The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-05
OLD CATCHERS
PASSING OUT
Many Veteran BaCkStOpS Will
Be Missing This Season.
YOUNGSTERS GO TO FRONT.

American League Possesses Excellent /
Array of Youthful Maskmen For
1e13-Chicago Has Two Corkers In
SchaIk and Kuhn.
One by one the battery men pass |
needing the voice of time. Not SO very |
long ago the box scores revealed the |
names of Frank Bowerman, Malachi
Kittredge, Jack Warner, Billy Sullivan
and Johnny King. The first three
named are gone from the big leagues. !
Sullivan, the old warhorse of the
White Sox, and King. late of the
Braves, are still in the major ring. but
they are about done as catchers. Sulli-
van is as slow as a pushcart now.
Killing caught in seventy-four games in
1912, but his receiving was not up to
the King standard. SO Boston released
him.
Then there are three other veterans
of later period who will not be seen
/ IN upper crust circles this season. They
/ are Gabby Street, Charley Schmidt and
Jimmy Stephens.
TO fill the places OF the stars who
have faded and to succeed those who
are yet to fade major league clubs have
/ loaded up with young catchers. Not in
+ years has there been such a splendid
entry of highly press ACCENTED juvenile
backtsops as will be found on the varl-
Gus rosters this spring.
! There is Schang from Buffalo, whom
a,S,x 1;,, I,.,I n
draft in for. Connie Mack was the
lucky one, and he grabbed him. Last
year SChang was the resounding, spar
king sensation Of the International
league. Boston has Cady. who was the
: real noise in the worlds series. Nine
!. teen twelve was his first major year.
: Boston also has Thomas, a recruit from
Newark who caught ten or twelve
games at the end of last season, and
. Nunamaker, who was going finely until
an injury retarded him.
: President Comiskey of Chicago
won't miss Sullivan. The old Roman
: has two able new men in Ray Schalk,
! whom he purchased from Milwaukee
! for sum said to be $4,000, and Red
!. Kuhn. heralded as wonder. George
! Stoyall of st. Louis will experiment
with an untried catching staff. but it
/ won't be surprising if he develops pair
7 of receivers capable of going the gait
] in regular style They are Alexander
!. and Crossin.
The New York Americans landed a
I good bet in Sterrett. Princeton college
{ boy. if expert testimony counts fol
/ anything Sterrett caught some and
{ played first base for the YankS hitting
/ .265 and fielding grandly. FranB
( Chance, it is expected. will use him
+ exclusively behind the bat this year
- In Rondeau, young Frenchmar
+ from Jersey City, Detroit apparently
secured a first class running mate fol
Oscar Stanage and valuable addition
to his colt string. consisting of Kochel
q and OnslOw, who have had little eX
l. perience In the main tent RondeaJ
II has a better catching record thar
o Schang, and hit 81.
It Clark Griffith is probably better forti
e fed with youthful maskmen than an.
q manager in the American league. Or
Il Grfff's team are Henry and Ainsmith
regarded by many as the best in tn
American league Henry has been il
II the league two years and Ainsmith
e year and n half. Williams is Il on
- year man.
d Cleveland has a likely catcher i
y Steve O'Neil, who has had years eH
a perience in Johnson's organization
IL Fred Carisch. though not springer,
= a newcomer in the American and HI
~ too, is valuable player.