The Detroit times., 1913-03-03
jennings Will No Doubt Have
New Men Among Recruits
Picked in Seven Days
THAT BASEBALL INSTINCT
TEST is DUE DIRECTLY
Mechanical Ability Has Been
Displayed; Now for the
Mental Examinations 4
BY RALPH l.. YONKER.

BY RALPH l.. YONkER.
GULFPORT, Miss. March 3.-The
aud OF the present week sees the II
.,,ars In four exhibition games. provid-
ing the weather permits. which Will
probably spell s-u-c-c-e-s-s or FAIL.
u-r-e for the Tiger recruits.
With the excellent weather that the
Tigers have peen having right along,
Manager jennings has been able TO
gat his men into the kind OF shape
In which they have chance to show
e best that Is in them. This goes
ior everybody but the pitchers. They
are not In midseason form by any
taeans, but the young catchers. inheid-
ors and outnelders are right now able
to play with July confidence.
Jennings Is a stickler for real con-
tests to show a mans ability in the
game. He likes TO watch the boys
turing preliminary practice to see
low they hit. how much speed they
rave In running bases. how they can
| ield ground balls, how they can
Judge fiies, and how they can throw
but Il takes the real battle to show
whether they have that baseball In
stinct. which cannot be taught but
without which a man has as much
nance OF making the Tigers as par
. alytic.
He has watched his men go through
| their preliminary stunts and he has
! devised some more for them to go
| through before the first game Of the
. reason with Hattiesburg. Thursday.
| lie has Q pretty good idea OF the me-
| chanical ability OF the men.
Now .Sor = tsst plsthets msntal abil-
Four games ought to ahow up just
bout who's who In these various de-
sartments. Although Hughie may not
svpress any public opinions definitely,
may be assumed that by the time
he four contests are over, he viii
ave his heart on certain men to MI
he catching, infield and outfield Jobs
-e has lying around.
Hughie has bunch Of perplexing
.uestions that must be solved soon.
smong these comes this: Which two
.tchers shall be kept out Of Ron
'eau. Mckee and Gibson? 1t looks
~ il Rondeau Is sure Of one Job, but
y, neither Mckee or Gibson will be
,hosen for the other. seems to De
till an open question. =.
Rondeau Is not big man. He Will
-eem light beside Oscar Stanage.
Rondeau weighs only l54 and STANDS
about s feet 10 inches.-1n those lo4
mounds there Is none that is useless
however. The Frenchman Is built en-
'irely for utility--and that is not say
ing that he isn't good looking man
ither, for he Is.
Henry catches behind the bat cas-
", has q nice peg. hits well and Is
Fast for a catcher. He was up
omong<the best In the international
league In throwing out runners. hav-
ing 80 assists in "a games. He hit
311 for the season after having start
I'd the first few months practically
bitless. which made his efforts In the
snal contests average over hit for
every two times at bat.
That Rondeau Is valuable man
toutside of his mere catching ability
Is shown by his ability to play the
outfield. He>was in the outf1eld In ~
~ames for Jersey City, from which
Detroit got him last season through
.he New York Highlanders.
Rondeau Il one OF the brightest
recruits who has had the pleasure OF
working for Manager Jennings. He
speaks French az we'll or better than
he does English.
Ability to hit seems to favor Nc
i.ee, the fiery haired Irishman, over
Gibson. Mckee hasn't had Z great
r'eal of experience In professional;
baseball, but he has climbed rapidly
since he started playing at Sault Ste,
a1arie. Mich, several years ago. Nc
Isee- -ls-N -N-blG- -naan -stock1ly- -hullt-He
handles himself easily behind the bas
and throws we'll, but doesn't seem to
be as speedy as Rondeau.
Gibson ID another Jimmy Archer
in the rough. He has all the max
!, ings Of a big league catcher except
the ability to hit. However. Man
ager Jennings may decide that he
would rather have Gibson than Nc
lSse ct that.
In the inneld. the principal ques-
tion % to recruitss seems to be-: Ii
5hanley good enough to keep? Shan
Ivy II . tall. rangy man, who handles
ground balls In . snappy fashion In
the practices that he has had around
second base. His position with Bur.
iingtQn. whence he went to the
Browns and then to Detroit, was al
shortstop, but Bush won't let him
have q chance over there. During
I.ouden's absence he was flllng In III
short.
STANLEY 10 deer-life on his feet. HI
takes good, swift strides, and lots oi
Them, ina few seconds His arm
has not been put to q test at second
but what little he has used II hal
demonstrated that he II accurate at
the pes. s~,p-.
Since STANLEY can play all over the
innsld, from nrst up TO third. It looks