The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-06
STALL IS TAKING
 !. .. PRACTICE EASY
FOUR OF THE PITCHING STAFF OF THE BosToNs HAVE AS
 YET Noi REPORTED.
Mike Finn of the Southern League is Here Looking Over the Young sters in Hope Of Picking up
 Dscards.
tBy H. W. Lanigan. Press Represen


 totiye CIV .oT1 notel Co) Veterans and rockies included, Manager Garland Stahl of the Boston
 Red Sox, has eight pitchers under
 his surveillance in the Spa. As Ire
 owns exactly one dozen hurlers it is easy to figure that there are four ab- sentees.
 Said absentees include Buck O. Brien, spit-baller extraoruinary anu author of ye memorable balk, who is at home caring for a very sick moth. err Ray Collins, the crack young Southpaw, who is at home whistiing for more mazuma from President Mo Aleer. and Dutch Leonard and Roy Brant. two youngsters. who have been en route from Fresco, Cal. sinc1 last Thursday and who 1t is begin. ming to look, got tabled mp to Hot Springs, Va, or some other hot Springs, when they bought their rail
 way transportation.
 The weather yesterday was glor-
 iously perfect. It was bright and
 clear and the thermometer lowered
 around the 65 degree mark from 10
 a. m, until the sun went down Stanl
 again gave his squad of pitchers and
 catchers a single workout at Majes-
 tic Park The seance lasted a little
 over two hours. It started with bat
 ting practice and ended with ali the
 pitchers save Joe Wood, Hugh Bedi- ent and Charley Hall, as well as the five youngsters, Earl Ainsworth, Earl Moseley. Al Watkins. George Foster and Al Martins, serving up some fair ly warm stuff to the big mitt brigade Messrs. Carrigan, Cady, Nunamaker and Thomas.
 Wood is down to within a very few pounds of his playing weight. For that matter there is not a single over weight warrior in camp However, Wood, the star of the Red Sox's pitch ing corps, is in such exceedingly fine shape, so far as weight and all out ward. signs go. that Stahl is letting him do exactly what work he wants to do.
 Wood is sensible, level-headed
 chap and won't abuse the privilege He gets in the hitting practice when he so desires and if the notion comes
 into his head to toss a few he calls for ball and beckons to his battery mate, Forest Cady, the gent who put the town of Bishop Hill, H., on the
 map, to don his big glove.
 As soon as the regulars come to town the practice will be increased to
 two frolics daily Probably about next Wednesday the merry matinees between the Champs and the Chumps will be staged and then Stahls juye- nile fingers will get every chance to
 make good, as the Big Chief wants them to be in readiness to bear the brunt of the work in the early games with the sPittsburg Pirates.
 It was few minutes after 1 o'clock when Stahl led his band of warriors back to town yesterday for the daily scrub in the tub He again called of
 the hike over the mountains, as the 1 that the long runs taken last March are really superfuous. Then, the
 Red Soxs were not the worlds cham pions and when the players reportec | most of them were overweight But this spring it is different. Some of | the regulars may be toting around a
 lot of excessive avoirdupois. But the squad of twelve on deck here does not require any real hard work and Stahl is wisely making the bunch go 1 slow.
 | The bugs are fiocking out to the
 morning practice bout in goodly num-
 bers. Yesterdays gathering totaled
 between 300and 400. Mike Finn, who
 used to operate in New England, but | who now owns and manages the Mo- ! bile (Southern Association club, spent the day in the Spa, He watch ed the practice and told Stahl that 1 when he got ready to cut down his | pitching staff he would be glad to | grab on to a couple of the outcasts.
 Finn declares that Stahl got just
 about the three best pitchers out of the Texas league in Foster, Watkins and Martina. He is also out with a boost for Grover Brant. erstwhiIe oloha.froffar