The Daily Missoulian., 1918-04-14

ift tcliil btihS luIlHtI CIlIpltl peCuuSt
of illness in the camp. though the re-
cruits may come through for Fielder
Jones, whose lack Of experienced
pitchers will prove an additional ham
dicap. Philadelphia also needs pitch
ers, two nfielders and an outfieder,
Burns, Gardner and Walker being the
only experienced players. with Meyers
and Gregg the mound relianccs.
In the National Circuit.
The pennant- winning Giants are cas-
| ily the strongest team in John Kenneth
! Tener's league. second base excepted.
! Holke Is back on first Doyle on sec
ond, Fletcher Mt short, Zimmerman at
third. with Kauff. Burns and Young
the regular outfclders. The best pitch
ing staff in the National league will
work at the Polo grounds regularly,
1t being composed OF Schupp. Benton,
Sallee Anderson, Tesreau. Perritt and
Dcmaree, with Rariden and McCarty,
Catchers. ase. z@
Chicago has u strong pitching staff,
with Alexander, Tyler, Douglas,
Vaughn. Hendryx and Aldridge. The
| Cubs tnfieid Is not up to snuff, being
composed of Merkle, kilduff. Worth
man or Hollocher and Charley Deal.
with Mann, Paskert and Flack In the
outfield. 1t will also take n lot of
good pitching to pull that weak-batting
crew up in front and Alexander will
surely earn his salt this season.
Boston does not figure very, high, as
StallinEs lacks material, though he has
such pitchers as Hughes, Nehf, Ragan
and Rudolph, with konetchy on first.
Herxog on second, Rawlings at short
and Carlisle Smith at third. Tha out
field Is composed of quartet of young
stcrs, Kelley. Bailey. Massey and Wick
land, while the catching staff is weak.
/ Brooklyn has Otto Miller and krue-
ger behind the bat, Pfeffer. Mamaux.
lCoombs and Cheney as pitching main
stays. Daubert on first. O'Mara on see
ond, Olson at short and O'Rourke at
third, and Myers, Johnston and Hick
man in the outfield, with Xack Wheat
the teams leading slugger u holdout
The infield is weak and the, team will
hardly get into the first division
Philadelphia may give the other
teams IA run if all the holdouts re-
port, in spite of the loss of Kiliifer
Alexander, RiNey, Pasket and Williams
Ludcrus. MCGaftigan and Stock COM
pose the inficld. with the outfield a
dubious quality. though Whitted and
Crarath seem sure of places. The
pitchers are Bender. Mayer, Oeschger
Tincup and a bunch of recruits, will
Burns and Adams behind the bat.
ST. Louis is not counted on very
heavily, though Hendricks possesses
some good pitchers in May, Meadows
IIorstman, Ames and Watson. a faii
catching staff with Gonzales and Sny-
der and two good outfielders in Jach
Smith and Cruise. The infield is rath'
cr weak at bat and liable to blow.
Cincinnati has a heavy hitting buncl
of players, such rs Chase, Groh, Rousch
the leading sluggors OF the Nattona
, league in 1917, Neale, Wingo and Grit
fifth and 4 couple good pitchers II
, Schneider and ReSan. but will hardl,
be IA contender.
/ Il Pittsburgh may give some OF th'
other teams a fight wi h Cooper. Carl
son, Harmon, Evans, Miller and Jacob
in the box but the infield looks weak
with Cutshaw and Mollwitz the onl.
j. experienced players and Max Care.
, and Stengcl the only reliable outtield
I Iers,
: Hang on to Players
l. The speeding up OF Uncle sam
|. war machinery, which is promised a
a result of the great spring drives il
France, will probably influence ma
;, jor league club owners to cling TO re
lcruit players as long rs possible, &C
s ,cordinc to baseball men today.
ri Practically every one of the l6 ma
4 jor league clubs have players liste
! in class la of the draft. not few .
'e whom can be classed as regulars. A
n OF these players may be called int
>, service and in such an event gapin
n holes will be left in the lineups Of som
teams.
s, For this reason, many "a recrn