The Washington herald., 1911-02-08
STOCKHOLDERS VOTE ON
BALL PARK IMPROVEMENTS
Left Field Bleachers Will Extend to Fence Auto
mobiles by Main Gate-Work to Start Soon.
Other Gossip of Interest.
By WILLIAM PEET.

By WILLIAM PEET.
The directors of the Washington base
ball club at a meeting yesterday after
noon decided to order work to be started
as soon as the weather permits on i'm
provements to the BAH park at Florida
avenue
1t was voted to do away with the
Seventh street entrance for automobiles.
through the main gate. and to extend
the left field bleachers out nearly flush
with the fence. The automobile entrance
will be at this spot. with plenty Of room
to store all machines. This will greatly
relieve the cong, stion at the main gate.
and, to further facilitate matters. the
runway leading from the ticket offices to
the grand stand will be widened to twice
the present size so that crowds can be
handled much easier.
A number Of other improvements are
planned for the grand stands such as ad-
ditionaI toilet rooms, &c. and the park
will be in readiness for the first home
game, against Georgetown, on April l.
Although the club owns ninety feet OF
land outside the center and right field
fences. it is not proposed to move back
the fence just now. The erection OF con-
crete stands. talked of last year. will
probably be done either next fall or the
following season, and then the fence will
be moved so as to include all the land
owned by the club.
A dispatch received from Milwaukee
last night states that George Mcbride.
the Nationals captain. will leave for Hot
Springs the latter part of this week.
Mac who has spent the winter in Mil
waukee, looks fit right now to get into
the game. He has been keeping in con-
dition by bowling and skating and accord
ing to his friends will require little linn
bering-up exercise.
From way out in the provinces a cor
respondent writes: I'VE have only about
zoo people in this little burg but every
man, woman and child is a baseball fan.
We have been having lot of fun these
long winter evenings organizing new
baseball league
THE way We went about it was this:
all the players who were in the National
and American leagues at the close of
last season We're on the market Then
We took Spaldings book and went over
the records of all of the men. Then.
too. We read everything in the newspapers
that We could find about the men.
Next We proceeded to vote. Every
placing them in the order of the rela-
tive strength. The result was Surpris-
ing. Almost everybody voted and 1t took
weeks to count the ballots and arrange
the teams in their proper order.
In this contest the pitcher receiving
the most votes was placed on the first
team, the second highest pitcher was
placed on the second team, and SO on.
The same rule was followed with the
rlayer m all the other DOSitiODS
Il think the outcome is Interesting as
indicating how the fans outside the big
cities look on the major league players.
and their relative abilities. Here is our
new league:
First nine-Pitcher, Mathewson: catch
er, King; first baseman. Chase; second
baseman, Lajoie; shortstop, Wagner;
third baseman. Devlin; left fielder
Wheat; center fielder, Speaker; right
fielder, Cobb.
Second nine-Pitcher, Bender; catcher,
Gibson; first baseman, konetchy; second
baSeman, Collins; shortstop, Bush: third
baseman. Lord: left fielder, Bescher; CEN
ter fielder. MCGEE; right fielder, Wolter
Third team-Pitcher. Plank; catcher
BreSnahan; first baseman, Chance; sec
ond baseman, Evers; shortstop. Turner:
third baseman, Baker: left fielder,
Clarke: center fielder, Leach; right field
er, Schultz.
Fourth - Pitcher, johnson: Catcher.
Doom: first baseman. Flynn: second
baseman, Doyle shortstop. Tinker: third
baseman. Grant: left fielder. Devore;
center fielder, Crawford; right fielder,
Murray.
Fifth team-Pitcher. Walsh: Catcher.
Street: first haseman. Davis: second
baseman. Miller: shortstop, Bridwell:
third baseman, Byrne; left fielder. Bates:
center fielder, Seymour; right fielder.
Murphy.
Sixth team-Pitcher. Brown:catcher.
Strange; first baSeman. Stovall: second
baseman, EEan; shortstop. Elberfeld;
third baseman, Wallace: left fielder,
Scheckard: center fielder, Hemphil;
right fielder, Hooper.
Seventh team-Pitcher. Coombs; catch
or, Thomas: first baseman. Bransfield;
second baseman, Delahanty: shortStOp.
Barry: third baseman, Steinfeld: left
fielder. Stone: center fielder. Oldring.
right fielder. PaSkert.
Eighth team-Pitcher. Moore; catcher,
Sweeney; first baseman. Hobltzel; sec
ond baseman. Gardner; shortstop, Dool-
in: left fielder. Hartzel; center fielder,
Beaumont; right fielder, Gessler.
Just four players in the American
League hit in four runs by one crack of
the bat during the campaign of last
summer. These four who handed out the
glorious homer, with the bases all filled,
were Norman Elberfeld, of the Senators;
Garland ]. Stahl, of the Bostons: Donnie
Bush, Of the Detroits, and Leeford Tan
nehill. Of the White Sox-
Three Of these noble efforts were ex-
ecuted in Boston. and the fourth in Chi
cago, the pork and beans district enjoy
ing a monopoly on the output.
Elberfeld ripped off his valuable homer
in a game Of April 20. while Washington
was II to 4 The next day Jake Stahl
cleaned up with a four-bagger, made of
Bob Groom, of Washington, who pur-
posely passed Iris Speaker in order to
take a chance on the born leader"
May IL Midget Bush, Of Detroit, who
usually is easy for lefthanders, caught
one Of Ray Collins shoots when the
bases were all jammed. He drove the
ball to deep center and was over the
home plate. three others ahead of him,
before Speaker and Wagner could return
the ball to big Mr.. Ca--igan. This hit
put the Tigers in front, to o, but all
the same Jennings men lost the game,
to 6.
The last OF the big four blows hit
during 1910 was Lee Tannehilrs. It came
about when the Tigers were visiting in
Comiskeyville, on July 81. Bill Donovan
being ON the hill for the Tigers.
The ball bounded between the pickets