Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-06-29

affeeted adversely the performances oe +bair mates. Since the season be- o.n he has rid himself of a bevy ol men who were regarded as fixtures last season. The princap go-away, ol course is Hal Chase, who is the greatest first baseman in the world when he wants to be out seldom feels that way about it. He was shining example of what a ball player should not be. Jack Lelivelt and Charley sterret talso were traded and Claude Derrick has been sold to Rochester.
 Among the new faces seen afoGnG 1 the Polo Grounds on an American easue Day Lare those of an entire new infield. Little Ezra Midklff, Who was looked upon as nothing remark able last year under Wolverlon, Is the only holdover who seems HKeiy to possess a job in the first detohse uuartet that Chance finally settles up on. Baker Borton, known as Babe, on first and Rollie Zeide1, at second base. the two who were traded b5 the White Sox for Hal Chase, are as certain to stay on the job as man cen be.
 Roger Peckinpaugh, from the Maps for Lelivelt and Sterrett, is destined to remain at shortstop. Bill Mc- Kechnie, from the Boston Nationals by waiver route, is the fourth man lined up in the new Chance infield. Me Kechnie has been doing steady work as utility performer.
 The way the new inner bulwark will be arranged when the lh]ur ed members of it recover from their ali ments will be thus: Borton, first base, Zeider, second base; Peckinpaugh, shortsop; Midkiff, third base.
 Chance now has more formidable Joking outfield due to the owning Of stronger infield, which sounds like an old condition. But it is true be- cause the acquiring of the noWcom- CTS made it possible to shit hoy Hartzell, Harry Wolter and Birdie Cree comprises trio of fly chasers that would satisfy the most exciting when they re going at their best Each one of the. bunch has made more than one 300 hitting year in his ca reer. as also has Bert Daniels, who has been kept on the bench at times only because of his inability to stick eup to his true height.
 Who ever heard of winning team without a good catcher? Unanimous and loudly shouted answer-not l. Chance now has his good catcher. lie has big Ed Sweeney playing better mechanically than ever before, put Sweeney has been kept on the bench good deal of the time as second string man lately because the big chief has more Nbrainy performer on the job in young Gossett, from the White Six by waiver, and it is report ed that Sweeney may be traded Ill the near future. But this Gossett boy-he seems to hold almost as much promise as Otto Miller of the Brook lyns, which is boosting some. He is star snap thrOwer, can catch any sort of hurling, including Ford four-way spitball, and is fearless at tagging men coming into the plate. Chance has reputation for devel- oping backstops that is founded upon more than sentiment. When he suc- ceeded Frank Selee, now dead, as head of the Cubs, he found there Johnny Kling, good catcher, but not great one. After year of WorK under Chance when the latter hJm- self was novice, Kling became the most famous catcher of his day. When King subsided, Chance brought up Jimmy Archer to take his place as the leading catcher of his time. It surely would be worlds record ii he could do the same thing with Gossett
 The failure of Borton and Cree to hit as hard as expected-both are rat ed as sluggers-proved somewhat ot q disappointment up to few weeks ago but they have sunk to their stride i'll streaks and now seem about due for a continued spell of prosperiyt in bat ting average. We'll defined, concrete reasons existed for the poor batting of Cree and Borton. The former was blinded by the glare of Old Sol in the Polo Grounds su nfield. He has had occasional rests on the bench lately and also has played game here and there in another one of the garden po- sitons, which has relieved the strain on his optics. Borton had been suffer ing with a sore and badly swollen