Show Reds Must Depend on an Young Players 4 t I HOt Howley l Declares 11 Vets Vels els r Have e Lost Punch Hitting Power ver Needed at Cincinnati I By Dan Dais Howle Manager i Cincinnati tl Reds Cincinnati is building a new ball team eam and as manager of the Reds I find myself up against the tho same proposition that I ir 7 had lad In my second J year car as manager 1 of the St. St Louis fI I Browns We Ve have to get set rid of all aU the veterans rans with the Ii i exception of one 9 or two and go y along with the I youngsters f 1 fI I know w that we wc f cannot win with what we have The statistics last sea t son arc pIn in r I enough The team lacked Jacked the punch Of the regulars still retained on Howley the Red roster only four hit above during 1930 These men are Lucas Hellmann Heilmann Cuccinello and Heilmann Hellmann led in the number of hits with In the building of a new team we have many deals pending Bet Before oi-e oi the thc season begins provided these deals are arc successful Cincinnati will vilil have bolstered up its batting strength considerably Last year we won more games ames from the thc Phillies than they won from us Cincinnati won twelve Philadelphia t ten n. n The only other team In the I league we were able to g get t a 50 break with was the Chicago Cubs We each won von eleven cleven WEAK AGAINST CARDS It was against the Cardinals that tha I we we showed our greatest weakness 1 it seemed we couldn't have beat beaten n them with Grove and Earnshaw St St. Louis won nineteen games from the Reds while we took only three I We Ve have some likely looking young fellows this year ear We are giving givinS' another another an an- other trial to Frank an infielder in in- fielder from Los Angeles who formerly formerly formerly for for- merly was up with the Athletics and Tigers came to CincinnatI in the draft after alter batting in the Pacific Coast league last season Another man picked up In the draft is Bob Asbjornsen a catcher from Nashville This young man has the habit of spoiling peoples people's fences with line Une drives He hit for Nashville Nashville Nash Nash- ville and that Is a lot of hitting in any mans man's league Only t two o men were claimed In the draft but I am looking for some great things from a young man we bought horn from Hollywood Mickey Heath When I was managing the Toronto team in the International league Heath played first for me on the pennant winning Leafs of or 1026 1926 HEATH LEFT LEVI HANDED Heath is a left handed first sacker and land unlike a lot of left a pretty smart ball baU player In 19 1929 he batted for Hollywood and hit thirty eight home runs Last year he batted and hit thirty six homers his average going down when night baseball was adopted If Heath fills the bill at first ba base baie Joe may go to third with Durocher at short and Cuccinello at second Building a pennant winning ball team Isn't a matter to be decided in ina a season or two I think Connie Mack MacI will agree with me on that Copyright 1931 NEA Service Inc |