The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-09

Williamsport Graduate Will First
base in Shadow OF Lookout
Mountain Throughout the
~ Coming Season.
Manager Hughie Couldn't Stand for
a Left.Handed Sucker of Only
Average Batting Ability.
az PAUL HALE eRUsKE.

Hughie Jennings had swung his,
snickersee and a mead has fallen into
the basket The dome OF thought Is
none other than that OF the a1able
ana agile Pete" Lister, colt tirst-base-
man, who leaves the club at this juno
ture largely On account of the fact mat
nature equipped MIN with an appar-
atus which was best fitted Tor left
handed batting.
Were Pete a rlght-handed batsman
II ls safe TO say that he would still, IN
ali probability, be a Tiger, and for
some time to come.
Lister goes to the Chattanooga club
OF the Southern league at price said
10 be $4,000, the Detroit club reservina
the right to repurchase him at the
close of the season for the same sum,
That Jennings insisted on keeping
a. string attached TO his new intelder
shows that Lister is highly regarded,
despite the fact that the 1910 team,
In Hughes Judgment, is able TO get
along without him.
Promising Player, Though.
Lister came 10 the Tigers from the
Williamsport club Of the Tri-StaLe
league, with a tremendous batting
and fielding record. He had led this
league, in fact, and 1t has the reputa-
ton of having turned out more big
league ball players who have made
coed, than any organization of SINH
lar class. With the Tigers Lister
showed himself finished player-the
sort, in fact, which would have delight
ed the soul of any Detroit manager
prior TO the time the Tigers secured
Claud Rossman. His fielding has
been practically perfect, and his WORK
In practice showed him 10 be fast and
the possessor of a think-tanl6 which
operates rapidly and with excellent
Judgment. At the bat he hadn't gotten
started as yet, his figure with the
Tigers being around $50. That he
would have struck his stride even
tually is conceded by anyone who has
seen him at work. He was particu-
larry unfortunate all spring in the mat
ter of hard-hit balls, driven straight at
the fielders. -
Lister will be at home on the south
ern circuit, as ii was at Nashville sew
eral years ago that he won the fame
which brought him into notice as a
big-leaguer with Cleveland.
JENNINGS DECISION TO LET
IL TER GO FOR THE YEAR
GREATLY STRENGTHENS THE Pc
SfTI0N OF TOM JONES.
Ness still remains as a possible
nemesis for Tom, but the Wisconsin
graduate is young and has the ways
of the big leagues to learn, with only
two seasons of bush experience 10
guide him. Ii has. seemed evident
from the first that the position would
lie between Jones and Ness, with odds
strongly fayoring the former for the
early part OF the season, Listers only
chance to beat out the other pair be-
ing sensational batting squirt, in
GLIDING a demonstration of his ability
TO hit left-handed pitching hard and
far - ~-.-''---f
That more than one or two other
releases may be expected shortly is a
reasonable expectation, though this is
very largely contingent on the securing
OF waivers from the other clubs.
Jennings will have 10 keep two ball
clubs intact for the remainder OF the
practice season, however. As a re-
suit, 1t is not likely that he will cut
loose of any OF his players, aside from
pitchers. Listers absence will not
make IL necessary for any substitutins
to- be done by pitchers, as the club
still retains two first-basemen. evenly
divided between the squads.