The Washington herald., 1911-03-10
By N, r. wORLEY,

notice from Jack Dunn, the doughty man
ager of the Baltimore Eastern League
team, yesterday to report in Baltimore
on March 16 a check for $50 accom-
panied the letter.
Buscher had a talk with the Baltimore
leader on the train going UP to Phila-
delphia last September, when the Cor
nell players happened to be on the same
car as the Orioles. and then and there
Dunn took a liking to the big twirler and
asked him to come to Baltimore for a
trial Dunn wanted Buscher to join the
team at once and get a workout, so that
he could start the season of 1911 in good
shape, but Phil refused to leave the
Tiger outfit on account of his friendship
for Manager Cornell. However. Buscher
went over to Baltimore in December. had
a talk with Dunn, and affixed his sig
nature to a contract.
Should Buscher be able to curb his great
speed he will undoubtedly make good in
the Eastern League. There has never
been a pitcher developed on a Washing
ton sand lot in the past five years that
could compare with the big Tiger. He
is a perfect giant in stature measuring
six feet one inch in height and weighs
187 pounds Buscher is a right-handed
pitcher, and wields the willow with the
same paw. He uses few curves and de-
pendS mostly upon his tremendous speed
and a spit ball, which the old-umers de-
clare is a corker.
Last season he had great difficulty in
getting a catcher who could hold him.
Arthur NOyes being one of the few
hackstops who could stand up under the
big fellows speed. After several of the
big games at Capital City Park, NOyes
hands were swollen nearly twice their
size and he could not catch for several
days.
Seldom does a pitcher play on three
champion teams in three consecutive
years, yet this is Buscher's experience.
and it can be said he was responsible
for his club landing ahead of the bunch
in each instance.
When the Bioomingdale club entered
the Capital City League, in the spring of
1903, the club boys had poor team
compared with the other mines against
whom they had to compete, but they
had BusCher to pitch and his work alone
enabled them to make a respectable
showing.
Suddenly, brought into the public eye
by his good performances in the Capital
City League that year, BUsCher obtained
an offer to play with Grace. in the Sun |
day School League, and he went out
northeast and finished the season with
that nine In the pOst-seasOn series that I
fall he pitched several of the games.
But it was in 1903 and last year that |
the Cornell slab artist stood out head |
and shoulders above the other amateur !
pitchers in the city. Manager George +. |
Cornell placed his Brentwood aggrega- |
ton in the Capital City League again
and secured the services of Buscher.
That year Phil twirled the Tigers 10 |
The ton and then went in and snatched
the championship of the District in the
post-SeaSOn games. |
Last years story reads the same aSN
that Of 1909. Buscher doing the brunt Of /
the work all the year and pitching the |
Cornell club to victory, not only in the /
league, but in the pOst-seaSon series His |
work in New York City was a revelation !
to the Gotham fans. and he was taken
for d professional with years of eX- /
perienCe by the New Workers.
The more the Tiger spitban artist is
worked the better he is, and it was not |
unusual for him to pitch two or three !
games in succession last year without .
any visible drain on his pitching |
strength.
Those who have watched the big fell |
low battle on the sand lots around Wash
,ngton have no hesitancy in predicting
for him 4 successful career in big league
company.
The Cornell youngster is certainly
there.
Four local boys who have received
instructions to report to minor league
teams are Harry Smithson, of The Wash
inEton Herald nine; George Thompson,
of the Southern Railway team, in the
Terminal Railroad y. M c. A League;
PIf johnson. who coached Eastern Col
lEe last spring, and Chick Davis. of
Sewage Pumping Station, in the Capt.
tai City circuit
The first named two will go to Danvine
in the Virginia State League, while the
other two have been signed by Roanoke,
n the same circuit The boys will report
March Il.
a soldiers life is an uncertain one. at
best. Not over a week ago the Marines
applied for a franchise in the Capital
City Baseball League, and, with excellent
prospects of turning out a fast nine were
elated over their success when they re-
ceived word that they had obtained the
coveted place in the Capital City ranks.
Now they are down on the border chas-
ing insurrectOS with Mutt and jeff. and
with little prospect of getting back to
Washington in time to celebrate the |
Fourth of July.
Inquiry at Marine Barracks yesterday |
brought out the fact that but eight men
are left at headquarters, from which
branch Of the barracks the baseball team
was organized.
a member of the Capital City board of
managers was asked if the league had
heard anything about the matter from the
of the Marines baseball team,
but stated that no word had been received,
and that the league expected the Soldier
Boys TO place a nine in the field.
Brightwood will probably not be rep
resented on the diamond this spring,
owing to the fact that the suburban boys
are experiencing quite a little difficulty
in obtaining a competent manager. Last
years leader of the Brightwood squad.
Thomas P. Baldwin, refuses to take the
team again, claiming that it takes up too
much Of his time and efforts to have
w. F. Work, a prominent druggist of
take charge, have been
frutteSS The team was not represenfed
at any of the meetings of the Suburban
League in the past month, and the
chances are at present against the boys
getting together.
Clubs desiring to apply for franchises
in the Suburban League should address
Robert H. Jones, SSS Varnum street
northwest. A meeting of the Suburban
League will be held at Mr.. Jones' house
this evening and managers desiring TO
enter teams in the organization are cor
dially invited to be present.
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