Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-25
Doping the 1916 Baseball Season
Nl.--NalionaI League Third Basemen


c"niro! himself and do a little think
in&' He can hit. but not in a pinch.
re can win a game as brilliantly az
ne can throw u away. The chief
.'o"mia WIN liclnic IS that he throws
inc games the team needs most. blows
az the critical moments and takes his
SWINGS Just when Il hit means some
IhinG, and then hits the pill n milo
when the %ame is lost. used to hone
That lIcini" would come 10 his senses
anu play BAH as he is able to play
H. nut thcn some of us never get old.
BOSTON ranks up we'll. Smith is :.
pretty TAR ball player now and he
is carefully undorstudicd. Stalliues is
ho' taxing chances on am injury wreck
inE his team and the more closely one
cNamincs his outfit. tho more cleyerlv
one secs il is put together lie had
inc most mobile team in the league
and they can double in brass anywhere
from first base To the outncld That
- inc deceptive part of the Braves.
! on SIT down ana figure that an ac-
cldent 20 Evcrs would kill the team.
and ind that by using Egan. StallinSs
sun Is strong. II Smith slips or breaks
another leg, the rc-cnforccmcnts are
Almost as strong. The only vital spot
seems 10 be Maranvillc-nnd some OF
Sta!!inSSs crew can play short fairly
we'll y well reconstructed team in view
of emergencies. Smith played all tho
games last year, but ono scarcely can
expect that 20 happen again, or figure
on II consistently. StalIinEs makes n
or three different men i'm each position
ana averaging their strengths
Moran Is We'll Fortified.
Moran is cXccIlcntly fortified at third
base. having stock ANA Eyrnc. lobby
E5rnc Is tho better SLAYER although
stock. after getting the job last wear
beans" Bobby was hurt. PLAYED SO we'll
that Moran could not consistently take
him out.
was much Interested i'm figuring
Philadelphia ANA tile Giant 10 see how
their third hascucn stack up-vou re-
member they said Moran got AN tho
worst OF thc trade. Well. III. rhillics
lead by Il sCami margin I.obcrt has
not pann"d out. For Years We all kept
saying that IT ever Hans got with a
good bail club he would be n world
hcatcr. Tho truth Is that he was not as
good a ball player Nit. the Giants as
he vas when he was SaShaying around
third for tail-"ud teams There were
tunes during tho period when the
Giants w"r" hustlimg and still hoping
that II looked rs If L-.bort was all in
the air aS 10 tho McGraw system of
attack and h" was not playing tho game
naturally. OF course. If il WAS wrctchcd
year for the Giants. and there is a
chance that If they get going this sea
son, rs il now looks as if they might
at least 10 some extent, I.obcrt may vet
come Into the high place we always ex-
pccted him to occupy.
st. Louis is rather discourag!ng as
a prospect. There is nothing in the
shape OF a really competent third basr-
man down there. linn Beck. does not
promise any pennants. There is q:
young fellow from Texas named Horns
10y who is toutcd AS very promising
material, but. Oh the whole. the chance
Of improving at third seems to lie in
Eeck getting better with experience,
OF which he is getting plenty.
Tomorrow we will tackle the third
hascmcn OF the American I.cague-and