The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-03-10
Left Side of Infield Is
New Chiefs Main
Worry
TEAM IS DANGEROUS


NEW YORK.. March iOok "ut
for the pIraIcs'
Some years ago when Fred
,larkrS grand old team was . iat.
tor 10 he considered in N1unhhl
league pcnuunt iuccg This was
familiar cry around the old circuit
Rut the Pirates of 10 odd years
ago are but fond memory In
SmokctoWn now "a memory io.
frcshcd 10y tho presence ~ only w"
faces that were Identified with the
Pittsburgh champions Of 1909 th"
smiling Visagcs of Gcnrso Mooney
Gibson. the now manager uf the
team. ana the veteran liluc Adams
Clarke, Wagner. Leach Hyatt
Lever, CamuiH. lettiold phillips
and the others have passed along
For y good many years Barney
Drcyfuss and hts various managers
tried "a build up another peuuhut
winning team 10 no avail. The IT
rates have come. looked hud have
been conquered.
Feared This Year.
But 1920 IN another year Ana
once again the old familiar warning
look out for the Pirates * be
ing heard around the national
league
stepping into the shoes left va
cant by Hugo Bczdck. who rcnlly
did much To put new blood and liio
into the pittsburgh club and whose
efforts were always untiring, George
Gibson has inherited "A ban club that
at this early time looks To b" Ger
tain contender FOR the National
league pcnuant.
The Pirates are not a sensational
outfit u isn't that But they have
u whole lot Of class, particularly in
pitching and In the outficld, and
they look like "A team Of players with
much latent ability I'm other words,
the Pirates appear To have tho stuff
in them. and their chances depend
on whether or not Mooney Gib-
son can bring 1t out
Tho squad Gibson has in training
at Hot Springs Ark, Is not the big.
gest squad In the land of Dixie, but
from this distance II lOokB Ike "a
mighty promising one.
One Of Hest putficids.
The Pirate outficld. with the great
MoV Carey, the agile, hard hitting
Billy Southworth ana George Whit
tod and Casey Stcngel, two players
Of sterling quality. TX one of the best
in tho National league better out
field. for Instance. than Chicago can
boast of
The pitching starr. headed 10y
Cooper, one OF the best southpaws In
the business, is "a staff OF undouhted
Glass. and there II apparently bit
Of latent ability here, too. The vet
eran Babe Adams, n remarkable
come back; E1rl Hamilton. who may
or may not be affected by the ban
on pitching freaks, hut who Is never
thcless n good pitcher. Frank Mil
Ter. Harold Carlson. Charley Pandcr
and &. T., I'm win bear up the bur
den of hcayiug the pin Tor the
SmclSetoNn gang j II Wtsncr. \
Noungytcr secured by the Pirates hat,
last summer, and Frank licrhst, an.
other youthful twirlcr. recently pur.
chased from Waterbury are good
pitching prospects. 70 say the least
Pittsburgh IN plentifully supplied
with pitching talent
Walter schmidt. one Of the hcs
Catchers I'm the National league To-
day. will de- the bulk uf the worn
behind the bat lie Is a catcher u
the Rlriden- -SCh3lk -SnN d,r-C Chanl
variety IA fellow who can eaten IL,
games season If called upon 10 a.
30 without letting his playing las
Schmidt H. the our-mdO Catchlui
STAFF OF the Buccos Ills assiStan
Is the veteran "Nig" Clarke, who IA
been krocfinE around In haschai
for many years Then too, Gahsc'
h.mscif could ~ I'm there and wor,
II necessary
Like clark Griffin Gibsnu', nrnh