The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-10
CHAMPION BOSTON TEAM
JIMMY COLLINS AND BALL PLAY
 FRS COME TODAY.
Some of the Greatest In the World are to be seen in Montgomery Accompanied by Tim
 Muruaue.

Macon, Ga.
 The Boston party is quite a large catchers, six infielders and three out felders and corps of Boston corres- pondents. They are: Pitchers Cy Young, Gibson, Tannehill, Dineen and Winters; catchers. Criger. Doran, Far rell and McGovern; infielders, La Parent and Unglaub; outfielders, Sel- back, Stahl, Burkett and Freeman. And correspondents Tim H. Murnane of The Globe, Jake c. Morse of The Herald, and Waiter Barnes of The Journal.
 The Boston club which visited Mont gomery last spring Is practically the same which in 1903 won the champion ship easily. They had tremendous fight for it last year, and only won by small margin in the very last series of the season, after a nerve-racking, see saw fight with New York of many weeks duration. The team was handi- capped all season by light hitting, nearly all of the batting standbys of in averagse. To offset this the team was stronger In pitchers than in 1903. and this, with the magnificent field sup port accorded the pitchers, pulled Col lins's team through in the fastest, closest and most desperately contested major league race on record. Another fortunate thing for Boston was the exemption of the team from serious ac- cident or injury to indispensable play CTS. Considering the increastd strength of all Its opponents over the previous season. the Boston team, with practi- | cally an unchanged team. made d great | fight last year and is fairly entitled | to the flag for second term
 With few exceptions the Boston team | of 1905 is the same as the last two years The only new faces on 1t are Outf1elders Selbach and Burkett, First Baseman Grimshaw, Catcher McGovern and Utility Player Unglaub.
 When Collins made the famous deal, 1 selling Dougherty to New York for personal reasons there was an awful kick set up in the Hub over it. To quiet adverse criticism and unjust com | Inent Manager Collins secured Out | O'Neil and cash. Jesee Burkett was with the St. Louis Browns last season. Burkett had played so long in the | Worlds Fair city that he had practi- cally worn out his welcome, so he was transferred to Boston, Burkett, Free man, Chick" Stahl and Selbach are | working for a position on the regular team. The fight for the position will | be a warm one, as the four fielders are | top -notchers of the profession. Doran and McGovern are two youngsters who are being tried out by the Bostons. Last season Doran was with the Bean Eaters. Criger and Farrell being in fine condition, the services of Doran VI clo llOl hCtuOd anu It was StII IO the Connecticut League, playing with Holyoke McGovern played with the | Lowell Mass, club of the New Eng | land League. Both men made fine records in their respective leagues. A story has been going the rounds for | some time that Duke" Farrell intend ed to retire from baseball, so 1t was necessary for Manager Collins to pro- vide for catcher to help Criger out behind the mat. Both the youngsters will he given trial during 10 ing work and exhibition series, in fact | they have caught the majority of the exhibition games played this spring.
 Grimshaw, the new first baseman, is | from the Buffalo club of the Eastern | League. and is said to be a grand play l CT. He is great batter, having swat ted 1925 and was fourth among the | Eastern League first basemen, having | made but twenty-five errors during the l season of 13S games. He is fighting La Chance for the place.
 Unglaub was with New York in the | first part of the season and was later sent to Boston. Not playing fifteen games in any one position, his averages | do not appear.
 The Boston Club is undoubtedly one | of the greatest ball clubs ever known Its staff of twirlers cannot be excelled. fore the public for seventeen years, and l is as good today as he was when he made his debut. Bill Dineen has been | famous TOT years ana was made more famous hwhen he defeated Jack Chesbro in the game at New York which de- cided the American League champioG- ship. Winter leads the Boston pitcn- twelve games. of which eight were winners. The other pitchers pitched nearly three times as many. Tanne- ] hill stands fourth among the American 1 League twirlers, winning twenty-one and losing eleven. Gibson was the weakest of the quintette, but at that he managed to win the majority of his
 Criger is second in rank among tho catchers. He is considered the best all around catcher in the league today. not do as well as formerly.
 La Chance leads the first basemen of the league. He Is most capable player and has. been with Boston for second basemen in the business and | between he and Parent the shortstop, | the most difficult of plays have been pulled off. Collins, the manager, is one | of the greatest third sackers ever | known. The friends of Collins contend that he is superior to Bradley of Cleve- l land playing that bag, while the West ern contingent stand by Bradley. It is dispute that has never been settled or perhaps ever will. As Bradley was here last week the public can make their own comparisons when Collins plays
 Strange as 1t may seem, Parent who is reckoned the greatest shortstop of l them all, ranks in the averages next to last. In the averages. last year Pa | rent Is one of the short fielders who ia not afraid to take a chance, not caring whether 1t makes or mars his record. The outfielders of the Bostons show l ed high fielding averages. Chick 1 Stahl leads his team in this respect and | also leads the club in the batting. being | the only player of the team reaching | 300. Stahl Is the centre fielder. Free | man is the longest hitter of the club | his speciality being home runs, Burkett was with St. Louis for years and is considered a valuable man. Kip Sel- bach was with Washington last sea son and was a National Leaguer for | years, playing with Cincinnati.
 | Last season Boston was second in fielding and third in batting and still won the championship.
 The roster of the Boston Club and averages are as follows:
 l Pitchers-Wm. Dineen, Norwood Glib son. Jess Tannehill. George Winters
 Denton "Cy' Young.
 | Catchers-Louis Criger, Thomas Do- ran. Charles Duke Farrell. McGovern. l Intelders-George LaChance, first base: - Gremshaw, first base; Al 1 "Hobe' Ferris, second base; James J. l Collins, third base; Fred Parent, short stop; Robert Unglaqb, utility.
 "Bucky' Freeman. Charles Chick" | Stahl, Jesse Burkett.
 Averages.
 Batting, Fielding. l Grimshaw ........ .325 .9S4 Stahl ............ 300 .967 l Parent ...-.-,... .29G .924 | Freeman ........ PTS 1925 | Burkett . ........... .273 $50 | Collins ........,. .265 .945