The Washington times., 1907-04-09

Trip Has Been Success.
On the whole, the trip has been a great
success. II il had been an old or well
organized team l would have said that
the excessive travelling was not only
useless and Improbable financially and
otherwise. but a positive menace TO the
teams success in the early stages OF
the season. but under the present con-
ditions 1 am inclined to think that the
unusually long list of practice games
wiH show margin on the credit side
as far as the players are concerned
It is scarcely. believeable to what ex-
tent the most elementary principles Of
team work had to be driven into the
Washington squad. 1t was not case
OF teaching high-cIass professionals the
very finest inside points but of getting
right on the ground floor and showing
them the simplest tricks Of the trade.
/ do not mean 10 say that the Wash
fngton men individually did not know
any baseball. but as a team they had
never been drilled in team work, and
what they did know was Of no practical
value. Practice games are, therefore.
good for construction.
Team Greatly Improved
No matter if the team finishes last this
year and with a worse percentage than
last season. il will still be true that
Cantillon has improved il in the matter
of inside ball. and it is more of a major
league aggregation today than it has
been for years.
also believe that the batting viii
improve. The pitchers sent against
Washington on this trip have been the
best the minors had in stock. and the
youngsters were willing 10 throw their
arms on to get the credit of beating the
tourists. This reckless eXertion on the
part OF the pitchers was aided by the
fact that Anderson, Hickman, Cross.
Altizer, and Heydon were all veterans
who Eeeded a little time to get started
and mad not nit their pace with the
stick Hence the somwhat bad show
ing in base hits considering that all
the games had been with clubs not sup
posed To be as classy as that from the
Capital
While the plans have been changed
and Pitcher Wilson has been sent to
Milwaukee along with Goodwin. that is
not saying he viii be lost to Washing
ton Schlafiv picked Wilson as
conner and stin thinks he win make
good Goodwin should also be worth
another trial AFTER one more year IN
class A society.
Mis- errors yesterday in the victory
of to over Columbus We're almost en-
tirely due 10 the cold. All of his chances
were far apart. and when he did get
one his arm had become chilled and
stiff from waiting The same was true
OF PeTriue and Friel, the Columbus third
sacker. All three of these men played
q brilliant game at times and IL is a
pity that the record. IN the box score
today should look so badly If it had
been a mild day 1t is hardly likely that
they would have made one error be-
tween them
The star feature yesterday was a one
handed catch b. Jackson Of line fly
from Schlafiy. IT was a great deed and
warmed the hearts of the frozen 300
baseball lunatics On hand.
AltiZer's reckless base running yester-
DAY would have gotten him into trouble
in fast cOmpanv He kept playing way
of when he knew the pitcher was right
after him, and was really caught out
twice. but Umpire Sullivan called him
safe both times. A little more discre-
ton on the bags won't hurt him.
Welcome signs of spring are the base
hits Charley Jones and John Anderson
are making. Jones is not striking out
as much as he did last year, and twice
yesterday was able to score a man in
pinch by a long fly. Anderson is not
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