The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-21
LINEUP FOR INDIANS NOW
 BEING D0PED
Sporting Writer Brougham Gives His Ideas About
 Seattle Players.
By ROYAL BRoUGHAM

SAN JOSE, Cal. March 21-The halfway mark having boon reached in the training grind the lineup of the Seattle club is beginning to as- sume something like definite form
 Not that Harry Wolverton will ad- init it. The skipper has pretty definite idea as to his lineup tucked away under that old gray thatch, but he is not popping off about it. Wolvertol just about knows who will play third base and what his batting order will be, but try and find out; the Gray Wolf will not tell you that Johnston will handle first base or that Eldred will make the team, for fear of discouraging some recruit who is trying out for these jobs. He wants to leave every position open as long as some youngster has a chance to win 1t, which seems fair minded manner of looking at the sit tlation.
 But the fans around the circuit are beginning to wonder what Wolverton will do with the talent he has been moulding for three weeks. Having had the squad under the old binocu. lars for quite a spell, the writer will take running jump and pick the lineup of the 1923 Indians.
 Probable Lineup
 The following is unofficial and en- tirely speculative, but will, we think, prove a fairly close guess as to how the club will line up against Salt Lake on opening day
 First base-Doc Johnston.
 Second basc-Harold Janyrin.
 Third base-Baldwin or Crane.
 Shortstop-Crane cr Orr.
 Lelt field-Brick Eldred.
 Center field-Bill Lane.
 Right field-Ray Rohwer.
 Catdher--Yaryan or Tobn.
 Pitcher-Jacobs or Gardner
 For utility orMfieiders, Wolverton will have Barney and Welsh, the young San Francisco slgger. Jack Martin. Mearkle and Ramage will probably serve as utility infielders, with Pete Rstchie as third string catcher. Of the pitchers, Gardner, X Gregg, Blake and Burger are the only certaint:es, with a keen fight being waged between Williams, Pigg, Hummer, Sitter. Tesar. Brandt, Dunn, Praul and Rucker for the other ptch- ing assignments.
 Outside the pitching staff. the real battle is being fought around third base. Baldwin is making a yeoman effort to land that job and is being given consideration. If he can hit well enough for this league, he may be the regular third-sacker. If he fails, Wolyerton will shove Sammy Crane over to third and in sert the reliable Billy Orr at short. a com mbination which will round out one of the best infields in the league.
 Best Crop of Rocks
 Wolyerton likes the work of half dozen youngsters, and will keep fel- lows like Welsh and Ramage around the club, unless he gets good chance to place them in some fast league where they will get years experience under smart manager Jim Boldt was fortunate in assem- bling the best-looking crop of recruits that Seattle club has ever had, and Wolverton is dead certain that he will develop couple of stars out of the lot.
 Tn the writers opinion Rohwer is sure of a berth fn the garden. Lane and Eldred, of course, are fixtures, although Wolverton has not made up hds mind where he will play his out fielders. Lane is skillful fielder and owns a strong throwing arm, a fact which will probably cinch him centefield It is customary to place left-handed throwing outfielders in right, so it is assumed that Rohwer will play fr that. field.
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