The Washington times., 1901-09-23
BASEBALL GOSSIP.


was scheduled to direct the tour of two
baseball clubs to California after the
American and National Leagues seasons
had been finished, has given up the plan
and turned the management of the trip
over to Winnie Mercer, the Washington
pitcher, and Lajoie, of the Athletics. Nc
Graw believes his injured knee will not
be in any shape to permit of his playing
for some time, and hardly cares to run
the risks that would be inevitable were
he to participate in the exhibition games
that will be played along the route and
in California. He wisely believes that If
he is to remain in baseball another season
he must give his knee long rest and not
undertake to play until the injured mem
Der is all right once more
The exhibition games will be commenced
week from today. Immediately upon the
conclusion of the American League sea-
son. The full Chicago club will play a
team picked from the ether clubs of Ban
Johnsons league. Exhibition games will
be played with the White Sox men until
the players of the National League have
ended their years work. The American
leaguers will show their prowess in Prov
idence. Woonsocket, famous in baseball
circles as the home of Lajoie; Milford
Buffalo. Toronto. Detroit and Chicago.
When the Chicago club gets to its home
city the club will disband and its place
viii be taken by the aggregation of Ma
Uonal leaguers
From Chicago the tourists will work to-
ward the South. visiting Indianapolis, Lit
tie Rock, Minneapolis, New Orleans and
cities throughout Texas. Mexico, and
Southern California. San Francisco will
be reached on Thanksgiving Day The
intinerary from Chicago to San Francisco
has been booked for every day by Umpire
Joe Cantillion. Guarantees have been Sc
expected that each player will net some
thing like $500 above his expenses
The following players of the American
League will make the trip;
nahan.
Athletics-Lajoie. Bernhardt and Davis
Washington-Mercer and Carrick.
Cleveland-Bradley.
Dctroit-Barrett.
Chicagc-Sullivan and Callahan.
Those from the National League will be:
BROOKLYN Keeler, paiy, Dah-en, Irwin,
and Donovan.
New York-Mathewson.
Boston-Cooiey.
Winnie Mercer viii make the trip for
two reasons In the first place. the local
pitcher expects to be married as soon as
the season is over and, he. thinks a little
taunt to the Pacific Coast will be an en-
joyable honeymoon, even IL he is com
PEELED to play a game every once in q
while: secondly he believes the trip will
be a financial success. Carrick will be
accompanied by his wife. so the better
halves of the Washington pitchers will
be able to score the work of their huS-
bands while watching their playing frem
the different Srandstands along the route.
Several of the other players will have
their wives along and IL is expected the
party will be congenial and the trip a
pleasant affair.
Umpire Joseph Cantillion. of the Amer
lean League. who viii be the advance
agent for the players, Will be about
week ahead all the way to the Coast. He
will see that the arrangements In the va
and will do the preliminary booming,
although there will not be much advertis-
ing required. az almost every baseball
crank along the line is aware that he will
soon have a chance to see the game
played by real players. From every city
come the most hattering reports of the
interest that is being manifested in the
coming games. and the only thing that
can give the scheme q setback Is n spell
of bad weather. Danny Long. the re-
tired player. whose home is in San Fran
cisco. writes that the players OF the Coast
League are greatly Interested in the COM
ing of the Eastern ball tossers and that
there is no doubt but that San Francisco
will turn out immense crowds to watch
the games.
Manager Manning says he will be In a
position to announce the names of the
men who will next year play with Wash
ington in a few weeks. There will be a
general raid made by the National mag
mates during the next few weeks, but the
American managers are evidently too well
fortified and have too many contracts
locked up In their safes to give them
selves much concern regarding the move
ments of the leaders of the National
League fight.
of the present Senatorial aggregation will
figure in the games that will be played
in this city next season. But there is
every reason to believe that the Senators
of 1902 will come pretty near TO being the
real article.
Manager Manning Saturday received an
offer from Comiskey to transfer the three
games scheduled for this city on Friday
and Saturday to Chicago 1t took the To-
cal manager but moment to determine
that as the games had been advertised
for Washington the enthusiasts OF the
Capital who have patronized the game
so literally during the summer when the
Senators have been playing anything but
ball, should not be robbed of an
to see the final contests of
the season. and accordingly teleeraphed
Comiskey that the games must be played
have turned out immense
crowds to welcome the champions, and as
there would he a Sunday game 1t is not
difficult to figure out what the profits
would he But Manager Manning per-
mitted himself TO forget that he has lost
Of dollars by reason of bad
weather during the season and only re-
called that his duty was primarily TO give
fans the games they had
right to expect. Still there are few man
ayers in the baseball business who would
not have taken advantage of the Chicago
offer and recoupod their loss as much as
possible.
There will be two games with Cleveland
this afternoon. The first will be called
at $50. Mercer and Carricls or Lee will
DO the pitching for the locals.
Detroit, with Jim Bufis. the world IA
nous wrestler at their head will descend
upon the Capital tomorrow for final Sc
ries with the Washington men. During
his visit it is expected tiTat Manager
Burns will make a deposit for his forth
coming wrestling matyh with Hector
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ToF those living in the MALARIA Districts Groves
Iasteless Chill Tonic.