The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-09-02
By WILLIAM PEET.


Owing TO che heavy showers yesterday
/ the opening game against the Athletics
had TO be held over. and the local man
agement has scheduled two games this
afternoon, the first contest starting at {
o'clock
"Cy' Morgan and Dixie" Walker will
/ be the opponents in the opening struggle
and as Walker has been pitching winning
ball since his recent illness. the chances
are bright for local victory
The nightcap will be a battle royal
between Dolly Gray and Jack Coombs
The Iron Man" Of the Quaker City
tribe. Gray has been particularly effective
against the Mackmen this season, while
! Washington has heretofore always been
able 10 solve COMBS delivery.
No matter how you look at Il. these
games promise all sorts Of fireworks. The
Athletics will have 10 play harder against
the Nationals than they were forced TO do
against Chicago. Detroit. Cleveland. and
ST. Louis
Manager Connie Mack realizes this. and
in statement 80 the writer last night
said: Washington IS the only team this
season which has given us a hard battle.
and at the rate McAleer's men are tray
cling now we VIII have 10 go the limit
10 win this series"
How many times has Connie Mack been
asked during the past two weeks as 20
the outcome Of the worlds champion
ship? Gordon Mackay OF the PhiladeI-
Philadelphia club ventures to assert
that an average OF twenty-five times a
day by some newspaper man or Lsn
would be putting Il mildly
The writer handed Mack the same
question last night at the Arlington
Hotel, and was told that the Athletics.
OF course. would win. Every manager
IN the American League picks the Ath-
letics. not because said managers are
working for Ban Johnson. but for the
reason that they honestly believe Connie
Mack's men have a good chance 10 land
the flag
1T has been said that the Athletics,
with such youngsters as Collins. Baker,
and Barry. VIII blow when they got UP
against such a veteran organization as
the Cubs" vouchsafed the writer 70
Connie Mack.
II you had asked me that question
last season. had we won the pennant I
would have said that such a turn OF
affairs might be likely" ne replied but
now 7 consider Collins. Barry. and
Baker experienced ball players. and l
believe they know Just as much about
the game as the Chicago infeiders.'
BLOW. not on your life: they will be
in the game every minute, and II mis-
take not. will give a good account OF
themselves"
So much for that argument Connie
Mack admits that his catching stan is
perhaps not as strong as the Cubs, but
he believes his pitchers will more than
onset this. and AYERS that his men will
have no trouble in connecting safely
against the Chicago boxmen.
The fans sitting in the first base and
right bleachers are going after Ger
many" Schaefer in the-sane manner they
did Jim Delehanty. and It IS high time
they changed their tactics.
Every time Schaefer makes an error
he IS Kissed When he bats for some
body. he IS hooted. providing of course,
he happens 70 strike out or hits into some
helder's paws.
There IS not harder worker on the
Washington club than Schaefer. He has
pulled off more brilliant plays and got
ten on the bases more times this season
than any other payer on the club, and
deserves the support Of every fan in the
Capital
Why some OF the bugs have taken a
dislike to him seems hard 20 understand.
Schaefer deserves better things than
boots and jeers. The quickest way TO
discourage a ball player IS TO hiss him.
and the way 70 help him do his best is TO
cheer him when he deserves It.
In the list Of players that the Ma
tionals are anxious 20 get from the
bushers there appears a name which
cannot be mentioned within the fast Con-
necucut League circuit without causing
a laugh and having the lemonades on
on Jimmy" Fitzpatrick. who managed
the Meriden Comm team in 1905 DOC"
Henley the Frisco pitcher. is the name
which brings forth the burst of merri-
ment though the man the Nationals are
after is in nowise connected with the
story.
In 1908 the Meriden team was in a
bad way for pitchers. Doc Henley (the
Doc" we are after had been bought
by the Boston Americans from Oakland
Cal. and. after a trial. was turned back
with an outright release. The day after
he was released Jimmy Fitzpatrick
was held up in Meriden by a messenger
boy with a collect telegram from Boston.
The wire read like this:
Can you use mel Have been turned loose BY
Boston. Have pitched in Oakland Cal. and other
Coast teams. win come for 500 per month.
DOC HENLEY.
Jimmy Fitz dug down into his jeans
and paid about 81 charges on the wire
and sent another back telling Doc" 20
join the team IN Holyoke, Mass. the next
day. He told the sporting writer's who