Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-03
PHILLIES WANT JOHNNY EVERS
FOR CHARLEY DOOIN'S PLACE
Cash Offer Made Chicago Club for Injured
Player-Kling May Also Figure in
Deal-About the Nationals Pitcher.

their winter trip. No team played more
consistent ball than the Athletics, and
Just to show he has no fear of having
his players play during the winter Mack
has sanctioned a proposed trip of the
Athletics to Cuba, where they are to
play for month this winter. OF course.
II the Athletics had fallen down during
the last campaign their failure would
have been attributed to the fact that
the players were in harness during the
off season.
Before McAleer can feel secure as to
his pitching staff several of the twirlers
on last years staff will have to show inn
provement, or he will have to be lucky
enough to dig up a phenom or two among
the youngsters he will try out in the
spring.
Johnson is at present the only high
class pitcher on the local staff. OF course,
you can't have all Johnsons, but there
must be other high-class pitchers IL the
team expects to cut a figure. True Hughes
stands a grand chance to hold up his
end. but judged on their performance
last season the others are a rather ordi-
nary lot. excepting Doc Reisling, who
proved himself most valuable because Of
his consistent work.
| Walker really was a disappointment. On
his showing the previous fall there was
reason for looking for him to make quite
a record. But ill-health had much to do
with his failure. Reports that Walker
was uiSSipdllHS WcIc 6OluS lu6 Hi
season, but these. according to Manager
McAleer, who investigated the charges,
did the pitcher an injustice. Walker was
under a physicians care most Of the time
| and pitched good ball when he was in
good health. So there is hope of his doing
better.
Aside from his willingness to work
and an occasional brilliant perform
ance, Dolly Gray did not class with
the other left handlers in the league,
and he has hnnn nitchinC
seasons to look for any material i'm
provement in his work. Groom is not
to be considered at all, for in the Ian
guage Of the day, the local fans seem
doubt that he has much ability. Meyer
in the two appearances he made proved
himself a pitcher with something out
Of the ordinary. Otey was recuperat-
ing from serious attack of typhoid
fever, and did not have a chance to
show himself. He should be at his best
in the spring. Among the pitchers
drafted are Sherry and Busse. both Of
leagues. But they have to show in
faster company before they can be
counted upon. So there is plenty OF
material with at least a nucleus for a
great pitching stan here.
Teams which win pennants these
days or finish high UP in the race can
not be handicapped by frequent in
| juries to their most valuable players
nor have their best men take q slump.
Mack's team went through the sea-
son without encountering any serious
| mishaps nor having any Of its great
players out of form. and as a result 1t
was a canter for them Detroit's pitch
ers went to pieces early in the cam
paign and they never came back,
though the Tigers scored more runs
than did any other team in the league
according to unofficial. figures, but the
pitching was not what it should have
been.
There is no telling. for instance, how
high up in the race the Nationals would
batted UP to their usual standard.
This failure Of the two supposed best
hitters on the team has been harped on
all season, but one cannot help think of
would have been victories had either
Gessler or Unglaub been able to hit
the ball out of the infeld. 1t is not an
indication of being blessed with good
luck to have two good hitters slump in
the same season.
Though Harry Davis is no longer
wonderful ball player. in fact he does
not class with several first basemen in
the American League. Connie Mack is
low him to take a managerial job at
either Cleveland or st. Louis. Davis has
been one Of Mack's mainstays and much
of the success of the team has been due
to his ability as a field leader That he
has managerial ability goes without say
ing, but he is still too valuable a man
for Mack's team to allow him to go
to some other team. Davis is good for
another year at least and not until his
playing days are entirely over will Mack
let him become the bench manager of
one Of the rival teams.