Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24
WORLDS SERIES TO Be
INTERNATIONAL Event
Bancroft Predicts That Americans
Must Play Cuba and Japan
for Title.
INNOVATION MAY COME
IN A VERY FEW YEARS
Cobb Does Not Take Kindly to Stage
Work-Fears It Will Hurt
His Playing Ball.
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PHILADELPHIA. December 23-Such
an excellent authority as Frank Ban
croft, business manager of the Cincinnati
Reds. predicts that in a few years the
game Of base ball will have a series for
a real worlds championship OF course.
| tho title at present held by the Athletics
Is somewhat OF a misnomer. They are
| the champions Of the world, all right,
when it comes to playing base ball. but
the game has not become the national
sport OF enough countries to make the
competition for the title real, free-for-
! all affair.
Of American ball players to Cuba In 1879,
and who has been taking teams there
ever since. including the Athletics in 1910
and the New York Giants this winter.
says that the growth of base ball in Cuba
| every boy in and around Havana is a
regular fan and devotes all Of his time
to playing the game. Mr.. Bancroft pre-
diets that in a few years the champions
Of this country will have to meet the
best teams in Cuba and Japan before
Cuba" says Mr.. Bancroft, "has opened
up new field for the base ball scouts of
this country. THE success of Alameda
and Marsans. the Cuban players with
the Cincinnati team last season. has dem
onStrated that there are some mighty fine
players in that country.
american scouts. in looking for talent.
viii keep In touch with the coming young
Cuban players, and I predict that many
more VIII be grabbed by the league
teams In future years"
Clarke Likely to Lose Bets.
Fred Clarke, manager of the Pittsburgh
club, Is doing all that he knows how to
prevent himself from getting into the
game as a player next season Clarke
has announced that he is to be a bench
manager in the future. Furthermore,
Fred says he has made as many as
nineteen bets, each being of a suit of
clothes. that he will not get into a game
next season, not even as a pinch hitter
This kind Of talk may go in the winter
season. when Clarke's mind is more on
his ranch in Kansas than it Is upon the
national game. 1t is a ten-to-one shot,
though. that when the fighting gets des-
perate next season and q pinch hitter is
badly needed by the Pirates that Clarke
will find 1t impossible not to grab bat
and step up to the plate.
Nineteen suits Of clothes, on one hun
dred and nineteen suits. wouldn't keep
Clarke out Of the game. He's got too
much grit to sit on a bench when the call
for help comes from his teammates
Nearly all of the major league clubs
have planned for their spring training.
A few. however, have not made any an
nouncement as to how or where their
players will get into condition. The Bos-
ton Nationals had not picked out place
before the club was sold and President
John NJ. Ward has not had an oppor-
tunity to decide upon a place for getting
the "Hustlers" into shape.
/ The st. Louis Browns may be the only
| club to get its players into condition at
| home. 1t is thought that the majority
| OF the Browns can get just as good
| training in ST. Louis any other place.
The pitchers and couple of the catch
! ers Of the club are likely to be sent to
+, some health resort to take the baths
| IL the Browns do not take a training
trip the club which will prepare for the
| championship season nearest to its own
will take his ball tossers to Charlottes-
vile. Va. which IS only short ride
| from Washington.
The teams which will make the longest
leagues. The Athletics will go to San
Antonio. Tex. which requires two and
| one-half days of travel from this city,
| and the New York Giants will go TO
| -udIiul SpElUSSs lex
Ball Players and Stage Work.
Ty Cobb. who is playing in Tho Col
lege Widow in Detroit this week, has
been a big success on tho stage this WIN
ter. Ty. however. is not quite sure
whether or not he wants to continue In
the business or what effect his acting
| will have upon his career ON the dia-
mond. Cobb says:
| round OF pleasure that some people s
| fancy may paint It, It Is composed of
nine parts work and one part getting
| ready for more. The hardest thing about
il. to my mind, Is the fact that q man
can't get his regular sleep. When / so
home after the evening performance It
Is impossible to go right to sleep, like
would do In the summer months, for
l am all keyed up and under a nervous
strain. and 1t takes SO long to get calm
| ed down that I can't get the proper
number Of hours of rest. Even actors
who have been in the business for years
tell me that they have the same trouble
SO ] don't blame 1t all on my being a
recruit In the thespian game"
There 1s something In this for man.
ayers to think about. Players are sup
posed to need q rest Of several months
to get ready for the next season. If
their nerves are going to be wrecked by
the stage life they will need something
more than q few hot baths to bring them
| batting eyes being injured by looking
over the footlights
/ Still Connie Mack won't let the latter
idea worry him when he thinks about
| what may happen to Cy Morgan's bat
ting percentage