The times., 1897-03-21
PLAY BALI" TOMORROW!
The Washington Club Will Start
Team Training.
THE ROSTER AT PRESENT
All the Infielders and Outfielders
With the Exception of Young
Harvey Smith Are in the City.
Jimmy McJames VIII Not Arrive
Until Next Month.

Although a number Of the members Of
the Washington club have been in the city
for over fortnight and have, in that time,
by their presence, generated lot of
baseball gossip Of local nature, ii re-
mains for tomorrow 10 usher in the real
beginning of the campaign that will end
IN the ides CT autumn.
The players who made Washington their
winter home were Capt. Brown, Charley
Abbey and Gene DeMontreville, the lat
ter to the manor born, and who never
knew another roof other than that COW
ering his comfortable residence in the
northeast
big Ed" Cartwright, he OF the piano
legs and ability to handle everything,
high or low, around first base, with his
estimable wife, was the advance agent
arrival Of the aggregation OF Uoga-wearers
who dfsport "NY' across their fronts dur
ing the season that oscillates from Boston
IN the East to Louisville in the Southwest,
and from Chicago on the lake to Baltimore
on the bay.
Then came Reilly, the fashion plate,
and Billy Lush-the first, stranger to
Washington, and the other well-estab-
nshed favorite. They, too, as Piano
Legs" were accompanied by their better
halves.
Mr.. and Mrs Mcclure shook the snow OF
Albion, Mich from their sboes-snow shoes
In time to reach the congemal capital
to view President McKinley's triumphal
Inauguration, and Manager Gus Schmez,
with his Van Dyke beard and host of clev-
erness and accommodation, was onschedule
time for the same suspicious event
The other comers in their order were
George C'Zeke") Wrigley, the phenom in
fielder; I've got-it'' Selbach, Johnny
o'Brien, than whom there is no better
guardian of the second sack, and the last,
Win-"Hansome Win"-Mercer, whose
Romeo features and pitching prowess
has had local feminine fandom enthralled
for the past three seasons.
Manager SchmelZ can therefore call the
roll at present and have the following play
ers answer here Capt. Tom Brown, Cart
wright. Mcclure, Selbach, Lush Abbey, De
Montrcyille Wrigley. o 'Brien, Mercer and
Reilly. The others due to arrive between
now and tomorrow morning for formal
reporting time'' at National P ark are Char
lev Farrell Al. Maui, "Ef." Norton, Ashe,
Swain, German and silver King.
Harvey Smith, who made such splendid
reputation as the successor of Ca pit. SCRAP
DIV Bin'' Joyce at third base during the
flag end of last sea son, will not be able to
don a uniform until in June, when his col
legiate course at the University of Pennsyl-
vania viii close, and Jimmy McJ ames, that
other Al favorite, will not shake hands with
the gang until the middle of next month,
owing to his attendance upon "sawbones'
school in South Carolina.
The weather permitting, the members
of the club will commence team practice
at National Park tomorrow afternoon, and
will continue steadily at work until Thurs
day, April ], when they will meet the
Norfolk team, OF the new Atlantic League,
In the first game OF a preliminary schedule
that will last almost continU ously until
the opening of the regular League season.
The only out -of-town games before the
inaugural with Brooklyn will be with Jake
Wells "F. F. VS." at Richmond, on Easter
Monday, April 10, and the day following