Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-02-13

The scheme OF some Of the teams in
the Tri-State DeaRue Of carrying forty
ard fifty men on the reserve list all
season to prevent other clubs in the
league setting their services probably
will be stopped.
dispatch from Altoona says PTesi-
dent Charles +. CARPENTER, OF the
Tfi-State League has determined to
insist Oh the league establishing linn
II reservation for players at the meet
ing at Lancaster next Tuesday. He
claims that the various clubs are
carrying from forty TO fifty players on
their reserve lists from year to year,
aud other clubs are deprived Of their
services, without Offering them con-
tracts, the players not inirequently be-
ing driven into organized teams.
ffesident CeTpentsr has also pre-
pared two schedules Of dates, which
will be submitted for adoption, but
they will not likely be given out until
about March lat.
The JohnstoWn club has announced
that IL has signed Charles Atherton,
OF the State College, to captain and
manage the team again next season.
Atherton is spending a snort TINA at
State College, recovering from the
effects OF recent operation for appen-
dicitis. The only vacancy on the
Johnatown team 10 that of a catcher
and lines are out for one of several
good men.
The Altoona Minor has the following
to say about the Intentions Of Arthur
Irwin for the coming season:
Manager Arthur Irwin's long expert
ence on the diamond as a player and
manager has taught him many things.
One of these is that it 10 always
important TO protect the runner. In
the system OF play 20 be followed here
! next summer every protection posi- BILE
will be thrown around the runner, and
where ID comes 10 the point Of saoTi-
/ fioinR the batter or the runner, the
batter will be sacrificed. Heretofore,
in Altoona, too little attention has
been paid TO protecting the men on
base. In fact they received no protec-
tion at all. Any lfan Gao recall timse
without number laFt summer and the
summer before, where runners on first
we're given absolutely no protection,
whereas the very slightest assistance
would have put them on second. In
close games, such as were played in
the Tri-6tate last year, team which
makes IL . point to protect the runner,
usually wins Harrisburg play ed such
system ana Harrisburg ives success
full until the team took a slump and
hit the toboggah with Fesounding
whaok.
The art Of batting will be instilled
into the heads OF the players. The way
the AltoonA team batted in years gone
by was faroioal. They batted ~ they
pleased. Few batters ever made any
attempt TO place the ball either to
right or left OF the pitcher when be
could plainly see whether the second
bAseman OF shortstop was to cover SEQ
oud. The game is always TO hit the
ball through the territory Of the player
who 10 otherwise engaged. Nor did the
second bAseman or shortstop pay atten-
tion TO the straight or curve ball, az
they should, for on the kind of ball de-
Fends largely where il can be placed.
All these things and many Others
Manager Irwin will drill into his
players before the season opens, il
they do not know IL already.
| o. II. Butler, Manager for Mary
Mannering, who appeared at the Grand
Opera House last night, WAS manager
ana also played first base on the Quick
step baseball team in this oity In 1879.
An effoFt Is being made ny the own
ern Of the Lancaster Tri-Btate team "a
secure Peter Cassidy Of this city for
manager TO succeed Jesse M. Fry
singer, deceased. Cassidy is under
contract with Jersey City for the com
ing season, but it is believed " he car
arrange for his release from the East
ern League team he will become man.
aRer of Lanoaster.