The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1916-02-17
However, Yanks' Manager
Thinks So Well of Alexan-
der and Walters That He
Won't Try to Secure Any
Veteran Backstop to Steady
Young Pitchers.
Blu BOzen,an Buiger.

A CCORDING to Wild BIZ Dono-
A van. the one thing standing
between him and a real fighting
ball club OF pennant winning cslibre
and remote thinfS at that's tho
possibility Of neither Alexander nor
Walters making good as catcher.
Those two fellows are young" said
wild Bill. land II anything should
happen to give them u check I would
be without a reliable catcher. have
no veteran backstop to keep the boys
In balance. l do not anticipate any
trouble in that direction. however,
for. in my opinion. Alexander Is one
of the best young catchers i ever saw
and toward the latter part of last sea-
son he was getting better every day.
Walters didn't have much chance to
show what he could do. but In the
few games that he did participate In
he displayed all the earmarks OF a
real big Lacquer. l think so well OF
those boys that l am not going out
after a veteran. We are quite willing
to take a chance. But, as l said, that
is the only possibility OF a slip-up.
with the signing of Frank Baker
our iniield is strong. and we've got
some boys there who can hit. l do
not figure on shelving Peckinpaugh.
as many appear to believe. He Is too
good a fielder TO put on the bench. III
the others will only hit, the team can
well afford to carry PeckinpauBh
along Just for his fielding. At that
there were but two or three short
stops In the business who outhit him
last season"
What about your pitchers"
MY main dependence of course
will be Fisher. Caldwell and Shawkey.
but we've got Cullop. Russell. Mo-
gridge, Markle and Il lot Of stars from
the minors hanging around. BY the
way. do you know that bhawkey
! pitched some remarkable ball for us
| toward the end OF last season? lie
was in many a tough luck game. but
always pitched great bali. notwith-
standing the fact that he was beaten
| by small scores. He ought to be a
big help this coming season.
with anything like good hitting
behind them, FISHER. Caldwell and
Shswkey ought TO win fifty games
easily. That would leave about forty
for all the others TO win in the event
that We won a pennant. Ninety
games, you know. will come pretty
near coping the nag. Still, am not
claiming any pennants. But I want
TO say that feel mighty grateful "a
the Captain and the Colonel for the
material they have given me, We
are going TO be in the fight whether
we win any pennant or not"
do you think Fritz Maisel car
make good as an outfielder2' I asked
him.
yves, I DO" he said. "That bo,
baseball hne, and he's crazy to pla,
in the outfeld. He has played GU
there before, and can cover q lot o.
ground"
In the mean time the American
Leaguers are gathering at the Wal
colt to adopt a schedule and tall
over plans for a couple OF days. Tn,
only real business III the transfer o
the Cleveland Club to the new own
ers. Ban johnson has not given ou
the names yet, but ne will do so be
fore he leaves town.
Among the early visitors IN tow,
f. IL Jimmy McAleer, former Presiden
, OF the Boston Red Sox and manage
: Of the Browns and the Senators
I Jimmy Ia out of baseball now, an
, is put TO the difficult and tediou
, work OF sitting back in his home n
! Youngstown, o., and clipping cou
pons. He should worry. In his da
4 McAleer was the greatest outflelde
IN the game. 1t 10 stu suaootad 0usa