Evening journal., 1911-04-13
E MON6 OURSELVES
Big News and Views
~ OF CaSSidy'S Tri-
~ State Chicks as Well
as SideIighIS on
Other Local SpOriS.
BY DAVE
BY DAVE

tering winds Of early spring. We are
longing for the soft warmth OF real
baseball weather and the minor note Of
a ball speeding from the steellike whip
Of the man on the mound. We are tired
Of the worry and fret OF the office, and
are keen for the hour to come when we
can perch on the bleacher, under the
scorching rays Of the sun and tell
some guy who thinks he can umpire
that he's thief" "robher," or some
other equally endearing thing Yes, we
want the good old baseball game. The
quality of II is assured, since Mr..
Brown and our old pal Pete are at the
helm. They are doing their part and
If everything breaks halfway decent
there'll be some noise in this town be-
fore the wintry winds blow in again.
II hight be we'll at this time to give
the fans some preseason scolding
Knocking is almost the divine right Of
a fan, but IN the midst OF the glee you
find I'm exercising this right remember
that a Tri-State team is one of the
best assets this village can have. We
have been without the big game for
several years and you all know how
we have suffered. We have had to con-
tent ourselves with one big game a
week until we have grown fretful In
deed some of us may not know real
classy ball when Pete's team hands It
out So when the team does get its
start let us cut out the walloping. Re-
member. that baseball bunch can be
knocked out by a wallop We want the
club to be a money maker for its own
ers and a credit to the town. This viii
come If you viii all go out TO root for
the Chicks-win or loose. If you wal
lop you may knock the club out of eX-
istence So everybody--root. This viii
lage needs a Tri-State club and now
that we have got IT. let's keep 1t.
We will try to have some good. re-
liable dope in this column about the
Chicks when the club gets started. AT
this time many Of the men are only
trying for places and after the weed
ing out has reduced the bunch to the
fourteen men that Cassidy viii hand
out $1,000 too, every month this sum
mer, then lt will be time enough to I
shoot the fireworks. II much is shot
just now many of the present Chicks
will be covered with powder when ,
they get back home. Let's keep the &
powder at home. This is not a knock ;
on any man who is playing for place /
on the team. You all know that $500 {
viii not pay the monthly salaries of ,
twenty-five high class ball players, so
Cassidy must make the feathers fly
soou Just who will he plucked we
cannot say. but Il Is dollars TO dough-
nuts that Cassidy knows right now
which men on his pitching staff will
not loose their feathers. We saw the
bunch throw them over yesterday and
can guess pretty close TO who Will
continue TO do the twirung az South
Side this summer. To giVe out the
names al this time would hurt some
body's feelings Youll all know by
May i5; so hold your horses
Stevenson got in yesterday and al
though he had not swung a bat for
two years he looked classy Football 4
scrimmages have made him heshy
rather than reduced his weight and
friends who looked upon him while he
was a big raw athlete hardly knew
him yesterday. But spring sunshine
and hard practice on the ball field will q
rob him OF the flesh and again make =
him the diamond star he was before
Mike Murphy found It. more profitable ,
to play him on the gridiron than on ,
the diamond. Here's hoping that any ,
man of The calibre and quality OF :
Stevenson will be with us throughout
the season.
With the material that Cassidy has
got from Williamsport as roost for
the Chicks, we really can't figure how
the flock will get far from the front of
the coop. Bastian Is coming and Mar
hefka is signed. Doesn't that sound
gOod2 Pete has four crack pitchers
and a good catcher right now and as
much OF baseball success depends on
the pitching staff and the infeld the
team certainly looks good from this
viewpoint II is not as IL there were
a lot of untried men In the squad
Nearly all OF them have records that
inspire confidence. Yes-we will be
surprised If the club is not a good one.
The bunch of Yanigans that went up
against the Regulars yesterday fur
nished real good sport. Crumlish was
on first and something that looked
like a pound Of soap wrapped up i'm a
red flag. tried to stop 'em at second
Crumlish, who. by the way, never eX-
poets to be a candidate for the team.
insisted I'm pulling em down with his
right paw. which brought from Cassidy
the revengeful remark that he always
had trouble getting 'em with both
paws. OF course nobody disputed this
particular truism from Pete: never
theless the incident goes TO show that
Pete wants the local boys to try for
places on the team II they think bie
league material is in them Before the
season is over several local boys Will
get chances against the real stun.
While speaking Of local bows we
must not forget the big league um-
piring material Jack McGowan showed.
Jack wore a mask that resembled a
bear trap and his protector was SO
close to his jugular that when he took
header at second in an effort TO get
square on a play everybody i'm the
stand thought his head would remain
in the trap. But 1t didn't Jack pulled
himself together and in a second his
lungs were working as we'll as ever
AS an ump Jack is a ringer for Billy /
Smith. of Tri-State fame, and here's .
hoping that In the years to come he /
will be as good an umpire as his coun-
terpart Anybody whose sporting blood
runs as red as Jacks ought to make
good.
Day committees were much in evil
dence. For instance the Imperial Club
1anigans with Jimmy O'Neal and Dick
fennimore carrying the bells, forsook
their lair 10 shiver in the stand Also