The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-18
SPORTING TALK OF INTEREST
NEW YORK AMERIC tNS NAVE
MORE THAN THIRTY HEN.

CrlMnth Has sixteen Pitchers and Four
Caechcrs 60 Bolster Up isis Batteries
-Lucky Baldwlns THE Emperor OF
NOrgOIN Is OeaI-YietOry Cor John u.
Clark Grifnth has notified the New EOrs
American League Club that he will come
back from his Montana ranch right after the
holidays and will then get busy signing his
players preparatory TO the spring training
session mt Atlanta. Ca. Grifith will have
more than thirty met FROM whom - MAKE
final aeleCtiOns Tor the regular team. tie
has fifteen p%itcaers. outside of himself aud
Doc HildebrHnd the former rinccton pihycr.
who II now the legal pro erty OF tho New
York Club. In addition TO Ortiz. Chc~bro,
Doyle. HOgg ant Newton. seasoned veterans
who did the bulk of the box work llst year.
Grill has Fred Glade. recently secured from
~. Louis: Roy CastletOn, hughes, 10" Lake.
Itube Zeller. Kin BrOCkett. Manning.
Neuer, Keefe and Tiff. the former college
twirler. Several other pitc. ,eY@ were drafted
last fall but they have since been turned loose.
Grihith has four catCher- Ia kleiuOw. Richcy,
Blair and SweDncy. u yOUngstcr who dld me
work with The Atlanta team last season The
infeldcrs are Chase. Niles. Elberfelh. Mo-
rtarty, ball. ConrOy and lOudcn, while 10" out
helders are Bell. Stahl. licmphiil and kseler.
H. is said that Grinth has made M his mind
Co play Moriarty permanently ~ third base.
but that be will try out both Niles and ConrOy
at second base. Whichever does not get the
place to 20 INFO the OuIleld. u COnroy
should prove "A header infeldcr thhn Niles
the team will bcnrl { by the l"tter's fat play
In left field, so that with SiGtl - fNtur" ~
centre field. KcrI,r end LCmHhil would
have to fight II OUT for the right field position
I'rinlth will keep about eiglt pitchers. INr
Is banking a great deal on CItli. theshro.
Doyle, Glade aud Newton. also llogR. II The
latter comes here IN the spring physically
a.. But lie also expects big d,ingr from
Joe Lake. the former Jersey city pitcher.
whose services we've wanted by several
major League manaE, Is before Grifrth iuIuT'd
in and got Tim. NeUor. the ,rit handler. who
did splendid work here lust betOg' last season
ended. is another ,Omer, in the manager :
estimation. while Hughes. who developed
rapidly last summer in he southern League,
will also receive "A thorough iryOGt. Alto
gcther the pitching material in LanG would
seem to indicate that II ninth makCs the
proper selections. the past Weakness Of the
team in the box viii soon disappear. The
surplus players win be iur,s Il over 10 the
Montreal club or it, substitute IN the Eastern
League. so that when Grinith starts the
championship season lac via carry about
twenty men. Ihe salary lit then viii be
close TO sOo.UD
Frank BOwcrnnn. the big catcher traded
to the Boston Nationals by Mcjruw, sent the
kOIlOMtug telegram To the Boston HtTUfO on J
Monday from his home in 'IiChigau; !
II am very much pleased with the change. |
a. l like Boston very well. I am glad you
have Dahlen. | think he * a better ball
player now than MCiraw ever was"
MCGraw cut IA slice on Bowerman's salary
last spring which. from the tone of the above
despatch. the big catcher has not forgotten.
Including the races run on Saturday laAt. |
the leading winning owners at New Orleans
tracks we're "a follows: ". u. Filer & CO., |
%. las; p. Dunno, g.. $50: Burlew Il O'Neill. /
sJ,237; l.. 4. Celia. s2.i75. Il, h. Watkins, . .l25:
W.. J. DonOhue n Co.. &.O25: W. II. MCNullen, !
s2.OOS: Z. d. Sullivan. si.075; + T.. Brown.
81 ,Oo0: T.. COrrigan. 81 .0OO: sam Louis. 81. f?5;
+. VI. Cevill. 81. inn. and Barney Schroeder,
81, 375. The best riding at The Crescent city
has been done by Mountain, Notter. Mindcr,
Delaby. Mcdaniel and sumter. Mountain
up to Monday led with - winners. : seconds
and 3 thirds, NOtter being second with ~. =
and 4 respectively. y. r. Carunan heads the
winning owners at Oakland. including Satur-
races, with ~, l2D. followed by ~. T..
ROwell. 1886; y. &. IIiIdreth. sI.GO: L. 4.
DeArman, st.5jO: Sierra Nevada Stable. Si.tcr
Trotter. S3yOi5: Buriingauc Stable dur
nell), 5000. and SO on. Waiter Miller lends '
the Jockeys with ~ t'r~ts. H. seconds aud -
thirds. Guy Burns II second with - winners
Is seconds and IL thirds. This pair leads IN,
other riders by Il wide margin.
The we'll known stallion The Emperor Of
Norfolk. said to he one Of the Lest racchorscs
that Lucky Baldwin ever owned. died ~
Santa Anita Stud on Sunday. Tie was by
Norfolk Marian and was n half brother 10
The noted 70 Tambien. He wag II crack two
yesr-old anda greater threc-year-Old. at whi"h
age he won the American Derby. the Brook
lyn Derby. the DrcNel Stakes and other
events at Washin Gton Park. Chica 90. Ne
was retired 10 tho stud EARL. whore he had
lair success. Wis sppcdiest son vas CrigadOr
NOW in tho stud. while his grcstps disa ppnin,-
ment was Americana. a fun brother 10 cru
zador. for whom Baldwin refused Sia, O0c.
only TO find that the colt was little better than
an ordinary sprintcr.
John l.. sullivan has won y decision over
DetrOit's Police Commissioner. who recently
stopped a three round boxing bout bet " erE
the big fellow and Jahr kilTain. Sullivan
hunted mp the Commissioner. induced him
to visit the theatre and see the exhibition
and a. soon ~ m" old veterans put IN their
hands the ruler of the COPS decided TO let
them Ro-ahead. saying:
They are too nd. fat and Chummy 10 do
zach other any harm.
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien has backed ont
OF the proposed mill with Jack Johnson al
Philadelphia. giving az an excuse that he
injured one of his hands in tho "hght" vith
HeverOn. who was stopped in a round the
other night IN a go that looked like a frame"
Johnson's manager was much disappointed
when ne heard of O'Brien's backup vest erday
and proceeded TO post 81, 500 here to go a.
part of a s. .ONO side bet in a match with any
heavyweight in the world, Burns and O'Brien