Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-23

to return home will probably be Street,
Crooks, Miller, Killifer. Walker. Oberlin
and possibly Milan. Rapp and Hardy will
do the catching and Reisling, Gray and
Groom the pitching. Should Walker come
around all right he may go to Richmond.
The crowd that goes to Washington Will
report at the park Monday morning, I'M
der direction of Street, and work out on
the program that has been in force down
here. 1t Is expected that the team Will
reach Washington late Tuesday night.
take a short practice Wednesday and
Their tackle the Philadelphia Nationals
Thursday.
There is great rivalry among the pool
players on the club, and 1t looks as
though Charley Street and Germany
Schaefer will have to get together to set
tie the championship. Both these players
are Of the ''clean-up variety-that is. for
the opponent to break and then clear the
table. So far Street has . shade on the
'Dutchman,' but the latter insists that
he can't play his best while contesting
with Charley. If Schaefer can overcome
the goat" idea he should be able to make
is the best three-cushion player in the
club and classes up well. Bob Groom Is
about 10 per cent weaker, but makes Gray
hustle II the luck comes. his way. On
straight billiards Manager McAleer has
them all beat. as he possesses the knack
of nursing the balls ard in this way cops
the big runs. So far Mac has refused to
tackle the three-cushion game. 80 that 1t
is easy to pick the leaders in the different
classes.
Dolly" Gray is in superb form just
now and III he works at Richmond. with
warm weather so he can cut loose at fult
speed, the fans down there should see
some high-class twirling. In working
against the batters yesterday afternoon
there were very few safe drives made OIL
Gray. and the hard-hitting SGess!er sur
fered with the rest. Dolly served up
several of his slow ones and completely
puzzled the doctor. who cried out: You
look ike a million dollars to me this art
ernoon, Dolly You certainly have them
breaking nicely for you.' The jolly was
appreciated by Gray. and he served up q
nice straight one. with the result that
Doe slammed 1t against the fence In
During the workout yesterday after
noon a great deal of time was spent N, IN
mails. and az the group would gather
around McAleer the irrepresstble Tn
glaub would shout. Another meeting OF
the strategy boardv' With Schaefer and
Elberfeld practically new TO the lnneId
and new manager. an entire set Of sig.
mails will have to be adopted. and It Will
take fully q weeks work before the in
field. outfield, pitchers and catchers can
work In perfect harmony. AaudSeT ME-
Aleer gets the players to suggest plays
and signals, and impresses the fact on
their minds that he Is not too old to
learn from any one Once week the en-
tire crowd gets together, plays and sig
nails are gone over. and by the time the
season opens not a member OF the Ma
tionals will have any excuse to oner for
not being fully conversant with every
thing TRANSPORTING on the ball Held.
After being here nearly three weeks the
street railway company finally unbut-
toned today and gave orders for the play
ers to be passed free to and from the ball
park. Several Of the players like to walk
out and back from the park in the morn
ing, but ride In the afternoon feels aw-
fully nice after the early practice. Schae-
it out thereafter. as he thought 1t stiff
soned men are of the same opinion, with
the result that only the kids and Man
aGer McAleer will be doing the walking
on the final practice day.
The Washington fans need not be sur
prised this season to see George Mcbride
blossom into one of the best hitters on
the team. During the work down here
George has been getting the ball safe
about as often as any of the other boys,
although he doesn't pull of many long
ones. II the gorgeous one can hit
around $50 this year he will easily be
the best shortstop in the country. This
goes for Hans Wagner. as Mac possesses
a great asset in nerve-something the
German lacks