The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-24
BASEBALL PLAYERS
WILL SOON SHOW UP
SEVERAL MEN HAVE WRITTEN
FOR ADVANCE MoNEY-NEW-
MANS RECORD GOOD AND
TEXAS FANS DoTE ON HIM.

Baseball players who have signed ar
ticles with clubs in the Southern league
are beginning to write for advance money
in order that they may prepare to report
for the preliminary spring work. This is
about the surest and most reliable indi-
cation that the time for the crack of
the bat and the ecstauc howl of the
bleacherite is at hand.
The majority of the managers have is
sued orders to the players to report dur
ing the early part of March, and it is but
the question of fortnight or so before
the fans all over the south will thrill with
pleasure as he compares the men of the
several teams with the makeup of the
home club
A number of surprises are due to be
, uncovered within the next few days or
a week Everybody expects the men re-
served last season to show up or to write,
but it is the new men that the fans want
to know something about. They are wait
ing anxiously for the score of sleuths now
on the trail, to make their reports.
Some of these sleuths have gone dill
gently to work in an effort to obtain some
ante-season information relative to the
fielding and hitting qualities of the tall
Texan, Pat Newman Out on the plains
and the mesas of the Lone Star State the
fans talk in awe-struck and mysteriously
cautious terms of the San Antonio Won
der, who is said to be the possessor of
peculiarly fitting qualities as a first base
man. 1t is whispered by the prairie hens
that he generally taps the sphere on the
trademark, sending it out on line, and
generally landing it in some obscure and
neglected part of the potato patch.
The Texans also say that Newman is
very tall, something over six feet, and
that he is almost as thin as the far
famed fence rail, making 1t an easy thing
for him to jump up. reach out either way
or stoop down to gather in the bad
throws. The best thing they say about
him is that he is game all the way
through, and is a player who never ac-
knowledges defeat until the team has
climbed into the bus and is on the way
back to the shower bath.
Manager Vaughan has opened things
real actively in the days since his ar
time about equally between the office and
the grounds, and there has already been
a great deal of work done Out at the
park a number of workmen are attending
to few necessary incidentals in order
to have the place in shape for the daily
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| tia. 10; Harry Stephens, log: Coruscate.
| 105; Jack Dolan, SO: Leila Duffy Maledic-
| ton, 90 (X) Mccormick entry.
| Fifth race, mile, purse-Emergency, Ill;
| Incubator. 1909: Aezlina, The Trifler, 104;
| Jack Dolan. Goldmate. SO; Gauze. "a.
Sixth race. mile and seventy yards
Morendo, Ill; Orc Viva. Double, 109; Great
Eastern. Grosgrain. Dance Music. Merry
| Acrobat. 104; Delcarina, 104; BAIL. Padre,
Rhyl 1o1; Miladi Love, Miss Shylock, Odd
| Ella, 80; Maudina, So.
| Seventh race, selling, five and one-half
! MISUNDERSTANDING 119; Roseboro, Liba-
| ton, 107; Lanedllos, Wogglebug, Annie
Berry, Draeo, Burnolette, Balshot, los;
Bricktop, Ecliptic. 1902; Principle. Honey
J well, Sibylla, Anne Bryan, 100.