The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-02

CdgO. The national LedBE rIo VIII alst
convene in Chicago at the same time.
Manager Fred Lake, o. the Boston
Red SJN, completed arrangements Iol
the Boston club to play two games al
Wilkes barre, Pa, April 10 and IL, sat
urday md Sunday
The New York Americans seldom have
had any lucI with players VINO mac
names OF men who were famous IN tHt
early days OF baseball. Walter Clark
son was Zig disappointment and
Frank DelehaI " far from upheld the
honor of the name of Delehanty. JAKE
SraHI was no Chick SLaul, and Catch
er Joe Conner failed to last long with
the hilltop team The TIighlanders now
have an O'E0urke, sweeney, ana
Wagner. If the trio perform as we'll as
their ilIustTiUus namesakes1 the failures
of CIarksou, Delehanty, Stahl, and
Common viii be forgotten by the fans.
Pitcher Don Marion, who has signed
with Darby O'Brieus team at Duluth,
has received notice from President
Harry G.. PuIiam. Of the National
League. that Ie belongs TO the ST.. Louis
Cardinals Stanley Robson has placed
Marion on the reserve list ana ne VIII
have L. go with BTes0anan, Marion Is
anxious L. Get away. but as hs accepted
5he terms offered by Robson, ne must
Leader
Charlie Hickman thinks RUDE Mar
guard will make good with the Giants
It's the caddie and not the umpire VINO
IS catching it now. Clark Griffith rs
playing golf
"A good catcher is half the battle %
says Bill Dinreur Of t-e Browns. ta
adds. I'm glad that McAleer landed
CrigeT."
ROGER Brespahau is indeed 10 he
plried. They are calling him the peer
has vet 90 odiclate as manager of the
Cardinals lu his first game
The unique spectacle Of two brothers
on the pitching staff of d big league
club, and both making good, may pe
Witnessed in the American League next
season. Martin Walsh, brother or the
leading American League twirler VIII
White SoE club Walsh was tried on
bv the Chicago Cubs last spring ana
let out. drifting 90 the Virginia League
where he did telling Work. Euaiiy arOuS-
ing Comiskcys interest, with the re
suit that he was signed for 1909 He ls
as big as his brother Ed and is rec
Dy good baseball Judges. This
Walsh family, by the way. ls a. re-
marzabIe one. II is composed of nine
bic. staIwart. misunderstanding men,
barre The success of Eddie, the Amer
lean League star. inspired mis- younger
brother, and ne is now ripe and ready
10 follow the same pathway that led
bis brother 20 success on the diamond
Ty Cobbs wife is much improved and
lac 0UUielter is thinking of returning
-o New Orleans 10 play winter ball
Unless Trojan johnny Everg is talk
ny through his hat Chicago fans in
end to remember Harry CovalesN and
Charley Doom of the BuIlCs, when
hey play tholr first game I'm the Windy
Fity next season. The Cubs say that
Doom hv his coaching of CovHIeskl
made the sOUthuaw's three Victories
over the Giants iu one week possible
and that Chicago fans are wise Co this
act and viii present the PHILADELPHIA
egard in 1909. Doom probably viii fol-
OW I'm Mike DoUliu.5 footsteps and go
lr the vaudeville stage. Last winter
uo red-topped PhiIadeIphiau played
,r week engagement lu a. Quaker tlts
.ariety house. and. as Dee escaped with
Ii- life, Hc intends to- try the expert
ueut again, but ou a much larger
caie. Doom has been offered eight
weeks time on Western circuit and
rubahly will accept the proposition
Bobby Wallace is the best sh0rtzfou
tow playing iu tho American League.
Te has Uo equal for steady consistent
work iu the short field AS a. cog i'm the
Machine which made the running for
IaEt the season wallace was grand
uccess. and few remembered that The
the quiok-actiug Wal
ace was veteran, made-oEer tWirIer,
10 that, too.
The wonderful performances of Hobo
Ferris, Bobby Wallace. Jimmy Williams
md Tom Jones. working together last
casou, was the talk of the baseball
world. They actually spoiled about
hree safe hits every game, and 0ppos-
1g batsmen growled long and loud
gheu Wallace or Williams or Ferris
tc up the biugIes and tossed them over
% Tom Jones. It was murierJus work, I
Traveller
TITS nice sometimes t1 Doc able tr .
cad what ,hc telegraph souuder i- F
aging. but Dc Is ID little startling lo .
ear your own name BEING clicked off I
D a message that concerns you,' re- I
ites Dusty. EhoaIes. the telegrapheT-
ala PLAYER.