The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-08
PICK KOCHER 10
 MAKE GOOD WITH
 GIANTS NEXT YEAR

New York, Nov. 8----Fhet5 New York Giants. who finished an utter last in the National league, have this thought to cheer them through the wintef: The gang will all be at. Marlip, Tex, next spring.
 7 John J. McGraw expects to finish well up in the first division next sea- son with practically the same team that Drought him such sorrow this club and that all he needs is another catcher and an outfie1der. The pitch- ing staff will stand about as it is and the~1qfield will remain intact
 McGraw still has great confidence in Jim Thorpe, once the worlds great est athlete, who thus far has been a disappointment to the Giants. Thorpe is one of the fastest men in baseball and is dependable Soutfielders But he can't hit a curve gall.
 .sMcGraw expects Thorpe to be a regular next year, said John B. Eos ter, secretary of the Giants, yester- day. "Jim's trouble has been thatN he hasn't waited for the curves to break. He always wants to kill the ball and he pulls away as he hits. At Marlin next spring you will see-Iiu practis- ing batting left-handed. When Brain ard came to the Giants he pulled away, but toward the end of the sea- son he tried batting from the other side of the plate and he Immediately began to show improvement in hit ting, sA
 Thorpe was trying it after he re- turned to us last September, and it brought him luck. He also was talk ing batting practice with his back against a fence, so he couldn't pull away, and he was meeting curve balls as accurately as anybody you ever saw. Next year, unless I'm a mighty ha will gular.
 More than 35 men will report for practice at Marlin next spring. The practice will see Merk1e at first base, Doyle at second, Fletcher at shortstop | and Lobert at third, with no partic- ularly promising youngsters trying to toust them from their jobs. Eddie Grant and Fred Brainard will be the utility infielders.
 1 George Burns will be back in left field and Robertson in right, with Jim 1 Thorpe probably in centre. q
 For pitchers McGraw will have Mathewson. Perritt, Benton, Tesreau, Stroud, Schupp, Schauer and Ritter. of this years team, and for catchers Chief Meyers and Wanden.
 1 The irregu1ars will be as follows Pitchers: Eniliano Palmero the young Cuban ,southpaw, who has been at Marlin with the Giants two years, but who has not worked himself into a. regular position He is said to be ready now
 Roy Kramer. bought from vancou- yer, and Fred Herbert, bought from Toronto, are the only other young pitchers now under contract to the Giants. Several others may be picked up before the training season opens
 Outfelders: Sharman, drafted from | Portsmouth, Gz=lio; kelly, from Van couver, who was with the club the last month of the season; Jacobson, from the Brockton club of the Colo nial league; Becker, from Lewiston, Me; Babington. from Brown Univer- sity; Farrell, drafted from Portland. Me, and Harrison, bought from DaI- 1 las. Tex.
 Inf1elders: Ben Dyer, formerly the property of the Giants, but last year with St. Paul; Carroll, third baseman from Fordham; and Howard Baker, third baseman, drafted from Little Rock.
 Catcherss Robert schang. picked up ] on a akwaiver this season, and Kocher,