Show I BOOTING WELL WIL BE ESCARCE SCARCE AT BONNEVILLE ARK THIS THI'S I Duffy Lewis Rounds Roud Out Ot Strong Defensive Team pearce Sand Sheehan Will Not Measure Up to Siglin at Second Se ond Leslie and Catching Staff Better J or Fielders Than Those of Last Season I f t. t By Steve Sports Editor of The Telegram I t March 26 Any Any baseball fan can canS sit down and jp Q watch a group of baseball players doing their stuff can 4 c compare them with o oher her men they have seen indulging in the thenIe I g nile nIe art and form form a pretty good opinion of their wealth to to of of their individual merits and of their standing in t l tit e e same critic a ft croup of fl figurea figures fig fig- ures urea from the record book and as aa farIs far fir as Is sro ou 8 they mean but lut little anyway i and It ii Is Ia a different story atory For If 1 I should tell teU you or II you lI should 1 tell tall me that Valler the new Dew shortstop of the De Been I last lut ear that read something some some- had a year J thins thing like Ulce this O G. 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P C c. 9 one or the I Iother other of u us would remark How cun- cun nn r and aM let It KO go 0 at that PEARCE PEARCE IS BEST FIELDER IN LEAGUE But If If It I should tell you on good 1000 authority that Walter Wailer Pearce i l-i a af f faster ster and more brilliant fielder than Heinle Heinie Sand or that he has McCann of Portland Crane of Seattle and even our old friend Billy Orr looking up to him for speed brilliance class head- head fork ork and general fielding ability you wight prick up OP your ears and antI re- re J mark ark Well well eli this guy Duff Duffy Lewis Q be so eo much of a 11 Duni Dumb Daniel at w while writing this little piece 1 vm n go going y n. n to throw the record boos book In Mho thO wastebasket with all of I the t trash h and Just try to how show o h hat t kind of a a. defensive the Duffer has haa tog er tr to present to the Salt Lake f n April 10 to let 1St us remark that the fore fore- about Walter Valter Pearce 1 ld Q 0 a bit optimistic Is neva nev- nev 1 u a Just about true Possibly nO 00 other Bee lIce since the time of S Sheen ant Johnson and Mulligan was as al In hythe Che defensive portion of the J game gamen me n fellow Pearce He Is declared ji who have seen leen him in action to lo toH lolie u ube lie be H one of ot the fastest and prettiest fielders In the same game ame As he Is a dla- dla weak hitter It must be acknoWledged ac- ac that he has to be a clever clover malt mait afield to stick In class AA baseball base base- baIt ball and no one denies that hat ho he Isn Isn't t tIn In i a class with this league Pearce will do all aU that Sand ever did around the short patch so the fans need have no fe fear r on that score LESLIE IS IMPROVEMENT ON INITIAL SACK At first base there Is going ts b be a n. tremendous Improvement RUey vho vrho cavorted about th the base for tor a e. nort chort time was fairly good Cartwright was hardly fair and Paul Strand that wonderful fellow follow who offered fo to sacrifice rl lice flee his hitting his record and everything every thing else to help the team Just b beaule b cause Duffy Lewis asked him to take a whirl at the first sack lack wasn't even good food The first base was a 11 terrible No end of ot credit spot nil all last year ear oeVer r must be given to Strand Wl want tnt In Jn like a thoroughbred and the best hest he hel tad ad even een out of ot his Pi Ion on Just jut to along just hampered the rh l first base spot i r sf o 0 St the It slowed sloped up t elders who had to stop atop at ever every throws to first their 8 s st to cock cook u oum of weakness at that post post- uon tiOn This year ear Leslie Is all nil ov r the thet t bate base territory He lie Is a 11 splendid d Jer tr anti anU being bein a a. taU tall rangy ranlO chap chahi he f anywhere within reaching Slid abd that is considerable fo for is hIp t Tho The improvement dis t second It can hardly be bo expected L Je 8 Sheehan will be as big R R. st star stare r ihl 0 e tJ tack ck Ck as the old reliable Paddy y f There may be a a. slight slight- less I but bu buIt U It will be made up In Shee- Shee lJ alue 1 to the club lIe He can cat play ply positions equally well and wh when when- i- i substitute Is necessary on the c b nerl or Kearns can be sent ent InI in I ftp I ond and Sheehan can fill till In l everywhere e ex except pt at pitch and catch He jig ma may not be quite as fast as b te ie worked haS with Pearce knows s and with such a heady peppers pepper bUt Backer as Oscar Vitt at tho hot bot I rv the tho combination backed up by byl l se eat first will be one that s 5 hard harJ harde to e J. J e outfield there will wilt be th s old II saby Lewis Strand and rh have always been able t tJ t. do their thet bit They'll do it this S season t aad be no chance for any fail- fail ur urea rie In that department i CATCHING DEPARTMENT STRONGER IN FIELD 4 f the Lie e fielding I of the pitchers al although al- al though sometimes important an amounts to Lpt little They're all aU about lh the same In the catching d department ho however ever there Is considerable ml m rn m l ment not so much w th the Yielding ridding as II with the he throwing Last year leap ler H and Anfinson could couldn't boast o of or a a. real good arm arm 2 them Jenkins Jenkins' arm was awful o could throw but h he wasn't a V This year In ln regular duty will be big John Peters and his lous whip Peters tosses tho ball bail with the speed of a bullet and his aim is a. a always a.'s s 's deadly and true Re fie Is t to tt Improve the catching staff What Kind of smart baseball he is 19 capa capa- b ble of oc remains to be sea sei As 5 s wee weve said before the fans are due for tor a pl pleasant surprise It will be benIce benice nice to go down clown to Bonneville and se seto see seeto to real defensive organization fOr a change an that may guarantee guarantee guar guar- guarantee antee some som real games instead of the booting exhibitions that have been presented for the past five years Combined with some pomo good hitting and and mighty fair pitching Uie We going should be mighty be-mighty mIghty nice and the he games tremendously tremendously tre tre- tre- tre interesting |