Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-07
SORTING LEMONS !
FROM THE PEACHES
Hardest Task Before Managers
is Picking Out the Like
" Youngsters.

the "nectarines'-the ''prunes' and the
"peaches"-will be the main labor of the
moguls camped through Dixie next month.
says Grantland Rice. Many are called in
the September hut but few are chosen
after the March review. They all look like
nectarines on copy paper under the chill
gray of winters sky, but when lined up
on the field of test many likely looking
pippin turns out to be lime. There isn't
much worry about the veterans. They are
supposed to know how to iron out the kinks
and each manager understands how we'll
each can deliver.
The debutantes are the ones who need
the closest watching and 1907 will bring
out formidable array of these. If third
Of them make good therein be many a
veteran left out in the clammy cold,
headed for the path that leads to the
minors.
The only trouble is that the lemons out
number the nectarines by such bulky
majority that each mogul is content if he
can pick one star from the lengthy list
And when the heralded wonders Of the fall
and winter begin to detonate with the same
old crash the mogul chorus joins in with
Richard Garlic
Will some one kindly tell me
VIII some one answer why
To me 1t is riddle,
And 1t will be till die:
With a million peaches round me,
I'd really like to know
WY picked lemon from the minor league tree,
where, they say, only peaches grow.
New York Stands Pat.
To begin with, Griff isn't figuring on any
debutante breaking in On his outfield, in
field or back Of the platter. His chief
worry will be about Tom Hughes, Brockett
Of Buffalo and young Sallee of Birmlng-
ham, Outside of his hurting hill the rest Of
his entertainments look robust enough to
save the flag. He figures that Orth will de-
liver again, and banks on the chance that
Hogg are counted upon as certainties, so
from the above list he hopes to develop at
least one first-class aid to the latter lot.
Hughes and Brockett will be the gents
to draw most attention. One of the two
should make good, with a possibility that
both will have large bale of merchan-
disc on hand to deliver from time to time.
worry. With Chase, Williams, Elberfeld,
LaPorte and Yeager for his innerworks-
Keller, Conroy, Delehanty and Hoffman
for his pickets and Kleinow, Thomas and
hale and hearty enough to mngle with the
elite all the distance-provided his young
slabmen pan out per prophecy.
A Gap in Left.
Clevelands case is almost photograph
of New Yorks. with the exception that
Larry will have to fill a gap in left from
his minor league consignment. The fight
here will be between Birmingham. from the
New York State; Hickman, from the Amer
lean Association, and Congalton. the utility
athlete of 1906. This battle will be fought
out upon Georgia soil, and at present the
scrap looks to be an even guess. They are
all pippins now. By April the lemons will
be filed away on the bench.
Napland, like New York, needs brace
of young, able-bodied hurers badly. La
joie's outfit has blown up every season
around the rifle pit, so all lamps will soon
be focused on Berger and Liebhardt
Both have been doomed as wonders, and
Liebhardt showed in his two big league
trials that he carried the proper stuff under
his shirt to stick. They will be sent against
the Macon and Atlanta teams. and In these
games the most fit will be linked with Joss.
Rhodes and Hess. This brace cost Napland
owners $4,000. and if they both blow up
there will be quite a shock around head
quarters.
American Association hackers are bank
ing on Berger to show Liebhardt and dis
place him, but those who followed the Iron
Man of Dixie through his 1896 career be-
lieve that the stocky German will be the
card needed to fill the full house.
Connie Macks attention will be centered
upon Burke of Kansas City and Nichols of
Memphis. All in all. the willy Quaker mag
nate has small army to review. He will
carry more men south than any other chief
tain, including twelve or fourteen slabmen
and a list of candidates for every job. Con-
nile has the toughest job of the spring to
handle. He has ransacked every league
In the country for talent, and while sorting
these out he will be forced to supervise the
antics of Mr.. G. E. Waddell. This in itself
is no puny task for any man to handle
Has Manv on Strinc