The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-13

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big league baseball articles. The thirteenth
article will appear Monday-1
| Pittsburg, Pa, 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 a rise in. the price of pop. Conse-
Iquently, it was generally we'll into
March before any definite idea as to
| the lineup of the team could be doped
| out.
| This year promises to be an excep-
| that it will be the middle of April
| before very much is known. Hans
Wagner is going to plev aga'n- But
where is uncertain. The aforesaid
dopesterS are certain that the Flying
Dutchman will let his sails flap about
the CC-meaning Cemetery Corner,
alias first base. Barney Dreyfuss
agrees with the dopesters to the eX-
tent that he thinks this possible Fred
Clarke opineS there is more than a
chance that Wagner may wag in that
charming spot. AS for Wagner-no-
body home.
Other Uncertainties.
Hinchman, late of Columbus, will
play in right field. That is just as
certain as it is that Wagner will play
first base. AS for the others:
Carey will play in the field V1oX
will play somewhere. Adams will
pitch and Gibson will catch. Several
others will pitch and catch. And oth-
ers will play bases and field positions.
But who they are and what they Will
do are questions.
The Pirates this year is to be an
experimental team. what thlS
means is conjectural. Pittsburgers
hope that it means the Pirates will
get somewhere above the belt-line in
the percentage column. Further than
that they have given no grounds for
hope.
Whatever it's record in the field may
be, the first-to-last in-two-m ag-
gregation has the long-distance PEN
nant cinched again. 1t is the most
travelled team in the major league cir
cults, chiefly because of its halfway
position between east and west on the
map. Some fans say that were 1t not
so long on. the Pullman and diner suit
it might be more than halfway in its
position in the percentage column.
However, they aren't running the
team.
Have Big Jumps.
Careful censoring of the war plans
shows that the team will do the
usual in the line of playing at home
on Saturday. jumping to some foreign
country-Cincinnati, st. Louis or Chi
cago-for Sunday games and back Tor
the beginning of an at-home series on
Monday.
The rebels scored on the Pirates
when it came to announcing their
roster. While there doubtless will be
some of the 25 whose names were
given out by Manager Cakes in Pitts
burg whose services will not be used,
the Feds, just now, look like this:
Rebel Cakes, manager, Homer, La;
Hugh Bradley fb WORCESTER. Mass;
David Jones, II, Detroit, Mich; Ed
ward Lennox, 3b, Camden, N. j.;
James Savage, IF, Plantsiville, Conn;
Stephen Yerkes, SIS, Millvale, N. J.;
Jack Lewis, 2b, Steubenville, O.; Ed
ward Holly, SIS, Rochester, N. Y;
Menoskey, CT, Flint, Mich;
Ken J. Rheam, fb, Bellevue. Ill;
Claude Berry, C, Lynn, Ind; Elmer
p, Carrick; Howard Camnitz,
p, Louisville, Ky; Cy c. Barger, p, |
Columbia, KY; Walter Dickson, p, |
Tex; George LeClair, p, |
Quebec; Edward Konetchy, |
1b, st. Louis; VIM. D. Perritt, p,
La; Pat O'Connor, C, Wind
Chapel Hill, N. c.; Frank Allen, p, |
Ala; Frank De1ehanty, C, |
James Austin, 3b, Cleve-
land; Martin Berghammer, SIS, Pitts
burg.
Ed Konetchy. Pirate first baseman
asst year; "PoP' Perritt, pitcher for /
he ST. Louis Nationals last year; Pat
0'Connor, Bunny Hearne, Frank Allen,
Jimmy Austin and Martin Bergman
ner are new to the Rebel list. Sew
sraI are recruits picked up by Fed
scouts, and it is said that several more
will join the team when it goes south.
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