New-York tribune., 1918-03-27
Yankee Colts
Show Rupert
Real Barrage
Colonel Impressed With
Spirit and Pepper Higgins
Has Instilled in Athletes
By C. A. Taylor

MACON, Ga, March 26.--The pres
encc of Colonel Jacob Rupert, half
owner of the Yankees, put large
punches of vim into the two practice
sessions held to-day. The bat bag is
naturally essential to we'll equipped
baseball club, but the old dough bag is
the greatest thing after all.
The sight of the colonel and the
knowledge that bis was the hand that
would deal out the sheckels during the
coming campaign inspired the Higgins
men with a superabundance of pep
and life. Even the quiet and orderly
Roger Peckinpaugh broke loose with
line of jabber that could be heard all
over the field.
Despite the long and tiresome jour
ney the colonel had from the big burg
he was among the first to reach the
field III the morning and he stuck
1t out, too, although there was nothing
but the ordinary routine of batting
practice followed by brief warming
up on the part of the inhelders.
Colonel Watches Ping and Del
The work Of Derrll Pratt and Ping
Bodie with the bludgeon of course at
tracted the greater part of the colo
neHs attention, but he looked over all
OF the youngsters carefully, and in
qulred most anxously about the con-
dltion of the members of his pitching
staff, with especial reference to the
youngsters whom he has corralled
from the minors.
Of the younger pitchers, the colonel
found Alvah Bowman suffering from a
sore arm. In fact, the twiring brigade
is in such shape now that Higgins had
only two pitchers able to work in the
afternoon slX-lnnlng encounter
1t is SAID that the next move of the
Yankee manager will be to get hold of
seasoned twirer. AS the colonel put
1t this morning:
THAT fellow Huggins is thinking ali
the time, and it wouldn't surprise me a
bit to have him come to me in day or
SO and say, I want you to try to land
such and such pitcher. He will have
inquired out, too, the best way to get the
man he is after. He showed his clever
ness IN the Bodie deal. Connie Mack
wanted first bascman if he let Ping
go. Higgins promptly grabbed Georee
Burns, and the deed was done"
The game in the afternoon was
one OF those old-5ime, ht-the ball
out-of-the-lot affairs, with the Yanni-
gans dong by far the major part of
the fence breaking. For the second dav
IN succession the yearlings had the
satlsfactlon of defeating the veterans.
lhey started a bombardment in the
third inning of to-day's contest that
netted them eight runs and opened the
eyes OF the colonel to the fact that
pefhaps all the Pratts and Bodies we're
not among the select as at present
constituted, but cxnected coon - Lo
there.
Bob McGraw Proves Real slugger
Bob McGraw, who IS supposed to be
only a pitcher, albeit one of much
promise, began the fateful stanza With
a doubie over the short right field
renee: and then. after everybody on
n ms side had had whack at the ball.
Bob came up for his second swat Of
the inning. with three men on the
bases and two men out This time the
Cub, drove the ball far over Miller's
head in centre and pulled up at Sec
ond with all the sacks empted clean
During, the onslaught on Herb
I,hormahlen, who occupied the box for
the regulars, Old Zim Beck got a triple
and Wick and Lamar made singles. Two
errors on the part of Pratt helped
along the discontinue Of CAPTAIN
Peckinpaugh's boys.
The Yankees will play the 124th In
fantry at Camp Wheeler tomorrow.
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Walters (unassisted) Struck out-By Mnt;raw
Bases on bas-on McGraw . Hit batsmen.1;y
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