The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-13
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him, and also out of Difference to his
fellow managers.
The policy of doing things and let
ting the idle chatter alone is a policy
Mitchell has followed all his life. He
is man of iron jaw and an iron will.
He is twofiSted diSciplinarlan and
the Cub players who win favor in his
eyes will give the club everything they
have on the ballfield. Mitchell said
after signing to manage the Weegh-
man entry that he knew most of the
men on the team and believed that he
could get results with the undivided
cooperation of his players. So Mitchell
is going to be watched in the National
league this year just as closely as
American league fans will watch the
efforts of Jack Barry at Boston.
Early Start Helps.
The Cubs got an early start this
spring They led the field to the
training camps, and before the bell
rings in Governor Tener's circuit they
will have had more experience in the
playing of actual games than any
club in either big league. Whether
the long trip to the cast, with its
tiresome jumps, will offset some of the
good effects of training remains to be
seen.
Mitchell started the spring training
campaign with squad of about forty
players, and the wedding out process
will be somewhat of a problem. But
i'll sizing up the Cub regulars who
have been held over for this year,
the players recalled and the recruits
who will be given every chance in
the world to make good, the Cub out
fit looks pretty good on paper
Last year the Cubs finished fifth
in the pennant race, but they were
two notches lower in both fielding and
batting. The Cub pitchers of 1916
were not numbered among the rank
ing pitchers of the league in effective
ness, for Jim Vaughn topped the list
of his pitching mates with an aver
age of 2.20 earned runs per nine in
nings pitched.
The Cub pitching staff of 1917
should be at least 40 per cent better
in effectiveness, for Mitchell has som e
new talent that looks like the goods.
Three hurlers purchased from the In
dianapolis club-Aldridge Dawson
and Carter-will give some of their
rivals a hot fight for regular pitch
ing jobs. Scout O'Hare thinks Vic
Aldridge will make good, and Nick
Carter, who reported to the Cubs be-
fore last season closed, ought to be
better than ever this years
Dawson is a sturdy right-hander
who won twenty out of thirty-four
games for Jack Hendricks's crew. Pete
Standridge. recalled from Los An
geles. grabbed twenty games and lost
ten in the Pacific Coast league, while
Scott Perry, from Atlanta, won TWEEN
ty-four games and lost twenty in the
Southern association. Bill McTigue,
purchased from Toronto, was one of
the most effective hurlers in the In
ternational league, allowing 1.95
earned runs per nine innings and
pitching total of go innings for his
club.
AL Demaree ought to be a big help
to the Cubs. for AL is haT1 working
pitcher. With the Phillies last season
he won nineteen games and lost four
teen. Gene Packard may also be de-
pended upon to win his share. if his
arm is right.
With Larry Doyle's broken leg en-
tirely healed and plenty of good in
! field talent to fight it out for third.
short and the first basing job, the
Cubs ought to bloom out with a
smooth working infeld combination
The outfield material with Flack
Mann, Williams, Jacobson, Wolter
Smith, Nuese1 and Schick looks good
jacobson was secured from New
! York, while Wolter comes to the Cubs
from Los Angeles by purchase and
Smith is a product from Omaha in
the Western league.