The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-03-11
PHILLIES TO
STIR UP DUST
IN NATIONAL.
Have No Hopes Of Being Pen
nant Winners, But May
Make Trouble

Bradentown. Fla, March ll.-4)--
The Phillies may not be able to do 4
great deal on their own account in
the National League but the club
PROMISES to cause some trouble for
the other clubs. McInnis' men are
frankly not going anywhere so far
as the pcnnant race is concerned but
they are likely to stir up some dust
along the road.
Stuffy McInnes, new MANAGER.
brings to the club experience gained
in Is years Of major league baseball
including five world series with
three clubs. He has not demanded
the impossible of his players and
they are under no managerial COM
mand to go out and win a champion
ship.
The threat of the club lies in .
great pitcher brought over from last
year, the addition of sensational
young inficlder. several pitchers VINO
should be better than they have
shown. and two recruits who are back
from the minors after previous big
leapuc successes on occasions.
The Infield Layout
Lafayette Fresco Thompson. young
ster, and with something TO learn
will, nevertheless, add strength TO the
infield He will play second base
from the jump. Coming to the Phil
lies from Buffalo via the New York
Giants. Thompson has shown Man
ager McInnis so much that he has
dubbed him "a second Kid Elber-
field" Heine Sand will again play
short and Barney Fryberg will take
care of third.
II, hn
Wrightstone to play first base.
Baldwin, third baseman from Sc
attic, probably will be kept and At
treau, first baseman with Nor
folk, Va, last year, has chance to
stick. Mclnns will play in emerg-
encies and pinch hit.
The outfield is carried over from
the. previous campaign.
Fred Leach, although getting late
start on account of sickness, VIII
play one position with the other two
to be divided between AL Nixon, Cy
Williams and John Mokan. Dennis
Sothern from Cumberland, and Dicl
Spaulding, Philadelphia semi-pro
are fighting it out for the fifth.
Catching Staff Strong
THE Phillies say they have moth
Ing TO De aSHdIiicu VI III lHSii sneN'i
ing staff. Jimmy Wilson has shown
no loss of power in sprin~ training
and Clarence Jonnard has worked
harder than usual. The trio is com
plcted by Harry ODonell, Philadel
phia semi-pro.
Three new pitchers certain TO b.
retained are Herb Pruett, John Scott
and Alex Ferguson. Pruett wa
brought back to the majors from
Oakland and Ferguson was with But
falo last year. Scott, who has no
vet reported, was taken on from thu
Giants and will find a place waiting
for, him when he comes. Pruett, ap
parently with more science than h
displayed when he was with thu
Browns, won place on the stat
early in the game as did Ferguson
who is working with the handicap o
a broken thumb.
Carlson, star of last years staff
has -four of his co-workers with hlm
Ulrich, Willoughby, Dean and Mitch
ell. Decatur, former Phillies, als'
has been brought back from Newark
The staff will be completed by :
choice from Baecht, with the clul
for time last year, O'Neill, from
Springfield, and Taber, semi-pro.
Manager McInnis observes that a
least four clubs have too muci
strength for him but he hopes t
have a battle for position with thu
Others