The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
FACTS ABOUT MEN
 ON RED SOX TEAM
BRIEF HISTORY OF PLAYERS WHO TWILL CLASH WITH
 GIANTS.

Fans are no doubt interested in the personnel of the team that is to meet the Giants in October for the worlds championship. Here is a roster of the Boston Red Sox. prospective winners of the American league pennant,f the team that will do battle with the with the highest honors in baseball.
 PITCHERS.
 Joe Wood played with the Hutchin- son, Kan, team in 1907. was with year with the Red sozr Pitches right hand-' He has hit game to his credit. FHis batting average this sea- Charles Hall is a Mexican. He is passing his seventh year in baseball. Flrst broke in with the Seattle team. signed by SBoston in 1909- Pitches right hand Batting average -25S per Ray Collins is putting in his fourth year with the Red Sox- He joined the team after graduating & from l,ta,as the gni- Fn-. summer teams. in Maine and Yer mont Pitches left. handed.
 Lawrence Pape was with Brockton waukee This lis his third year with Boston Has done little work this Buck O'Brien, bought from Hart ford club. Last year he was with Denver and finished the season with the Red Sox-
 
 Der of the pitching staff This is his first year with major league club. Last year he was with Providence and Jersey City of the Eastern lea gue.
 -CATCEERS
 William Carigan is: playing in the Hub for the sixth year. Bill was SC. eqrsd ,,t 6y the Boston einb from n HS,y 7sds but in the spring of 1907 was farmed out to Toronto. rejoining the Boston club in the fall of the same year. Batting average, .260.
 Forrest Cady, next to Carrigan, is considered the best catcher on the Boston staff. This is his fourth year in professional ball and his first with Boston Last season, with Newark. Batting average -31S.
 Leslie Nunamaker has been for two years a member of the team: Was secured from the Lincoln, Neb., club. Batting average -227-
 INFTELDERS.
 Manager Jake StahI, first baseman, is the oldest member of the team, be- ing thirty-one years of. age Caught for inc University of Illinois team. Has played with Boston. Washington and New York Highlanders. Did not play last year. Batting average 300 per cent
 Steve Yerkes, second baseman This is Yerkes' fifth year in professional baseball and his third with the Boston club He was secured from the Caro- lima league by Boston four years ago. but let out that same year to Worces- ter, where he helped the New Eng land leaguers to win the pennant. He came back to Boston utility man and last year played shortstop for the Red Sox- Batting average .253.
 Charles C'Heine'O Wagner, shortstop and captain, is playing with the Red Sox for his seventh year He broke into baseball with the Murray Hills and went from the sand lots to the New York Giants. The Giants turned him over to Columbus, Ohio, and from there he went to Newark, the Boston league organiza ton. Batting average, ETA
 = Lawrence Gardner. third baseman, is pla ying with the Sox for the fourth season Like Ray Collins he is a graduate of the University of Vermont class mates. In 1908 he was signed up by Boston, but turned over to Lynn. and he joined the Boston team the following season utility man. He succeeded Ambie Mcconnell at second base
 Ala in 1904 and was bought that year by the New York Americans. Went to Cleveland in 1909. Was traded to Boston this summer.
 OUTFIELDERS
 Duffy Lewis. left fielder. Played with the Santa Clara, Cal, college team.- Fqayed pro ball with Alameda This is his third year with the Red Sox. Batting average, .275 per cent.
 This Speaker, center fielder. He is a Texan Played with Houston and with Boston. Batting average -S94 Harry Hooper, right fielder. Played