New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
YANKEES OUT TO
WIN flag Again.
Huegins Counting on Five Re-
crqE to Help Him

win their fourth consecutive pc"~
nant the coming season and they
are counting on five recruits to help
them do it. No American league
team ever has won four straight
pennants. The Yankees had chance
to make it four In . row in 1874
but faltered in the stretch and nm
ished . game and q half behind the
Washington Senators.
The powerful baseball machine
which has swept to three American
league pennants and two world
championships in three years can
no longer 90 on without replace
ments. The Yankees need new
power to retain their baseball SUI
premacy.
They have added fewer recruits
than any other club except the
Athletics, but Miller Higgins is con-
fident the men he needs most will
be found among tho II newcomers.
The five outstanding recruits are Ed
Wells, Gordon Rhodes and Floyd
Van Pelt, pitchers: Lyn Larry. in
| fielder. and Sam Byrd, outfielder.
Wells, 4 tall southpaw who has
been up before with Washington and
Detroit. is looked upon as a certain
regular. He won Is games and lost
only for Birmingham. last years
Southern league champions. He is
20 and weighs 1855.
Rhodes, who IL only 81 and
weighs 1874, is considered another
likely prospect. He won II games
and lost 10 for the Hollywood Pa
cific Coast league club last season.
In 1927 he pitched for the Univer-
sity of Utah.
Van Pelt, another Fl year old
prospect, won 26 games and lost IL
for the Montgomery Southeastern
club and compiled an earned run
average of 2.37 per game.
Roy sherid. who graduated from
Albright college last June and was
optioned to Montreal where he won
IS games and lost 8, and Fay Thom-
az, former University Of Southern
California star, are two other young
pitching prospects. Thomas pitched
two games for Oklahoma City and
lost both of them.
The Yankees revised inf1eld
hinges on Lyn Larry. who was
bought with Jimmy Reese from the
Oakland Pacific Coast league cluE
for $4,000. Larry jumped from
high school to Oakland in 1927 ant
, was purchased by the Yankees q
the close of that season. He started
badly last year but finished strong
bringing his batting average up Il
.314. He f1elded sensationally. He II
%, weighs 100 and is feet tall.
Byrd, a speedy outfielder who hat
tryout with the Yanks last spring
is coming back after a successful
season with the Albany Eastern
league club, where he batted 81
, in 1870 games. IS of his 1856 hit.
. being for extra bases. He is con
| sidered one Of the best ball hawk.
in baseball.
Among the other recruits are Out
fielder Elias Funk, who batted 80
for st. Paul; Catcher Arndt Jorgen.
who batted 1915 for Oklahoma Cit,
in lis games: Catcher Bill Dickey
! former Syracuse star: Pitcher LIE
: Craig, who won and lost game
: for Oklahoma City. and Outfielde
w. A. Outen from North Carolin
: State university.
George Burns. veteran first base
man purchased from Cleveland
will understudy Lou Gehrig at frs
base.
The burden of keeping the yam
= KEGS in the American league rae
! will fall more heavily on the young
= er players IL Herb Pennock, Wilc
! Moore and Tony Lazzeri, three star
& who nursed sore arms most of lal
. season, have not recovered.
q Barring accidents and unforesee
4 happenings. the Yankees shoul
line UP something like this:
. Catchers: Bengough. Dickey, G.
browski.
8. Pitchers: Pipgras, Hoyt, Hem
2 johnson, Pennock, Wiley Moor
2 Tom Zachary, Heimach, Sheal
0 Wells, Van Pelt and Rhodes.
1 1nfeld: Gehrig at first. Lazzeri
3 second, Larry at short and Koen
0 at third. Durocher, Robertson ar
0 Burns reserves.
- Outfield: Meusel, Combs ar
Ruth. burst. Byrd and Paschal, r
" serves.