The Detroit times., 1912-01-31
TIGER INHElD DEPENDS
MUCH ON THE CONDITION
or TRIO OF APPENDICES
Gamers Arm, and Delahanty's
and WesterzilPs Legs,
Are Important
WHICH WILL GO BAD!
If Any One of Them Gives Out
it May Mean Position
For a Recruit
sy RALPH L. YoNkER.

There remains but one position ia
the Tiger team To be plugged ana
which one that is and who shall pug
ID. depends almost entirely on the con
dition OF few sundry arms ana legs
possessed by three OF the Jnngiemeh.
The position that is yacuous is
somewhere In the infeld. Just where
IL Ia, except that II Is not al snort
stop, Is not certain, and won't De up'
iii the training season is well begun
and perhaps not then. The anotomi-
cal parts the condition OF which VIII
enter so prominently into the forming
81 the Tiger infleld for 1912, are Gain
ef's arm, injured last summer Dele
hanty's leg, broken couple OF times
md weak last year and Westerzill 5
xnee.
In the outheld, Cobb and Crawford
will be AZ the old stands OF course.
and Perry will attempt TO displace
Dayay Jones out in left field. The
outfield is practically settled? But not
so the infeld,
With the material on hand, Gamer
IL the best bet for first base. He viii
Undoubtedly be there II his wing is as
fast as ever. Delehanty will be at
second II his propeller is in good
working order. Over at third. Wes-
terzill. Witt and Louden will Try to
force Moriarty out OF his job
Il OF the three new men, Westerzill'
me best looking prospect, has had
bum knee that kept him out or the
game last year In case that Is all
we'll. he stands a show OF beating Nor
RE TO the job.
At second. Baumann and Tutweiler
are ready TO step into Delehantys
shoes any time he slows down
Probably not more than one OF
these sections. of anatomy will go bad,
From all that can be learned, II looks
az IL none OF them will. However,
only actual workouts can decide that.
While the condition OF the various ex-
identities and joints may be such that
ID would not bother man in his every
slay exercise, in the least,it might
Nevertheless slow down a ball player
enough 10 detract greatly from his
usefulness.
II Gamer should 90 bad, Moriarty
or Delahanty could be showed into the
vacant place, leaving a vacancy either
at second o. third for the newcomers.
Not more than eight pitchers will
be carried through the season by the
Tigers, which means ,nat FIVE or six
win have TO be pruned OF the list
now available. One OF the main
TROUBLES OF last year with the pitch
Ina stan, Manager Jennings thought,
Was that it's members were too mum.
erous.
whenever anybody had sore toe
or D stomach ache. when he was
scheduled to pitch, he knew that there
. we're a halfa dozen ready TO take his
place ~ ne plead illness. This re-
suited in too much Sinking on the
part OF some members Of the stan,
which in turn resulted In poor form.
Pitcher Robert Fee Hyatt, OF Mon
ticelio, Ark, West Points football
and baseball star. may be the Tigers
savior after the season has begun in
case any of the men in the gardens
near home 60 badly, Cor besides be-
ing a pitcher, Hyatt is a corking good
FIRST sacker. second sacker and he has
even played behind the bat and out
In left field. He will not take the
southern trip. but will join the Tigers
after completing his work at West
Point some time in June.