Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23
BUT IS Of 81 SOX
ON lob LAST YEAR
Pilot Emissions a Winner for
Hub After About Two
More Seasons.
BY WILLIAM r. KING.

NASSoClateu Press sports Wrlter)
~ OSTON, January 23.-Bill Car
x rigan IS going to do a lot Of
building with the Boston Red
IL Sox.
He has been building for two
years and ne believes it will take at
least two more before he can get COM
bination of young ball players. with a
castof here and there. that will make
any kind of an impression in the Amer
lean League.
He has 81 players on his roster and
only 13 of them were with the club last
season. He mas Is pitchers, 8 catchers,
10 infielderS and outfielders.
He has no idea who is going to play
IN his inf1eld md doesn't expect to until
the squad has o2en working out at
Bradenton. Fla. for couple of weeks.
Todt Sure OF His Job.
Phil Todt, The best fielding first base
man In the League last season, seems
to be the only infielder sure of holding
his job, but Rothrock will be on hand
TO succeed him i he fails to hit better
than he did last season. Bill Regain.
VINO has held Gown second for the past
Two seasons, must Outright Jerry STAN
daert. late of Brooklyn. and Grant
ellis, who came from Washington in
the Buddy Myer trade, for the job.
There are three outstanding cardi-
dates for the Shortstop berth, Harold
Rnyne. who came from Philadelphia on
waivers; Wally Gerber, and Bobby
reeves, who held down that position for
washington for two seasons.
Carrigan's biggest problem seems to
be the finding Of all adequate third
baseman. His best bet is Bobby Barrett.
VINO Is coming up from the Buffalo In
ternatlonals and seems about ripe to
blossom into a maio: league star. Bar
rett was with Brooklyn for a time sey-
erai years ago, but Uncle Wilbert Robin
son thought he took too long q swing
with the bat and shipped him to At
lanta In time to help that club win the
Southern League pennant.
OF the eight outfielders due to report
at Bradenton, four nave seen service
with the Red Sox. These are Ira Flag
stead, Ken Williams, Doug TAFT and
Jack Rothrock, who would rather play
hrSt base. The newcomers INCLUDE
Elliot Bigelow, a demon minor league
hitter who was part of the Myer trade.
and Loepp, Dumas and Scarritt, three
minor league purchases.
Strong Catching Staff.
Carrigan knows catchers and he
occHlS W nave SCrOng STAN with Alex
CASTOR, Charlie Derby and John Hev-
ing, who have been with the club, and
Bob AsbjornSon, recalled from Akron;
Eddie Connolly, who played in the East
ern League last season, and a youth
from Waterville, Me-, named Danny
Shanahan, who played ball for Colby
College.
There will be five right handed hold
overs from the 1923 pitching staff, Big
Ed Morris, Charley Ruffing, Danny Mac
Fayden, Jack Russell and Pat Simmons.
Morris was the most effective of the
quintet last season, winning 10 and
losing Is. The other four functioned
below the major league standard.
Among the new box prospects are
Milton Castor, Alexis brother, and
Horace Lisenbee, both involved in the
Myer trade; Bill Bayne, with Cleveland
last season: Frank Bushey, recalled
from the Pittsfield Eastern League Club,
and four rockies. John Shea, a former
Boston College twirler; Bobby Carroll
Benny Frey and a youth named Dur
ham, who could not escape the nick
name Bull" Bayne and Shea are the
only Southpaws in the lot.