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BAKER'S RAIN FIEID CATO WORR1

By BABRICHMOND, Va., April 8.-Wi

a few days away, the Yankees ansooner or later arises to harassold player to guard a vital positi<J. Frank Baker, whose fielding i

Robins has been the subject of scBecause of his failure to hand],

which various Brooklyn batters hiper experts have been calling

the Trappe terror and plaMcNally covering second base.Mousel and myself out of the batfaster infield defense during thethey have shown to date, and thisIm which has caused the YankeeIt is my opinion, however, that

Baker is far from "through." Ofcourse, he hasn't met the world afireby his work around third base thisspring, but few old players do showtheir best form in training trips ex.hibition games.

They have to take their own goodtne about getting into the "pink."and it isn't unuisual for a play ofBaker'slgservice to lag indthe preesin until hot weathersets In. Then they get properlystarted, and the tanm, and even theexperts, wonder why they were seinsistent en having the veteran dis.earded In favor or a younger man.

This, I believe, will be the easewith Baker, provided the criticism towhich he has been and probably willbe subjected does not impair his con-fidence. The average fan may notrealize it, but confidence In his ownability is quite as essential to the oldfellow who is nearing the end of hisrope as it is to the youngster justbreaking in.

Miller Huggins tells me that heeould have played at least one moreyear than he did it his confidencehadn't been shaken by him failure toget away to a good start In training.He knew that he was getting alongIn years, began to think that maybehe had reached the jumping off place.and this thought so preyed upon his3ind that finally he had to quit.That Baker's confidence has not

been shaken Is proved by the factthat he is batting as well as everand better than 1 have ever knownhim to bat in spring training. Heis almost the only player in theYankee batting order who did notsuccumb to our recent slump.

While the others were drintgthe bean lnte the end for easyInfield outs or iag flies tothe outfield he banging out

hitsadin a game atfBris-tel, Tenn., he ahomerwhich never before had been ae-emplished by any batter.If Baker stands up. and I be.

lieve he will, the Yankees shouldexperience lIttle or no trouble ingtigaway to a flying start.Tey have taken a lot of beatings

from the Robins this spring butthey are essentially a godballclub, well provided with pitchingtalenteand I look for them to takea decided brace as soon as the sea-son ge under way.

I am not at all worried over theflact that we haven't been hIttingvery well against the Robins be.cause I know that sooner or laterwe are bound to begin to hit andthat our pitchers have the win-ning stuff even if they haven'tbeen showing very much of it todate. With us it is merely a que~s-tien of geting started and I am

ceninedthat we will be readyto go when the barrier is sprungseat Wednesday.9thpright, l1st2~ the Christy Walsh

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.GED~ WORKUSES YANKS, SAYS RUTHE RUTH.th the opening of the season only

., confronted with a situation which

every club which depends upon an

m. I have reference, of course;' ton etgmes with the Brooklyn

!me adVerse criticism.9 some of the smashing groundersive hit his way, some of the news-ulbon Manager Miller Huggins toAaron Ward at third, with Mike

te critics seem to believe that with

ting order the Yankees will neea a

rrt few opek of the season than

would be their solution of probleader no little worry of late.

How Teami May Face'Each Other in

Ee c itionBRAVES. GRIFFS.

Powell, cf oJudge, newKopf, as Peck, asSouthworth rf Milan, IfNicholson If Goebel, ifCruise, Wf Rice, cfBoeckel, 3b Goslin, rfHolke, 1 b Smith, rfFord. 2b Harris, 2bGowdy, e Shanks, 3bO'Neill, e Gharrity, eGibson, e Picinich, eMarquard, p Mogridge, pMiller, GleasonOesc ep Francis, p

mo an, mP Zachary, pFillingim, p Phillips, pAnderson, p Courtney, pUmpire-"Big Ed" Walsh

(American Leage) and BobHart (National gue).

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GIANT ROOKIEEATS HIS WAOUT OFLEAGUE

Edmonton Manager ThoughtHe'd Made a Mistake andHired a Boa-Constrictor.

By DAVIS ,J. W"ALA.NEW YORK April .-This Is a

story of the only man in organisedbasehall who hwirgs a bat as heavyas Babe Ruth's. and eats $6 worth offood a day In a country where 50cents will feed a stevedore.Our hero, Floyd Herman. was born

of poor but honest parents. and atan early age nt out to make his wayin the world with a baseball bat inhis hands and a chronic yearn forfood n the region of his abdomen.

Tn du lime he arrived in Edmon-ton. Canada. where the bat achievedsome notoriety because of the factthat it weighed fifty-six ounces, thussharing with Ruth's big stick the dis-tinction of being the heaviest in hase-ball. They came to call him "Babe,"largely because he was so different.Herman swung the bat for a total ofseven home runs last year. but intheme parlous ames such a perform-ance passes unnoticed even in themajors.The appetite. however, moved the

populace to envy, and the club ownerto tears. The latter was often heardto remark that he hired a'ball playerand found himself in possession of aboa-constrictor.So great wan our hero's gastro-

nomic ability that the club ownercalled for a new deal. requiring thatthe young man hit over .300 for theseason before his transportation toGlendale. Cal., he advanced.

All went well for a time. With lessthan five weeks to go. Herman wanhisting .356 in the league averagesand .0.99 in the dining room. Thenthe slump. It was a hitting slump,much to the Babe's gratification. Henever could have borne up under theweight of a dissipating appetite.Within three weeks his batting

average fell away from .356 to .318.and the railroad ties from Edmontonto southern California were manyand hard."Unfortunately," explains our hero,1

"K met with an accident and wasn'table to finish the season. It wasreally too bad."

It wasn, If you care to take the clubsener's say-so.Herman Is several years away from

being a major leaguer, but hIs pros-sects are good. He is only eighteen,wreighs around 200, and hi. loosely.

knit frame rises six feet above the1eround. He is the type that will do-

velop. for he has the speed andnatural ease of an athlete.

YANKEE JfUNIORS SEEK8OMit STIFF OPPOSITION

The Yankee Juniors are' out toake on the best teams of their'lass in the city and especially rpre-er to meat the Aztecs, Holy Name'irnd Roemers. Tomorrow at 2 p.Ini. the young Yankees will play the IAnaostia Eagles on the hatter's 1leld.These players are requested to

eport: M. Freechi, L. Frenchi,Deavers, W. Thompson, S. Armani, I

Richardson. G. Dakin, Garillix andi

Ia.pp. Games with the Yankee 1

un lors miay be arranged by callingranklin 2307 or writing to M!reschi, captain, at 204 Fourteenthtreet northwest.

New Midget Team.A newr midget team is in theif

'ild. The Randle A. C. has or-

ranised to meet teams in the 12-16.1 g

rear-old class and already has onrietory, having defeated the H'adric IL. C., 12 to 2. Carl Tamorria, ofI104 D street southeast, phone Lin:oln 1225, is the captain. t

Roamers Win.Roamer A. C., city junior chamn. r

pIon, defeated Army and Navy Prep. i9-!. Geune Brayton pitched for thetemr-

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JESS 'N' JACK (Out yonder in the wild uneurri

spring ha also came. The Eastthey might put it out there. Youday in this column the incumbene

Out yonder In the open places, iiand the badger iair cut, the buweeds, and the boys are thinking aThe little birds are twittering al

ba'rs are commencing to poke theilnatoriums. And with all this sprivnature taking its course that ol' Jeprodder, should light his high hatsweet evening breese.

Surely you remember ol' Jessone-time heavyweight champion olthe world. Surely, surely, surely.He was knocked deeper into ob-livion than any other man in thehistory of Fistiana by Jack Demp-sey, but now he is commencing tobestir .himself beneath the sod ofmaid oblivion like a new potatostruggling for air.

Jess Wants to Fight.JESS wants to fight.Maybe it is only the pringheeping into his soul. Every-body feels a bit skittish in the

spring. But, anyway, that's thehint that comes from the pon-derous pounder from Pottawot-tomie.He wants to fight Dempsey.less seems to be getting all sored

Lip at Jack with the passingyears. He doesn't feel hostiletoward anyone else, but he cer-tainly would like to fight Jack.So he says. 'Maybe it's just thepring. A good tonic sometimes

However, some 'genius hasigured out that the nrouer placeFor Willard to do whatever ht-ng he may have in mind agakstDempsey is over in 'England.The statute of age limitationwould probably bar Jess fromgiew York. No other territoryriews the prospect of a Dempsey-Willard match with more thananguid interest. Over in Eng-and, the genius has figured, thehing might go larg.It certainly ougt to go better

han a match be en the chaa-stion and any other fighter inurope. They probably want toec Dempsey in action over yon-ber, and they have never seen

willard. There might be moren this than appears at firstriance.

Matty Invents New Game.ROMl his sick bed at Saranac,Christy Mathewson, All-Time King of the Pitchers.

as sent out a new and novelaseball gme.He call it "Big Six, and it

trikes us as the best of the marfyaseball games ever devised forndoor entertainment. It hasnany phases that reflect Matty's:een mind.There is a story in connection

rith Mathewson's new invention

rhich may or may not be true

mut which is interesting enoug

o print. They say abatb

oe Tinker was responsible for

he game.

Joe once made the remark to(atty, In' the days when theyrore deadly foes on the baseballold, that he, Tucker would be

gte attraction fong after 1

latheweon had faded from base-all memory.

This was ten years ago, but Itsaid that Mathewson then and

here began trying to invent a'ame that would carry his name (

eyond his baseball career, little 1salising the longevity of theante won oa the mound.JPerhaps he has succeeded be- *

end his fondest expeans.

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Vomon)VER YONDERed West, out in the vasty spaces,sint got a durn thing on 'em, asmay recall that we noted yester-I of the dotty season hereabouts.a the land of the One-Arm Lunch,is are appearing on the tumbleomeof shedding their vests.ong the barbed-wire fences. Thesnoots out of their winter hiber-

g business in the air, it is merelyis Willard the Pottawottomie cowout of the alfafy and sniff the

At all events, one of the greatestboosters for his new game is thatsame Joe Tinker, one of the bestball players that ever wore cleats.

Baker Is Slippig.is no surprise to read in the

dispatches from the dear oldSouth that Miller Huggins,

manager of the Yankees, haq dis-covered that Frank Baker is slip-ping and that he will prolbablyhave to replace the Marylandmauler at third base.The surprise is that Huggins

did not discover it sooner. Orperhaps he did. The fond regardof Colonel Tillinghast L'Homme-deru Huston. one of the ownersof the Yankr. has been largely'responsible for the ardent cling-ing to Baker when it seemed ap-parent that the one-time home-run king couldn't move aroundlwith his old-time agility.Huston liked Baker for his tre-I

mendous hitting ability. Thecolonel loves to point out thatFrank drove in a lot of runs thathelped the Yankees win the pen-nant last season. The colonel wasthe one who used to go up toMaryland and sign up Baker when1. Franklin had one of his hold-ut spells.But the colonel, while stating an

Indubitable fact about Baker's hit-ting. muffed the important item,f Frank's fielding. The territoryaround third base had grown tooexpansive for Baker's aging limbs.

Yankee Infield Preblem.r0keep Baker playing thirdand retain -his betting powerin the Yankee line-up, Hug-

dusa had Ward, who appears to

,e a great natural third baseman,playing second. As a secondyaseman Ward was all right, butte does not stand out there as heloes at third.

Huggins can switch Ward back:o thirdi, and put McNally or Me-Willlan at second, and perhaps in-Iresae the defensive side of hisinfield. Or he can keep Watiatsecond and put McNslly on Mc-Willan at third. The latter is said

o be a good third baseman.Baker, who will go down in

aseball history as one of thetreatest players of all time, willie valuable for several jeasns. toome as a pinch hitter. He will~robably never lose his battingye. A player's legs may bog

lown he may be unable to ;-un

ri throw, but if he is a naturalatter, like Baker, he Is alwayin

ble to hit. They never lose thatbility. -__________

EX RICKARD PLANNINOLEONARD-TENDLER BOUTN10W TORK. April 3,-The possi.

ility of a Denny Leonard - Lewendler bout for the lightweight

hampionship was discussed today

y Tex Rickar1d.The bout, if held, would be staged'ly 4 in Doyle's Thirty 'Acre., Jer-

my City, where Dempsey and (hr-entta.- fought lt yr.

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AZTEC TEAMTO COMPETEWITH SENIORS

Other Young Clubs Take StepUpward in Sandlot Title

Compettion.By .. D. THOMA.

The Azetca. who gave the Roam-eor a tustle for junior independentchamplornhip honors In the 1921series. this time will compete in thementor class and the daceb whotriumphed in last year's midget class.are to play In the junior division.Thus It should be, according to thereckoning of those who have Iherttho interest@ of the sandlot gameBy graduating from one clam into

another the young clubs keep theirteams intact and develop co-opera-tion fn play. Noew players arbrought in frmm time to timethrough necessity, but for the moatpart local team which have beensuccessful have played togetherfrom season to season.

Particularly i this tee of theAztecs. whose team was foundedwhen most of the payers were at-tending grammar school. Glan ngover the followingltt, sandlot aswill recognise the Atec players oflast year: regnan larn. Smith.Harris. Stamford. Lpkln DeChard.Ketliher Gaines. Mclntire. IarePonela, and Gaines.The Aztec have just received new

uniforms. They are ready to bookgames with team of their clans thephone number being Franklin 401and the address 466 H street south-west. In care of the Mercury A. C.Left Mcntre. pitcher. in ez-

pected to do much toward puttingthe Aztecs In this year's running forthe senior title. Mclntire was astar last season. He in eighteenyer old now and s broadenedout. With a little mre weightbemight have been much better in the1321 campaign.Nearly alt of the team that did

well in the Junior clas last year

vstionc of the nnMerurys. LCk-

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170; Allen, 263: Boushee, 354.

BLACK CATS TO HOLDPRACTICE TOMORROW

First practice of the Black Catswrill be held tomorrow. Tentative

irrangements have been made toplay the Trinity team on the latter's!ield at 3 o'clock.

The probably line-np of the Black

Data for tomorrow practice will be:1

Athey, first base; Turner. secondbase; Shore, tahird base: Robinson.1shortstop; Keefe, left fielder; Good-1rick, centr field; Burnett or Erner,rih fild; 3mn rChconas,

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MACK EXPECTSTO DIG TEAR

Not much encouragement in trigrace. Connie Mack's Athle

sub-eellar so often of lathabit. Seven straight years the onwho shared the power and the gJohn J. McGraw, Frank Chance aAmerican League field sweep to tConnie Mack deliberately wrecked

a club that was too good for his26-cent towf after the upstart Bos-ton Braves had humbled him infour straight games in the worldseries of 1914. Eddie Collins, FrankBaker, Jack Barry, Chief Bender.Joe Bush. Bob Shawkey and a hostof others were thrown on the mar-ket for the highest prices theywould bring. Mack got a wealth ofmoney in the lean war years, whenthe future of baseball was a hoarsewhisper of a guess. , He has paidthe piper ever since.

Sern are mesa 'enough to Insin-u Ua Mack doesn't care a

deal; that he Is content torun as cheaply as possible, In themeantime living en the fortunateclubs, such as New Yetk. Cleve-land, St. Louis and the like.

While it is true thea Mack mademore than enough money with NewYork alone to pay all of last year'sexpenses and leave a dividend forthe stockholders, it is likewise truethat since 1914 he has experimentedwith more than 400. and that hehas spent on recruits, or alleged re-cruits, as much money as any rival,barring only the Yankees.Perhaps one of Mack's greatest

troubles during the agonizing throesof his cellar occupancy has been toomuch experimentation. He has hopesof getting out of the cellar this year.And he is favored above other yearsof recent memory in the fact that hewill present a lineup approximatingveteran talent. Every position butone will be filled with a player whocan be placed in the veteran list.Connie will carry ten pitchers.

Half of these wer* with the clubthroughout the 1921 campaign. Theright-handers are Ed Rommel, SlimHarris, Bob Hasty and Rollie Nay-lor: Roy Moore is a southpaw. Hastyand Naylor are not so much to bragabout; they are being given their lastchance to make good.Heimack. a left-hander who joined

the club at the end of the last season.has made a most favorable impres-ion upon Mack, who has had a few

of the greatest southpaws of historyv--Rube Waddell and Eddie Plankamong their number.

Yarriseni, who eses freem RockyMeant and who threws an under-hand hail a la Carl Mays, has worna hoess in Connie's heart. So hasSullIvan, ot Moua.

With Ralph Perkins as the back-bong of the corps Connie has littleoccasion to worry over his catching.Perkins is just about the best beck.stop living. Johnny Walker andFurham seem able understudies.Connie's Infield will be comprised

of Doe Johnston. secured from Cleve-land, at first; Dykee, second; Callo-way, shortstop, 'and Galloway, thirdbase. He has Hauser- for first ifanything goes wrong with Johnston.Barrett, who is fighting with Callo-way for short field, is a versatile in-fielder of worth as a substitute.W'asill, another first baseman, hasa bad arm just now, but should doyeoman servIce, as a pinch hitter.Sheer, another infielder, purchasedfrom Hiartfor11, has proved himself awizard defensively. He has the rep-utation of never manhandling a hallhit at him, but he has shown ab-molutely nothing with the stick.Mack's outfield will be as last

year: Tilly Walker in left, Welshand Miller in center and Witt inright. McGowan, who played inNewark last year. will probably becarried as an extra. He is a grandball hawk, but has shown little apti-tude In hitting, even against Con-nia's pitchers.

Cievlands To Open.The Cleveland Juniors will play

their first game of the season tnmror-rde, when the-- will meet the Mary-and Perk Juniors oni the latter.'liamond. All Cleveland player. areto report to the manager's house,LO0U Thirteenth street southeast.se later than 12:80 o'aloak Sna.

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VETERANSI FROM CELLARring to uplift some one who in be-ties have finished in the Americana that routine may be considered

e vaunted lean and lanky tactician,lory ofthe baseball pnivierse withad Fred Clark, has seen the entirei: wire before him.

Sandotters'Salt andPepper

By R. D. THOMAI.h sandot editor knows owt can secure firtlass ni-

forms withe t dig ing Into thee teatorn man er ein vauted tea= and lk tctieianIt's easy.

Garner-Humphrey Is the name ofthe ofest team to enter the unlim-ited field from the southwest section.It Was named for te lads backing It.

Five new members were taken Inby the Ottawas at theirlast meeting.George Hall, of 1816 Thirty-fifthstreet northwest, to the now man-ager and is ready to book 16-17-year-old teams.

Wille Glascoe annonees thatthe Shamrekl' new diond atseventeenth atree and P ni-

vania avenue southeast theready some time next Wek.

Martyn Beek in the Circles' nowcaptain. He Is an outfielder. I-

Murray, Garfiem eenterfeldr,starts his sixth season In this posi.tion for the tow. He Is one ofthe Garfelds' drectortThe Garfields have Harron. Averill

and Breary, righthanderty and Hun-gerfor , southpaw. is a nucleus frthe pitching staff.

Mrs. Nicholas, of thIndependents, Is eet to wo-

c' nsurae im net for

Jmmryn Mckae o the iCstewlcaptin.to Ia ban outfiemodo.Mm-rnt Gafiot.nerliistanys more siesn undothpedlyarein t for the am. ltes ndthMrf. iehld wd eo ga in

and coner, rbetadrsu and teamsigerd slopw, her a lead. foThe Hychin teamff.eceMto Nichla, mangner oforh

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Mlrs cas woueventingyea fineserwceI hnefrmrs with asue today.

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