The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1910-03-05
DIAMOND CHIPS

III OiuSI I'd put more ginger III tHS
playing of Titus, the Phillies' right
fielder, Manager Doom has agreed to
give him $40 every time he is put out
of the game this season by the umpire
for growing. Doom asserts that I'll
tus is too easy going and is trying to
encourage him to be more aggressive.
Manager Doom says: My one dream
is to see Titus thrown off the field in
the opening game. If this is done l
am convinced then that nothing will
keep us from winning the pennant.'
Joe Catillon, the boss swappist OF
the American Association, is reported
as willing to trade KIDD" Wilson to
Charley Carr for two sets of uniforms
for his Millers. Carr. who owns
large block of stock in firm that
makes uniforms and himself travels
for the company in winter is therefore
in a position to grant Cantillon's de-
mand. This is not the first time Joe
has traded a ball player for outfits. as
several years ago he is reported to have
given Pitcher Oscar Graham to the
Hoosiers for the uniforms the Millers
wore last season.
Tim Murnane knows how to manage
those New England League magnates.
It looked for a time in the annual meet
ing as though there was going to be as
lively a scrap over the establishment
of the schedule as the National League
had, but some of the wiser ones in the
bunch, deploring any such action, fix
ed things up by the direction of Pres
ilent Murnane. Murnane is level
headed enough and knows the game as
we'll as any man in the East. so his
New England constituents believe that
he is qualified to head q much larger
league than the little old New Eng
land organization.
Frank Dwyer. the old Cincinnati
pitcher and ex-American and National
League umpire, who for years bore
the title of the headiest pitcher in the
big league. but is now quiet Geneva
(N. " business man, has succumbed to
the urgings of the Cornell University
Athletic association, and will spend
some time at Ithaca whipping the Cor
nell twirling staff into shape. For
several seasons Dwyer has umpired
all the big games at Cornell, but refus-
ed to accept the lucrative offers to
coach on account of his business ties.
Hughey Jennings, the Detroit mana
ger, particular friend of the Ge-
neva man, has consented to help whip
the Cornell team in shape, and it is
largely on his account that Dwyer has
agreed to go to Ithaca and coach the
pitchers.
Christy Mathewson has fastened that
old fadeaway on his initial literary de-
livery, and it reads ''Won in the
Ninth" Big Six has high hopes that
the fans will land On it and knock it
Anyway. the book is finished and on
March 10 the r. J. Bodmer Company of
437 Fifth avenue, New York, will ease
it up to the spectators. who will then
hand down their decision.
No less than "a southpaws will re-
ceive trials by the eight American
League managers this spring. Cleve'
land has Linke. Mitchell and Gregg
Philadelphia has krause, Plank and
Pernol; New York, Vaughn. Wolter,
Frill and Clunn: Chicago, White, Sutor,
and Burns; Boston, Karger, Colline
and Thompson: St. Louis, Waddell.
! Bailey and Graham, and Washington,
Gray.
Declaring that his career as base
ball pitcher has been cut short, Earl
Proctor of Rockville Center. N. Y, has
brought suit against milling compa-
ny of that place for $4,000 because his
right thumb was severed by buzz
saw. Proctor. who IS only 20 years
old. was last year the star pitcher of a
champion high school base ball team
and believed that notable career in
professional base ball was before him.
Manager Chance says that he will re-
uuire all Cub catchers to wear shin
guards this season. after the fashion of
Roger Bresnahan of the Cardinals and
Larry Mclean of the Reds. He be-
lieves the device originated by the st.
Louis manager is a great preventive OF
injuries, especially of the minor kind,
which are bound to effect the back
stops work, even when they are not
serious enough to keep him out of the
game.
Wilbert Robinson, the veteran Bal
timore catcher engaged by McGraw to
coach the Giant pitchers, has been
confined to his room at Marlin by an
attack of gout. McGraw believes that
Robinson is the best man in the cOun-
try at instructing kid pitchers. and
points out that Bill HoffeIe Arlie
Pond, Joe Corbett and Jimmy McJames
all old Baltimore pitchers, did not
show any class until Wilbert began to
catch them