The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-13
MOBILE WILL HAVE ! SEVEN OLD PLAYERS.
 ! BACK IN LINEUP
Eighteen Recruits to Report for Training-Many Im-
 prOvements Planned

Mobile, January 12.-( (Spe- cial. )-Seven players who per formed with the Mobile, club last season will be in the line up this season, according to an- nouncement of John D. Logan, president of the Mobile Base ball Corporation.
 Three additional players have been procured, One is catcher of Class A ranking and the other two are mounds men. One of the new twir1ers will make his debut in organized baseball with the Mobile club this season and, according to President Logan, has more smoke than Walter Johnson" The names of the new acquisitions will not signed, he Stated.
 The seven players who will surely perform with the local club this season are Coleman, manager and catcher Golyin, first base; McMillan, shortstop; Tutwiler, left field; Ducote. right field Fulton and Ellis pitchers.
 The club will, in alL probability. user in its training season with IS recruits. the maximum number allowed by Southern Association regulations. With in 30 days the club will be cut to Is men, who will be carried on the roster throughout the season. Twelve of the IS men who will report for. initial prac- : tice were Class A players in 1919 and the remaining six Class B players.
 Extensive improvements in the seat ing facilities at the Southern League baseball park, which will make possi- ble the accommoda ton of $500 specta- tors, are proposed by John. D. Logan, president of the Mobile Baseball Cor poration. Plans for the proposed inn provements. which includes the build ing of new wooden grandstand with a seating capacity of 4400. will be sub mitted to the directors at a meeting to be held Tuesday night at 7:3O o'clock at the Battle House.
 According to the present plans the new ,grandstand is to be erected on the site of the old stand, which was burned to the ground last September. The in- dividuaI chairs will be discarded and modern boxes, with seating capacities of from $50 to 300 will be constructed in their stead The grandstand will be 325 feel long and constructed. in half octagonal shape having four sides This would make it an angular semi circle back of home plate.
 The white bleachers, with a seating 2 capacity of from 1000 to 1900 will be rebuilt and moved nearer the left field foul line, while the negro grandstand a nd h1nap will 1a ar |, the right field line. Under. the preesnt plans the several stands will be posted in half-circle and while the playing space in foul territory will be decreased the new arrangement will materially increase the seating accommodations
 Il is proposed to build the two club houses. one for the home team and the other for the visiting players under the main grandstand. League regula tions make it necessary to provide a separate clubhouse for the visiting team. The new arrangement will cause the present clubhouse to be. torn down to give way for the enlarged seating accommoda tions.
 President Logan will also presen- plans to the directors for the improve ment of ,the diamond. From 50 to 100 loads of red clay will be used on the int field to provide fast fielding surface The outfield will also be worked on. If is palnned to start the work on the fielh early next week
 Admission and seating prices, which are regulated by Southern Association rules, were announced by President To gan yesterday. Grandstand seats, both colored and white. will cost 65 cents Box seats will be $1. White and colored bleacher seats will cost 40 cents. These prices include both war tax and leagus tax.
 "The prospects for a pennant win ming team are better this year than they have been in several seasons past said MT. Logan in discussing the sea sons outlook. Tt has never been my policy to predict a pennant winning teams but we will have the material this season to put up a better showing than has been evidenced by the early season outlook in several years past