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Show UNIQUE LOT i OF SQUABS I ! I All But Two of the Mc-Graw Mc-Graw Men at Marlin Will Be Pitchers (By Damon Runyon.) ' New York. Jan 86V When Manager Met; raw of the Giants reaches Marlin with his tirst squad next month, ho will have what will probably be the most unique delegation of 'squabs" cmt taK.-n into a training camp b a hii; league manager. All but two men will be pitchers. He will be able to I line up a team with twlrlers in ev-erv ev-erv position He Is taking n total of nine kids to the springtime weeding and with the nine there goes one lonely fielding field-ing prospect and one lonelier Infteld-,lng Infteld-,lng possibility McQraw has been bending every (effort toward the task of building up i his pitching stafT in tho pa6t couple Jof years although that is always a I task for any manager any year In two years he has developed Marquard and Tesreau as first aids to Mathew pon and by consummate Jugglery of the Rube and Matty one year, and the consistent use of all three another year, he has won two pennants. Bore Brunt of Work. Of course, some little credit must be given to Otis Crandall. "Red' j Ames and Ceorge Wiltse. but Mar-Iquard. Mar-Iquard. Matty and Big Jeff bore the hrunt oi the work last season and will probably have to bear It again In 1913, unless McGraw manages to dig up another man good enough to fill in regularly Wllbert Robinson, the coach of the t;ian; i Itchers, will go south with thn first deta-'hrnent as usual, and will assist as-sist McGraw In culling the prospects Last .season Robinson produced I'-ff Tesreau as a regular, aud tho season before he presented Marquard ThW year many look for Al Demarec to be the old Orioles gift to the pitching siaff. although several others are almost al-most equally promising, particularly La Rue Klrby and Lou Bader. Doesn't Trust Youngstert s a general thing McGraw is not Inclined to trust B youngster with the responsibility of a championship game He gave Tesreau a thorough seasoning before he introduced him to the New York fan6 as a resrular. but he put a number of his new-youngsters new-youngsters through such a course of sprouts last season that he may he willing to take a chance with them this year If they display big league calibre. No one can ever say that this or that recruit Is sure of a Job with the Giants, because no one hut McGraw ever knows with any degre? of certainty cer-tainty who Will be retained and who will be sent away Rut It is believed that this season the manager le taking tak-ing a man south who will return a regular This man Is Al Homaree. tha . hut out wonder of the south, who worked in n couple of games for McGraw Mc-Graw last foil and displayed stood form. Demarec is practically a seasoned man. He has had long experience and he has absorbed much knowledge of his craft It Is believed now that (Continued on Page Ten.) I (Cont nued From Page TWO.) he will be working in I1I3 turn agalns' the Giants' opponents during the early months ot 1913, as he is accounted a great spring pltl h, r Demaree a Sensation. Demnrce was the sensation of the Southern league la.si season when he was with .Mobile, his pitching being largely responsible for Mike Finn's club finishing second Uemaree was in 34 games and won J4 and lost I". with a weak hitlitiu Hub behind him His record sparkles with BSUSaUi n al performance. Including numerous sut-outs and low score games. Ufc pitched 37 innings from the openln? of the season before B run was s Or ! on him. and before the season began he figured in an .'.hlbitlon game against the Oiants. in which he helped help-ed hold the big City boys ninless for thirteen Innings. Deraaree has been up to the big leagues before, and Is I about 26 years old Some Likely Material. The other youngsters who will bo tried out at Marlin by MrC.raw new spring are La Rue Klrby, Lou Ba ler Dave Robertson and tI Schupp. ' Fred Smith, Hanley and Ferryman Klrby. Bader. Goulait Dcmaree and 'Robertson were all with the Giants last season, and all but Robertson received re-ceived trials In the box, so the only j new faces on the club next spring will I be the presumably beaming countenances counten-ances of Messrs. Schupp. Smith. Han ley and PetfTJ man. All Right Handers. 1 All of these fellows are right-hand ers with the exception of Schupp and Smith The latter comes from Traverse Trav-erse City, of the Michigan State league, the same team who gave us I :i Rue Klrhv Kirby in 2fi games with the Traverse Trav-erse city club won IS and lost but : leading the Michigan State leagUS pitchers He worked 174 2-.1 innings and was found for 11" hits He struck out 138 and passed 38. Lou Bader Is considered o,uit fl prospect He comes from Dallas of the Texas league, the club which has i sent Mcf.raw many men. Including Arthur Fletcher. Bader worked in 41 pames last season and won 1 and ' lost JJ. |