Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-14
Owner Of the Omaha Team Ready to
Start Spring Practice,
BEGINS AT JOPLIN ON FRIDAY
Takes Four Players with Him
Others Will Join Today at Kansas
City-Pa Is Most Hopeful
of the Outlook.

Pa Rourke and four OF his 1872 squad
left the Union depot over the Missouri
Pacific railway last night for Joplin,
No, where they will meet the rest Of
the bunch tonight and Friday morning
will begin the work OF hammering Into
shape a team to represent Omaha which
win try to land the 1912 Western league
pennant.
twenty-five players Will begin work
Friday. among whom are three catchers.
nine pitchers, eight lnfieiders and five
outfislders. They are:
catchers-Arbogast Gonding and Camp.
field.
Pitchers-Fentress Robinson, Rhodes,
Christensen. Ryan. Hall. Lott. Hicks and
Hearns.
Infielders-Kane. Warner, Justice. ME-
hoff. Moore. scanion. Farrell and Mum
neke.s
outfielders = Thomason, Coyle, sours,
schoonover and Lee.
Meet Others Today.
The four players who accompanied Pa
from Omaha are sours, Christensen, Lotz
and Munneke. They will arrive in Kan
sas City this morning and pick up Arbo-
CAST. Justice, Thomason. Niehoff and
Coyle. They leave Kansas City this aft
ernoon at o'clock and arrive In Joplin
at 10 o'clock at night. where they will
be met by a large delegation of the Mis-
sourians. who are read to s'show'' Pa
and his bunch that they are right. The
players will be escorted from the depot
to the Garrison hotel. where the Omaha
headquarters will be until the team leaves
there about April II.
In speaking OF the 1917 prospects.
Rourke. before leaving. said: We'll, |
am better satisfied with the bunch this
year than have been since 1907 The
boys look right 10 me and we arc, going
10 work hard while in Joplin to get .
pennant-winning aggregation together.
and. IL I do not unss my guess. the
Omaha ball fans are going TO set the
hest class OF base ball they have seen
In many years have good pitching
staff and lots Of material to pick at least
six good huriers from. am going 10
depend lot on Hall and Robinson and
have q good bunch OF recruit material
10 get the rest from. Fentress. ] think,
win show good this year also.
Prosa Of Infieid.
II am taking grca; pride in my IN
field. There Is not team In the Western
league that can produce better bunch
OF infielders than have gathered up.
Kane and Niehoff IRE known TO the
Omaha fans and are high In their es-
TEEN wanner and Justice know viii
complete a star infieid. Justice and
MANNER are world heaters and have
played together and know each other =
playing IKE books. This is one OF the
great essentials OF good infield.
THE outfieid has not been settled upon
set. but everyone who goes in the outer
gardens win be real ball player.
Thomason win probably hold down the
renterfield. and he r. without a doubt
fhe best ontfielder in the league. II
sours l believe have made find
Johnny Gonding recommended this fellow
20 me. and when Johnny says a man II
b good ball player II ends there. coyls
will probably complete the outfield II,
was with Us short time during the lat
ter part OF last season and put up a gooe
exhibition of ball playing. both in thu
field and at bat. Yes, sir. the team which
beats Omaha out this year will have Il
DE on the jump at ali times"