Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-26
CHICAGO NATIONAL
 LEAGUE CLUB WILL
 PLAY HERE APRIL F
Famous Stars, Including Alex ander. to Appear Against
 Local Team

The Chicago National League Ball club, known as the Cubs, which won the pennant in their league last year and played and were defeated by the Boston Red SOx for the worlds cham pionship, will appear in Bisbee on Saturday, April 12.
 The identical team, with all the stars that engaged in this famous battle. will positively appear here on that date They will also be piloted by Fred Mitchell, president of the Chicago National League Ball club and also manager Of his own team
 Under the contract signed yesterday with John O. Seys, secretary of the club, who came here from Chicago to complete arrangements with c. D. Pittman, Of the C. & A. for the exhibi- tiOn game Mitchell will be here in uniform and guide his athletes in their contest with the local club
 Expect Alexander
 Grover Cleveland Alexander, looked upon as the greatest of all pitchers of all times and who has been a sergeant with the S9th division with the army of occupation, will be among those present in the event he is discharged from service in time to make the spring training trip, which is pfaetf- caIly a certainty. His battery mate, Catcher William Killifer, jr., also sergeant and only recently discharged, also will be seen here. The Chicago club paid the Philadelphia club S50,000 for these two players alone
 Others who will be here will be Fred Merkle, first baseman of the New York Giants for many years; Charles J. HOllocher, by far the most sensa- tiOnal young shOrtstOp who graduated from the minors in 20 years; ~Dode" Paskert, center fielder and a veteran in the big league; Leslie Mann, left fielder and who has been athletic in- structor at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, for two winters and who will be out Of the service March l; Max Flack, right fielder; Turner Barber, another outfielder for whom the Cubs paid the Baltimore club S15,OO0.
 Other Stars Coming
 Charles Pick, purchased from the San Francisco club and who played great ball in the worlds series: Charles Deal, member of the Boston Braves the year they defeated me Athletics four straight games in the worlds series; Bill McCabe, a young ster who is making a try for the big show; James Vaughn. the champion left handed pitcher of the National league last season and who stands SIX feet four inches and weighs over 200 pounds; George Tyler, another lefty who was a star fn the worlds series; Claude Hendrix, who wonE % games and lost last season; Phil Douglas, six feet four and a half inches in height and weighing 200 pounds; Speed Martin ', another Coast league pitcher purchased from Oak land this winter; Peter Kilduff, an in- fielder khO was in the navy ah last season; King Lear, who may be the Cubs regular second sacker- He was farmed to Toronto last year and won the pennant for that club in the Inter national league hitting home run in the last game of the season which meant victory
 Besides these great athletes there will be five well known newspaper men in the party They include James Crusinberry of the Tribune; Charles Dryden Of the Herald-Exam- iner, Harry Nelly of the American, Oscar c. ReiehOW Of the Daily News. and Malcolm MacLean Of the Evening Post