Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-09
ROSTER Of AMERICAN
LEAGUE THIS YEAR
Clubs Have ETA Men in Line
for the Coming Pen
nant Race.

NEW YORK, February 9-According 10
hgures secured at American League
headquarters. just 274 ball players are
the property of the eight clubs in the
Ban Johnson circuit ninety-nine pitchers.
thirty-nine catchers, eighty-six infelders
and fifty-two outfielders. II it was DOS
sible to keep all these men through the
coming pennant race. experts figure that
they would draw more than 100000 in
salaries. with an average of 81 800 each.
But under the rules each club must re-
duce its players to twenty-five shortly
after the championship campaign begins.
SO that 1t will be necessary to turn seven
ty-fve players back to the minor leagues
The roster of the American League teams
as they will go south is as follows:
New York Observation-Disclosures, Ford.
Caldwell. Fisher. Mcconnell. Quinn. War
hop. Upham, Vaughn. HoE, Clark.
Shears and Martin: catcheis. Sweenoy.
Tonneman, Williams, AppIsby and Ber-
gen; infielders. Chase. Gardner. Knight.
Dolan, Priest, Coleman, Stump. Erha.y1t,
Elliott, Curry and Simmons; outfielders
Daniels, Cree, Wolter. Hartzell, OSBORNE,
linn and kauff: Wolverton, manager.
Philadelphia Athletics-Pitchers, Ben
der, coombs, Plank, Morgan. Krause.
Danforth. Martin. Long, Salmon. Pike.
McCleary Jensen, Bonner, Gipe, Houck
and Russell: catchers. Thomas. Lapp.
Egan and Killbullen; infielders McInnes.
Collins. Barry. Baker, Derrick, Piper and
Chase: outfielders, Lord Odr.ng, Murphy,
Strunk, Emerson and Maggert; Mack.
manager.
Boston Red Sox-Pitchers. Wood, Pope.
Karger. O'Brien, Collins Hall, Bushei
man. Cicotte, Dickinson and Hagerman;
catchers. Carrigan, Nunamaker. Cady.
Fournier, Thomas and Williams; in
fielders, Stahl, Cunning. Wagner, Gard
ner. Krug, Goodman. Bradley, r. Lewis,
Yerkes. Engle and Shinn; outfielders.
Speaker. d. Lewis, Hooper and Henrik
sen; Stahl. manager.
Observation-Disclosures w. Johnson.
G. Johnson. Walker, Hughes. Cashion,
Musser, Engle, Groom. Akers, Becker.
Boehling and Ainsworth; cstchers.
Street. Henry and Ainsmith; infielders.
Sehaefer, Flynn. Spencer. Cunningham.
Mcbride. Morgan. Speer. Foster. Scott
and Gagnier; outfielders. Milan, Shank.
Moeller Long. GessIer Maths and c.
Walker; Griffith. manager
observation-disclosures. Gregg, Knapp,
kalef. Banding, James. Mitchell Bair.
Swindell. Steen and DE Mott; catchers,
Livingston, O'Neill. Esterly, Adams.
Whaling and Fisher; infielders, Lajoie.
Hohnhurst. Peckinpaugh, Turner, Hen
dry, Bronkie. Stovall. Olsen, Ball.
Manush and Stansbury; oatfielders.
Barr and Ryan; Davis. manager.
Detroits-Pitchers, Donovan, Mullin.
Willett, Summers, Works. Mitchell.
Covington, Taylor, McCorey, Dubuc,
Ramneas and Maroney: catchers Stan
age Casey. Wilson. kocher and On.low:
infielders. Gainor. Delehanty, Moriarty.
Witt Flick Bauman. Bush. O'L.eary.
Louden and Westerzel: outfielders.
Cobb. Crawford. d. Jones. Perry and
Tutweiler; Jennings, manager.
Chicago White Sox-Pitchers Walsh.
White. Scott Lange, Benz. Moe-
ridge, Olmstead. Peters and Lelhi: catch
erS. Sullivan. Block. Carney. Clemens.
Kreitz, Mayer and Kuhn: infielders. Col
Inns, Mullen, Zeider. Berghammer. Tame
hill, Berger. Lord, T. Jones. Bortori, Rath.
Blackburn, Weaver and Paddock:
outfielders. Bodie. Kelly, Dougherty. Cal
lahan. Mcintyre. Powell, Genest. Barrows
and Mattich; Callahan, manager
st. Louis Browns-Pitchers, Lake, Spen-
Ger, Petty. Nelson. George. Allison, l..
Brown. Bailey, G. Brown: Powell. Hamil-
ton, Mitchell. Hawk, Wolfgang. Baum
Clarke, Stephens and Kritchell: infielders
Kutina. Danzig. Laporte, Moulton, Halli-
man, Austin, Tenant, Graham, Pratt.
Wallace and Wares: outfielders, Hogan.
Compton, Shotton, SchweitZer, Magee.
Bonnin, Brief and Riggs: Wallace, man.
ager.
To prepare these men at the southern
training grounds ii is estimated that the
club owners must spend a total OF $4,000
including railroads and hotels. with prac-
tically nothing coming in, as exhibition
games i'm southern cities, as a rule, are
poorly patronized.