The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-04-03
new PLAYERS GIVE
OPTIMISTIC TOUCH
TO Mines OUTLOOK
Manager Fonseca Expects
EarnshaW and Bonura to
Play Big Part in Race
OTHER MEN OUTSTANDING
Al Simmons on Spot; Looks to
Turn in Best Season Of
Baseball Career
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Service Writer

NEA Service Writer
Pasadena, April 3-The gentleman
known as Lew was In an optimistic
mood. Sitting on the bench under q
boiling California sun, he drpped
perspiration and enthusiasm. Before
him, SO baseballers Of assorted sizes
and varying experience, the largest
group ever taken to q Chicago White
sox spring training camp, cavorted
noisily on the greenSward.
Said Manager Fonseca: I'VE will be
more formidable this year, and II q
couple Of our young pitchers come
through we may be the surprise in
what looks like free-for-all pennant
scramble
That Owner Louis Comiskey is
really serious about landing in the
first division for change is borne out
BY the large party on hand at the
Brookside Park training site here;
Fonseca's genuine enthusiasm over his
clubs prospects, and last, but not least,
the honest-to-gosh pepper displayed
BY the hired hands Of the ensemble.
The boys are out to win.
Predicting hopeful future, Manager
Fonseca cites the additions Of Big
George Earnshaw, right-handed fast
ball merchant who played q promin-
ent pitching role during the cham
pionship days Of tho Athletics, and
Henry "Zeke" Bonura, slugging first
sacker from Dallas, who may turn out
to be the years outstanding major
league find.
Earnshaw was dissatisfied last year,
but he comes to the Pale Hose 100
per cent happier and with high hopes
Of winning at least 20 games. Working
on the same team with three old cron-
les and poker victims of his Athletic
days. Mule Haas, Jimmy Dykes and All
Simmons, may be just what the doctor
ordered for George.
Bonura Is real find. Despite his
205 pounds, he covers first base with
almost unbelievable ease. In the Tex
a. League last year he fielded .0ol,
hit 1857 and led the league in scoring,
driving In runs, homers and total
bases. Bonura, who takes a mean cut
at the ball and who has hit several
four baggers 50 far in spring training,
should land as regular at first, says
Fonseca, who may see q few games
there himself.
Looking at the rest Of the team, We
find Joe Sullivan the only holdoyer on
the catching staff. From Detroit has
come John Pasek, from st. Louis Mer-
vim Shea and from Topeka, Morgan
Snyder, . rookie with an impressive
$40 batting average. It's q tossup,
says Fonseca, whether Snyder win
stick, while the others are due to be
carried through the season. i
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With the exception Of Bonura. the
infield will be dominated by such vet
Grams Is Luke Apping, Jimmy Dykes,
Fonseca. Minter Hayes ana Ralph
Kress, red-headed hustler. Two rock
les, Conrad F1ippen, late Of Arizona
University, and Joe Chamberlin, with
Waterloo, a., In 1888, are out for q
utility role, but they are not expected
to stick with the club.
The pitching staff will be built
around Earushaw, Ed Durham, Milton
CASTOR, Joe Heving, Sam Jones and
Ted Lyons, all veterans. Lee Slime,
up from San Francisco in the coast
league where he won Il and lost II:
Phil Qallivan, who spent part Of last
season with the Pale Hose, and John
Pom0rski, who won II and lost Z with
Montreal last year, are considered by
Fonesca as the best looking Of 10
young bulb tossers In camp.
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When not singing Happy Daye Are
Again" Manager F'onseca predicts an
exciting pennant race.
II believe" says Lew, that the Am
|erican League Is due for one Of its
greatest races. All Of the second -di-
vision clubs Of last season, the Red
Sox, Tigers, Browns and White Sox,
have strengthened and the first divis-
lon teams do not appear to DO 8
strong"
An Interesting sidelight Of the White
eox spring activities here Is the do
or-die attitude taken by big Al Sim
mons, baseball's second highest paid
player.
I'm on the spot" says Al. like no
other bali player this season. I've
just got to have Z good year. There
has been 80 much talk about the White
sox shortening the fences for my
benefit that Il I don't hit % home
runs they'll BE- giving mo the bird"