Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-16 | Page 17 | Connie Mack's List of Players

Rube Oldring Comes Back to Baseball Phillies Will Be ' Fine Bunch. PHILADELPHIA, March 15. Con-nio Con-nio Mack, manager of the Philadelphia jH Athletics, tonight announced the list of players from which he will build up his team this year. The surprise , in the list is the reappearance of Rubo Oldring, who was a member of the Athletics when they were the world's champions. He quit baseball several years ago and engaged in farming in IH New Jersey. Tho list is as follows: Pitchers Elmer Myers, Vean Gregg. William Adams, John Watson, Frank Fahey, Robert Geary, Joseph Hauser. Catchers James McAvoy, Forrest , Cady. Ralph Perkins. Inficlders George Burns, Morris i Shannon, Joseph Dugan, Larry Gard- i ' ner, James Dykes, C. B. Davidson. 'H Outfielders Charles Jamieson, Clar- jjj once Walker, Rubo Oldring, Marlin f Kopp. A majority of tho players will leave here tomorrow for Jacksonville for spring training. 'H Egan Manager, Anyhow. 1 MILWAUKEE. Wis., March 15. John J. Egan, manager of the Provi- dencc, R. I., team In the International baseball league.'has been signed to l'1H manage the Milwaukco American as- ! soclation club, Owner A. F. Timmc announced today, to succeed Ned Egan, i who was incapacitated 'by a fall in St. Paul recently. John J. Egan served five years as i ' an umpire, three years with the Amer- bH lean association. , Phfls Off for Camp. , , PHILADELPHIA, March 15. The hH first squad of the Philadelphia Na- , lH tional league baseball team left hero , today for Now York, en route to !,, Jacksonville, Fla., for tho spring j, jH workout. jH Two million women are (working on farms in the United States, of whom JM 750,000 are under the ago of 20.