Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-07
GRAYS TO HAVE
Ne VI BATTERY FOR
SUNDAYS CAME
Manager PadiIIa Imports Back
stop From Santa Fe to Take
Place of Nose Chavez
Whose Arm is Weakened,

There will be two strangers in the
local lineup when the Grays play the
Winslow, AriZ.. Giants here next sun
day But there won't be anything
mysterious about them, Manager Dan
Padilla of the Grays explained in an
nouncing the changes in his team.
Their records are known to him and
he asserted that they would bring
positive strength to the team.
The new catcher is Pablo Griego of
Santa Fe. He is a former Albuquer-
nuean, but recently has been living In
the Ancient City. lie played here
with the Santa Fee White SoX when
they were defeated by the Grays, and
made good showing. Griego will
replace Nose Chavez. Padilla doesn't
think there is better backstop i'm
New Mexico than Chavez, but his
pegging arm has weakened and the
White SoX stole a gOodIy number of
bases. Chavez recognized his short
coming and asked to be shifted to an
other position, hoping that his whip
would regain its old-tme power. He
will play either at first base or in the
outfield,
The Grays have lost owen Smauld-
ing, the dusky hurler and McCague,
-
with the railroad team Manager Pa
dilla was undecided who would take
McCague's place at first unless it was
Nose Chavez. but he has a pitching
staff of three barragc layers to make
his pitching selection from. One of
the tWirlers is Il newcomer and, ac-
cording to Padilla. appears to have
all that Is necessary lie is Marquee.
He has played on the La Junta, Colo,
team and also at SocOrro. Gonzales,
the Gray portsideT, is going good. and
Sandoval, another highlander is
pronounced by Padilla to be in con-
dtion to travel nine innings at top
speed,
The Giants were to have played
here on May 26 but the game was
postponed on account of the fact that
the field was soft and next Sunday
was set as the date of their coming
According to word from Winslow,
the Giants are a "miXed" team. The
informant was conservative. The
lineup, sent to Padilla sounds like the
roll call of the league Of nations, in
Guiding Indians, japanese and several
other nationalities. 1t also includes
several tar babies" who. Padilla was
told, are big leaguers IN everything
nut color Ihat was said to be the
only reason that Connie Mack did not
find them long ago.
Here is the lineup for the Giants:
Catchers, Stewart, II. Acoya and Rus
sian; pitchers, Baca, Lucas and Rus
sell; infielders, McCoo. Acoya, Horne
and Schamazu; outfielders. Simpson
Russian and Lewis.
7. r, simpson, assistant manager Of
the Giants. wrote that the Giants had
been strengthened in the last week
by the merging of several teams at
Winslow, The town now has two rep
resentative teams-the Giants and the
Shopmen-and the fans there have
continuous sunday baseball. one team
playing at home while the other is
AWAY.
The Barelas field where the game
will be played, was leased yesterday
by the Gray manager and the work
Of fencing the ground will be started
next week. When the field has been
enclosed Padilla intends to bring a
crack soldier team here from Fort
Bliss, Tex, near El Paso, for the
opening of the park.