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James (Pig) Greene, ExBlack Crax Catcher. To Start in ‘42bag. | Wilson Utility: L Williams 3bL«TI i» ri^lii ; Crtriick' ith.‘ Bankhead, SS Easterling 3 , 15.1and Hill in the caifcfleid becauseof their slugging ability.This year, the Ea^t has JoshGibson. Homestead Graj’s, andRoy Campanella of the BaltimoreElite Giants, as catchers. Roycaught the full game for the Eastlast year and was awarded thetrophy for being the most valuableplayer in the 1941 game. Gibson was in Mexico last year and, although he has a reputation for clouting home runs, the West'sfans, who are dyed in the woolNegrc American league bugs, point out that Gibson has played in other East versus West tilts and didn’tget any homers.PEA EYE BUTTS MAY GETTRYPlaying first for the East will beeither Big Jim West of Philadelphia or Leonard of the HomesteadGrays. Leonard is a veteran ofthe East-West games and clouted a homer off Ted (“Double Duty”)Radcliffe last vear. Sammy Hughes Baltimore second sacker, absentfrom the fray last year, will beback on second with the veteran Willie Wells, Newark manager, or Dick Seay of the New York Black Yankees in short and Pat Patterson of Philadelphia or Roy Easterling of the Grays holding down the far comer. Tommy Butts of Baltimore may get into the game at. short.The East Is well off in fly chasers. There are Jerry Benjamin of the Homestead Grays, Bill Wright. ;md Henry Klmbro of the Baltimore Elites. Jud Wilson and Chin Green of the New York Blark Yankees, Vargas of the Cuban Stars. Stone of Newark and Big Jim Williams of the Cubans. The East,. as has been previously stated can send either Hill or Day. the Newark pitchers, to the outfield.NEIL ROBINSON LIKEDThe West is using but one firstbaseman and he is O’Neil. Inevent, that something goes wrong, Tad Strong will be shifted from the outfield to first. Behind the bat, in event, of injury to Green, will oo “Double Duty” Radcliffe. who ran pitch as well as catch. He isat present playing for the Birmingham Black Barons. In the outfield. the West will have Nell Robinson. whose home run fame isstill fresh in the minds of thsEast-West, game and his home town. Memphis, is pulling strong for him. Also there will be Davenport of the Birmingham club,Hyde of Memphis, and Pennington of Chicago. As substitute shortstop will be Rolph Wyatt, of theChicago American Giants andthere is still a question whetherAlex Radcliffe will get into the game. The Chicago third sacker has seen action in many East ve.West contests and in most lt;5f them has held his own with theEast when it ccmes to hitting.However, there are fans who wouldinto . roe Oar ter *4 Memphis at *n. i .i 6GITOI' __ ___CHICAGO—(ANP)—With t h e balloting ended—the deadline for votes having been midnight, Sunday, August 9. the Wast teamwill take the field Sunday afternoon. August 16, in spacious Com-j iskey park, 35th and Shields Avenue, for the 10th annual EastWest contest will be and mostlikely bat as follows: “Cool Paper”Bell, Chicago, or Jethroe, Cincin-natti Buckeyes, in left field; Parnell Woods, Cincinnati manager, onthird base; Ted Strong, Kansas City Monarchs, in rightfield; Willard Brown, Kansas City Monarchs.423 hitter in centerfield; JoeO’Neil. Kansas City Monarchs. first base; T. J. Brown. Memphis,shortstop; Peg Green, KansasCity, catcher; Johnny Sampson, Birmingham, second base; and as pitchers. Satchel Paige of theKansas City Monarchs who led theentire voting; Hilton Smith, Kansas City Monarchs; Verdel Mathis, the portside hurler of the Memphis Red Sox. and Eugene Brein-mer of the Cincinnati Buckeyes.Tne East batting order is still in doubt and won’t, lie known untilthe last, minute. Topping i.hc vot-I ing for manager in t he East isthe veteran. Vic Harris ofHomestead Grays. Tex Burnett.will be one of the East's coaches. However, those close to the Negro National league know that T o m Wilson’s circuit is going to throwits full strength in the field in order not to give the West a chanceto tie the count in g?mes Acpresent, the East is out in frontfive games to four in the series.Although there will be a game inCleveland Tuesday night, Avgust18. with the same players in action for the United Service organizations, the i.eco\ii game will notcount officially in the East ve.West series.JOSH GIBSON TO I’l AYHeading the cist of players for I be East is David (“Iinpo”) Barnhill. New York Cuban Stars hurler, mentioned often as one of Ihe Negro players who may get a tryout with some major league baseball club Barney Brown of Philadelphia. Ray Brown of the Homestead Grays, Jonas Gaines, of the Baltimore club and his pitching mate, ...... I3vrd. also lefty Hilland Leon Day of Newark. Allmentioned are pitchers although Newark has been using both Day
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