Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1920-04-22
BASEBALL GETS
START SATURDAY
Republics Will Clash with Red
McKee's Saginaw Aces
in Opener.
COLLEGE TO MEET ADRIAN
Truckmakers To Battle Leaguers for
Second Time in Game Sunday
Afternoon.

Troubles and worries will be
thrown to the winds Saturday for the
day at least, as the baseball season
will be opened with more baseball,
and baseball of better quality than
is usually seen in Alma this early in
the year. The Alma Republics, semi
pro champs of the state last year,
will clash Saturday afternoon with
the Saginaw Aces, champions of the
Michigan Ontario league last season
and the same afternoon the Alma
College aggregation will open the
season with the Adrian College nine
in the first Michigan Intercollegiate
bout of the year.
The Aces, who are to meet the
Truckmakers Saturday and again
on Sunday, arrived here Tuesday
morning, with "Red" Mckee, mana
ger, to begin their spring training on
Republic field, and since then Mckee
has been putting his hopefuls through
the PAGES in great style. The short
training season of the Aces is de-
manding that some strenuous work
outs be held, in order that the Aces
will be in good shape for the opening
of the league season on May IL, and
Manager Mckee expects to give his
cohorts some long workouts each day
on Republic field TO get them in the
best of condition for the opening of
the season.
Mckee, it is evident to those who
have watched the Aces in their work
outs thus far, has gathered together
fine bunch of baseball artists, who
should form highly capable aggreg-
alton. AS result, it is expected
that they will be strong enough to
give the Republics some hard games
in the six preseason bouts which the
Aces have listed with the Truck
makers.
The Alma Republics will send a
strong aggregation onto the field to
battle with the Saginawans in the
coming games, which will give the
local fans the first opportunity of the
year to see the class Of the nine that
Manager Olmstead will lead this year
in the Interstate Industrial league
The team that will face the Aces
Saturday and Sunday will contain
several men who performed with the
Truckers last season, but there will
be several new men in the lineup
with whom local baseball fans are
not familiar. Among these are La
Fluer Of the Pacific Coast league.
Loney of the st. Paul American AS
sociation nine, Miedell, former catch
er for the Nashville Southern league
team; Doyle of the Detroit Maxwells,
and others.
Just what the lineup of the Truck
makers will be for the opening game
on Republic field Saturday afternoon
will be is not known, but it is rather
expected that it will be as follows:
Miedell, catcher; Hagerman, pitch;
Lafuer, first; Tooley, second; Loney.
third; NJ. Smith, short; and Choinard.
Oakes, and Becker or Desmond in the
outfield.
The Alma College aggregation will
also open the season in Alma Satur-
day afternoon, meeting the Adrian
College outfit on Davis field. The
game will be the first NJ. |. A. A.
bout of the year, and it is expected
that Crittenden, star HEAVIER for the
Maroon and Cream, will be, selected
for mound duty.
The fpsilanti Normal game sched-
uled for last Saturday was called off
by the Teachers because of the poor
condition Of the field at Ypsi. To
offset the loss of this game Coach
Wood arranged few inning practice
games Saturday with the Republics,
which brought forth some glaring de-
fects in his team, which he hopes to
have corrected before the Adrianites
come Saturday.
The college fans are confident that
the collegians will be able to down
the Adrian team in the first NJ. /. A.
A. game, and felt just as certain that
the Maroon and Cream will be able
to show strength enough in the NJ. /.
A. A. to be up in the running for the
title when the final games are played
at Albion in June.