The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-03-22
TIGERS WILL
MAKE PLACES
FOR OLD MEN
Homes For Better Position in
Race Depend on Same Toss.
ers With Better Arms
tNFIELD is QUANDARf
Manager Moriarty Plans on
Continuing His Base-run-
ming Proclivities
BY BRIAN BELL
Associated Press Sports Writer

San Antonio, Texas, March e.
R,-Detwit will depend on the old
guard in the approaching pennant
race. The Tigers will make places
for some players whose services
were gained in trades during the
winter, but none is young as base.
ball players so, SO the seniors VIII
he called on to bear the brunt while
the younger generation stands ana
waits.
Hope of the club for better posi-
ton at the close than the fourth
place occupied last year lies in the
same pitchers with better arms.
Earl Whitehill. lsfthander with a
world Of stuff, was in and out IN
the last campaign. In the spring
tuning up he seems to have defi-
nitely returned. Addition Of Elan
Van Glider, formerly of the Browns,
for relief calls will release Lii
Stoner for starting duty with Ken
meth Holloway, George Smith and
Haskell Billings, the collegian who
is up and coming. Owen Carroll,
another collegiate contribution, may
team up with Van Glider in the re-
serves. This array Of pitching tai
cnt leaves little room for additions
from the 1923 crop. Vic Sorrel
comes from Toronto with a good
chance to stay, and Carl Hubbell,
= lefthander from Oklahoma, may
crowd in. The infield will be made
up of the same men who played in
1927 but they will be recast.
Johnny Neun will play first base on
q whole time instead of a part time
basis and Marty McManus will be
assigned to third base. Charley
Gehringer will take care Of second
and Jackie Tavener, completely re-
covered from his injuries, viii play
short and show how hard q little
fellow can hit.
Problem Not Yet Solved
The infield reserve question pre-
sents q problem Manager Moriarty
has not yet solved. Detroit has
grown accustomed to having two
first basemen with Neun and Blue
available and, now that Blue has
gone to St. Louis, it is possible that
Bill Sweeney, purchased from Fort
Worth, will be kept as Nouns un-
derstudy. Warmers last years
third sacker, may be traded for a
pitcher. Chick Galloway, formerly
Of the Athletics, who came to the
Tigers in trade via the Browns, is
regarded as q certain utility choice
He takes his inficld positions as he
finds them and can play them all,
one 1T time. This lineup leaves
Nolen Richardson and Frank En-
mer unplaced but presenting i'm
pressive bids for consideration. The
club is = bit over stocked on in
fielders.
Harry Rice, who came from the
Browns, will play center field and
show q fast pair of heels on the
bases. He will be thanked by slower
performers but hard hitters in
Harry Heilmann and Bob Fother-
gill. Heilmann led the league in
hitting last year and has been
pounding the ball hard enough in
practice to suggest that he may re-
peat, although it has been his GUS
tom to big only in alternate years
for the batting supremacy. Fother-
gill has many days of strenuous
work and much Precipitation ahead
Of him as he is several pounds in
excess of the best tonnage for an
outfielder. Rcd Wingo will play
the outfield utility role and he may
be joined on the bench by Paul
Tasterling, recruit from Blooming
ton in the three eye league.
Two New Catchers
Larry Woodall and Merwyn Shea
of last fears catching staff are set
but are being crowded for first
consideration by two new catchcrs.
Phillips is a jack of all trades and
has no hesitancy in attempting to
play any position on the field. Man.
ager Moriarty may solve this puz-
zle by keeping the whole quarter.
Moriarty came to Detroit as man.
ager last year with fixed deter
mination to have the Tigers run the
bases and the. ran so we'll they led
the league in this department. The
manager thinks the experiment in
an art regarded as departed from
the game was a success and he will
have the boys running again. Rice
is promising resruit to the base
running league and he will be en-
couraged to take many chances, as
will Neun, who by playing regular
" will have greater opportunity to
steal.
The jungalecrs seem to get as
much fun out of their preparation
periods as anv club in thu laa p,,n
They indulge in intramural track
events to an extent not approached
BY their fellow players and before
the season opens the club champion.
ship for sprinters will be settled ir
each division. catchers, pitchers, in.
fielders, outficlders and coaches.
Lloyd Thomas Named
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