High Point, March 7—Many new faces will be seen on the High Point team when the club begins spring training here April 1st, according to “Duck” Smith, the new manager. Only five of the players on the 1924 team are expected to return, while approximately a score of new players will try for places on the team, it is announced.
Among the contracts that have been signed and returned to the local management are Pitchers Frennick and Jelsma, Outfielders La Voie and J. Smith, and Infielder Pegram.
Smith, the new manager, will come here about March 20th, according to a statement given out by local club officials, the other members of the team reporting about 10 days later.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 7, 1925
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