The Washington herald., 1908-01-28
TWO NATIONALS sign
Frank 0berlin and Jack War
neP Send i'll Contracts.
sOx TAKING LONG CHANCES
Barnstorming Trip to Pacific Coast
Is Risky Proposition, as Players
Series Of Exhibition GHmes-Every
Nationality in National Game.

Series Of Exhibition GHmes-EVery
Nationality in National Game.
The signed contracts OF Jack Warner.
the catcher. and Frank OberIin, the
pitcher. were received yesterday by Presi-
dent Tom Noyes, OF the Washington bah
club.
0berlin has been wintering in the West.
and has been devoting most of his spare
time TO i.2-~- baseball He writes that
he is in splendid shape. and is anxiously
awaiting the time set for the players to
gather at Chicago 10 go 10 Texas.
Jack Warner has been spending the or
season in the glare of old Broadway, and
like all of the other players he notifies
the management that he is ready 70 play
the game of his life next season" Al
though Warner is not considered the most
brilliant backstop in the business, CantIl-
Ion places great confidence in the judg
ment of the veteran, who viii be called
upon at Galveston to try out the young
pitchers who have been corralled by the
Nationals.
One has only to glance over the names
OF the players in the American League to
see that baseball is the game of the
masses Every nationality may be found
among the men playing the great ma
tional game. The Irish. Of course pre-
dominate. followed closely by the Ger
mans. and then the Welsh. The negro
has never been able to break into pro-
fessional baseball Rube Foster, a col
ored pitcher OF the Leland Giants, of Chi
eago. is a ieft-hander the equal of Plank.
White or Waddeu II the color line didn't
bar him he would be one of the stars OF
the big league.
In glancing over the line-ups of the
different teams the writer has selected
the following six: The alderman, the
all-Ifish, the au-Welsh, the mixed team,
the midget team, and the giants. Any
one Of the six teams looks good and
would be able 10 hold its own in either OF
the big leagues, bat the Irish aggregation
appears 10 have little on the other five
The giant team would average about six
feet. while the midgets would fall at least
six inches short of that mark. Here they
are.
THE ALL-IRIsH TEAM
Catcher Sullivan; pitcher Donovan, shOrtstoD
Leary first base, Donahue; second base. Murphy.
taird base Collins; left field Dougherty: center
field, Courov; right field. CongaIton
THE ALGERIAN TEAM
Catcher. Schmidt; pitcher A,ucck: shortstoD
Turner; first base Stahl. second base. Schaefer.
third base Yeager; left field Hartsel; center feld
Hahn' right field, Flick.
THE ALL-WELsH TEAM
T=n
stop George Davis; first base Harv Davis. second
base, Tom Jones; third base Jimmy Williams. Left
field Day Jones; center field. Charley Jones; right
field. Fielder Jones,
THE MIXED TEAM
catcher, Clarke, Indian; pitcher. Dilly, Hebrew
shortstop Wallace Scot first base. Chase. Amer
icla, second base. Lajoie. French: third base
Cough ~. Irish; left field. Hnchmau. German; CEN
Ter held I}.aT'-T Jones Welsh night field. Ander
son. Swede.
THE MIDGET TEAM
Catcher. Stephens St. Louis: pitcher. Jimmy
Dygtrt. Athletics, EhOrtSt0p Nil Cleveland. first
base. Harry Bemis Cleveland; second base. O'Iearv
Detroit; third base. Shipke, Washington; left field
Hertsei. Ataeties; center field, Hahn. Chicago
THE GIANT TEAM.
Catcher, Wakefield Cleveland; pitcher Faiken-
berg Washington; shortstCp Aitizer Washington.
first lass. Jake Stahl, New York: second base
Isbel Chicago third base Bradley, Cleveland, left
ford. Detroit right field. sCJbold, Athletics.
Charley A, Comiskey. owner of the Chi
cagO White SOx, has startled the baseball
world by laying out the most pretentious
training trip for his ball players this COM
ing spring that has ever been attempted.
The Chicago boys are to be trailed TO
the Pacific Coast as well as through
the South, and altogether seventy-one
exhibition games have been scheduled.
Il Will be a transforming tour on a
grand scale. but many baseball men be-
lieve it risky matter to send the plav-
ers into so many contests with nothing
at stake, and take the chances of injuring
some of them in such a way that they
will be forced out Of the regular cham /
pi0nship games.
The two squads Of touring White Sox
VIII play almost half as many games on
the spring trip as the regular team will
during the entire season of the race
for the American League pennant- They
viii be at it almost every day from the |
lst Of March until the opening OF the
season on april H. In that time they
vii have travelled more than 5000 miles. /
slept in combining sIeeping-car berths half
OF the time. and eaten many grab" !
dinner from station lunch counters
Everywhere they stop they Will be /
hailed as the Great White Sox. ex-
worlds champions" &c. and the praise |
viii pun up the players so they will feel /
forced TO exert themselves before these
wondering fans in order to live I'm IN their
regulations. Opposing teams will hv Al /
them In desperate fashion with the hone
Of gaining victory then some star Of 4
Chicago's South Side heroes will be cut /
down, and the Windy City will mourn 1
The boys would not be subjected 10 the 1
same chances for injury should they /
spend about three weeks in a quiet South |
ern town, simply training. When game
is on. the players are going TO try TO win /
II they didn't, they wouldn't be made of /
the proper stuff 10 be in the big league /
80 they are going to steal bases. throw
as hard as they can, ana 90 almost az
much as they would in regular CHAMPION
ship games.
II they were simply practicing by them
selves they would not find one-half the
chances for injury that would keen them
out Of the games
In many places the team will find Moor
diamonds for the contests. There will he
DosthOles in the outield and bitches
along the base lines. IL might even he
possible they viii have to use stones for
bases in some OF those wild stopping
places IN Arizona.