The Detroit times., 1912-10-22
BOSTON BOSS STANDS PAT
ON HIS PRESENT TEAM
McAleer Announces That He Is
Not il the Player
Market
HAS BUNCH OF NEW
MEN BOUGHT. HOWEVER
Is Not Taking Any Chances On
His Regulars Going
Stale

bosTON. Oct %. Especial. ~
We have. shut up shop. We're out
OF the baseball market. We have All
the players We want for 1919. Were
sA1lshed With what We have No
more purchases or trades
ibis is the last word OF James n
2cAeer, president OF the worlds
champion Red Sox. yesterday. Il
means that Jimmy McAleer Il salts
hed with his team. chat ne viii Start
next season as he finished the pnsf
season. And. confidently. II means
that he expects to do as wen next
year as he has done this year--or
better.
He is confident that he will win the
1913 pennant more decisiyeiy than
ne won this years. even II the oppo-
sition Is stronger
McAleer is the first major league
masnate to announce that he Is out
or the baseball market: that he II
satisfied with what he has. He breaks
ali records OF early announcements
The others Will be buying and selling
and trading until well into next sea,
son. But McAleer has all be wants
He has nothing 70 do till Tomorrow
The Red Sox president retains all
OF his present regulars and substi-
tutes He has purchased one new
outfielder-- Walsh, OF Fall River, and
two new shortstops. Scott, OF YounRs
town, and Carlstrom. or Lawrence, IN
the New England leagne. lie has ex-
ercised his option on Harold Janvrin.
the ex-Bost0n high school iniIelder.
now with Jersey City
He stands pat on his catchlers.
I The only new aen not yet men
!, ,firned whom ne has ipfrchaaed are
FpitcherB--.Van Dyke, OF Worcester:
Brant and Martina. Of Beaumont.
Tex; Watkins and AInswortb, Of
youngstown, o., and Foster. OF fIous-
/ ton. Tex. He has also recalled Leon
ard from Denver.
McAieer Is looking farther into the
future than 1918. That II why ne
has taken on another outhelder. two
more shortstops and 50 many PITCH
ers. He has TO count on the eventual
retirement Of one or more Of his
peerless outfieIders: also ~ the time.
some day, when 'Heinie" Wagner viii
quit. notwithstanding that Wagner
for instance, Is going better than
ever this year. But .EIeinier has been
IL years In baseball and the out1eld-
ers need more than the one substi.
tute they now have 1t IL not too
early to begin the selection and
training OF future stars.
MeAleer may well be contented
with his present team. They. won this
years pennant and next year they are
bound to improve, for nearly all Of
/ them are young.
size up the great outheld trio. for
instance. Trir Speaker II only ~.
and has been In the game but nye
years. Harry Hooper is -. and has
played league baseball only SIX years
before this. Duffy Lewis is Hoopers
age. with Ave years In league base
ball before this year. Henrikson -
23, and has been but three years IN
the professional game.
The infield Is a bit different. Ine
men. as a rule, are older Here are
their ages. and the years they played
professional baseball before 1911. re-
spectively:
stahi 81. .: Yerkes "a. s: Gardnsr
25, 5; Bradley 26. z: Engie g, 10:
Krug %, 3: Wagner rs, III BAH ~. =
Bill Carrfgan IL 2S, with ak years
league experience before 1919; Cady
figures are "a, four. and Nunamakers
%, four. Which provides catcnins
stan for a long time to come.
The pitchers are even younger
Here are their ages and years
spectively, in professional Dasepan.
Wood %. 6; Pape "a. >: O.brlen ~;
4; Collins 25. z; Bedient y. y Han
&c. z.
Youngsters.
from whom 10 choose his pennant
chasers OF 1913, with all Of his fegn-
lars and substitutes now In good con.
dition with years OF baseball ahead o.
them.
The purchase Of two new short
stops not only provides recruits VINO
may al wagner's shoes some dAy.
ME vonnesters who win fght Krng
Cor the privilege OF substituting for
,hs Gov captain. walsh has been
tontad as an exceptionally clever out
selder and viii be given a trial
The new crop Of pitchers win be
lcarefnlIv tried between row and the
onenina OF next season From them.
: left-hander will likely be picked
for the regular team. Collins being
The only port-sider who has been on
NJ Aleer's playing stan tAla year
wcAIcer evident;f believes that
with the confidence hofn of tails yo1r's
s,,ccess' his 1919 team WIN nlar even
c,assler baseball NEXT year A. young
~ fhev are. most of thou. are sts-
eonod players now out the conf
dence inspired OF victory ought %
make them better bti'l
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