BARONS TO TAKE FIELD
NEXT WEEK FOR WORK
Entire New Outfield, New First Baseman And Four New
Pitchers Will Be Selected From Material On Baron
Try-Out Roster This Season
Baseball weather has hit town and
but a brief span of time before the
crack of the ash will resound in base
ball parks over Dixie. Barons will take
to the field during the first part of next
week. Monday, March 10, is set for re
porting day, but, as is customary with
all ball players, some will come in
Monday, some Tuesday and some the
next week. However, before the week
has run its course Manager Stuffy
Stewart hopes to have his cohorts do
ing daily work with earnestness.
Stuffy has been in Birmingham for
over a week and, like a high school
boy, cannot wait the coming of the
squad, but is out daily at Kirkwood
doing some sort of work. “Toots” Bran
don, second string catcher in 1922,
who will get another tryout this year,
and Lawton McWhirter, Birmingham
aemi-pro, have been out with Stewart
during the past week getting in some
preliminary work.
Stuffy says he i3 ready to go now
and tired of waiting. lie begrudges the
days he missed in Florida at hunting
and fishing when the cold rain streams
down and thoughts of diamond activ
ity is alien even to the most ardent
fan. The pasc two or three days, how
ever, have pepped the peppery sccond
sacker-manager of Proxy Smith’s hire
lings up and he is rearing to go.
