Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-25

and Manager McAleer was glad OF the
company vivid" Conroy was dressed
and ready to start with the others, but he
took on a dizzy spell and thought 1t best
to go to his room instead. He is doubt
less a little bilious and a dose of quinine
and calomel will fix him up all right
Doc" Gessler has been hitting the ball
SO viciously that he developed something
like a stone bruiSe on his left thumb and
it will be day or two before he can
grasp the old stick as he likes to.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Adams and their
son of Washington were at the park yes
terday afternoon watching the Nationals
practice. Mr.. Adams is down here on
business and grasped the opportunity 10
see his favorites, as he is an ardent ian.
, Little Arthur is a great faNorlte Win
Gesslef and Street, and they never
seemed to tire with playing around the
hotel lobby with the youngster.
CLYDE Milan is certainly doing his best
to please his manager and get place III
the regular lineup. He is always the
first in uniform in the morning ana lne
last to leave the park at night. McAieer
is urging on the Kid and he Is re-
spending like little major
Messrs Unglaub, Elberfeld and Schaefer
had a warm discussion last evening over
the different plays that develop In game am
of ball and how to overcome them. ! ne
kid" told of his first experience with
fake bunt and what he thought was
good receipt to overcome 1t. me yam
KEGS were playing against the Tigers at
the time with Bush on second ana ~
for Bush to go up with the pitchers arm
and Cobb leaned over to make punt.
Elberfeld says he darted in about three
steps. saw Cobb pull back and then .rled
to regain third to take the throw from
Kleinow and stop Bush. kleinow cut
loose with his throw to third all right.
but the kid could not get set in time
to take the ball and get In front OF BUSH
and as a result the ball hit him on the
side of the head, rolled over to the
bleachers and Mr.. Bush kept on home.
The play was a corker.' said Eiber-
field. "and for couple of weeks tried
all sorts of plans to break IT up, put
without success. We finally came to the
conclusion that the only way to beat 1t Is
for the pitcher to go after the ball ana
let the third baseman stay on the sack,
ST the runner on second is 1ast man.
starts promptly and the third baseman
moves but two steps away from the sack,
it is almost impossible to head him off,
II the pitcher goes in for the ball. he can
get the man at third or if he turns back
to second the batter can be thrown out
at first"
Schaefer said he recalled the play as
originally made and the boys on the
bench at the time had a great laugh at
the kids expense, as they knew they
had him up a tree.
the club, understands his business and Is
a great favorite with the players. Joe
worked with Jack Johnson in his early
days and contributed great deal to-
ward bringing out the big "dinge,' as he
is one of the cleverest scrappers at 40
pounds in the business Mac and Johnson
would get together for hours at time,
figuring out the different effective blows
and defense. and the former says that
q great deal of the champions cleverness
came from him. The two men are bitter
enemies now and Mac is pulling for JEFF
fries to win out on the Fourth of July.
The officers of the Norfolk and Wash
park watching the Nationals practice
Capt. Prosser of the Southland says that
it is real funny to watch the boys hus-
tie through their work after the boat
lands. SO that they can get off as quickly
as possible and make bee line for the
cars running to the park.
Umpire Bob Fender was on the players
bench yesterday afternoon and was in
troduced to everybody by Manager Nc
Aleer. Fender umpires here tomorrow;
and, Of course. the players took good
look at him. Bob is an old ball player,
and started a five-minute tanning bee
by asking Bob Unglaub If ne was the
man who played in the Southern League
in 1894 If there is anything Unglaub Is
touchy about it is his age, and as he
saw the other players smiling he replied:
mo, that was an older brother. At that
time I was in a Baltimore high school
and when not there tending bats Tor
the Orioles The Birds were winning the
championship regularly at that time and
/ was one of the proudest lads in the
country"
so you were tending bats for the ORR
oIes, were YOU sang out McA1eer. III
bet you took many a shot at us with
brick or a glass bottle the year we
trimmed the Orioles for the Temple cup.
You're guessing right there replied
Unglaub. ''McGraw used to get half
dozen of US kids to go down behind the
bleachers back of first base and stand
ready with stones and bricks. If ball
was overthrown to first and Tebeau
chased over there after it the runner
generally reached home. as we kept
Patsy busy lodging bricks and bottles.
ALI, they We're the palmy days of base
ball." concluded Bob.