New-York tribune., 1919-03-31
Dutch Leonard
VIII Not Sign
With Yankees
Left-Hander Turns Down
an Offer Bigger Than
Former Red Sox Salary
By w. o. Mcclellan

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March S0.-l
The provisional lineup with which the
Yankees will start the season of 1919
when the mob gathers in the lee of
Ceogan's Bluff will look something like
this:
Halas, right field; Peckinpaugh,
shortstop; Pipp, first base; Baker. third
base; Pratt, second base; Lewis, left
field; Bodie, centre field; Hannah or
Ruel, catcher; Thormahlen, Shawkey,
Quinn or Mogridge, pitcher.
Manager Miller Higgins practically
has decided that the man who wins the
extra outfeld position will be lead-of
man for the team, and right now the
dope points to young HAAS, OF the
United States navy and the University
Of illinois. Halas is a good fielder,
with fine whip for winding them in.
He is perhaps one of the fastest lads
in the platoon on the bases, and has
cool noodle for youngster.
The batting ability of the young re-
cruit who is about to become a regu-
lar-and the batting ability is of quite
some importance-ls still problematic.
He slams from either side, and does
not yet know which side he likes bet.
ter for the curved balls. Manager
Huggins is working to correct his bat
ting faults. If he succeeds Halas will
be punching the clock regularly. Tho
position is not cinched as yet, but
Ealas seems to have the lead for it,
The lad shaped up we'll in the Satur-
day game with the Brooklyn Lallapa-
loosas. He showed that he had the
speed to beat bunt, and his fielding
was all that could be asked under the
geodetlc and atmospheric conditions
highbrow stuff contributed by Pro-
. fessor Joe Kelly, of Baltimore.
Your correspondent was baked on
bunch of literature on this game by
wire trouble from the unreasonable
blizzards. Said billiards. were said TO
have been caused by. frosty glances
cast at persons humbly asking service
from government controlled railroads
and telegraph lines.
O'Doul Pinch Hitter
Otherwise there would have been
considerable language over the fact
that Francis Xavier O'Doul. the un~
tanned and untamable native son, going
in as pinch hitter, laced out two
Dagger and SKINNED around the sacks
so rapidly that Uncle Robbie's La1la-
/ paloosas went wild for an inning. Also
we would have trilled of the first of
the alliterative double plays, Peckin-
paugh to Pratt to Pipp. Kruger was
caught and mangled in the unmerciful
mechanism of this combination in the
fifth.
Dutch Leonard will not be with the
YankS this vpar from ,raeart ,j;c.
tions. Manager Higgins has offered
hlm sum far in excess of that paid
him by the Red Sox and the armistice
is off as far as the Californian is con
cerned. Hug feels that he has all the
pitching material he needs booked up
already. It looks as though the pitch
ers mentioned in the lineup above will
be doing the work for the year Three
or four boxmen who can work regu-
larly-this seems to be Huggins's
strategy at present
This tentative lineup stuff is purely
tentative. Starting this week the
Yankee platoon will be driven right
over the jumps, and those who slump
VIII slump themselves right out OF
their places. Higgins wants to see
the sparks begin to fly.
Squire Ebbets, Of Flatbush, is around
town with long face to-day. He was
forced to return two admissions at the
game yesterday. An old gentleman and
wife followed the crowd to South Side
Park under the impression that thev
were going to the ostrich farm. When
they found nothing but a couple of biz
league ball teams disportine on the
diamond they approached the box Office
where the squire was lingering the
gate receipts.
I'VE want our money back" said the
old gentleman. 1--WE came to sec the
/ i, J
II you and your good wife will re-
man here few moments" said the
squire persuasively, "you will see birds
tnat are more wonderful than the
ostrich. | refer to the Brooklyn Lalja-
paloosas. l can testify to the fact that
one OF them can eat more than anv
ostrlch that ever prowled the desert.
At tines they, too, like the ostrich,
bury their heads in the sand and refusa
to see the most reasonable things. such
as cut in salary"
Ebbets Gives Up Money
But the old gentleman was obdurate
and the good squire sighed as he
handed back S1.70 in dimes.
The secret of just how much Harry
Frazee Will pay Babe Ruth for three
years leaked out while the fence bust
ing pltcner was travelling south on the
neaooard line. The moral of the story
,''". 10 q leA Ae-ndn0ed pitcher is not to
be trusted alone travelling south with
a secret 1t is bound to lust bust ont
even as a ball that the Babe busts ON
the nose busts against the centre feid
wall ''e'o
The Babe was naturally lonely and
turned to the porter for solace and
conversation. The Senegambiaf,. scenf-
ing large return in silver or evpn -,
greenbacks, stuck close TO the south-
paw and dusted him of every honr ar
so. "
AS the train drew into the station
Ine babe summoned the Senecanabian
Inc porter was one smile from ear IN
ear and came with palm extended. Tho
Babe drew legal paper from his noel
ee ana handed 1t to the porter.
Il wouldn't show that to anvbodv
else" said the Babe. "But YOU'VE been
so darned nice that want Won 10 hava
look at it and I jest got to she.w IL
to somebody. This here with ali ths
curley-cues on it is the signature os
barry Frazee. Hos a big guy in New
York and Boston. He owns most of
broadway and whole hunk of I've.
mont Street. You can't walk across the
brooklyn Bridge or cross Boston Com
mon without seeing him about it. This
mere other signature, kind of plaintiffs
but written pretty big. that's mine.
You SEQ what it says here. That's
ten thousand bucks a year for faree