New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Mcmillan and Tecarr, in
Class A A Last Year, Are
the Most Experienced
By John Kieran

NEW ORLEANS, La, March IL
Huggins has assembled here for the
purpose of selecting his 1922 pennant
chasers is smaller than most major
league squads at the spring training
camps. 1t seems big enough, however,
to group of youngsters who are here
striving to prove that they belong in
the top set of baseball society. Some
Of the young players who are bending
every effort at this time to make New
York their summer home will succeed,
and it would not be surprising if four.
or FIVE will be able to make the grade
Hugginss class of rockies, though
limited in numbers, is recruited from
various fields. Likewise it is strong
in athletic versatility One turns from
Norman Mcmillan, heavy hitting in
fielder with season of Glass AA ex-
perience behind him, to stars of the
college world such as Hinkey Haines
and Glenn killinger, famed alike in
football and baseball Then there
real home product in the person of
Bob Tecarr, born in Harlem. reared in
Brooklyn and captured in Jersey City.
From these familiar surroundings the
trail leads to far-off Texas, where Jim
Jolley was first sighted, and to Okla
honla, where a Yankee scout caught
glimpse of Denver Grigsby. The climb
of these youngsters from obscurity to
a place where they may bask in the
same spotlight which hovers around
Babe" Ruth leads through many de-
vious routes.
The list contains few besides those
named above and it is possible that
Skinner, Neusel or some other rookie
may prove his right to the upper
strata of baseball
Mcmillan in Second Try-Out
Norman Mcmillan, the young third
sacker, who is making his second ap-
pearance on the spring circuit with
the Ruppert-Huston clan, was born
October 5, 1896 in Latta, s. c., and
from that day to this the location of
the paternal mansion has never been
first street in what is now fourishing
village of 1000 inhabitants, with a
model high school. rural free delivery
and all modern plumbing.
Mcmillan junior went to this same
high school, and began his baseball
career at an early age. He started out
in life as a catcher, but he was of a
rowing disposition and tried every
station on the team before he CAME to
the conclusion that the infeld was his
vocation in life.
Mcmillan went to Clemson Agricultural
and Mechanical College, South Caro-
sna, where he progressed as far as the
junior year, playing baseball every
season. when the war broke out. A
life on the ocean wave, with a home on
the rolling warship Mississippi was
his lot during the world struggle, and
incidentally he was third baseman and
impresario of one of the best teams in
the Atlantic fleet.
Abandoning the high seas at the
close of the war, Mcmillan was signed
up by Billy Lavelle. manager of the
Greenville club of the South Atlantic
League. He was there for two sea-
sons, when the Yankees took him to
Shreveport last year and released him
to Rochester, where George Stallings
gave him an intensive course in the
Science of baseball He is feet II =
inches. weighs l75 pounds, speaks sci,
dom. smiles regularly and plays ball
all the time. He hit .31S last year,
and his fielding sparkles like Cape
Town diamond. He will be hard TO
shake loose from the team.
Haines Star Athlete
Henry Luther Haines. who answers to
the name of Hinkey in the world of
sports. was born December %, 1898,
at Red Lion, Pa, which is somewhere
near York. Pa, and noted for its quiet
streets. Henry Luther went to the
Red Lion High School, where he cap,
tained the track team and caught and
played outfield on the school nine. In
1916 he entered Lebanon Valley Col
lege. and for two years he played on
practically every team which that in
stitution Of learning supported.
Haines was a sprinter and captain OF