The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-18
BASEBALL NOTES
AND COM MENT

Louisville would Ike TO have an exhibit
ton game with the Pirates before the
| season opens, but there is no chance.
Russell Ford, Yankee pitcher. has a new
curve ball he calls the slide" It's first
cousin to the splitter.
Cy Young and Lou Criger will work to-
| gether in a practice game against Brook
| Ign at Hot Springs Sunday.
Monte Cross is still the same old frisky
war horse as of yore. despite his mana
gerial dignity as leader Of the Scranton
team.
MeGraw's section Of the Giants stole
eleven bases in the game against Dallas
Sunday Better save a few Of them.
''Aluggsy."
Judge Lumley is laid up with a fever.
and is under Dr. Scanlon's care at Hot
| Springs. Watch Ebbets roar when he gets
! Docs" bill.
Hap" Myers. one of the new Boston
Red Sox. halls from the Coast. He is
young, rangy, stands feet inches, and
is an all-arOund player. He has been
playing ball for four years.
| Manager Mcclure. of the Maps. has an
nounced that all the doubtful positions
viii be definitely awarded to the success
full players on April 3. He is going TO end
the suspense rather early
Johnny Kings fate viii be known on
Tuesday. says the national commission.
This has been a regular occurrence. this
announcement, so the fans need not be
wrought up into a state of excitement
ering first for the Cubs is a player that
| Cleveland was hard after last year. In
fact, Somers and Knfoyl made the Free
port Qll) team good offer for him, and
were willing 10 go higher, when Murphy
| landed him for Chicago.
/ Eddie Foster is playing in sensational
form for the Yankees at Athens, Ca, and
may be switched 20 third base, as he has
but little chance of landing Jack knights
short-stop job. He landed a homer and
two singles in the first practice game.
Luderus. the recruit who has been COW
Bill Powell is trying new training
method this spring. Last year he did not
use his curve ball at all in the spring,
and consequently when he tried it out at
Cincinnati. he lacked control. He is go
ing to pitch curves before the training
season is over this year
Howard Camnitz. the valuable twirler
of the worlds champion Pirates, is still
aloof from the club. Hey Barney has
as yet failed TO boost the pitchers salary,
and until he does so Camnitz intends TO
hold out. The first squad of the Pirates
went 10 their training quarters without
Camnitz 1t looks as if Barney will have
| TO come across, as Camnitz is q valuable
commodity. Dreyfuss cannot boast Of too
many good pitchers.
With Lajoie playing first base. there
will be no chance to compare the two
players who have been said to be the two
/ best second sackers in the business to-
day-Lajoie and Evers. But MCGUIRE is
sure that Turner VIII not suffer by com
parison with the wonderful second base
man of the Cubs, while Lajoie is expect
ed to show Frank Chance few things
about playing first base.
The new ball of Russell Ford, the New
York Yankees twirfer-a sort of combi-
nation knuckle and spitter-is the queer
est thing yet produced He vets the
third finger at the knuckle where the
ball touches It and lets it slide out be-
tween the second and third fingers. The
result is peculiar-lOoking inshoot. For
an outcurve he dampens the thumb, and
in the same manner delivers. Jack knight
says the ball is one of the hardest to
hit Ford has a fine assortment of bend
ers and a smooth delivery.