Is wor
remains to be discovered today,
though it seems that man who ca
!. not stick in that company Is not to
much depended upon in a league su
= porting such men as does the Kitty.
Crowder Can't Hit.
"Crowder is first-class short sto
y but when 1t comes to the stick he
nil He couldn't hit the ocean with
paddle.
= There are two or three other M
on the team who are cast offs fro
other leagues of no better standi
= than the Kitty and ii is not estimate
V by the fans that they can be anythil
y in the line of star II they cam
~ trail with the teams from which tn
W have come.
and that's an estimate Of the sill
alton and line up OF the Caro- tea
~ that is going to carry off the penna
. this year, as II has in the precedil
10 two seasons.
e The above estimate of the sportil
y man may be little prejudiced by t
ID fact that he is strictly a Cairo IA