Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-07
Yanks Have Smarfest
Rookie Assortment
In Big Loops
Every Club Counting on
At Least One Newcomer
For Regular Toll
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

SSSA
NEW YORK. April Like the
flowers that bloom In the spring.
to use q standard botanical and
baseball expression. the bright-eyed
rockies are being plucked from the
major league rosters In great clusters
these days.
1t is pleasure. therefore, to re-
assure baseball fans that the paens
Of praise written in the last month
about mushroom Ty Cobbs and
Walter Johnsons were not entirely
fiction.
At least a dozen freshmen still
look like stars In the darkness be-
fore the 1899 seasons dawn and If
half Of them fulfill their promise
they will have equaled last years
bumper mark. And there are at
least dozen others who don't look
like stars, but are sure to be counted
present at the final roll call next
fall. This Is no mean achievement
in itself.
Yanks Have Smart Group.
The world champion New York
Yankees, who maybe need them least
Of all, have one of the smartest
assortments of rockies. Marse Joe
Mccarthy is going to keep the bat
ting champion of the International
League, Warren Buddy Rosar,
riding the bench just to relieve
durable Bill Dickey with the CATCH
ing chore.
The Yanks aren't a club to cover
their rockies under a bushel, how
ever remember Joe Di Maggie in
1887 and Joe Gordon in 1889. so
Mccarthy probably will have a
neophyte in left field. Right now it
looks to be Joe Gallagher, an honor
graduate of Kansas City. Charley
Keller may catch up to the job.
If there is brighter assemblage,
it is that Of the Boston Red Sox.
Ted williams, the American Asso-
citation batting king. is sure
thing for an outfleld berth. Jim
Tabor is being groomed for third
base and Woodrow Rich may be a
pitching standby.
Detroit has the heralded Freddie
Hutchinson, bearing a 100000 price
tag, but there is some question
whether all that is gold about his
Coast career will glisten in the
American League. Barney Nc
Coskey seems to have won an out
field assignment and Dizzy Trout
might become the pitching hero
Hutchinson would like to be.
Salvo Is Giant Hope.
Every club counts on at least one
newcomer.
The New York Giants have Man
ny Salvo, Pacific Coast strikeout
monarch, whom Bill Terry plans to
use in starting role.
The Cincinnati Reds have Gene
Cunior) Thompson, who already has
participated in a no-hit Grapefruit
League maneuver for the Rhine
landers.
Eddie Miller looks the starting
shortstop for the Boston Bees; the
Chicago Cubs count on Gene Lillard
as a pitcher. although three years
ago he failed as an infield candidate:
If the Pittsburgh Pirates get any
southpaw pitching it'll have to be
from young Ken Heintzelman.
The St. Louis Cardinals, for the
first time since Dizzy Dean came up.
stand to get some pitching strength
from their farmhands Tom Sunkel,
Mort Cooper and perhaps one other
finger may be culled from the crop.
And. of course. Connie Mack is
shutting his hand me-doWns in his
customary calm but mystifying
fashion. Therell be rookie at third
base. replacing Bill Weber and prob
ably Dee Miles will be in the outfield.
Baseball obviously needs its fresh
man class.