New Britain herald., 1919-03-25
YANKEES ROCKIES
 DISPLAY FINE FORM
Col(S Show Some Classy Work in
 PfactlCe at Jacksonville, Fla.

Hiorneter hitting 85 in the outfeld 1 N"l1o+'ohs such as every basebsl1
 manager yearns ion on Southern
 raining trips, greeted the Yankees
 Mheh they began their work at Soutl olde Park yesterday. Tven+v-Fo.,r
 players started the process of condi- trohlng themselves for the American
 League season, and they lost no time ; 3oout It, for two sessions were beId morning and afternoon. A sinoi,ar ! program will be followed even on the
 days which call for contests with Ina ! Brooklyns. t-+ " Among the two dozen athletes who l got going under the direction of Miller Huggins, Bob Connery. Pat OConner and Joe Kelley was Ernest nhore, recently an Ensign in the navy 1 and before that a pitcher for the Red 1 oox Shore and BHl Lamar en5oyed
 the distinction of being the only players on the field who were not under contract.
 In baseball parlance Shore is the common or garden variety of hold ou's, but Higgins says that he will not De Tn that class for long, as he ex- 1 poets the pitcher to sign up tomorrow morning. Connery, who was sent to California to see Dutch Leonard, the only other hofdout reports nothing new in that direction. Huggins does not appear to be perturbed over the attitude of the other hurler acquired ! from the Red Sox in the big trade Lamar Joins Team, Lamar, who was with the Yankees for spell before he went into the 1 army, had been lost sight of by the home office. He was not expected here.
 Somebody thought that Lamar still
 was in service or that he had been re- leased by the club, but at any rate when the Tanks got to the Burbridge
 last night there was Lamar just as
 big as life, asking where he stood.
 Higgins said last evening that La,
 mars affairs with the club had been.
 strengthened out and that he would
 remain. In the little work he did as
 a Yankee in the fall of 1917, Lamar
 showed up mighty well. Fewster, the
 infielder who came with him from Baltimore, has yet to report. s.
 The men who were on the job yesterday were Pitchers Shawkey, Mogridge, ThoTma hlen, Russell, Shore, Nelson, Quinn, O'Doul, Brady, 5Schnei- der and Ferguson. Catchers Hannah, Reul and Baldwin. Infielders Pratt, Peckinpaugh, Ward and Mooers Out fielders Bodie, Halas Tod Miller Elmers Miller, Lamar and Kane.
 The work was of a far more ad- 1anced type than the club usually springs on the first few days of prac- tice. This is the latest the men have begun spring training since they be-. came professionals, and conditions warranted their letting loose wltn more vim than they would be per- m;.ted to spill over the dieron;s along about tIle first oS March.
 Kane and Haias Look G<yotl.
 Young Kane, making his first trip with tic Yankees, handled himself like a real outfelder and showed a world of speed. HaIas who comes to the club with 8 reputation as an all round athlete, lcreezed around the outer works like the breath of spring, Unless we are very much wrong this boy is going to stick, for he looks every inch the ball player and handles himself like one. Just how good he will be against major league pitching is q question which may be solved in part when the Tanks play their series with Brooklyn, which begins at South Side Park on Saturday.
 The Yankees this year, like the Su- perbas, have two Millers, both out felders. One is Elmer, who has been with the club, on and off, for the last three years. The other is Tod, a new conner from Richm ond of the Virginia League. Tod is collegian from Richmond College, and there is sill E some doubt whether he belongs to the Yankees or the Boston Nationals, a which insist that they bought him last year.
 However the Braves failed to send Tod a contract by March 1. He got summ onses from both the Yankees and the Braves later, and his having reported here may be taken as an irl- dication that he likes New York better than Boston.
 Mooers, another recruit from Rich mond. handled himself well in the in,,' field alongside of Ward.
 Nelson's frs5 name is Luther, and he halls from NJ em phis. He is a husky lad with a lot of confidence, but in that respect he must run second to O'Doul. the young hurler from the Pacific coast. If breeziness and the I'm -here-E o-stick attitude count for anything, this lad is a Yankee for the rest of the year.
 Brady. back from Toledo, looks stronger and heavier than ever
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