The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-30
However, He Believes 1t Will Be
Up to American League
Average in 1914
BICHLANDERS CHANGE
SPRING TRAINING CAMP
Leave Bermuda for Houston,
Probably Because of Heavy
Dews On Islands

Manager Jennings believes that
I, Frank Chance and his Yankees WILL
! ~ aghting In the American pennant
1 race next year He believes that the
\ iu0old that Chance mas got together
Will assist him in keeping out OF the
1 cellar.
h doesn't believe, however, that
| Chance will startle the baseball world
/ With any wonderful squirt to the flag.
! The inlleld that Chance has Is better
/ than his predecessors have had, but
/. & win not be any better than the av-
(; erago inner defense In the American
| hague.
Chance is making great effort to
( rebuild his team 20 that he may make
/ light for American league honors
ana New York city cash. most OF
which Is going to the New York
Giants.
y Jennings likes Peckinpaugh, the
lew Yankee shortstop, very mucn.
Hughie says that he really wonders
how Cleveland happened to let such
8 GOOD innelder 60. Peck Is good
handler Of ground balls. good throw
j or. and hits well enough.
OF Fritz Maisel. the $4,000 beauty
/. from Baltimore. who third bases for
the Highlanders. Hughie doesn't think
~ much.
s'Maisel is q beautiful fielder" said
Hughie. 'He IL great on ground balls.
: and has q good arm. He runs bases
fast and well when he gets on, but !
an afraid that he will never hit well
+ 49, IN nh n
lnne!der."
Hughie believes that knight will
~ Z rood, man for Chance. but doubts
thak he will ever become q real star.
/ He has seen so little Of Williams that
NJ cant express an opinion on him.
nollie Zeider will make Chance
nood utility infelder. His worth has
\ BEEN proved already In the American
league, ~ he was with the White Sox
1or some time.
Three OF these Ave inhelders are
smea whom other major league clubs
/ have released, the acquisition OF
whom BY Chance shows his anxiety to
4 huiId ND new club. Zeider went TO
the Yankees on the deal that let Chi
I go have Hal Chase. Peckinpaugh
xlaA purchased outright from Cleve-
land. knight was dropped to the mi
Vi ors By the Athletics and recalled by
Chnnce from Jersey City.
IN the outneld, too, Chance has made
80 biz change and another IL expect
"a ehortly. He has put Cook In the
H61d with Cree and Daniels, and Gil
Hooloy. q Montreal outfielder, has
S koen secured for Long Tom McCon-
y nnll and some cash, and will be used
- the far gardens also.
q Chances star pitchers haven't been
Y oDing as we'll this year as expected,
q hut e II thought that his stan will be
a 5trong next year. Russ Ford took a
6 11ng time TO md himself this season
Y - has been going well lately. Ray
\ xneting started like q hurricane, but
~ now bothered with a sore arm
4 Gouthpaw echultx is showing some
goo1 pitching and ought to be right
4 next season.
IAe announcement comes from
8< New York. this morning, that Chance
\ tno practically decided upon Houston.
I tx, % the site for his 1914 training
CaDp.
This confirms the report that Ber-
wuds was not satisfactory. The
B Chancemen were never In really good
shape this spring, sore arms bother
Z NJ most of them.
Il II claimed that the heavy dew CT
! the Islands was the cause OF the cpl
Il 0emic Of wounded fingers. The
II 6ampness was 80 bad, II IL said, that
4 the mems uniforms were almost al.
ways moist These on warm bodies
\ produced soreness