The Washington herald., 1911-01-11
I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT
GAME" SAYS DOC WHITE
Describes His Feelings When Nationals Knocked Him
Out of Box Last Summer-Other Gossip.
By WILLIAM PEET.


forget the game OF ball pitched against
tho Washington club here hast summer
when waS taken out in the seventh
inning. and McAleers club won." said
Doc White to the writer during a fan
ming bee yesterday.
The lanky twirler continued: For the
past three years I had pretty good luck
against the Nationals, and although I
usually won my game, my friends here
always gave me the glad hand. and /
heard only q few r,mbiings Of disap-
pointment but that day it was different
can see it all now.
Neither side scored until the fourth.
when Chicago got run. The Nationals
came back in the fifth with tally. We
forged ahead in our half with another,
and in the sixth batting bee added two
more fdr Washington. In the seventh
Milan. the first man up. singled to CEN
ter and stole second. Then Hughey
Du1ey beckoned to me from the bench,
and as ! walked in the crowd arose as
one person and rooted steadily for three
minutes could see that every one was
crazy with delight at my downfall. and
in my home town, too. The queerest
feeling I ever experienced in my life
came over me. 1 can't explain it, and
never will.
During my high school and college
DAYS mere, ndQ OeeH cHecItu just %
wildly, but it was for winning my game
and not being knocked out of the box"
Doc is at Chase's this week and is
making a great hit. His songs are catchy
and tuneful, and he delivers the goods
DOC" says his first vaudeville venture
has been most successful. and that all
the Western cities have treated him
kindly.
In referring to his recent visit to Cleve-
land, the twirler vouchsafed the follow
ing: I'm my dressing room one night half
q dozen baseball writer's descendeH on me
and they all wanted me to c-iticise the
Cleveland baseball club: tell where L
thought the Maps would finish. where
they were weak, and where strong.
Nix on that stuff, said ]. You fellows
don't get me to come across with any
such dope as that. Why, if 1 said
thought the Maps would finish i'm the
second division, and that their pitchers
were weak or something like that. the
first time I pitched a game in Cleveland
next season the fans would open UP on
me with a vengeance. I'd get mine for
keeps
Jiggs Dcnohue former White Sox first
baseman, believes now that the rule
against ball players having other jobs is
a good one. Donohue blames his slump
and release by the White Sox to a side
job. He worked the year around in
pool p&rIor he owned in Chicago. He
was in the poolroom until midnight. and
when che reported for morning practice at
. a n he did not have his usual ginger.
Jiggs isn't husky, and the grind over
taxed his strength.
Donohue has convinced Comiskey that
he can come back. He is to go South
with the White SoX but there will be no
more pool business for him That is in
his contract. Tsgs' old team mates are
tickled that he is to have another chance.
They can see only one better first base.
man-Hal Chase
Bob Pender, a former umpire of the
Virginia League. has been promoted to
the staff Of President Barrows, of the
Eastern League In Pender the Vir-
ginia loses one of the best umpires that
ever ruled a game around this circuit
He was accurate. followed the plays
closely, and had the regard and conf
dence of the players and fans in the Vir-
ginia circuit.
At the close of last season former
President Powers received many datter-
ing accounts of Pender's work, and had
written Pender in regard to accepting
a berth in the Eastern League. When
President Barrows succeeded Powers he
also got on Penders trail, and sent him
"a two years contract, which was &C
cepted.
Under the heading of 1.-The Odious
Bonus" the Philadelphia North American
comes across with the following: The
class Of players who will not give the
full extent of their ability without a
bonus promised at the end of the season
is very poor lot and does baseball no
good
The salary named by a club owner and
I.,,
a sun1cient award to make a player do |
his best without the owner being forced |
to hold out the promise Of an additional
sum contingent on that player Satisfac-
torily meeting the requirements of his
contract Yet every winter every club in |
the country Is obliged to hold out what is |
virtually baseball tip to the malcon-
them to sign. |
It is a bad practice and against the
spirit of baseball. A contract is a sacred |
instrument, but not so regarded by the |
type Of player who whines that he must
nave his tip at the end of the season
for the mere reason that he has earned. |
md not unmerited. the salary agreed upon
Before the season opens |
Take the other way; how many players |
would be willing TO forfeit a part of their |
salary to the club owner in case they did |
not merit it? Not one Of them: yet there |
arc as many instances of players who do |
not give value received as those who re-
turn dollar for dollar in playing ability or |
q little bit more.
When some one asked Connie Mack |
why championship teams seemed. after a |
certain dme, to go to pieces, the Ath-
1etics' manager replied:
Usually the members Of q champion
ship team are about OF one age. When |
49,
their highest rate Of speed. Usually the |
manager Is afraid to break up his team. |
He can see that one star is slipping, but |
instead Of throwing him out and substi- |
tutiug another. he clings to the old star. |
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