Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-17
HEARTY PRAISES FOR
MANAGER CANT|LLON
All the Nationals Like Him
Harmony Prevails and Good
Results Sure to Follow.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GALVESTON, Texas, March 16-Now
that fun week of work at the Nationals
training camp has passed, and the boys
are beginning to find" themselves good
results are cropping out in more ways than
one. and there is most hopeful feeling.
We seem at last" to quote the words of
Capt Harry Schlafy, Ito have caught the
real spirit of a major league team from
which something can be expected. Our
playing strength is not only better this year.
but we are in the hands of a real leader at
last. There is system and discipline in the
team now. and that old spirit of everybody
for himself and the devil take the hindmost,
prevalent before has disappeared. Can
tillons the very man we have long needed
He not only knows the game like a book
but he has the brains to see that we do
our work right, and the will power to keep
us keyed up to it. He is treating US royalty
but we'll have to keep buckled right down
to serious work and there will be no let-up
until the last game is played.
Another thing I'm glad to see this year
there Is harmony and the best OF feeling
among the players. There Is only one fac
ton in this team now-the Cantillon fac
ton. Well all have to keep on Joe's side
or else he'll grease the skids for u.s. No
favortes will be played. With good man
die spirit whether were way to the front,
you tell the folks at home that the Ma
tionals viii go some this year"
This opinion Is heartily concurred in by
all the other Nationals
Enjoying Their Visit.
Besides the daily practice at the ball
par the boys have the splendid surf baths
to help them, and the fine gymnasium of
the Y. NJ. C. A. can help to put on a few
LII.
goes one day is like another for the sky
Is always cloudIess and the temperature like
In early summer.
There are plenty of attractions of a whole
some kind to entertain the boys in their
off hours. When they do not go fishing on
the bay front they are tramping along the
wharves looking at the work on the great
ocean liners that are sent forth from this
port carrying immense cargoes Of cotton,
wheat and other products of Texas and the
southwest and they have a fad for StrOlling
around the residence district gathering ole
anders and viewing the beautiful gardens
which in bloom all the year round.
They have the freedom of the skating rink,
with all the trimmings thereto. and the
courtesies of the opera house, too. are
theirs.
As both regulars and Costs will have hard
battles tomorrow. practice for Monday
morning will be cut out and a motor launch
ride on the bay will he given the players
by local people. The voyage will include
the Southern Pacific, In the west end. to the
extreme end of the jetties east. distance
Of eight miles while stops will be made at
Fort Crockett. on the east end of the island.
and Fort Travis. on the mainland near the
great lighthouse that at night beckons the
mariner in the port If the bay is not rough
they will be able TO view the sunken hulk
of one of the vessels of LATTE, the old gulf
pirate. of whom they have all read and
heard
Gathering Souvenirs.
Souvenir gathering is all the rage with
the Nationals. and they find them in plenty
here-so much SO that they are going broke
on the game. There are hundreds of pic
turesque views of the city, harbor and
grade raising to be had, while sea shells,
from tiny ones to those as large as water
bucket. abound. and starnsh are to be pick
ed up on the beach. Small souvenir sam
pies Of the sea wall made out of the same
concrete that went into that immense engi-
neering structure can be mad for a song
aud miniature bales of cotton are a drug on
tine market.
Galveston is rapidly becoming a favorite
winter resort for visitors from the north
and east. and tourists going to or returning
from California by New York steamer stop
over here en- route and put up at the Ire
mont FOR day or two rule, so the