The Washington times., 1917-02-21
THIRTY.FIVE YANKS
WILLBE AT MACON
Ten Players viii Have to Be
Dropped BY May IS, Max .
ing Scrap Sure.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-Business
Manager Harry Sparrow has made ay-
rangements for transporting thirty
FIVE Yankees to the training camp At
Macon, Ca He sent orders to the
road fares.
Bill Donovan, the Yankees eapabls
leader; and Trainer Duggan, Coach
Charles Farrell, Pitchers Caldwell.
Mogridge and Ferguson, Catcher
Nunamaker, and seven baseball
writer's will leave here In Sparrow's
care Saturday afternoon. They Will
travel on the seaboard Air Line lin
tied, which pulls out OF the PennsyL
vania station at 3:04 o'clock.
Donovsn's father will join the party
at Philadelphia. Maisel. Russell. and
Scout Joe Kelley will board the tram
at Baltimore, while Robert McGraw.
the University OF Colorado pitcher,
will report to Donovan az Washing
ton.
Fourteen More Go.
Meanwhile fourteen other Yankees
will leave their homes in time to AZ
rive at Macon next Monday. Thsss
men include Catchers Alexander, Wal
ters, Shaw. and Olsen; Pitchers cul-
lop, Enright, Love, Monroe, Piereey,
Ross, shocker, and Tipple; also our
felders Gilhooley and Hendrix.
A week from Saturday the rest OF
the players will start for the trails
ing camp. They are Frank Baker,
Peckinpaugh, Pipp, Magee, Aragcn,
Fisher. Gedeon, Baumann. High, E.
Miller, Knaupp, and Bsnkston- Tip
pie, Baumann, and Bankston have not
signed contracts yet. but the club Of
fcials say that they will be pn fhs
firing line when the time comes
Inasmuch as ten players must b
dropped before May Is in order to
comply with the American League
twenty-five limit, the newcomers wnl
have to show something of q senss-
tional nature at Macon to receive ssEi-
Gus consideration.
who the New Ones Ass.
The new men are Ferguson. q right
handed pitcher, who halls from
Bloomfield, N. J., and has made q
name for himself in the semi-pro
ranks; McGraw, another right handler.
who was bagged by the Yankees
scouts after much lively bidding for
his services by several rival major
league clubs; Enright, who pitched
good ball for the Newarks last year.
Monroe. q boxman who was drafted
from Memphis, and is a real giant,
standing six feet six inches In his
stocking and Weighing 204 pounds;
Shaw, a young catcher from the Ma
con club; Olsen, another kid back
stop from Pensacola, who was recon-
mended by Scout Robert Gilks. the
discoverer Of Al Walters; BankstoB,
an outfielder who made a good record
with the Richmond club last year,
and KnaupR a crack second baseman,
who played with the New Orleans
Southern Association team in 1916.
Trio Bought In HsIs.
Piercey, Ross, and Tipple are pitch
ers who were purchased by Colonel
Rupert and Captain Huston in 1915,
but were sent to the minors to gain
more experience.
Piercey showed considerable quail
ity as a member of the Salt Lake
team in the Pacific Coast League last
season, while Ross and Tipple wore
Richmond club uniforms
- Aragon, the lively Cuban third base
man; Elmer Miller and Hsndryx, out
felders, and Urban Shocker, the spit
ball expert, were called back from
International League clubs last Sep
tember when the Yankees had been
shot to pieces.
ssIIm, Caldwell Pronisea.
Ray Caldwell evidently has coma
to his senses. The great pitcher
says that he has turned over Q new
leaf. and will obey the rules Of dis
cipline in future. He was suspended
without pay last summer, and re-
mained idle the rest of the campaign.
Caldwell also tripped up several
times while Frank Chance was man
aging the Yankees, so that the fans
must be convinced that he means
business before they will again rsA
gard him with favor. The fact that
Rupert and Huston refused to trade
Caldwell after his suspension last
summer made the famous boxman
realize that he would have TO earn
his salary in a Yankee uniform or
go into retirement
Lost Half sPlary.
Caldwell lost about half of his
$4,000 salary last year. He is near
ing the end OF his career on the
diamond and his friends have advised
him to buckle down to hard work.
II the slim curve artist behaves
himself this year and pitches as well
as he knows how, there isn't a doubt
that the Yankees will make great
fight for the pennant. Caldwell can
win back his former popularity by
displaying energy and common sense
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