The Detroit times., 1912-03-16

MONROE, La, March 16.-After
numerous arrangements for games
for the opening of the Tigers 1912
season, Manager Jennings finally sue
ceeded In getting the Louisiana In
dustrial Institute here for this after
noon. The game for Monday has
been cancelled
The Tigers lineup was composed
almost entirely of the recruits, Davey
Jones in the left garden being the
only veteran. The pitchers will be
selected from Moroney, Remneas, and
Dubuc among the new men, with per-
haps either Taylor or Works from the
old fellows.
Sunday, the Tigers will journey TO
Shreveport to take on the Topeka
team of the Western association, and
"Wednesday. Topeka comes here for
another game
Excellent weather excepting a
rather chilly wind was the lot OF the
Tigers, yesterday, and they had
good workout in the afternoon. In
the morning only run around the
trnck was ordered.
Disappointed in their first hopes Of
playing the Louisiana Industrial insti-
tute team last Saturday, the good
weather of the past week has more
than edged their appetites for the
fray. The days of rainy weather and
gloom, after all, have not seemed 10
have worked such an unsurmountable
hardship upon the men as expected.
They had enough OF the prelimin-
ary conditioning work in their sys-
tens so that the early part of this
week saw them ready to take up the
serious portion OF the training as tbs
good weather came.
During the week, two workouts a
day have been the rule with part OF
the pitchers working in the box In
tile morning and the rest in the after
noon and snappy infield practice for
desert every evening just before the
sum went down.
In the infield work there has been
shown little that would enable the
spectator to pick from the new in
fielders. Even on the rough field that
was not rolled until Hughie got dis
custed with il, Wednesday afternoon,
next day, the nimble antics OF the
four youngsters we're treat TO watch.
I.ouden and Westerzil have been al
ternating in taking Jim McGuire's
hits to the hot corner, Witt has been
towering DOME Bushs job, and Pad.
dy Baumann has been kind enough TO
let the old war horse, Dip O'Leary,
have part of the raps TO second with
Delahanty handling q few. Del GaiEer
has been hogging the honors at first.
III there is anything that would sin
gie out any of the youngsters IL is
the showy work of Witt in handling
those tantalizing little hops that have
been zig-zagged his way. He surely
lis very clever boy at getting the
ball from any position, both when the |
pill is batted and when IL is thrown. |
The three new infielders, bat in a |
row In the hitting practice. They |
appear in the order, Louden, Wester- !,
I'll and Witt, and they bat SO nearly |
alike that the stranger could hardly !
tell them apart. All three stand with |
their feet q moderate distance apart !
and swing their bats from away be
hind, and freely. The trio is right !
handed.
Iouder stands with his feet the
greatest distance apart and has the
Shortest swing. Naturally, from the
distance he takes, he uses the short
eet step. Tex Westerzil has his feet
q little closer together and takes a
longer swing. Witt has his footwear
almost In heap and spreads his legs
wide in stepping into the ball.
Big Hank Perry has the most pecu-
liar way OF getting his hits and get
& tinY around the bag of any man 90
the club. Hank doesn't lean back
and swing at the ball with his arms,
the way an ordinary man would do.
There is none of that bat over the
shoulder" stuff for the Wixomite.
When Hank starts to pelt the pill
he holds the willow nearly straight
I'm front of him. As the ball comes
from the pitcher he eases his bat a
little towards the catcher and then
syings his whole body at the ball, his
armS with his body like gate swing
ing on q post
Circling the sacks he takes short