The Washington times., 1911-08-24
Three Hours Late In Trip
From Chicago To Detroit
This Morning.
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lMasseur Waiting In Lake City to
Take Hold Of Elberfeld's
/ Lame Leg.
By SENATOR"
Only Washington Newspaper Man
With the Nationals.

With the Nationals.
DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 24.-After
an all-night ride the Nationals ar
rived here before noon and found
that the prospects of a game were
decidedly remote A steady rain con-
verted Bennett Park into a morass
of mud, but Hughey Jennings de-
clared he would not call off the open
ing of the series until the very last
minute, as he is figuring upon max
ing up some lost ground at the ex-
pense of the Washington club. Tom
Hughes is with the club none the
worse off as a result of his fight with
a Chicago fan yesterday.
The Nationals arrived here more than
three hours late. Most of the three
hours was spent looking at trees, barns,
moody cows. and plain gren grass. The
players spent their time at whist and
grumbling. several having appointments
here. The appointments have been
killed.
Kid Elberfeld, who is carrying a lame
leg around with him, has a professional
!masseur here who will attempt to work
the lameness out before the veteran has
to leave for Cleveland The masseur
used to work on him when the Kid
was some years back. Elberfeld always
N-fCifG han hn 20 nat
The White Sox, always looking for
piece of change, went to Goshen, Ind,
yesterday for an exhibition game with
the Seeds, but the Nationals were only
too glad to have a day of rest. They
hung around their hotel, talking base
ball, particularly the draft lists
The action of Comiskey in the draft
ing business came as quite a surprise
here. Although 1t was generally I'M
derstood that the owner of the Sox was
pretty we'll satisfied with the array of
ball players he now has in Chicago. he
got so busy with the drafting tia. no
less than tWenty-siX names are included
on the list which was sent to the Ma
tional Commission by the Chicago mag
nate.
AL these men have been recalled with
the idea of putting them through a
severe course of sprouts in the spring
IN lne nope OF nnulnS a couple OF ahle
players to fill the weak spots that have
lately developed in the Sox lineup.
1T makes me laugh" Ban Johnson
was telling a band of Nationals before
they boarded the train for Detroit last
might, "of all the talk about the abol-
ttigh Of the lively ball
Lively Ball Continues.
THE last time was in Washington
] went so far as to give out state
ment that the same ball that was used at
the beginning of the year was still in
force, but now see stories coming from
the East that it has gone out OF ex-
Sstence.
well, there's nothing to that. We
adopted the ball and 1t is still in the
game, and promises TO continue to re-
main, as there has been no serious OBJ
lection to 1t by the fans, who after all,
are the ones who make baseball pos
.able."
= Among the callers at TIE Nationals
headquarters before they left Chicago
was Bert Keeley. who used to pitch at
Florida avenue and Seventh street when
Cantillon was in the pilot house Kelley
is now in the moving picture business
IN Chicago, and at the same time has
q suit for several thousand dollars
against railroad, claiming that he WAS
badly hurt in an accident last season,
0AAn he was with the Omaha club.