Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28

play if they weren't UP against it. This
fault might be remedied if the club own
ers OF the big league teams would pay
their men so much month the year
round, instead Of giving it all to them
during the playing season.
III these days. of modern baSe pan
where good players are such q luxury,
some attention must be given to the
winter base ball stunt.
Chips From the Diamond.
Buffalo's new manager Billy Smith,
has already tapped the Cincinnati club
for Pitchers Dubuc and Lower.
Jim Mcclure. manager of the Cleve-
land club, is willing to dispose of Catch
err Mig" Clarke if he can get a good
man in exchange. Clarke is said to be
Cleveland management
We notice that nobody has sprung
ANYTHING this fall about Billy Keller
retiring from the game. That has been
an annual yarn for several years.
Herr Ebbets of Brooklyn has sent "a
list of twenty surplus players to East
ern League managers, saying. Take
your pick AS far as known, there has
been no wild scramble for any one of
the many varieties.
Detroit will train in San Antonio.
Tex, next spring, leaving the north
during the first week in March: In
trip which includes games in Kansas
City. indianapolis, Memphis. Nashville,
Louisville, Cincinnati and other points.
Do, will
the Giants on the spring trip. Last
year the old Baltimore catcher was car
ried for the purpose of developing the
Young pitchers. None developed be-
cause the material was not there. Mo-
body laid the blame at Robbie's door.
In purchasing the Baltimore Eastern
League club Jack Dunn is said to have
been financially backed by j. Z. Bart
lett, a weil-known turfman VINO raced
Live Wire on the New York tracks and
at Pimlico this year.
Word came from Georgia last night
to the effect that Manager Stallings Of
ments to have the team train at Athens.
Ga, next spring. The street railway
company has contracted to provide u
suitable park.
Even in California they can get too
much OF base ball: The Athletics will
cut short their trip to Frisco because
the All-Nationals. The series would
have been better attended had the
nationals been a stronger combination
Pitcher stadt, drafted from the In
danapolis club by Brooklyn, Is said TO
be conner. Stadt is q giant right hand
Manager Carr of the Indianapolis club
tried to induce Charley Ebbets to turn
stads back aGa fba 5g but
wary and he refused to give up the
player.
club want Fred Lake to manage the
team. and have offered him big block
OF stock rs an inducement. Lake, how
ever. feels that he has a chance to
stick with the majors, and does not
care to tie himself up with Il small
club. Lakes home Is in Lowell, and
he has played ball there There is no
chance for Lake to succeed Harry Smith
as pilot of the Boston Nationals.
The Connecticut Base Ball League d.
rectors yesterday voted to increase the
game guarantee from $40 to $50 and the
rain guarantee from SO to $50. The sea-
son will begin April 30 and close Septem-
Der 10. The salary limit was placed at
5000, and each club will be allowed but
fourteen players.
St Louis newspapers say there's deal
pending by which the Browns will trade
Americans for Left Fielder Engle and
Third Baseman Austin. While it is pos
sible Criger may go to New York as part
of some kind of deal, the Highlanders'
officials say that Engle will remain there
as a fixture in the outfed. The Browns.
by the. way, have practically decided TO
release trade Second BaScman Jimmy
Williams, who is said to have seen his
best days Jack O'Connor. the Browns
new manager, is a firm believer in young
,,,4~ To Lat ffanY fl,.
ans go.
When Ned Hanlon cold the Baltimore
Eastern League club to Jack Dunn II
~. the deal threw Harry Wo!verton out
of a job The Philadelphia boy, who has
made good as minor league manag II,
was slated to pilot the Orioles this coming
season, but that plum has been picked by
Dunn now, inasmuch as he swung the
tide of the clubs stock his way. Wolver-
ton, however, is too good man to be
loose long, and no doubt many minor
lee que clubs will make strong bids to land
him. The Boston Nationals are sadly in
need of a manager, and Dewey would
make ten strike in picking up the for
mer third baseman of the Phillies. Not
only would the Doves be getting a first
class manager, but as well pick up man
who is capable of playing third base with
the best of them.
Manager Fred Clarke Of the Pirates is
coming out of the seclusion of his Kansas
farm for the annual big league base ball
meetings in New York the second week
in December. President Dreyfuss of the
Pittsburg champions will also be there.
The presence of Clarke can be accounted
for in only one wayne must have some
big deal In prospect. For the last few
years the Pirate leader has done an an
nual farewell" announc nG at the close
o the season that he was through with
base ball for all time. Each year Drey-
fuss has coaxed him back again. No such
word came from Frederick this year He
won a worlds championship and said he
was after another. First base is Pitts
burg's weak point. Ii must be an initial
sacker the Pirate chief is after
Just imagine Mike Donlin turning down
an offer which would amount close to the
magic figure of $4,000 to manage the
Philies for the 1910 campaign. For one
third that amount Donlin. if he could get
away from the Giants, would break all
records reaching Philadelphia to stick his
John Hancock to contract. Donlin never
made $4,000 year playing ball, and for
him TO let slip such golden opportunity.
:. the reports from Chicago would like
one to believe he did, is little too fishy
for any Of the local fans to swallow.
Donlin Is in the theatrical business now,
and he no doubt will work the Philadel-