The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-30
DELEHANTYSI INJURIES MAY
HURT DETROIT'S CHANGES
If Leg Fails to Mend, What Will Tigers Do for Second
BaSeman?- Other Gossip of Interest.
BY WILLIAM PEET.


II is feared that he may not be in shape
TO play next summer.
{ Harry Nelly. of the Detroit Times. has
the following 10 say about the matter:
What will the Tigers do if jim Dele
/ hanty fails 10 come back? Ever stop TO
think over the consequences OF that sad
calamity? With Del missing. who'd plug
! the gaping hole at second base? Think
! it over.
'These same Tigers are going TO have
some pennant aspirations this coming
season just as sure as kind providence
made little green apples The boys viii
be down there in Dixie pretty soon tell
ing you al about it, but JUST mark down
with the old stub pen that If Jim Dele
hanty doesn't respond or II some suit
able man is not found TO take his place.
the chances Of the demon Tigers in 1911
are going 10 be just slightly better than
those of the festive SNOWFALL In Tophet,
and they amt much"
Not because Jim Del is a top-heaYy per
son Of note in Tigerville. but because TO
! date there is lamentable lack of all
around competent second-basing talent
aboard the Tiger cage Friends viii tell
YOU that Charlie OLeary isn't done. but
he is. O'Leary can field with the best OF
Lathers can hit but is tiat-footed Be
sides, he makes no pretensions OF being a
| second sacker. Jay Kirke inserted his
gawkish person into the fray toward the
close Of last season. but gaIloped about
the infield TO the great danger Of himself
and the enemy. He isn't fast enough.
Besides, the way Kirke tries to block run
ners on second base and ride the demon
slider into the sack he would last just
about one trip around the circuit. Then
the boys would commence 20 see Jay
first and he'd spend half his time picking
spikes out Of his shins Jays willing. bur
lacks class.
So, there you are. In the words OF the
text; Something must be did," because
Jim Ders leg may not recover. and. be-
sides, he may be hurt again any time.
Second baSers who can hit and field are
scarce, woefully scarce. as any magnate
can tell YOU. They grow not in the tall
bushes; neither can they be had for much
coin. But. nevertheless and however. il
would pay Magnate Navin 10 keep his
weather eye cooked in the directions in
which any stray second sackers might
possibly be resting. You never can tell
when something will break in the trading
line
: Let's hope that Jim Delehanty will re-
turn 10 the fold, for jim can hit around
go all the time, can run pretty well. and
can work that old head stuff in there all
the time,
Manager Hal Chase, Of the New York
Yankees. will pay strict attention to his
pitchers for the coming season-that is.
in working them in proper turns. Chase
thinks the pitchers should be given as
much rest as they think they need. Last
season Rus Ford would not work out Of
turn. and with the four days rest he
would enter the box like a lion. IL
proved a good idea on Ford's part. as
his record last season shows. Chase said
before he left for California that he in
tended TO try and work all his pitchers
the same way.
Chase thinks all the pitchers should be
given "A good rest between games. He
will have Ford. Vaughn. WARRIOR, Hughes.
Quinn. Fisher Sand possibly one of the
new men, nd"will not work any when
they are not right. The Yankee man
sger thinks il viii be grand idea 10
notify a pitcher a couple of days in adj
vance Of the time when he is to work,
something which Connie Mack does.
The Yankee leader thinks he has a
corking pitching staff 10 work with next
season. He also has a fast team to put
behind them.
Wray. of the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
asks. who would be a magnate?" and
then comes across with the following:
Minor leagues received 1921. $50 from the
big league clubs for the contracts of play
ers during 1910, an average per club OF
over $1,000 Is there any other business
that must annually devote such a per-
centage Of its capitalization 10 replacing
deprecated machinery? Probably this
sum entirely wipes ont the annual profits
of some Of the more lowly teams.
The Browns and Cardinals each expend-
ed about S20.0C0. If each club gets two
reliable men from the squad of recruits,
il will have maintained the average.
Figure for yourself the cost Of rebuild
ing a broken-doWn team. And then com
pute the gray hairs gained BY the man
who attempts the task. knowing that
there are not enough capable young play
ers graduated annually in both leagues
Ia make Up a championship club.
Umpire Billy Evans thinks too much
boosting hurts the rising young baseball
player Too much praise, William, sell
dom hurts any one. in any line of en-
deavor. who IS there"
Hans Wagner must be worth 500 an
nuany TO any Pittsburg news bureau.
Starting IN with the fan announcement
that he may be traded Hans name is
campaigned through interviews with all
The stockholders till the December Iteet-
ings when the club management Official
ly denies intention TO trade him.
But still the hardy canard is not head.
merely altered. If not traded, then lHans
may be sold. II not sold. he may be
played in a new position.
His winter health. too, is worth cou-
pie OF columns. and. arriving at spring.
it comes time for the annual announce
ment that Hans will retire There's a
denial to that trouble with his con-
tract, and failure to report with the rest
OF the team still to fall back upon
So far Hans has managed to get back
into the game, as usual. But on the
strength of the fact some day he may
justify one of the items, the bureaucrats
ramble on like the brook. forever.
There's a hint of q conspiracy on the
part of an outraged press 10 use last
years files during the winter and thus
foil the news" sellers.
In the meantime the winter Wagner
serial OF 1glO-I is just in its infancy.
Here's an unkind shot from the New
Another trial for Doc. Gessler seems