The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-27
ADDED
TO CINCY REDS
! CHRONIC WORRIES
UNCLE SAM HAS CALLED
ONLY ONE REGULAR: RE-
SERVES WEAK: PROBABLE
LINEUP GIVEN
BY JOHN FRYE

ON SSAA4N Al Il
AP Features
; CINCINNATI, Jan. 27.-Thank
to ga, Aft and couple of like
ly lads from Sacramento, the
Cincinnati Reds may start thu
1943 baseball season with min,
fnen on, the field. s49G9a DOR
With that lin mind, the from
Office makes it known that it ex
poets the team to land in frs
division again, and wouldn't be
surprised too much to see the
Reds knock off both St. Loui.
and Brooklyn, and win the pen
nant.
Uncle Sam has tapped IL
men. cutting the Red Roster
to 20. only three over the
minimum. Of those gone. Ray
Lamanno. who did some fair
country catching last year. was
the only regular.
On the other hand, one fellow
who was sure to be a regular
and might have given the Red.
needed tenth pitcher, is in uni.
form now. That's Ewe1 Black.
well, an angular lad valued by
the Red Officials at $150,OOO.
EWell had a brief try with the
Reds last spring and went tc
Syracuse in the international
league for polishing. BY reports
coming back, he polished off the
international league and mad.
folks talk of his fast ball with
THE reverence that used to bs
held for men like Lefty Grove
and Walter johnson.
Probable LINEUP
Anyway, the 1913 lineup, as.
Stunning the ball clubs will be al
lowed to present it to the um-
pires in the. usual way, may look
something like this on opening
day:
Lonnie Frey, 2b;
Eddie Miller, S.,
Max Marshall, IF;
Frank Mccormick, 1b;
Frank Kelleher, Eric Upton OF
Gee Walker, If;
Bert Haas or Steve Mesner, 3b;
IS Mike Mccormick, CT;
Ray Mueller, C;
Bucky Walters, p.
of these, all. but Mesner and
Upton are currently ga in the
draft Steve, up from Sacra-
mento with good reports, and
Eric Upton are 4-F. Mike Nc
Corrnick is married and ga but
with no children, although one
is expected soon.1
Niue lnf the other recruit, was
the paeific Coast Leagues most
valuakle player last year. II He's
EE3Q has had tries with r, Boston
and Pittsburgh already, and bats
close To 800 He caught 1854
games Tor Sacramento last year
Mesner, Is, hit 300 for the full
schedule of 176 games out there
The front office regards the
st. Louis Cardinals. defending
world champions. and the
Brooklyn Dodgers. National
League runners-iip. as the
teams to beat. The Dodgers
are insisted upon as a contend
er. and darned good one de-
spite the lurid reports Of how
Brand Hickey is desiccating the
organization. At any rate. the
Reds feel they'd be darned
fools to chalk the Dodgers off.
The only real worry the Reds
have, outside, of course, of the
usual quest for batting power
and a permanent leftfielder, is
i'm their best department-pitch-
ing.
Reserves Are Weak "a
With only nine on the roster,
the reserves aren't too strong.
Bucky Walters and Johnny Van
der Nicer likely will be the main
stays. with 36-year-oId Ray Starr
regularly demanding permission
to pitch both ends of a double
header.
Paul Derringer, the big wheel
horse, may or may not have a
good season. He's getting no
younger but when he cocks that
leg at the proper angle in the
air, he's unbeatable.
The Reds feel that they've
patched up their infield with
Eddie Miller, an ex-Brave from
Boston, and fond hope is express
ed that Frank Mccormick will
start hitting again.
But this is winter, the clubs
don't know what will happen by