The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-28
BENNY CHAPMAN AND
DUSTY COOKE CLINCH
BERYHS ON REGULAR
Babe Ruth, burst, Combs and
Cooke Are the Managers
Choices for Garden
PlPGRAS OR HOYT PITCHER
Lou Cehrig, Lazzeri, Chapman
and Koenig in the InfieId;
Dickey May Catch
OR HoYT PITCHER
BY WILLIAM BRAUCHER

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combs ............ Center Field
A0enlg .............. Sh0rtstop
burst .......... go. Right Field
.Gehrig .............. First base
Laz-crt ............ Second base
Cooke .............. Left Field
chapman ........... Third base
hickey Catcn
st. Petersburg, Fla, Mar. 49,
NEA)-The above was the lineup
handed to me by Manager Bob the
Cob Shawkey of the New York
Yankees for a practice game in st.
Pete the other day.
With the exception of the right
fielder and possibly the pitcher, that
is the way the Yankees will take the
field April IS in Philadelphia to be-
gin the fight for the worlds baseball
championship. In right field will be
your old friend G. H.. Ruth. and, in
stead of Pipgras. Waite Hoyt may
draw the assignment for the opening
game. Otherwise, that will be the
sCu4AA oO!AACOVOy WILL AAdtC w Ucot.
Fresh Strength on Team
It is a new ball team. Many Of the
old faces are there, the men who
played through world championship
games before the Mackmen walked
away with the pennant last year, but
there is new life and blood In the
organization. Some vital parts have
been replaced with fresh strength. It
Is q team you viii like.
You viii like the way that lad
Dusty Cooke. chosen to fill the shoes
Of the temperamental Bob Meusel,
steps In at the plate for his cut at
the ball. When you see the way he
follows through at the plate. q swing
similar In many respects to the swing
Of the Bambino, It Is easy to realize
how he bats .358, his American Asso-
citation average last year. Manager
Bob 6hawkey Is taking q gamble on
the North Carolina boy to fill the left
field Job. It Is q gamble, but as Bob
the Cob says. ~You have to gamble
when you're trying to build"
Another gamble Is at third base.
Poo6h-em-up Tony LAzzeri Is being
displayed this year ct second base,
where he loves to be doing things,
and ct the warm corner u another
new face Ben Chapman, recalled
from st. Paul. 6hawkey and I sat
and watched Chapman, whose home
Is In Birmingham, Ala, play third
during = practice game and II there
was . Gaw In the way he handled
his Job. 1t must have been the way
he held his ears. He was q 1886 hitter
In the American Association and he
looks to be q 800 hitter for the
Yankees. OF course, as Shawkey says,
he's q gamble.
And What Big Pitchers!
I never saw In one training camp
so many husky looking recruits. OF
all the pitchers at Shawkey's COM
mand only one, Americas Polli, Is
under six feet in height. Polls Is s
feet 10. Fred Asbeck. the Camera Of
baseball, Is the tallest Of the crowd,
at 8 feet 8 inches. Fred comes from
and the University Of
and he shows promise,
after schooling, Of making the grade.
Another collegian among the pitch
FRS gives brilliant promise and recalls
memory. His name Is Bob Walsh,
lrem Notre Dame, and when he casts
that sinker up to the boys to miss,
you can almost see the old Ed Of
White Sox glory. His fast ball Is q
pip.
Paschal, Durocher, Meusel, Grab
owsk and others have vanished from
he roster. But the material at hand
vooks to be healthier. There Is q lot
more fight. Men NJ struggling for
positions: Shawkey has really stirred
up glowing life in . team that looked
o be dawdling along last July.
Cal1fognians IN Reserve
On the bench, in all likelihood, win
~ two gentlemen from California,
'eady to ill in capably II one Of the
should falter. They are
lyn Lazy and Jimmy Reese.
! asked 6hawkey how many In
he would carry.
@eix," he replied quickly, land I've
yot EN-"
He meant 0ehrig, Laxzeri, Koenig.
3hapmAn. Lazy and Reese. II you
N find . better set Of infielders In
10 big leagues, - . whole, Il must |
y Soma league ! haven't secn.
I've got ono hard job, however"
I'D Bob the Cob. There are 10
)Etchers out there today. and I've got |
o send about 10 Of 'em somewhere
~. When ] look the gang over !
)egin b 1eel sorry for myself.
"Just take . look at the catchers,
90. Dickey and Beugough are
gnough for any mans team. Karlon,
he recruit from spgtug1ield, Mass,
an play the outfisld Il We need him.
Bubbles Hargrave can I'LL In ct any
ime. ! think We have the finest
'unch ct new man ] hare seen IN
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