The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-06

New York, october 5.-Ihe American
league representatives in the coming
worlds series will be a veteran combi
nation in every sense of the word boil
in pennant and series championship play
In age and experience the Boston Amer
leans are veterans who have been tried
and proved winners in many a hare
fought league and worlds series drive
Taking the players on the club roster
and without regard to those who will OF
will not figure in the battles with the
National league standard bearers, it will
be found that their average age is ~.
years and their average years in profess
sional baseball a trifle over seven. So
far as their physical statistics are con-
cerned it is shown that they average ia
pounds per man and in height 5 feet 10 2-S
inches.
Strange as it may appear but one
player halls from Boston, the remainder
of the team coming from all parts OF the
country to form the championship combl-
nation which won the American league
pennant after one of the hardest fights in
the history of the junior league, The
one player who can really call Boston his
home is Janvrn, a utility in1elder, VINO
may fill second base position because OF
Capt Jack Barrys injured hand. The
other men eligible to participate IN the
title play as members of the Red Sox,
and to share in the consequent reward
come from places widely separated, many
of them i'll obscure corners of the land
lifted to public notice only by the APP
pearance of their citizens as members OF
a worlds series contending team.
The American league champion Red Sox
of 1916 resemble closely the team which
won the worlds championship last year.
but have lost three more of the small
remaining group which triumphed over
the Giants for the title in 1872. Speaker
is gone, Ray Collins the left-handed
pitcher, has passed, and Joe WOOD
..smoke-ball pitcher of other days, IS
under suspension because of salary an
ferences New faces have been added,
two appearing as possible successors oA
Speaker at center field, Walker, formerly
of the ST. Louis Browns and shorten
who was called from the Providence In
ternationals Another new outtielder is
walsh. one-time member of the champion
Athletics McNally, a utility ntelder, Is
of potential value largely because OF ms
speedy base running, while WycKoH ana
Jones, pitchers, and AgneW, a catcher'
are likely to play only negative parts Ill
the series. .
The age, weight, height and home OF
each PLAYER is shown in the appended
tabulation as well as how he bats and
throws:
Samuel Agnew, catcher, age, %; weight
1877. height, sill; years in baseball, 8; Bis
marck, Mo. 90
John j. Barry, second base; age ~
weight, $50; height, sos; years IN paseoali'
&. hats right, throws left; Meriden, Conn
Forrest l.. Cady, catcher; age 80, weight
1872. height 602, years in baseball 8, bats
right. throws right; Galva, ILL.,
William f. Carrigan, manager; age 90,
weight 1856, height, $40, years in basepail
10. bats right, throws right; lewiston Me.
George Foster, pitcher; age 70, Welght
172, height sos years in baseball 4 pats
right throws right Bokoshe, Okla
DeIos Gainor, first baseman; age 90
weight 17S, height g. years in baseball u
hats right. throws right; Elkins, W. va.
w Lawrence Gardner, third baseman'
age 3o4 weight 1885, height sos, years IN
ria sepAll 9, bats left, throws right; Enos-
burg Falls. VT. 90
Sylvanus A. Gregg, pitcher, age 20,
weight $780, height 6.02, years. in. baseoall
8, bats right, throws lell' Oiiio0 o.
Alb, Canada. On
olaf Henriksen, utility man; age ~,
weight 1866 height 5.07, years In basepaii
7. bats left, throws left; Canton, Mass.
Richard C. HoblitzelL, first baseman'
age rs, weight u.s. height 5ll years IN
baseball s, bats left, throws right; Clh-
cinnati, o. 90
weight no height $40. years in basebaH
~ hats left throws right; Capitoia, Cal
Harold c. Janvrin, shortstop, age "a,
weight 1854. height 5.11. years in baseoali
!. bats right, throws right; Boston, Mass.
sam p. Jones, pitcher, age Co. weight
17s height 5.11, years in baseball D;
Woodsfield. O. ..
Hnbert b. Leonard pitcher, age rs,
weight 179, height 500, years IN baseball
hats left, throws left; Fresno, Cal.
George E. Lewis, left fielder, age ~,
weight 1870, height Sos years in baseball
Q. bats right, throws right; Hot springs
Cal. ..
weight 159. height 5.11, years in paseoali
4; Minooka. Pa. 400
height 6, years in baseball s. bats lett
throws right; Portland Ore
George H. Ruth, pitcher, age y. Welght
1872 height COL, years in baseball 4, bats
left. throws left; Baltimore, Md.
Everett Scott. shortstop, age "a, weight
: 49, height sos. years in baseball T. oaes
Ernest G. Shore. pitcher age %, weight
1872. height 5.04. years in baseball 4 pats
right. throws right; East Bend, N. e.
Charles Shorten, center fielder, age 20
weight 1863, height Eli, years in baseball
s. bats left, throws left Scranton ia.
Charles Wagner, utility man. age "A.
weight 1856, height 500, years in baseball
Is, bats right, throws right; New no
chelle. N. Y. 90
Chester D. Thomas, catcher age %
weight 1872, height $40. years in baseball
6, bats right throws right; Sharon, kas
James c. Walsh, utility man, age Is,
weight IT'S, height $40, years in baseball
8. bats right, throws right; Philadelphia,
Mass.
J. Weldon Wyckoff, pitcher, age 3D.
weight liz, height 6, years in baseball 4
bats right, throws right; Philadelphia
Mass.
Clarence Walker, center fielder, age %,
weight 100, height 5,11, years in baseball
g.; Lanesboro, Tenn.
Statistics Of the Brooklyn National