The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-29
SATCHEL PAIGE Will
Be HERE NEXT WEEK
HE TELLS MANAGERS
Star Hurler Won q Of Is
Games for West Coast
Club This Winter
M0RLAN ARRIVES IN CITY
Haley, Troupe, Massman Will
Be With Club; Other
Players Chosen

With the approach of the baseball
season, the management Of the Cap
ital City nine is preparing the list Of
men who will perform this year for
the local club. Many Of the men COM
posing the squad that last year won
%, lost IL and tied five games, have
been retained.
Bill Morlan, jefferson, Iowa. was
one Of the first to return. During the
winter months Morlan played ard
refereed basketball games IN his home
state, and he announces that he is in
fine trim for the baseball season.
Last season Morlan played eft aid
center field and ended the years play
with a .344 batting average for the
local nine.
Paige to BE Here Soon
Satchel Paige, Negro speed-ball ar
list, will be in Bismarck next week he
told Manager Neil o. Churchill in
long distance telephone conversation
recently. Paige has been spending the
winter in California where he played
with a fast travelling team. In games
in the last months, he has hurled his
club to % victories in Is states. he told
Churchill. In the six contests the SEN
sational colored player tossed for the
locals last year he IS credited with
five wins and one tie game.
Red Haley, short stop, has been
playing with Paige on the west coast
during the winter. He will come to
Bismarck from his home at West
Plains, Missouri, about the first OF
May, he told Churchill. Haley had
.358 batting average for play last yea.
Did Best Batting
Quincy Troupe, classy backstop
man. who has been attending school
in Missouri, will be here for the game
Declaration Day when the Bismarck
nine plays Jamestown. Troupe last
season led the team hitting with a
.432 average.
Harold Massmann, who batted .3o3
for the club here last year. announces
that he will be in Bismarck for the
seasons opener against New Rock
ford May II. Massmann plays either
second base or short stop. During
the winter he has played professional
basketball with a Chicago qulnt.
Nexotiate For Southpaw
The MANAGEMENT Is also negotiating
to get one Of three selected southpaWs
from the national colored league. They
hone to find q man as good as Lefty
Brown. jamestown hurler. And
that's good enough" one of the man
ayers stated.
Bob Mccartney will again hold down
an infield position, it Is expected.
G. G. "Chuck" Kaiser. moved to|
Bismarck In December from Madison,
Wis, where he had played with last
semi pro nine. Kaiser will be work.
ing for q berth on the infield.
Mike and Sebastian Goetz will be
among those trying for regular posi-
lions, the management announced.
Sebastian Goetz last year had the
second highest average for Bismarck
batters, with Il hits in liz times at
bat for q 1856 average.
New Rockford Gets Davis
Roosevelt Davis, who last year
played with Bismarck, has signed up
for play this season with the New
Rockford club. New Rockford will
have several salaried men for the 1884
season, according to Guy Seymour,
manager.
Beef Ringhofer, hefty first sacker.
is trying out this spring with the
Louisville American association club.
He played professional basketball dur
ing the last cage season.
Paul 5chaefer and Less Moore, who
did outstanding work for the local
nine last year, are in Minneapolis and
viii probably Try out for some of the
northern league teams, according toI
word received here.
Dan Oberholzer. who played third
for Bismarck last season, has been
reinstated for league play and will be
with . minor club this season. he In
formed the managers.
After many years Of valuable serv-
ice for Bismarck mines, John Sage
horn announced that he has hung up
his glove.