Show ERNIE NEVERS ADDS STRENGTH I ITO TO ST LOUIS BASEBALL CLUB rs r's Athletes Look Like Flag Contenders Contenders Con- Con Contenders tenders tenders- This is Is s the sixth of a a les or of stories s on 1926 major league club i i i ST S OT T LOUIS LOUIS J JB Jan By 9 S B The The As 1 tJ Pros The Pres-The The The contest contea t for tor tIre the possession of ot one of ot t the h I most famous amateur of 01 the day was won by the St LouIs Lou 1 American league Iague team when tb y tiK-y I signed Ernie Never Nver I Ici ci coast football star The fhe Cincinnati and New V e York National league leacue I clubs also were at after atler r levers Nevers who was an n able performer r In the I box and at bat bal in college baseball In addition to gridiron achieve achievements meats ments M i While Nevers Is hardly ready reldy I for major league pitching the o added three mounds munds- mounds men men of promise to last seaon seasons season's corps of ot hurlers who landed the I club In lit third place In the Johnson circuit I TEN n x I Charlie Robertson of ot the lh ThI I cago cago- White Whit Sox who vho pitched p a hit no game gam but hasn't done much since alne Claude Jonnard or of ori i the tWe Toledo American association club and add Lefty Letty Bolen of ot the I Tulsa Vern tea league fill the lh Browns Brown's list 1st of box men up to 10 to 10 10 Pre Phil Ball Dall of ot th the I Browns BroWn thinks the cl clubs club's bs b's chanc chances s I for 1926 1 depend on how the I pitcher PI make th the grade crude u a lie he his present Infield Infield- onci onel I of the strongest of the the maJor I IC perlE peerless Js It at t first I showed that lie he h had almost en en- en Ie p ped ed from the Uie ee I trouble rouble that bothered him Im in it it was Of ot of- of his I nal po poul ul that tle i WI S volt wot won Never away way I Ithe the Reds Or the or-the the Gl Giants t lif nu Gerber and Rob round O l the field the S taiBa atme a a Usi I s year j ER Man us and cob Jl QI f he o outfielders were whre w e h I season and there thore hav la Iv been rumors that they be b I before he h he curtain goes roes goes up on b but t he le c hav have lacked of of- of ot tl lal confirmation T l xe Ken Williams r I tN the run home home P n J Jackson ro Tobin l i and nd the osler osler lI c also Iso i be bc t the c 1 wa was ob obtained this I r as as a mU 11 deeded infield r reserve 11 set a record record in th the American a tt ln n lost last year ear tor for chan chanies chanie's chances accept es e's ac pt cd ed at ai at second nd base o aid and and- d n In ny dy y d de- de de tI re re Til r Only nl a narrow narrow marein ted he Browns Drowns from front Ih league peo-I peo pen pen- pennan tn nant nant nan J t 12 an aba and in In 1974 1 24 I t- t tre ire re third The position largely ly up Jt up to to- to thc Vai Val Vat g- g gd d F the ace or of- of t the sqUad la latti t I In n car 3 r Giard Gaston Bush Luh Wingard and Dayla Darls I I |