The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-02-05
JENNINGS WILL
HAVE 20 men
FINAL. err REDUCES HIS SQUAD
10 THAT NUMBER ACCORD
ne To REPORTS.
Date For Arrival Here i Fixed az
About Marsh 5th--feW Players
VIII Come Down Earlier.
tisy Joe $. Jaekson.)

What probably VIII ne she tsis''
ieut lii the Detroit sauad bringing
the list Of nlayars eligible for the
ltrip 10 Waxahaehio to Is men, which
lis the number that was taken south
Fl year ago was decided on b. Pres
iiaent Navin this morning. Two paach-
| ers and on outfieider none OF @noh
| has had any experience ia organized
ibaii. are affected. Acton. OF SPRING
field. Ohio. and swarts, OF Dayton
lphin. are the harlcrs, Allison, from
1.-The Baltimore sand lots. IL the out
| fielder.
Acton goes to the league elah IN
Ifsis home town, Cleveland which Is
managed by an old time catcher, Joe
dunn, who is expected to Develop
talent IL the youngster has any Bill
ioongi,tin gets swarts for his sefan-
/ ton team. Nilsson viii join Ghafta-
lnooga. which always gets q few con-
Itribntions from Detroit Previously
1T had been given a catcher named
koelller, who was bought from Get
tysburg, Pa. in the Blue Ridge
Ileague, and for whom there is no
place here,
Two Players Sign.
Coincident with the releasing OF
these men. all or some of whom are
sold with an option to recall. II they
look promising. was the receipt Of
two contracts. One is from Edward
Hack Spencer. This has been loot
ed for for some time. Spencer has-
ing written that he was not going
Ito wait the word from Fult2. OF
whose association he Is member
Flanagan. a right hand pitcher from
the MuseatIne club OF The Central as
ISOLATION. is the other
Much Is hoped Tor from this Elan
agan. Ills team won the Central
association championship, largely ca
his pitching and The hitting Of Eili-
son, the third baseman, who led the
league with 81. and VINO also comes
here Flanagan was in IS games,
and pitched more innings, EOS
which II equivalent to ~ fun con
tests -tban any other hGrler, Count
ing Couch, who says he is going TO
qui. baseball Jennings now las only
eleven pitchers, seven Of them OK
perieneed, to look ever This Is the
smallest number he has ever taken
south in several years
Date of Departure Uncertain.
with the roster fully determined. |
the date OF the start of the athletes
is not definitely set. The first squad
however, probably viii leave here On
Saturday evening, March 3. That
would get the players into Waxa-
haehie early Monday afternoon. As
Trainer Tuthill already viii be there, |
with the uniforms and other para
phernalia. the men viii be able TO
start work on Tuesday morning.
That would give the PLAYERS 10
days OF props, before their first OK
hibitions which viii he with Waco,
about 60 miles south OF camp, on
March II and IS These dates had
been given to Houston, but there was
a mtx-up, Houston also booking the
Giants. The latter will play the en-
gagement This switch saves the
Tigers one long jump. Waco, Dallas
and Fort Worth. where a week day
game is TO be arranged. are the only
towns to be visited while the squad
us in camp Waco is the longest OF
these three jumps
\ Hunting They viii Go.
Around the ball club offices things
will be rather duh for the next }es
days. bat Detroits loss viii be Pom
Itiac's--the town, not the institution
gain. Messrs II Tnthin and A.
sheahan, whose presence sheds sun
shine in The Nayin Field workshops
on the gloomy winter Nays. departed
this morning to reduce the rabbit
population oi Oakland county. They
were accompanied By Messrs. stanagc
and Coyeleskie and Mr.. Tuthirs
new gun ease.