The Washington herald., 1910-06-26
NATIONALS MAY SIGN UP
NEW BEDFORD CLUB STAR
second BaSeman Cunningham Liked by Scout KahOe
Who Advises McAeer to Sign Him.

The Nationals are going 70 make
strong bid for young Cunningham. the
sensational infielder of the New Bedford
club Of the New England League. and
hopes are entertained Of landing him.
Scout Mike Kahee has been watching
Cunningham for the past two days. and
says he is a wonder
Manager Tommy Dowd. the oId-timer,
in an interview with Jim McAleer Thurs
day afternoon, announced that Cunning
ham was for sale. but that it would take
a good stiff price to land him. The
Nationals are willing to pay the money.
all right. providing the young man can
deliver the goods. and Kahoe thinks he
can. He also advises McAleeF 10 grab
the young phenom at once before the
other big league scouts get in their
handy work, and it is likely this will be
done
Cunningham is a product of Tom Dowd.
who snatehed him from a high school
team last year and placed him on
second. where he made good right of
the reel This season Cunningham has
been setting the New England league on
fire with his heavy hitting and grand
fielding The youngster has a great arm
and not only can hit but is lightning
fast on the bases. He is nineteen years
old. weighs ieO pounds. and stands FIVE
feet ten inches.
Germany Schaefer is at last acting
natural, and the gloom in the Nationals
camp has lifted TO a great extent On
Tuesday the Teuton received a wire that
his aged mother in Chicago, was dying.
and he refused TO go on the coaching
line during the opening game In Boston.
Yesterday, however, word was received
that Mrs. Schaefer had rallied, and hopes
were entertained Of her recovery. So
Herman is himself again.
Horace Fogel. the president of the
Philadelphia National League club. has
| been doing his own scouting. and is look
ing over the talent in the New England
League he has his eyes on a left-hand
twirler named Tyler. the property Of the
/ Lowell club. and according to one of the
/ Boston papers the deal will so through
/ within the next few days.
F, An enthusiastic feminine fan, who
| never misses a baseball game in Boston.
sizes up the Nationals as follows: She
! SAYS Walter Johnson is the best looking
member of the team, Herman Sehsefer
| the jolliest. Doc Gessler the best dressed,
Mcbride the most modest, Unglaub the
| homeliest. and Clyde Milan the cutest
| II Is mice sometimes to know what the
| fair sex think of US.
| Three of the carefully housed helpers
that the Highianders have been saving
! for the last rush toward the Gonfaion
| reached Washington yesterday in time
10 answer here when Secretary Tom
Davis sounded the breakfast call. There
is Bert Daniels, whom Lefty McIlvaine,
former Eastern League player and
Pennsylvania state College coach. SAYS
is the oUtfielding splash that will make
an ocean OF baseball trouble tremble.
Daniels has all the usual credentials.
| Hits EN- a mile. can stand before the
| freakiest spitball pitcher in the world,
and straighten pretzel twists into the
kind of q straight line that a college
graduate is supposed to walk. Catch fly
balls? All that boy has to do is to lift
the flap on his fine cut chewing pocket
and the leather will bore right in" That's
what they say about Daniels Hope It is
true. The world needs such illustrious ex-
amples of the possibilities Of nature.
There absolutely cannot be anything
against Tom" Fischer, who spells his
name like vioIinist. Just because he
comes from Hartford. of the Connecticut
state League. via a forestry or veterina-
rian course in New England college.
Having doomed many heavily touted won
der-workers who mixed studies and
pitching power, we can only hope that
they play Herr Fischer's welcome with
swish of Nationals bats that will sound
like a bass drum Marathon.
Every son of the "Ould Sod" who sees
| Bear" Walsh, the Highlanders' new
catcher. viii have TO take an extra hitch
on his belt and say ME buckle" Walsh
is catcher and considerably more He
played in the line for the Yillanova foot
ball team last fall and made some of his
opponents fall like a blind man who had
dared TO plunge head first into sausage
mandatory that was doing wholesale
business on a rush order. Walsh had no
deep-rooted hankering for baseball be-
cause he considered it mollycoddle sport.
After the Villanova team had meA sew
eraI American and National League teams
whose players had the modern idea of
coming into the home plate on close plays
feet first" Walsh decided that baseball
could be stretched into a pleasurabie en-
tertainment He watched, waited, and
listened something like the fellow who
| stumbled in front of the through express
at the Three Corners. Something hit
Walsh and II was a big league catching
stunt He's with us. Some barker may
yawi, whats he doing now?" Another
wit may peal forth. Rafting his chains.
But Walsh is no wild man. He is a
hardy. plucky youth who believes that Il
is almost effeminate to take money for
catching spitballs George Stalllngs.
manager of the Highlanders, says walsh
will never argue with me. I used 20 be
| a Splinter" Players viii tell you conf
dentially that they do not care how bulky
| Walsh's batting average as a eollegian
| was. He did not leave 1t in college.
| was one humble practice pitchers COM
ment last night. And that about sizes
up Mr.. Walsh.
| THE SPORTING EDITOR,