East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-13
HOW THE PIRATES ARE
TO LINE UP IS YET
MUCH OF A MYSTERY
HANS WAGNER WILL PLAY AGAIN
THIS MUCH APPEARS TO
BE CERTAIN.

| lhIS MONh Al'IEAhS ~
BE CERTAIN.
But just Where He Is Going to Play.
That's Another Question and the
Dopsters are Unable TO Figure the
Problem-Others VIII Play ON Bas-
estand in the Field.
(By a United Press Staff Cores
pondent.)
PITTSBURGH, March 13.-Clarke
and his Pirates-and the Pirates be-
fore Clarke for that matter-have al
ways been the last OF the big league
teams to go south when the robins
began to chirp and the fans TO in
quire anxiously about the possibilities
OF rise in the price OF pop. Con-
sequently, II was generally well into
March before any definite idea as to
the lineup Of the team could be dop.
ed out
This year promises to be an excep-
, ton in that respect. The prospect is
that It will be the middle OF April
before very much is known. Hans
Wagner is going to play again. But
where is uncertain. The aforesaid
dopesters are certain that that Flying
Dutchman will let his sails flap about
the CC-means Cemetery Corner. ali.
as first base. Barney Dreyfur agrees
with the dopesters TO the extent that
he thinks this possible. Fred Clarke
opines there is more than a chance
that Wagner may wag in that charm
ing spot. AS for Wagner-nobody
home.
And there is still Hinchman, late OF
Columbus o. Hinchman viii play in
right field. That is just as certain as
it is that Wagner will play first place.
As for the others:
Carey will play in the field. Viox
will play somewhere. Adams will
pitch and Gibson win catch. Several
others will pitch and catch. And
others will play bases and field po-
sitions. But who they are and what
they will do are questions.
The Pirates this year is to be an
experimental team" What this
means is conjectural. Pittsburghers
hope that il means the Pirates will get
somewhere above the beltline in the
column. Further than
that they have been given no grounds
for hope. /
Whatever its record in the field
may be. the t-to-last-in-two
aggregation has the l6ng-dis-
tance pennant clnched again. II is
the most Travelled team in the major
league circuit, chiefly because OF its
halfway position between east and
west on the map. Some fans say that
we're ii no so long on the Pullman and
liner suit ii might be more than half.
way in its position in the percentage
However they aren't run.
ming the team.
Careful censoring OF the war-plans
shows that the team will do the us.
lal' in the line Of playing at home
IN Saturday, Jumping to some for
sign country-Cincinnati st. Louis or
Chicago-for Sunday games and back
Tor the beginning OF an at-home SER
es on Monday.
The rebels scored on the Pirates
When II came TO announcing their
'ooster. While there doubtless will
De some Of the 20 whose names were
given out by Manager Cakes in Pitts.
'urgh whose services will not be used.
he Feds. just now. look like this:
Rebel Oakes, manager, Homer, La;
Hugh Bradley, fb., Worcester. Mass
David Jones IT,. Detroit. Michigan;
Lennox, tb., Camden, y. j.;
lanes Savage, rf., Platscille, Conn.
'tephen Yerkes, S., Millvale, n. j.:
ack Lewis, sb. Steubenvllle o.; Ed ,
'ard Holly, S., Rochester, n. Y;
dichael Menoskey, cf., Flint. Michi- d.
an; Ken ]. Rheam, fb., Bellevue, ILL.,; :
RALPH Maths, cf., Roxborough, Pa;
'laude Berry, c., Lynn, Ind; Elmer
Nnetzer, p, Carrick; Howard Cam ,
litz, D., Louisville, Ky; Cy c. Barger, .
l.. Columbia, Ky. Walter Dickson. D.. =
ireenvllle, Tex; George IeClair. D., :
'arnham, Quebec Edward Konetchy, :
b., st. Louis; VIM. d. Perritt, D., :
siceland, Lr.; Pat O'Connor, c.. Wind =
or LOCKS, Conn; Bunny Hearne, D.,
,hapel Hill, n. c.; Frank Allen, D., q,
,ewborn, Ala; Frank Dlehanty, C. :,
'leveland; James Austin. tb., Cleve- !,
and; Martin Berghammer, S., Pitts :,
urgh p
Ed Konethcy, Pirate first baseman !,
ist year; Pol" Perritt, pitcher for !,
ne st. Louis Nationals last year; Pat :,
'Connor, Bunny Hearne, Frank AL y
IN, Jimmy Austin and Martin Perg-
ammer are new to the Rebel list d
everal are recruits picked up by Fed a
outs and 1t is said that several more q
I'll join the team when 1t goes south. u
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