Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-17

not been for Rogers fuses.
Manager McCraw will take twelve
pitchers to Marlin Springs. Tex. the lat
ter part of next month. Mathewson.
Wiltse Ames. Raymeed, Crandall and
Marquard will be the regulars. while the
new men are Bell and Daily from Spring
field, Ohio: Parsons from Marion. Ohio.
and Dickson from Birmingham. Drucke
and Klawitter picked up in Texas last
summer. will round out the corps.
New Jersey is likely to see Sunday
base ball the coming season. A bill intro
duced by Assemblyman Charles p. Oh
well Of Hudson county. which passed
the second reading Of the senate before
have almost solid support. The bill le-
CALLING Sunday base ball and other ath-
letic games is not compulsory, as before
it becomes operative in city or town IT
must be approved by the board Of alder
men or common council
The Spalding Record Book. first of the
annual base ball publications to appear.
is better than usual, with more statistics
than ever offered before at so early
time of the off season. 1t reflects great
credit on it's editor, John Foster. and is
the sort of winter base ball literature the
fans much prefer to dry reports OF mag
mates meetings.
Jack Chesbro. once a great twirler, has
been turned back to the Highlanders by
the Boston American League club, and
will probably retire from base ball to con-
fine his attention to the lumber business
in Conway. Mass. President Taylor OF
Boston secured Chesbro's release last fall
under provisional contract that ne mlgIt
improve in the spring training. but evil
IDENTIFY thinks it no use to take him south.
There is some agitation among base
ball men favor:ng an increase of batting
Ned Hanlon, a veteran base ball rule
maker, says the pitcher should be put
the middle of the diamond. and advo-
Gates the abolition of the int1eld sacrifice
hit. Fred Lake. manager of the Boston
Nationals. favors the reduction of the
number of called balls from four TO
three, which. in his opinion, would make
the pitcher put the pill over the plate
practically all the time. 4 majority OF
base ball men, however, insist that the
rules need no tinkering
Pitcher Joey Bills wonders why some
major league club does not give him a
chance to show what he can do in fast
company. Joey was drafted last fall by
the Detroit club from Wilkesbarre. and
has been sent back to the Coal Barons.
despite the fact that he hit for .O4 IN
New York State League and for .:'59 in
the Eastern League. Bills thinks tnat
some major league manager is making
a mistake by not grabbing him and turn
ing him into an Outelder. To hit over
800 in two minor leagues in one season
certainly demonstrates that Bills ought
to be worth trying out
indianapolis has notified Perry Werden
that his services will not be required tins
wear Good old Perry Werden. Once he
was a great first baseman. Then he be-
came a fairly good umpire, but it was in
the American Associations stormy days,
and he had many settoS with the play
ers. Then Charley Carr engaged him as
coacher and adviser for the Hoosiers
When the latter proceeded to win the
pennant i'm 1908 Werden was given a
part of the credit and at once re-en-
gagged Last year, however. the India
napols club finished in the ruck. and
him.
From Providence comes wild yarn
that new base ball organization, to he
called the United States League, will
soon be launched. and that the circuit
will embrace Boston. Brooklyn. Philadei-
phia, Providence, Baltimore. Paterson,
Newark and Trenton. The rather anus
ing information is added that three men,
bers of the Cuban Giants, a well known
colored ball club, have been signed Tor
the new Providence team. A person VINO
SAYS his name is DIR. G.. ii. Lawson is
the promoter of the scheme. Any rela-
ton to AL Lawson, who has failed Win
numerous wildcat ventures of this KIND!