The Washington herald., 1911-12-06
Downtown Baseball office
Is Established at Last
Manager Griffith to Be on Job Every Day Until
Season Opens-Conroy May Go to
BaLtimOre-Other Gossip.
BY WILLIAM PEET.

Manager Clark Griffith announced last
night that he had rented suite of rooms
on the fifth floor of the Southern Prog
ress Building. corner of Fifteenth and II
streets, and that he proposed to move in
at once.
Capital fans do not. perhaps. realize
the full significance of d baseball head
quarters, with a manager on the job
every day.
Under the Cantillon regime it will be
recalled that Joe usually spent his win
ters on houseboat down in Mississippi
and Louisiana, ami that all correspond
ence, spring training trip details, &c.
weIe referred to Cantillon by correspond
ence. Only meager, reports We're given
out for publication, and the fans knew
nothing of what was going on until Can
tillon arrived in the spring
The same was true under Jimmy Nc
Aleer's two years servitude. McAleer
could not be pried away from Youngs-
town. Ohio. and his plans were not re-
vealed until he reported in March to
take the bunch South
Now it will be different. Manager Grif-
fifth has established residence in WASH
iEgton. To-day he opens up a down.
drop in and see him. As he makes his
plans for the coming season, the local
papers will keep the fans in touch with
what is going on.
Furthermore, Washington is the mecca
for many prominent players. managers
and club owners during the winter. They
have drifted in each winter for the past
five years and nobody knew they were
in town. All will be different now They
ming bees galore, and Capital rooters will
get something else to read besides bowl
ing and basket-ball-two very good in
door games, but not to be Classed with
baseball.
Thank goodness. we have a live wire
for manager. Grin has gotten away
to fine start. May the good work keep
up.
Bill Nye, one Of the best-knOwn base
ball rooters in the country. dropped into
the Capital late yesterday afternoon and
hunted up Manager Griffith. Nye and
the Washington manager are old friends,
and talked baseball until il was time
for Nye to catch A train for Pittsburg.
1t is hardly probable that Manager
Griffith will make any trades at the
annual American League meeting in New
never tell. II he sees a chance to grab
anything that will strengthen the Wash
ingtOn club he will not overlook any
bets.
There is a likely chance that Wild Con-
roy will be sold or traded to the Balti-
more club, OF the Eastern League The
Orioles wanted COnroy last year. hut Nc
Aleer could not see his way clear to let
the veteran go.
Ii is rumored that a hot fight will be
developed against President Lynch, of
the National League, at the meeting
which is to be held in New York next
week, but It seems very unlikely that
the enemies of the stalwart executive
will be able to unseat him. All he needs
to remain in office is four votes out OF
eight, and II is a Cinch that simply
show of opposition will not cause him to
resign.
The men who are said to be opposed
TO Lynch are President FOgel of Phila-
delphia: Murphy. of Chicago. and Eb-
bets. of Brooklyn. Hermann, Brush,
a. Dreyfus are likely to be behind
l. ..ch. while it is not known what posi-
tion the representatives. of St Louis and
Boston will take.
The fans are with Lynch heart and
the most prosperous years in its history.
and for the spectators he has been big
factor in downing rOwdyism. To effici-
ency he adds unqualified honesty.
Fogel, of Philadelphia, is against him
because he took a firm and proper stand
in the case Of Sherwood Magee. The
defeat of Lynch would be a defeat for
clean baseball in the National League.
canvass recently made among the
schoolmasters OF the big schools in Eng
land revealed that a large proportion of
them were hearty advocates of boxing.
Fisticuffs have ever played a promi-
nent part in the schools over there. and
the masters have tacitIy winked at two
youths with a crouch working il out of
their systems via the Queensberry route
They believe that a fair and square con-
test, the result Of which the loser will
have to abide by or receive the jeers Of
his fellows as a poor sportsman for the
rest of his career is better than having
boys nurse a vicious and intensive enmity.
and adopting mean petty and spitefuI
methods of revenge.
Here's a good one from the New York
Mail:
The Indian may be fading from the |
maple may have reached the sunset |
OF existence as a nation-but as a mem |
Der of the sportive colony his rank was |
Number One in 1911 at almost every |
start.
TeWGnima. an Indian, won the Mails |
big marathon and proved himself to be !
the hest lOng-distanCe runner in Amer |
lea
There were only two Indians in the
world series melee and both were stars
Bender rivaling Baker with the Athletics. !
and Meyers ranking with Mathewson |
and Doyle for the Giants
In football the Carlisle team trimmed |
harvard, Pennsylvania. and Brown, while
Thorpe proved 10 be the best all-around
toothallist of the year as a rusher, punt
r. and goal kicker. Bender led American /
League and world series pitchers, while |
Mc'CIs lacked but one hit of crowdinr
Wagrar from the top OF the National |
league BATH; fold.