Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-28

HUNDREDS OF BALL PLAYERS
WILL TRAIN AT HOT SPRINGS
Griffith Sure to Send Some of His Men to
Resort-Five Big League Teams
to Be There.

conditions each team gets in only hal1
days work One day the Bostons prac-
tice In the morning and the next In the
afternoon. The Cincinnatis have like
work. So the second park is needed. and
McRoy stated before leaving for chi
cago that he was confident it would be
ready by 1913 at the latest, if not by
next March.
Vean Gregg and Grover Cleveland
Alexander, the two finds" of the 1911
base ball year, as far as pitchers go,
are holdouts in the matter OF contracts
for 1912, both demanding $1,000 or there
abouts. Both ought to get it on the work
done by them during the past season.
Why a magnate wants to haggle with q
pitcher of real class, running the risk
of getting his star discontinued and ruin
ing his efficiency, is more than the out
slider can understand. Good men make
good teams; and when you have a GOOD
team that can finish as well as third
in a race no club need worry about a
matter of a few thousand dollars.
Magnates go on the theory that no
pitcher is worth 5000 until he has
worked for three or four seasons.
pitcher who can win twenty-three games
promised to jostle the Browns In last
place at one time-as was the case with
Vean Gregg of Cleveland-is worth 5000
from the day he starts.
The life of base ball player in the big
leagues is short enough. In ten years
he must earn enough to last him for life.
One can hardly blame the star for strain
ing at the traces when niggardly owners
want to procrastinate in recognizing
merit.
Five men hitting over 300 is pretty good
for a tail-end team, NIGHT wahr? That's
what the Boston Nationals will have for
Nucleus next season. Kirke. r. Miller.
1iv,o ~I Tor ho
stick men of the despised Beans.
There must have been some deep-dyed
pitching connected with the club to keep
back such an aggregation Of ball murder
erS.
For the season of 1911 the Giants led
the National League in batting. and there
in lies One-half OF the story of their sue
cess in that organization: Combined with
their base running. which was far SUI
perior as a team to that Of the other
teams Of the league they made runs on
chances which men much slower and less
capable than they were unable to under
take.
Perhaps no more ridiculous comment of
the management of McGraw has been
made than the foolish assertion that II
he had not traded Bridwell and Donlin
he might have beaten the Athletics in the
worlds series. Had he not traded Bird
we'll for a faster man. and had Boston
not possessed the services of Donlin as
batter. 1t Is fairly probable that New
York would not have played the Athletics.
First the championship of the National
League must be won before club can
play another in the American League for
the national championship. No worse au-
thority than Bridwell, as fine man as
ever stepped into base ball shoes. conffded
to a base ball reporter that he considered
McGraw had made the wisest move that he
could when he got more speed on the in
field. I'm not up to my best FORM" said
Bridwell with q sigh of regret. land while
I hate to admit it, the truth Is the truth
and you can't get away from It."