The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-07
johnny Griffin, the Well Known
Lightweight, Will Fight
George Dixon.
IMPORTANT L. A. w. RULING.
,lsIe Number Of Entries For the Boston
Horse Show The Pawtuckets PLAY nj
xead'ny This Afternoon n-cycIing and
General Notes.

While at Macon with his team Manager
Hanlon of the Baltimore club took occa-
sicn to express his opposition to the use of
tho bicycle by professional baseball play
srx Several Of the Orioles took bicycles
with them to the training grounds, and
AcGraw got a fall, injuring one Of his
k0ees. The injury was slight, but il con-
WINGED Hanlon that the "bike" is not o
good thing for. ballplAvss .sA-- 49, =.
ssatsni~ $1,000 .-0 pro-
.--.Aary season opens.
4 4 contrast to Hsnlon's opinion is that
>of Manager Stallings, who trained his
philadelphia team at Augusta, not many
mI3es from Macon. Stallings Is a devoteo
of the wheel himself, and probably more
Of his players are wheelmen than can be
found In any other team. This fact is due
mo doubt, largely to their former manager
the late Harry Wright, who advocated its
use by his men and used one himself Tho
president of the club, A. j. Reach, is also
. bicycle enthusiast So Stalllngs mar
shals his men every day, and they take q
run Of 10 or 20 miles into the country as
preliminary Of their days work.
Joyce doesn't ride, and has no use for
the wheel among his men. In training no
relied largely on cross country runs of
about ten miles q day. "That," said he,
Twill soon demonstrate which men have
good, sound stomachs, for without such
an organ the player cannot make run of
that kind, and without q good stomach n
ballplayer will never be success Anson
n q wheelman, or was before he became
IN actor. But he got such header last
fall year ago that he lay in half stupor
for several days, during which time report
IN ha cni hrpf WofI1 xxvss IN,
. walk next year, Since that accident
uncls's ardor for bicycling has cooled, and
ne devotes moro time whilo training to
running.
lam not sure that it has ever been told,
nor yet absolutely certain that 1t is wholly
true, but a well authenticated story goes
that John M. Ward owed his retirement as
pitcher TO the bicycle. 1t was in tho days
OF the big front wheel, back in the eighties
Several of the New York players got the
craze, and an order issued by the club for
bid the use Of a bicycle by any member of
the team. Ward, however, took a spin on
the "sly" one morning, and reaped the ro-
ward In fall and an injury to his pitch
Ing arm. The matter was kept quiet, and
the injury went on record as a sore arm
Coming down TO the question of man.
agcrs, another important fact turns up
namely, the number Of player-managers Is
increasing each year. In tho National
aeague three of the IL clubs will enter this
season with player-managers which had
nonplaying managers ut the beginning of
Hast year--to wit, tho Pittsburg, st.
Louis and Louisville. Every one of the
dx western clubs has its manager playing
on the niDe-Donovan for Rittsburg,
Ewing for Cincinnati, Rogers for Louis
vuie. Dowd for st. Louis, Anson for Chi
cAgo and Tebcau for Cleveland Joyce of
tne,New Yorks Is the only player manager
OF the eastern section, but three of the 9TH
Or nve-Hanlon, Stallings and Barnie-
we're not many years ago professional
players. Scele and Schmelx alone have
nad no professional experience worth not
dng
q This tendency to put teams in charge of
mon wno have had practical experience is
extending. The western league has added
TWO oex-profossionals to its list Of playing
managers In Mack OF Milwaukee and All.
scn OF Detroit. The list out west includes
Sumot st Minneapolis, Comiskey at Sc.
PSui, Mack at milwaukee,, Allen at De.
Aroit, Lotus ut Columbus and Watkins nc
Indianapolis. All have In their time
achieved regulations on the diamond.
though Wilmot alone continues to wear n
uniform and play with his team.
An old adagc says that the greatest mis-
fortune that can bcfall man next TO be-
ing killed In battle Is TO have his name
spelled wrong I'm the published list Of the
lost There are two ball players who must
sualize something OF the truth of this old
asw. / refer TO Jones Of Brooklyn and
8ouders OF the New York club. Where the
lattcr's namo appears once as Souders it
appears ten times as Sanders-the "u" be-
ing turned upside down. With Jones
name the trouble comes at the other end.
Everybody knows how 60 spell Jones, but
abs name which his mother gave him is
not accorded 10 him in print once In 900
times You see it spelled Fielder" IL
De- Fielden, but the final "n" was somehow
3Bterpreted nm "r' bv some PRINTER :" 90