OCR Text |
Show Fed League Season Opens i Many Stars From Majors Infant Organization Has Cluba Warranting Rating of Highest Class W th Buffalo playing in Brookljn Ivewark n Baltimore P ttsburg in Kansas City and St Louis in Chicago, the second season of the Federal league as a recognized opponent of the two older majors began yesterday S nee the close ot the 1914 cam pa gn the Federals have recru ted Lee Magee Ed Konetchy Jack Dalton Marty Berghammer Ch ef Bender Lesl e Mann Eddie Plank, Charl e Deal Frank Mien M les Ma n Pat 1 0 Connor J mmy Kelley and others 11 sted for ser ice w th organized base ball nclud ng Howard Ehmke a vouthful hurl ng star who was headed for Wash ngton Ern e Johnson and Babe Borton Coast league nf elders who were on their way to clubs n the older c rcuits Bill Lpham and CI nton Eogge In ternat onal league hurlers whose 1914 ach e ements ent tied them to go up and a score of collegians and erstwh le n nor leaguers who ha e shown eno gh baseball ab 1 ty m the tra n ing camps to earn then rat ng an ong the future stars of the rap dly devel op ng Feds D sputed plaj ers whose addresses may be determ ned by court dec s ons are not inci ded n the strengthen ng test mony given yesterday at the east ern off ce of the independent league Four of the partic pants n the last world s series are w th Federal clubs Lesl e Mann and Charlie Deal of the Braves btmg Ch cago and tat Louis ptajers respect ely Chef Bender and Edd e Plank of the Athlet cs, the lead ng riht and left handera of the Mack an slabb ng forces of past sea sons are with Bait more and St Lou s i ederals respect vely Clubs Strengthened Mo es lea ng no quest on of doubt regard ng 1 npro ement in the playing strength have been made by each club manager n the ndependent circu t ex cept n the champ ons The transfer of the Ind anapol s f ranch se to Newark and the bale of Benn e Kauff to the Brookfeds does not g e B 11 Ph lhps a cocksure pennant winner for 1915 and 1 before those deals had been ecorded ever club had been strengthened Magee of Brooklyn is the only new manager n the rcu t The former Car d nal star his brought ideas and en thus asm wh ch n ade the tra n av at Brown s Wells M ss n ost mpress e Trades and purchases ha e brought a splend d backstop to the Brookfeds in M ke S mon last ear w th the St Lou s Feds and rn Kauff the champ on bats man and base runner of the Federal league Upham the Iron Man of the Internat onal league w th Bochester last season has given steadiness and power to an already strong p tchmg staff vh ch ncludes Tom Seaton Ed Laf tte Joe Finneran J m Bluejacket Byron Houck B 11 Chappelle Pud e Sommers Eon Mar on F n s Wilson and Bert MaxwtU Dalton With Buffeds One of the mportant new acqu s t ons n the Buffalo team that faced the Brookfeds in the opening game is Jack Dalton erstwhile Dodger slug ger Dalton was t ed with Wheat for th rd place among the National league regulars last season with an a erage of 319 Cy Marshall last season w th the Ph lues is a new p tcher with the Buffeds Among the m nor league finds Howard Fh ll e last jear w th Los Angeles of the Coast league stands out as a splend d p tch ng prospect Natural r valry between Newark and Baltimore assured an immense throne for the opening game n Bait more All reserved seats and most of the general adm ss on t ckets were d sposed of be fore the opening date had been made publ c Two new players ha e g ven the th rd place Terrapins of last season bas s for pennant hopes Ch ef Bender rounds 0 t a p tch ng staff that ncludes Jack Qu nn George &uggs B 11 Ba ley and a prom sing 3 0ungster in Snipe Conlej who had h s f rst b g league test last season Frank Owens bolsters the backstop ping department a weak po nt la6t sea son and Manager Otto Knabe is con fident that the addit onal battery strength w 11 give his club a chance to repeat last season s spurt to the front wbch was halted through numerous n junes to regulars Jack McCandless 21 years old an outf elder who came to the Terrap ns last fall from the Pitts burg Collegians is rated a f nd Pitchers Impressive Bill Phillips of Newark has a f nely drilled team n which good pitching bv Fred Falkenberg Earl Moseley and other regulars s backed up by a ster 1 ng detense Manager Ph llips nsists that Ed Bousch an outfielder who is approach ng his twenty second birth dav is on a par with the greatest n the game , Rousch is a left handed thrower and hitter wBo registered 333 in h s f rst season out last year, and but for the presence of the br 11 ant Kauff would have stood out more prominently as a star E ght p tchers are in cond tion to go the full route Manager Tinker at Chicago, has two sets of outf elders, Wickland Flack an 1 Zw 11 ne IB the left hand shift and Mann Kavanaugh and Hanford to bat right handed Mann may get nto act on as a regular f he contin es h tt ng at the pace set n the south, where the erst while Brave was poling long drives w th aston sh ng frequency A great pitch ng staff w th Claude Hendr i and Hank n Tohnson as the stars an raproved back stopp ng department in wh ch Arth r Ison and Bill Fischer last jear with the Dodgers are the regulars and a fast nfield n which J mny Sm th, a shortstop from Duquesne univers ty has threatened to d splace T nker as a regu lar makes the whales one of the best balan ed lubs in the c rcuit |