Evening journal., 1912-04-15
NO new CHICK
A "HAS BEEN"
Cassidy and Jackson viii
Pick Team This Year From
Speedy Youngsters
TWe PUBLIC GAMES
THlS WEEK FOR WORK OUT

Trenton in their opening game at
Front and Union streets on May 2. the
local fans will not be greeted by the
sight of baseball has beens" Not
one memberof the Wilmington team of
1912 can be put in this class. Jimmy
jackson, with the aid Of Pete Cassidy
has drawn about him a speedy bunch
of young men and when the best of
last years team joins the new ma
terial this year Wilmington will
have a team Of youngsters, who, IL
past performances count for any
thing, ought to be pennant contend
ers from the start.
The new squad got into action on
Wednesday. and although the wealth
er since has been against baseball,
the youngsters have shown such form
form that Jackson will have difficulty
in picking ont the new men who are
needed 10 make up the club roster of
fourteen men. II is unfair to the re-
cruits 20 pick a possible team from
them az this time. Many who are
now trying for positions on the team
viii. of course, slide out to make
places for the men who show the
best form II is not probably there
fore. that the Chicks of 1912 will be
known until several weeks after the
season. But il is known now that
they will not be has heens"
In treating of the relative worth
of youngsters and veterans in the
baseball business, the York Dispatch
says
I'm the present age when thou
sands of dollars are spent by big
league baseball clubs for star players
and when one man can ask for and
obtain a yearly salary in excess OF
$4,000 the minor leagues hold only
short time the player who attracts
the attention of major league
scout The minors are now a greater
assistance--as a training grounds OF
stepping stone-to the youngster who
desires to get into faster company
than they ever were before Not
one man remains there any longer
than is necessary.
"When the manager OF minor
league team begins work in the
spring he is placed face to face with
two propositions. The one is to fill
up his team with young men. play
ers who are practically unknown out
side of a small circle Of their own
and train them for sale or draft at
the end of the season The other vista
Is to secure. either by purchase OF
- 7'terwise. players big league man
ayers are through with-men whom
younger material has forced out.
In the first instance the player
costs little or nothing to secure. he
plays for a nominal sum while he is
being taught the finer points of the
game and may be sold for a snug sum
when he has attained such perfection
as to attract the notice Of some big
league club. On the other hand. tho
veteran has had his day. He has
given his best services to the game
and is on the downward path. des-
timed 70 slide down one plane TO
another until he reverts TO the realms
where his diamond activities are but
memory Instead of being on the
upward climb he is falling rapidly
backward and may have 10 be dis
posed of at loss az the end of the
season
Tn the case Of the young ball play
tr the team receives a man who is
working TO do something big. some
Thing that will startle the baseball
world. something that will mean
money in his pocket In future years.
Vie works hard and is content with
any advance he gets. The veteran,
however. has either enjoyed an the
fruits Of a successful career. now
drawing 10 a close or has failed 10
realize his ambitions and developed a
perpetual crouch. n the former. he
Is satisfied TO drift along wherever the
current Of events carries him and
finally become Jetsam on the shores
OF the national game. II the latter
he is dissatisfied with the whole bust.
ness, constantly carps about the
Treatment he has received and plants
the seed Of depression and discour
ugement in the mind Of the young
Bfer"
OF the two courses Manager Jack
Bon has adopted the youngster as tn,
better proposition all the way through
and consequently the Chicks win b,
composed Of young men. Baseball
players, unless exceptionally young
seldom care 20 reveal the exact tim,
they have spent in this world. but the
feader Of human nature can deter.
mine at a glance. even on the tanned
anu A'uHhtHFu ldtth OF l0p exponent
of the national game, within a veal
OF two OF their ages. II is safe to say
there will be no men on the Whining,
ton team-with one or possibly two
exceptions-who are more than q
years of age.
The squad will continue 10 worl
out this week. Marhefka. BrazeH anf
all the other regulars are expected
20 report in few days and then the
real work will begin. with every mar
hghting for a position. On Wednes.
day Chester will be here. On FRIDAY
and Saturday the Lincoln Giants viii
be down for public games. and Vills
Nova will come on the following Sat
urday. Even Cassidy is afraid IL hil
chances with the Giants and with
the possibility Of defeat ahead Of hin
he, and Jackson, will make the ner
work hard to get in shape for thu
Giants.
KING To RUN AGAIN.
Robert j King, quarter mile run
ner with Wilmington High in 1af