The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-04-20

Looking over the Dutch Dorman
squad for a couple of days this past
week end, the first thing that inn
pressed me was the youth and size
of the boys. They are mostly young
sters and nearly all of them are big
fellows, but what is much more i'm
portant to me, anyway, the boys
seem to be in excellent physical con-
dition and are full of enthusiasm.
had hoped to be able to give you
the complete roster of the squad, as,
when 1 left the camp on Sunday
Dutch told me that Harry Jenkins
general manager of the Boston
Braves farm system, would arrive
on Tuesday and that the squads of
both Hartford and Hagerstown
would be made up that night. How
ever, due to the opening of the Major
League season, jenkins did not ar
rive until yesterday, with the result
that the rosters were not made up
until last night and of course this
issue was being printed at just about
the time the decisions were being
made.
Because of this, all can do is give
you my idea of who will be in the
opening lineup on Tuesday night.
1 feel pretty sure that Reardon,
highlander, will be on the mound
and that Long will be behind the
plate
Then going around the inield,
Heap will probably be at first, but
there is a question mark regarding
second base, which should have been
settled last night, as rip Collins,
manager of the Hartford club of the
Eastern League, was scheduled to
make up his squad; the idea being
that Dutch would have the pick of
any of the players that Collins does
not go north with.
Simmons seems fairly certain to
be at short and, of course, Tedesco
will be at third. The outfeld again
is a question mark with the excep-
ton, of course, of Jess Levan. Dutch
was counting heavily on Harvey for
one of the outfeld positions but, as
you already know, he never report
ed to camp. Here again, the final
makeup of the outfield will depend
on what happened last night.
Talking things over with Dutch
just before l came home, he tells me
that he had hopes of getting an out
fielder named Tufano from Hartford,
and there was also a possibility that
he might get second baseman by
the name of Schiles. This boy just
reported to camp on Friday and he
played a couple of innings on the
Hagerstown squad Friday afternoon
and looked fairly good. However,
he was supposed to report to Hart
ford and I notice that he played in
the Hartford lineup in squad
games on Monday and Tuesday He
was in there no doubt so that Col
Inns could get good look at him.
The pitching staff, from what saw
of them, looked pretty good
Freund, who has been alternating
at second base with Heinbaugh, will,
l feel sure, be the squads utility in
fielder, but Heinbaugh is an uncer-
tain quantity AS you will remem-
Der, Washington released him out
right to the Hagerstown club at the
end of the 1949 season, but as far as
am concerned, he still has the
weakness he had last year, and that
is, his inability to go to his right.
However, the best news that I got
down at Camp was the fact that the
Boston Braves front Office is going
to keep closely in touch with the
Hagerstown club, and if, as the sea-
son develops, Dutch finds that he
needs requirements in certain spots,
I feel absolutely certain that the
Boston club will go all out to supply
them. AS have said many times in
this column before, Gene Raney's
working agreeemnt with the Boston
Braves is not just one of those agree
ments where the major club supplies
few players at the beginning of the
season and then forgets all about it,
but it is real working agreement
that will really operate throughout
the entire season.
The reserved seats for the grand
stand and the field boxes in right
field for opening night are now on
sale at the News Agency on the
Square. The price of the grandstand
reserved seats is ST. and the field
box seats $1.25 (both prices includ-
ing taxi, SO if you haven't already
got your seats for opening night,
you'd better get busy because, from
all / can hear thew are going 1ilya'