The Washington herald., 1911-08-17
McAleer to Try
Recruits on Trip
Morgan to Replace Conroy at Third, and Elber-
field May Also Retire-Browns to Work
Youngsters in Series.

St Louis Aug. 16.-After a vacation
of two days, the Browns will tomorrow
tackle Manager McAleer's Washington
crowd in q series of three games. The
Browns may find the going pretty hard
against Washington.
McAleer apparently has struck a win
ming combination, judging from the way
the team has been going lately. Both
Wallace and McAleer have several new
players who have recently reported to
Them and II may be that the newcomers
will be given a tryout in the series here.
There is very good chance that Gust
may be seen on first tomorrow AFTER
noon for the Browns. Gust was secured
from Galesburg, and reported for work
last Saturday. McAleer has several new
pitchers, and may try on his new third
sacker, Morgan.
There is a rumor in baseball circles
that "Wid" Conroy will not be with the
80 WASHINGTON club next season and that
Morgan will be the third baseman to take
the Widows position. There is a
chance that Morgan may play tomorrow
afternoon against the Browns. Elberfeld
may also be retired.
Here's a little bit of personal history
Of Big Ben Egan, the Baltimore catcher
who goes to the Athletics, that makes
interesting reading:
Although Ben Egan, the peerless
catcher of the Orioles, who was sold
to Connie Mack several days ago, has
gained most of his experience while a
member of the Baltimore club in the
Eastern League, he learned several points
during his stay with the Athletics, pre-
vious to his going to the Orioles. Ben was
catching a game for the Athletics dur
in the early part of the season. He
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League, and was not familiar with the
tactics of the fellows in the big wagon.
A man was on third and the batter
lifted a high one to left field. The rum
ner started for home, but the fielder
made a beautiful throw, and Egan got
his man. After the game the player.
whom Egan knew before he gained any
fame, came to Ben and told him how to
tag a man at home. Ben was not
able to use his feet in the manner that
has made him famous to all Baltimore
fans, and the player showed Ben lis
weakness.
Since that time the big catcher has
is without doubt on equality with any
of the backstoppers in any league. Egan
has shown his ability by catching a man
at home many times this season. Day be-
fore yesterday he tagged Joe Yeager and
blocked him from the plate. Ben dropped
the ball, but Yeager was several feet
from the plate and a lively scramble re-
suited. Yeager tried several times to
touch the plate, but Ben had the ball on
him before he could do so.
Since the announcement was made that
Egan had been sold to the Athletics, the
premier catcher has improved in his bat
ting. His ability in tagging runners
has attracted the attention of many of
the big league scouts, and nearly all the
players in this league are afraid to at
tempt to steal a base when Ben is to do
the peggtng. His picking men off third
base has also helped the pitcher many
times in winning game.
Manager Mack, when the worlds cham
pions were in ST. Louis the last trip
bumped into a newspaper man who is
quite a rooter for the home element, and
who picked the Cubs to beat the Ath-
letics four straight. This scribe is a
pretty decent sort of chap, but has
formed his opinion of visiting teams by
seeing them struggle with the home con-
tenders. So when he dropped around
to the hotel with friend to talk with
Connie, he was quite a jubilant young
member of the fourth estate. I'll tell
you, Mack he said to the lean leader,
your team is pretty rank; you have
gone away back and are playing pretty
bad ball. The Cardinals would make you
fellows look sick in the worlds series
1 hope myself that both teams win the
pennant." $50 do t. replied Connie,
without even cracking a smile, while the
friend of the scribe flung up both hands
into the air. Come on" said the friend,
its time that We were moving"