Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-15
Bad Weather Prevented Ma
tionaIs Practicing Yesterday.
WILL WORK THIS AFTERNOON
Charley jones Reported to Manager
Cantillon.
HUGHES TO BE A CAPTAIN
Raced in Mud at New Orleans
Demarest Billiard Champion
Golf at Pinehurst.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GALVESTON, Texas. March 15.-That
light norther that blew up yesterday morn
ing. accompanied by a little rain. was just
enough to keep the Nationals from work
ing all day. 1t wasn't very cold Ii went
down to about sixty, with bleaky SKIES
after the rain cleared away and Kept up
until after dark. After lunch the weather
did not improve much. so Manager can
tillon called off practice for the day. ana
with Altizer, Anderson, Patten and several
others, accepted the invitation of hunting
crank to go down the island in an auto
mobile and take a shot at the canvas
backs who infest the marshes along the
shore where wild celery grows In pro-
fusion They returned after dark with
good bags of game.
Instead of the usual morning practice or
batting this forenoon, Manager CaIHllon
for a change had the team out in a steam
launch on the bay for a fishing trip, ana
This afternoon there was the usuaf work
ut the ball park.
Even If il had rained all day yesterday
and today up to the hour OF pracuce II
would have cut no figure at the ball park,
for all the ground on this island Is SAND,
and water from the skies makes 1t all the
harder-better than ever, in other words
Jones Reports.
Outfelder Charley Jones got in from Den
yer at noon and disappointed that he
could not get out for practice in the after
noon because of bad weather but he was
satisfied and ducked up to his room and
turned into the hay soon after he regis
tered
Tom Hughes has a case of grumps-that
is. he has partly. He was hgurlns on gong
up to Houston with the regulars Sunday.
but Cantillon informed him that he would
stay here and captain the Yanigans
Well" said long Thomas. do get moth
ing but honor out of the blooming jo6?
.I'll give you so note if you beat them,
answered Manager Joe.
well if we win here and you fellows lose
in Houston, how about it,? still querled
Tom.
IF such a calamity ever happens I'll
turn over the job of manager TO you and
tear up my contract with the club, said
Cantillon. r- go. .
earnest. as the old saying goes, but it rep
resents the sentiment of the Nationals now
adayS.
Perrine After McCloskey.
One man who is looking forward in deadly
earnestness to next Sundays game at Hous-
ton is Mig Perrine. He was with Nc
Closkey last spring and was brought down
TO Houston to be released to Minneapolis
before the season started There's a whole
lot of bouquet throwing for Mccioskey in
the papers all the time, says PersIne, but
he is one man | have no use for. He never
treated me right last year. and I'll do my
very best to throw the hooks into him next
Sunday when we play there.
Catcher Mack Heydon was the recipient OF
a fine literary bouquet from an Austin pa
per- the city in which he first started play
ing professional ball. and he is only sorry
the team is not going to play there en- route
northward. From all accounts the people
there would present him with everything
hut the big state capitol if he ever went
back. From all accounts he was the white
haired boy at the state capital in 1896 and
he feels grateful that the folks there have
not forgotten him.