Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07
R0URKE'S LINEUP
LOOKS L. FLAG
Omaha Base Ball Team Appears
Strong from the List Of
Names.
NEW MEN ADD POWER TO CLUB
Cadman Will Help Out Much Behind
the Bat.
GRAHAM WILL PLAY FIRST BASE
This is Because Eberlein Cannot Re.
port Till June.
KING GOES BACK TO SECOND
"a rtsIu Frsuck Has Rested All win
Ter and VIII NJ I'm Better Form
to GO the Route This
Year.
KING GOES BACK TO sEcoN1

FIRST Bsse-Craham Ebcrlcin. clair.
Second Bsse-King.
Third Base-Pendry.
Shortstop-Tranck.
Left F~ield--Fisher.
Center Field-Welch.t
Right F~ield-summa. Beldcn.
Catchers-GondinE. LeBrand. Cadman.
Pitchers-Hall, Sanders. Lower, Rice
Hanson. Johns, Houenbeck, Ritzman and
Kelly Welsh.
That is the lineup Pa Roupkc now ex-
poets to have for the opening games of the
Western league season. Several changes
arc noted from what was previously pub-
lishcd. the charges being necessitated by
conditions which have stree sNsen.
Eberlein was looked upon as a clnch for
the first base position, but he is now at
tending college at the Penn State and
writes that he cannot report until after
the end OF the school year, or, at the ear
Hest. about June /. Pa needed a good
first baseman until that time, so he has
decided to start the brilliant young Graham
on first. This will have It's advantages, as
Graham will not have to move around as
lively as he would at second. He has been
under the doctors charge all winter and
thinks his leg Is just as strong as ever,
but Pa insists that he start out easy in the
spring and not take any chances on his
knee giving way again until the weather
is warm and he has had plenty Of chance
to work out.
King nj second.
Mlvlng Graham away from second neces-
STATED bringing King in from the outfield
and placing him on second. King held
down the job wen enough last year, but
was not the brilliant player Graham is and
canr-t cover nearly as much territory.
Pa had expected to play King in an out
field position where he would be in the
game alt the while and his good werk on
the bases would count.
Buck Franck will play short; that
was decided when Franck put his
John Esncocls on an Omaha contract. He
writes taat he will report in fine condition
this s7Tins, as fe-has not been playing
winter IAN as he did last year when he
end Autrey reported we'll tagged out from
p bard winters work. Continuous per-
fo-msrce told severely on Aubrey and be-
fore the end OF last year he was all worn
cut ard had lost any number of pounds.
10 readed a rest.
Fisher ard Beldcn will be back In their
old gardens. but Belden will have to play
bali or give way to Summa, the big slug
sing outfefder OF the Marysville team,
whom Pa has annexed TO his Colts.
Cadman, New Backstop.
Cadmen will he added to the force of
backstops. Gonding will in all probability
be. called upoa to do the major portion OF
the worl. and will be assisted by Cadman
and IeRrsnd. The kid" has been playing
ali winter on the San Diego team.
Hall, Sanders and Hollenbeck OF last
years team will return, and Pa also has
first. c'siS on Kelly Welsh and RitEmsn.
two southpaws who made good after they
e. RI - ~ H.. j.
case OF emergency. Lower and Rice are
two twlders who are touted strong and
we're with Cincinnati last year. Tracy John
IL a big southpaw who also comes highly
Recommended. Hanson Is the crack anna
teur from Council Bluffs. whom Pa is going
TO give a try-out this spring.
Tie training c ew win be augmented by
quite a few stars from Nebraska towns
who will train with the team and be given
a ~try-out by Captain Franck.
Pa sRourke has also made a good offer
10 a well known player OF high class whom
ke Eores to hand, and in addition to these,
he homes TO secute Que or two players from
some Of the big league teams. He is nego-
fiatinS with Clarke Griffith OF the Cincin-
nati Reds, Frank Chance or The Cubs and
with The S. Louis Nationals, Pa refused
20 divulse who his new man is until he
has his name tackled on to sn Omaha con-
tract.
Several OF the players on the Omaha
team are holding back then contracts TO-
one reason or another. Pa says he Is not
having any serious difficulty with any OF
the players and thinks they will all be in
line by the time their transportation is sent
to them Some want a little more money
and some want some other minor matters
fixed mp, but Manager Bill says they are
not nearly as obstreperous as they were
last snrfng