p9 mm!ggmmmmm3g the regulars and get his chance. He T wrestling for the right to represent held down the job for much of last this section of the A. A. U. in the na- season, and comes up to every speci- tional tournament at San Francisco. fication defensively. In batting, how- ever, he is many points shy. Whether JINX STILL PLAYING FIRST FOR Rowland can afford to carry a weak-hitti- TIGERS third sacker remains to be (A seen. It depends on the swatting ability of the remaining members of the team. And there is still a chance that Russell Blackburne will be seen over on Harry Lord's job. Blackburne can outbat any man who has tried the billet so far, he knows more baseball than his rivals, and from his work around short it is believed he could defend the station. So far as we can make out, the main training of the Whales' seems to be in looking over oil wells. They have to do something to keep inter- ested during the idle periods when cold weather and rain keep them from active work on the diamond. Bill Jackson is making a hard fight for the first basing job, and Fred Beck must be better than he was last sea-- son in order to retain the place. Jack- son, from a gawky, gangling fielder, George Bums, first baseman of the has developed into a defensive tower Detroit Tigers, has fallen victim oC of strength, and is outbatting every the inx that seems to follow every" man on the team in practice games. first baseman who joins Jennings', Benny Kauff, star outfielder of the team. Stricken suddenly during Federal league, has been transferred at New Orleans, Burns was to the Brooklyn Tip Tops as part of compelled to undergo an operation the deal that sent the Indianapolis for appendicitis that will leave the team to Newark. Falkenberg will re- Tigers without a regular first base- - main in Nqprark. Bill Phillips may mam until June. Monarty will play manage the team, with George Sto-va- ll the bag. r holding down first as a private. The jinx on Detroit's first basemen That means a new manager must be has' followed the team for 15 years found for Kansas City. During that time six good first sack-e- ra f Bob Bescher is refusing to go to have fallen victims. The five oth- - the Cardinals from the Giants, but ers were Frank Dillon, Chris Lindsay, McGraw says the deal is finally con- Claude Rossman, Tom Jones and Delj cluded. Bescher may leap to the Gainer. Feds. Jack Britton easily outpointed Ted Secretary Redfield strenuously re- - Lewis in ten rounds at New York. buked an employe of the department Tim Madigan of the University of of commerce for complaining of ex- Minnesota and H. H. Jenkins of the cess work. Rebuking employes for Pittsburgh A. A. will meet in the complaining of excess of work always nals of the 135-pou- class in goes with that Mnd of whisfeers, tfMMIMliaaMMtl.