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Show Jennings Advocates Eighteen Men To Baseball Team Hugh Jennings, manager of the Detroit De-troit Tigers, says that eighteen players play-ers aro enough for any major league club to carry during the championship season. He declares that the magnates mag-nates waste $50,000 a year on superfluous super-fluous talenL "The ball team that winB the pennant pen-nant usually has tho smallest number num-ber of men," remarked Jennings. "I believe that the clubs should carry eighteen players, or porhaps twenty. Not more than six first-class pitchers are needed to maintain a winning position. po-sition. "Two catchers can do all the work, and five outfielders are sufficienL Four infleldors and a gcnoral utility man can take care of tho rosL The regulars regu-lars are generally hampered by the presence of too many substitutes on the bench. If we had fower substitutes substi-tutes the regulars would get better results." |