The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
PERSONNEL OF
AMERICAN
TEAMS
Numerous Trades and ADJ
ditiOn Of Youngsters Boil
ster Up the Weak Spots.

All the teams Of the American League
now have an idea Of the Iine-ups they viii
use when the next baseball season opens.
Each of the managers in Bar Johnson's
league has been busy patching up the
spots that proved weak during 1907, and
the faithful baseball dopist can now conn
pare the teams on the following line-ups,
which seem to be the present choices OF
the various clubs:
New York-Chase. first base. Niles.
second base; Elberfeld. shortstop; Conroy,
third base; Moriarity, utility inielder;
Keeler, right field; Hemphill, centre field;
Stahl, left field; Bell; utility outflelder;
Kleinow, Hickey and Blair, eatchers; Ortiz,
Hughes and Neuer, pitchers.
Detroit-Rossman, first base; Schaefer,
second base; O'Leary, shortstop; cough,in,
third base; Downs, utility fielder; Cobb,
right field; Crawford, centre field; MeIn-
tyre, left field; Jones, utility ontiielder;
Donovan, Mullin. Klllian. Slever, Willett
and Summers, pitchers.
Philadelphia-H. Davis, first base; Muir
ply, second base; Nichols. shortstop; J.
Collins, third base; L. Collins, utility In
fielder; Seybold. right field; Oldring, centre
field: Hnrtzel, left field; Lord, utility out
fielder; Sehreckengost and Powers, catch
ers; Bender, Dygert, Plank, Coombs, Wad-
dell and Vickers, pitchers.
Chicago-Donahue, first base; G. Davis,
second base; Parent, shortstop; L. Tame
hill. third base; Robe, utility intielder;
Hahn, right field; Jones, centre fed;
Dougherty. left field; Anderson, utility out
fielder; Sullivan, Hart and Armbruster,
catchers; White. Altrock, Walsh, Smith and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES or D'Aubert, first
basei Lajoie. second base: Turner. short.
Mil, utility inielders; Flick, right field;
Birmingham, centre field: Hinchman or
Josh Clarke, left field Bay; utility out
fielder; Clarke, Bemis and Wakefield,
catchers; joss. Berger, Liebhardt, Thiel-
man and Hess, pitchers.
st. L~ouis-Brown, first base; Williams,
second base; Yaeger, utility in1elder; Hoff-
man, right field; c. Jones, centre fed;
Stone, left field; switzer, utility outfielder;
Spencer, Blue and Stephens, CATCHES;
Boston-Unglaub. first base; Laporte,
second base; Wagner; shortstop; Lord
Ter, right field: Sullivan. centre fed;
Thoney, left field; Cravath. utility out
hedef; Criger and p. Donahue, eatchers:
Young, Winter. Newton, j. Tannehill and
observation-disclosures, first base: J.
Delehanty, second base; Mcbride, short
stop: Altizer, third base; A. Smith, utility
centre field: Ganley, left field; Milan,
utility out1elder; Warner, Kahoe and Hay
den, catchers; Hughes, Patten, Falke1i-
berg. Johnson, Gehring and c. Smith,
pitchers.
Three Teams Made Over.
Even these lineups are not a certainty,
but they are very close to what the man
ayers are planning. 1t will be noticed from
the above lineups that several of the teams
notably New York, st. Louis and Boston
are to have pretty nearly new lineups.
VrI.o taafae IL, fba ref dfV-icion oivo ,,lsori1.
ise of being in splendid condition when Il
comes to the time for battle. Hughey Jen-
nings has not made any great changes IN
his team. Matty Mcintyre will probably
replace Davy Jones as "a regular man in
left field, while Ira Thomas viii become a
regular catcher. Summers, of Indianapolis,
will show on the pitching staff.
Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia have
also remained in the field with the teams
that played for them last season, barring
several minor changes. This, taken to-
gether with the wholesale revisions of the
teams in the second division. makes 1t APP
pear as If the fight next season In the
American League would he as close a one
as 1t was last season, when the leaders
were being continually changed about
AS a result the season of 1908 should be
the most interesting battle that the fans
have seen for a number of years in that
organization. The eight clubs are in 1t Ia
win, and Washington is the only one that
seems to have rested content with 4 poor
team. The Senators so far have made only
a few changes and none of these seems big
enough to save the team from repeating IT'S
poor showing Of last season.
In the National League things are as yet
pretty uncertain as regards som of tire
teams. The Giants are going TO come cut
with a new team, aud most of the other
mines will be materially different from last
years -aggregations. But, taking the work
OF all the National League teams last sea-
son as a basis of argument, 1t seems hardly
possible that as many Of them VIII be IN
the battle as will be the case III the Amer-
lean League.