Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-11
FLETCHER TO PLAY
AT SHORT FOR PILLS
Parkinson Will Be Shifted to
Second-Regulars Meet
Vans Today
FIRST TEAM IS STRONG
By EDWIN J. POLLOCK

Leesburg, F1s., March IL. - The
Fletcher. Parkinson problem which has
been worrying Kize Wilhelm and Wild
Conroy for the last few days has been
thoroughly discussed once again and the
decision reversed. The former Giant
star will be In his accustomed position
and Parkinson will be shifted to Sec
ond base in the first game Of the sea-
son, which will be staged at Cooke
Park this afternoon.
"This is final" said the Phil boss
this morning. FLETCHER will play
shortstop. This was our line Of rea.
soning. Art has been playing that
short field SO long, that 1t would be
folly to take him away from 1t and on
tho other hand, Parkinson Is young
chap and he can easily adapt himself
to new conditions. There you have 1t
Fletcher was perfectly willing to
play second. In fact, believe he'd
60 in there and pitch II we wanted
him to, but think he will be OF more
value at shortstop than any other posi-
tion.
Parkinson VIII Develop
parkinson will find 1t strange in
the beginning. The angle Of throwing
when you 70 to the right IL quite diff.
ferent, but after he's been playing that
bag for spell he will begin to set him
self for the chuck to the corner. Then;
again, he can tumble that ball and
still get his man at first. Parkinson
has a crackerjack arm and that's 90.
Ing to help him.
''Fletcher has started to teach him
all he knows and with Art In there to
steady him I look for Parkinson to
develop into q right smart second base.
man."
The new keystone pair will be seen
In action for the first time today when
the Yanigans play the Regulars. The
fracas is not going to be a comedy.
Wild Conroy, the rockies captain, Is out
to show up the first string players and
pulled a coup d'etat last night by chas-
ing his athletes to bed an hour earlier
than usual.
The Kaiser will have a strong aggre.
CATION on the field with Jack Leslie, the
New Orleans rookie, on first Parkin-
son at second, Fletcher at short and
Goldie Rapp On third. The outfield will
be composed Of Lebourveau in left, King
in center and Walker in right.
Conroy at Third
Conroy will station Cliff Lee at first,
Wrightstone at second. Ralph Miller at
short, but he thoughtfully reserved the
hot corncr for himself. In such an i'm
portant contest the Camden citizen
could never trust the duties of third
base to any one else.
Three pitchers will take care of the
outfcld for the Widow. Jimmy Ring
has been assigned to the short field, left,
so that he won't have to run SO fast.
Stanley Baumgartner will scamper
around In center and big Lefty SnOvcr
will wobble after them In right.
Wilhelm will take two of the three
catchers. He wanted Peters and Hen
line, but the Wild objected that he then
would have no one who could bark loud
enough. The argument was Won and
Big Pete was turned over TO the Sani-
gans.
Six pitchers will be used during tho
game, three on each team, to work
three innings apiece. The two man
ayers have not decided on the hurlers.
but it Is likely that Weinert and Pinto
will start. Sedgwick. Winters, Hubbcll
and Smith will see action.
Three More Arrivals
Three players arrived yesterday.
They are Jack Leslie, Goldie Rapp and
Hack Miller. The latter two reported
30 late that they could not get into the
practice. but they were out on tho
field this morning. Leslie gave an ex-
cellent exhibition of first basing, and
II he shows the same UrillInnt work in
the future that he did yesterday, he
is sure Of holding down the post. .,
There are only three athletes on the