The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-06
'TNItZAN' VARY AVS loss
10 Nv IItIT IBN WICHITA.

WICHITA. March with more
| Than 90 players on the list TO rCpor:
/ here for training March "a. most of
| them veterans of last years team,
! owner Frank Ishcll and Manager
Joe Berger. ~ the witches are OK
! trcmoly optimistic about the base
| ball outlook FOR the coming scason.
| Tulsa such hot race for the pen
uant last year viii be back
The lone exception Is "Tarllu"
Yarynn. almost "a whole team In
| himself This great slugger. the most
sennltlounl homerun hitter that the
Western league has ever turned out.
| Is training with tho Chicago White
SoN and according 10 reports win
stick with the major lcaguers. This
leaves big hole In the catching de-
partmont which Isbell must fiji In
order to have his team In the run
ming from the start, pat llalcy for
mcr Philadelphia American and
Milwaukee haCkstop will be depend
cd upon To take YaI~ins place.
llaley's arm was weak mst year
however ana II * uncertain whether
he has fully recovered his strength.
Wichita should have u Corking
good infield built around Joe Berg-
or. who has been heading the West
crn league shortstoppcrE for three
years. Berger will have Butler. a
| nice fielder and dangerous hitter on
| his right and Washburn at second
| Washhurn slipped In his work last
/ year but ig n very capable fielder
| and long distance hitter. lie is due
| for big year this season by his
work on the yonst whore he played
winter ball. ~ first viii bc tho vet
Gran Fred Reck, brilliant fielder and
| slugger second only To Naryan.
| Beck hit 80 homors last year exceed
| ing Dll former Western league marks
/ hut his feat was lost sight OF in var
| vans great work Mcdowell, Me
Donald. Fitzgerald, Hughes and
! Griswuld. your SStcrs with more or
less professional experience, will try
| to break into this veteran COmhi-
nation. Mcdowell Ia slugRing first
Sacltor whom lsbcll picked up In a
winter lcgEue in California. He is
counted upon ~ n regular, Hughes
| and Fitzgerald are promising young
stc~s from tho south Dakota league.
Tho outficld will also have several
vots Carl East has been returned
| hv tho chicago white SoN ana will
! play right firld East led the league
in hitting although not playing I'm
| as many games as Naryan, no ~
| usually regarded ns tho real leader.
| Griffin. smith. Blakrsly and Cnulou
| ~ last years uutficld. viii all try
/ for hcrths. Smith and Rlakeslv are
the likolicst prospects Smith played
| regularly in center last year, while
| BlakCsly came mp from the Western
association and made a big hit right
! from the start I'm the three weeks he
! played at the close or the season
There ar" also % number NJ young
Stcrs to try for the outficld. among
them Waggoncr and Carr Tho pitch
iug staff contains number Of cN-
poricnCod Western lCaguors. Mus
ser, Gregory ana Bowman. three
strong right -haudcrs viii bc back
Sellars Mauu and Cooper are also
counted upon ns first strong mon
The first two did valiant work last
year with the Witches. Both are
youngsters who should have n hg
year this season, Sollars Is "a south
paw. M1un a handler. Cooper
is p hig right handler from Seattle.
who has been recommended highly
n BcrgCr Joe's brother. Rcesc, AT
girs Mcdonald and llyltou are
Young hurlCrs, who may como
through. Most ~ th,m uro looked
upon, however, ns mere trading ma
tcrlal lshcll has such confidence
that his team will be mn I'm tho race
all season that he is onlurging HIS
stands here to scat a. 900 moro. MAX
INK the capacity ot tho park about
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