The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-09
KID CLEANS HOUSE AND GETS MANY NEW BALL PLAYERS
Excepting Pitchers, Only Four Old Men Are Back With
 the Travellers
nx HENRY LOEsCH

Little Rock, April S.-(Special)- )- The opening day lineup for the Lit tie Rock Travellers probably will be as follows:
 Frankie Zoellers, left field
 George Corrigan. second base.
 Eugene DierkeS, third base.
 Joe Connolly. center field.
 William Wano, first base.
 Guy Tutweiler, right field.
 Pete Lapan. catcher.
 Travis Jackson, shortstop.
 Walter Clary, George Payne or John Henry Robinson. pitcher.
 Only seven of the men who fin ised last season with the Little Rock Travellers will start the new season with them Wednesday afternoon, and three of them will be pitchers Kid Elberfeld and Proxy R. C. Allen have cleaned house thoroughly, and will open with an almost all new club. a club that Is sensationally fast akoot, but not very long on experience Most of the vacancies created by the disposal of last year players have been taken by youngsters who have impressed the Kid in spring train ing.
 These Few Retained
 Whom the old club was wrecked during the winter, only Bill wano, Travis Jackson, Frankie Zoellers and Guy Tutweiler, and Pitchers Robin son, Clary and Dickerman were saved from the ruins. Wano is go- Ing great this spring, hitting the ball harder than ever and showing marked improvement in playing at first. Jackson is the boy shortstop brought into the league last fall The Kid expects to make a star of him. Zoel- lers, utility man for two seasons, has been given steady employment in left field, where he Is showing up spIen- didly. He is to be the Travellers leadoff man. Tutweiler is battling for chance to play right field with Leifer. youngster obtained from the Chicago White Sox, as his oppon- ent. Tut" looks good this spring.
 Rube Isn't in shape
 Rube Robinson, the veteran left handler, Is not yet in shape. having reported late because of illness, but | feels he is due to have another good season. "Slim" Clary, discovered late | last season. is likely to prove one of the best right-handers of the league Dickerman. another tall an gular boxman tried out last fall, is showing considerable class. Little ROCK fans are placing a lot of hope in George Payne, obtained from the Nashville Vols. George ap- parently Is enjoying the change of scenery and ought to be one of the Kids best pitchers. Fifth pitcher on the staff now is Mike Cavengros, how-legged left-hander with the Travellers while in the fall of 1920. Mike Is getting control and looks like winner. John McGraw of the Giants has promised the Kid another pitcher to be here by opening day.
 Lapan With Travellers
 Little Rock is bringing another corking good catcher into the league this year in Pete Lapan. obtained from Galveston in exchange for "Scrappy" Moore. Local fans who have contended for years that Tony Brottem was the best catcher ever in the league. are swearing that Pete is every bit as good as Tony. Two other catchers. Lloyd Brown, in the southwestern last year. and Gerald Wegs, from Quincy, H., are with the club.
 Kid Eiberfeld thinks he has two infield stars in Dierks and Corrigan, St. Louis boys. Corrigan Is the bet ter fielder, but Dierks probably will outhit him.
 Connolly . Star The Travellers have a start out fielder in Joe Connolly, who came to