New Britain herald., 1929-03-21
INDIANS DISPLAY
 B|G IMPROVEMENT
Cleveland Team Will Offer Plenty
 Of Opposition This Year

New Orleans. March 21 C49 -, Baseball wise railbirds who compare the Cleveland Indians of 1929 with the 1928 edition declare the club has been improved more than any other outfit in the American league. However, this diagnosis. If correct, will not necessarily insure the Red Skins a high place in baseball. for they had more room for improve ment than most of the other clubs. There seems no reasonable doubt that Manager Roger Peckinpaugh's remade team will offer far bolder front than he was able to present last season. His infeld has been strengthened by the addition of the little but rugged Jackie Tavener and transfer of Joey Sewell to third base, and a much needed punch in the outfeld has been supplied by the addition of two promising recruits and an established star. Dick Por- ter and Earl Avc~'ll have shown in- dications of living up to their minor league regulations and Bim Falk. the former Chicago White Sox, can swap base hits with most of the major league batsmen.
 No radical changes have been made in the battery forces, but Jim Finn who has pitched good ball for several years in A. A. baseball will
 have a chance to see if he can do half as well higher up.
 Luke Sewell, junior of the Sewell brothers, and Glenn Myatt will do the catching, with Grover Hutley, a veteran who is listed as coach, acting as emergency relief unless General Manager Billy Evans finds likely prospect unattached.
 Finn and Ken Holloway. late of Detroit. seems to be the best of the new pitchers on the staff. but Wes- 1 ley Terrell, who was farmed to Terre Haute. is back, evidently to stay with an even better first ball derhill, another farm hand. proba-
 bly, will make the grade this time.
 Willis Hudlin. Walter Miller, Joe Shaute. George Grant, Mel Harderf and John Miljus are retained from the 1928 staff. Miller has shown de- cided improvement over his previous performances and Hudlin has work cd long and hard at control ma chine. He has a target set up in right field of the Pelicans ball park where the Indians train, and spends hours throwing ot it. If he gets control he is expected to take his place beside the leading pitchers of the league. Shaute, the big left handler, has a brand new delivery which may increase his effectiveness. He pulls the ball out of his hip pocket much on the order of Earl Moore. the famous Phillie pitcher of two decade ago.
 Three-fourths of the infield is set. Joe Sewell. although he has never played third base. already is at home and seems to have conquered the queer angles a shortstop finds at a corner of the infield. Tavener. who gets as many extra base hits as singles in a years work. will play shortstop with Carl Lind, the dou- ble play expert, at second base. Lew tonseca and Johnny Hodapp are available for first base with Fonse- ca, the Portuguese song bird, hav- ing the call.
 The infeld fight in the Indian camp is for the reserve places. Ray Gardner. New Orleans shortstop. can field but his hitting remains in doubt. John Burnett, big and fast. who is a product of the University Of Florida. has made good im- pression and may be kept as he is a versatile performer.
 Porter and Averill seem destined to start the reason in right and center as both have hit well in the spring. The clever Jamieson is in a contest with the hard hitting Bib
 Falk for the other field. One will be an extra outfielder with Ed Mor-
 gan, the only right handed hitter
 in the first five outfielders.