The Daily Missoulian., 1912-12-21
LOCAL FAN CONTRIBUTES ARTl-
GLE TO THE COLUMNS OF
SPORTING NEWS.
THINKS OUTLOOK GOOD
Blankenship's Greatest Trouble Will Be
in Filling Places of Bush and Zam-
loch. According to "Hatbox's" View
of Existing Conditions.

The last number of Sporting News
baseball prospects and inasmuch as
the initials al the bottom are "F #.
j." it is reasonable to suppose that
'Hatbox' Jones is responsible for
the article Frank takes the follow
ing vi w OF the local baseball future:
Although the Union association
hasn't shown a cheep of life since the
death Of President Lucas the Mis-
soula club owners know the nature Of
the game and realize that ii is bound
to bloom IN the spring and are going
ahead in the work of signing a team
for next season Besides acting as d
guide for other teams to pattern after
in this respect, the local directors
have b en- very busy in trying to
bring about a meeting of the Union
association to hasten 1913 arrange-
ments.
Manager Cliff Blankenship has
been busy since the season closed in
combing the bushes down in Califor-
MIA for new talent for the Highland
local team has lost by sale or draft
are two pitchers an outfielder and
an infielder. Plankenship has al
ready signed 13 new men for 1913, and
if any of them prove fast enough to
supplant some of the holdovers from
1872. those supplanted will be used in
trades or sold to other clubs The
new men include Morrow, Sweeney,
Peters, Carpenter and Rudolf, infield-
ers; Wolter and OHara, outfieders;
Navarro, Linn, Brooks and Smith,
pitchers and Moore. catcher. With
three exceptions all these men are
from California and are touted as
very promising material. Wolter and
OHara, the outfieders, are highly
recommended as two of the best
Young players in California Dick
Moore, the catcher is the same play
er that reported in 1912. He lacked
experience at that time, but reports
from the west are that he has de-
veloped into a grand young catcher,
Navarro Gets Another Chance.
wv. H. Navarro of Spokane. a
pitcher, was here awhile at the close
of the season, but as the race for the
pennant was close. the management
did not deem it wise to experiment
on young pitchers. Navarro showed
a lot of stuff in practice and Blank
enship kept him in mind,
THE other players named are un-
known quantities, but they are
vouched for by Blanllenship as Wor-
thy of a trial and will be seen on the
training trip.
"Of the old men from last years
team remaining there are Roberts,
catcher; Coyne, Cochrane and Druhot,
pitchers; Carman, first base; Per-
rine, second base; Changnon, third
base and Bassey and Tobin, outfield-
ers.
THE pitchers position is giving
Manager Blankenship most concern.
for it will be hard to replace such
sterling performers as Zamloch and
Bush, who have been sold to Detroit
and the Philadelphia Athletics Rare
ly ever has any club in any league
developed such a duo of pitchers as
Zamloch and Bush, and their depart
llre hits the team hard
Right field will have to be filled,
as Warren was drafted by New Or
leans, but Wolter a brother of the
outfielder with New York, is highly
touted and OHara is said to be a
grand performer. Pitcher Collie
Druhot also may be turned into an
outfielder, as he is sweet hitter and
can cover lots of ground
six infielders have been signed in
an effort to fill Oriet's place at short
stop and some are spoken of as good
men. Daschbach. who was received
in a trade for Oriet, will most likely
be used in the outfield, but he can
play nice infield.'