Evening star., 1909-01-10
BASE BALL NOTES.

A Philadelphia paper announces that
McGraw is studying Polish, SO that he can
rattle Covaleskie next year. 4 Brooklyn
scribe upon learning this suggests that
Mac learn German so as to be able to get
to Rucker. 1t might be a good idea for
the Giants leader, while at this language
game, to get hep to English, SO as to send
Brown up on a Santos Dumont when
Matty. goes in against the three -dgited
one.
Fred Glaze writes from Grand Island
Neb, that his flour mills escaped the big
fire that destroyed the Nebraskan town.
but that business is dull as result and
he feels just right to help land the pen
nant. Glade is one of the best right
handlers in the American League He was
kept oat of the game all last SEASON
through illness. This made Griffith's swap
with Jimmy McAleer look like the old
army game.
Manager Fred Lake says there is no
truth in the report from Wilkesbarre that
Ehman, the six-foot pitcher from Akron
was included in the deal by which McMa-
hon, late of Holy Cross, was released by
the Boston Americans to Malachi Kit
tredge's New York State League club
Bostons and be given a thorough trial be-
fore any club gets chance to secure him
Isn't it singular that every sporting fig
ure who takes wife has his particular
line of endeavor interviewer into the story
by original reporters? For instance, Long
boat enters life's long Marathon: Sluggs
the boxer, is knocked out by Cupid with
blow to the heart; Biffer the ball player.
signs life's long contract. etc. On the
same line of thonght, Pete, the barl.eep,
when he married started on lifes long
SouSe.
Announcement is made that the Detroit
team of the American League will train
in San Antonio this winter. President
Maben declares that the work at Hot
Springs last year was a disappointment
and he has determined to go further
south. The st. Louis Cardinals will also
train in Texas, and 1t is probable that a
series Of games will be played between
these big league teams and the leading
Texas mines. Spring comes in Texas in
February and early March, and base ball,
indeed. is possible all the winter there.
San Antonio especially, with its fifteen to
twenty thousand winter tourists. may
make an ideal city for winter base ball.
Garry Hermann certainly did the square
thing by John CAMEL in making it easy
fSOCneSttT " acquire TIE HUtcU
ing hitter as manager. Hermann now
has upromised the former leader of the
Reds the choice of Cincnnati's surplus
talent. This action Is not such a generous
one as it would seem. The Reds last
spring turned over to Columbus several
pitchers and outf elders, and not until
Clymer had passed all of these men save
one on to other clubs did the Senators
start to climb. II President Chaplin wants
to get pennant winner for Rochester he
should avoid corralling too many Red dis
cards.
The opinions expressed of professional
ball players by some of the college men
at the Intercollegiate Athletic Association
meeting here last Saturday were almost
as bad as the opinions some professionals
hold OF college players. Picture, if yoh
can, professional ball player foreswear-
ing tobacco and liquor for the good of his
team" said one of the delegates to the
convention in his paper anent summer
base ball. Well, that is exactly what not
a few professionals do do, and there are
those among them who work quite as
hard for the good of their organization as
a whole as do colleg, players. AS to bad
language on the ball field. it is not con-
fined to professional diamonds as some of
the delegates seemed to think. PUT 1t
over, you blankety blank stiff and I'll
knock the cover off, exclaimed a batter
of a college team to pitcher Of the op-
posing team on one occasion. In another
sent up to the line with instruction to
, .get the third basemans goat" There are
notes in the college players eye to be re-
moved before descanting on the beam in
the professionals One result of good
many college players entering professional
base ball has been toward an uplift in the
whole professional ranks rather than the
corruptfng Of the collegian.-NeW York