The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-15
EACH PLAYER HAS
A.CHAR.M \ NAME:
Lawmakers Among Themselves
Dub One An
other.
KENTUCKY COLONEL CT IS ONE.
Safety, "Bcason," "shafe,'
#"1iooligan' and "Crowfoot0
Are Some Of the Players.
KENTUCKY COLONEL ;'d y , IS ONE.

l. ~ oh onae between several mon for the
DO veral positions6 on. the Richmond ball
team Is A job that scores of fans IN tho
city would shrink from, yet this Is Just
chat Manager Charlie shaffer gets his
h,p salary for and this Is just what he
HAS got TO do. The Law Makers are Show
|sing up fine, and the aggregation that
gets away With the money after the exI
t,bttons on tho diamond Will have to
hustle some little bit anyway.
Every morning and every afternoon the
players are having practice work, and the
soreness has worn or 30 that each man
car chase Y the hotsehide nrouhd With
ease All next week the pitchers will
he worked. In the mornings there will be
practve games, and in the afternoons fe1 IONS
Manager Shnffer will have his men chas--
ing hunts, learning to bunt scientifically
and to get the bali across the diamond
in time to stop the speediest runner.
The box artists Will get in the habit
Of throwing the sphere through small
knot holes In the fence and directly over.
gloves that will lbe on the ground a dis
tance from them, ABOUT the same as the
distance between the box and the horne
plate.
Each one OF the players has been dubbed
since being here, and the names Will
follow them through the season. Here
are some OF the names Of some OF the
players:
Hamilton, the fast little shortstop, Will
be known as Just plain Tommy.
Long, the big man; will run In the
"Shorty', column b Longs name is the
shortest thing about him.
Still is the man from kentucky, and, OF
course, IS .'Colonel." He. by the way,
is something mysterious In the art Of
legerdemain, and may work some magic
on the EATERS who come before him this
year.
1aiddelmoser is already chopped down
TO the reach OF man with a sponge In
his mouth. He will go through life as
a 'Rlddle.'
Betscher, the clever man at third, looks
like an Indian, and he may be one for
all that Is known Of him. But. anyway,
he claims to be white, and the boys
call him "CroWfoot"
Hicks Is Richmond boy and 1t was
a Richmond crowd that years ago said
he look ed pugnacIotis. That's the reason
The has been slipping through life with
the name OF Pug hung to him.
|5 Shaffer's name Is rarely, ever called.
The boys call him 'Bhafe." and Charlie
says they can call him anything they
wish to. 50 long as they deliver the
goods.
Eckstone came from Memphis, where
tine fans 60 Wild about baseball, and he
was known there as 'HoolIgan." No
plausible reason has been advanced for
a change OF the appellation.
Ttman, the handsome man whose pic
ture doesn't show up well, but who
knows how to take down the long ones
In the field. is called Ira" though the
key is not yet given. There's joke
connected with the name, so the baolo-
gists say, and that's the reason they
call him by this strange name.
Nealy Is a man who goes after every
thing, and he runs bases In good style.
He Will be known as Beacon, and the
man who guesses why will be given
chrome.
Wall-say. It's awful, but the crowd
dubbed him. He is Monkey Face" but
the name isn't right. for his face doesn't
exactly look like that Of a monkey. Wall
ia a hitter-not with his fist, or this would
not have been written-but with the
willow. 5. "
Weaver, who hands them out from his
left hand will be known MS Lefty"
He always has been dubbed this. and It
would be a shame, think the boys, to
change It. &
Lewis the smallest pitcher yet cx-
hibited, will be called "Pe wee. #
Fry will be known as either the Lob
ster''g or the kid" Just rs soon as Col
onel stn hecjHeH whether or not
lobster Is a fish. b.
Shelter studied for the ministry once.
and the boys have always called him
DOC"
Hinton, who takes the things from I'M
der the stick. is tho Owl"