The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-02-02
MIDNINTER
BASEBALL GOSSIP
DANNY SHAY HAS GONE TO THF
GIANTS - NEWTON SOLD TO
MONTREAL.


the st. Louis ball club, will be one
of the new additions to the Giants.
Shay received his release from the
Cardinals at the same time as Spike
Shannon, who Joined the Giants last
season. Shay's reason for not stay
ing with the st. Louis club was that
the climate of Missouri did not agree
with his wife and he moved his family
to California.
McGraw is eager to add Shay to his
list and one of his principal reasons
for taking an early trip to the coast
was to try and influence him to be-
come n member of the New York
team. Shay felt the same way as
McGraw and a letter from him pass
ed the Giants manager on the way.
Shay says he will be able to join
the Giants when they arrive in Los
Angeles March 1.
"Unless Manager Chance changes
his present plans our players will
don their uniforms at the hotel where
the team stays while on the road, as
we have done in the past" said Pre-
sident Murphy of the Cubs recently.
1.-The resolution recently passed by
the National league simply makes it
mandatory that each club furnish a
clubhouse for visiting teams. We ex-
pect to comply with the resolution
and will spare no expense in doing
so. If our players prefer to dress
before and after ball games in pro
perly heated hotel rooms during the
spring and fall they will be allowed
to do no."
Notwithstanding the Cubs defeat at
the hands of the White Stockings in
the worlds series, President Murphy
is strong in the belief that the Chi
cago National league team is the best
baseball club in the world. THAT
we did not win the post-season games
will not cause us to revolutionize our
business methods" he said. wOur
opponents simply outplayed us in the
short series. So did the Boston Ma
tionals, tail-enders in our league.
when they defeated us in two games
out of three on our farewell visit to
the Hub. So did the Brooklyns when
they defeated us three games in sue
cession in one series on the west side
Still, we are the worlds record
breakers just the same. If we pre-
fer to uphold the baseball dignity of
Chicago by paying extra money for
nice carriages instead of riding in the
lramshackle buss resembling wealth
er-beaten summer kitchen it seems TO
me that our local friends will be all
the more proud of us. If the horses
hitched to these carriages wear nice
blankets bearing the inscriptions, 1907
| worlds ACKNOWLEDGEMENT no one has
any kick coming, except, possibly,
the fellows vino conduct the other
seven clubs in our league, who have
no excuse for using blankets inscribed
as ours will be-"
A few years ago Ned Hanlon SIGN
ed young player by the name of
Davis to play in the outfield for
Brooklyn. Davis was highly recon-
mended to Hanlon, and in the spring
practice and exhibition games prom
ised to be a wonder. He caught the
crowds fancy, and great career
was mapped out for Lefty" Davis.
Then all of a sudden Davis develop-
ed a faculty for dropping fly balls.
His batting became n joke, and Han
lon turned him adrift. He finished
out the season as right fielder for
lPittsburg, and did fine work, but TO
eyerybody's surprise, Davis was not
signed by Pittsburg for the next wear.
Eventually he went back to the
minor leagues, and to all appearances
his baseball career was dead. At the
recent meeting of the National LEAGUE
Hanlon decided to give Davis another
chance. Hanlon signed him to plav
right field for Cincinnati. Evervbody
who saw Davis play last season IN
the American ASSOCIATION predicts
that he will be one of the 1907 stars
in the National league.
Hanlon is keeping mum on inst
what he expects of Davis, but tho
fact that he has released Jude The
, fast little Indian, is proof that the
Cincinnati manager is also confident
!, Davis will make good this time.
Il "Penants won around the stove are
not the kind which enthuse the fans. ,
said IA baseball enthusiast wher
the prediction of Tommy Corcorar
that the New York Giants would wiz
the flag in 1907 'At that, the Giant,
Dwill doubtless make lots of troubl,
next year for teams aspiring to tn,