The Washington herald., 1908-02-23
BASEBALL BASKETBALL RAGING BOXING ATHLETICS AND BOWLING

the game. figure how he'd feel the morn
ing after when he noticed this in print
under Toms signature: IF that google
cared. yellow-fushed spaniel with mitts
resembling neW-boiled lobster claws
hadn't stood by like an absinthed peasant
in front Of a three -peas-and-a-shell board.
we might have blown up the he'll hounds
of the other team and won the game"
Maybe this wouldn't be going some:
silk oLoughlin-that doughnut-brslned,
human skznk who polluted the air with
his decisions yesterday" &c
Or this: Jack Knight-that mega
phone-footed centipede, who showed his
bump-watted forehead to the ground af-
ter going after bunt." &c.
And we're nor overplaying the bet at
all, for the above are only few samples
Of what Thomas called the American peO-
Pile
With the start he has already drawn.
and the addCl vocabulary he would
gather in after mingiing with the sporting
push a few rounds. there's no telling
what choice phrases the Boston scribe
might have set adrift. The chances are
he would have come pretty near revising
the grand old game.
The Cleveland American League Club
will send twenty-five men South for
spring practice next month. The players
are Lajoie Stovan. Daubert. Turner.
Bradley. Perrine Nil. Hinchman. Hick-
man, Birmingham, J. Clarke. Flick, Joss,
Thielman. Berger. Laebhsrdt. Rhoades.
Hess. Clarkson. baltimore. Check. Bemis.
y. Clarke. Davidson, and Joe Wilson.
Lajoie has just sold Catcher Wakefield 10
a minor league club. and has also decided
10 turn loose Harry Bay. If the Cleve-
lands DO not win the American League
pennant this year il is probable that For
est City fans and critics viii clamor for
a new manager 10 succeed LaJOie-
There are busy times ahead IN baseball
Not only will practically all the big teams
be on their way 70 training camps with
in a week, bat the baseball magnates
viii spend about four days with US. be-
ginning next Tuesday The National and
American leagues will be in session at
New York this week. and this means that
every club owner Of Importance will be
there. Then again the national commits
sion IS 70 hold a session, not one OF
those routine affairs but a session that
VIII spit FIRE, so We are told.
With the meeting Of the magnates
comes the schedules for this year. and
this Is what viii interest the fans more
than anything else. These schedules are
ready. and while the fans were told a
month OF more ago that the season would
open April i. they are anxi0usly wait
ing for a chance 10 peruse The schedule
so that they can see just when different
teams are going TO clash.
The club owners are placing a great
deal OF significance i'm what the joint
rules committee Is going % recommend
The time-wOrn cry of more batting IS
heard again. and 10 help along the slug
ging. several members Of the committee
will try 20 put through a change that Will
bring the pitchers box on a level with
the home plate Just now the pitcher IS
permitted 70 hurl his curves from a
mound fifteen inches high. This. say the
committeeman who want the rule
changed gives the pitcher just enough
advantage 10 cause the sO-called falling
of in batting
But the leagues Will not adopt any
changes unless IL has the unanimous ap-
proval % the rules committee. and this
is just where the hitch is going 20 come
IN. There are at least Jhree members OF
the committee who believe there IS
enough batting. and viii fight against
changing the pitchers box
Frank Chance viii fght hard % change
the rule that permits q pitcher 10 rub
the bah on the grass. or IN any other
way discoIOr a new BAH. Not that he
objects 70 the actual soiling Of bah.
but he SAYS a pitcher takes advantage OF
the rule and unnecessarily delays the
game II he cannot win out on this he
viii suggest that the umpire DO all the
rubbing II there is any gloss on the ball
He thinks that II the umpire took three
new balls and rubbed the gloss of each
ore before play much time would be
saved