Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-06
HOLMES Dues
GOOD B(x WORK
AGAINST GIANT1
Three Innings for Waco
Team Against McGraw's First
Team; Does Not Allow a
Single Score-Pitciier May
Not Be Sold After All.

Waco Club against the Giants.
He twirled for three innings, did not
allow q score and struck out three men.
having perfect control n great speed.
according to scribes who saw n game.
The Waco can was beaten by a 4 t.
0 score. Holmes had two assists. which
he handed faultiessly. Evidently he Is
In grand condition.
Joe McGinnity has been figuring on
selling Holmes. and the big fellow has
been on the market for two months,
but no offers worth serious c~onsidera-
ton have been made to the Iron
Man" He has asked for waivers or
the Waco wonder" and every club
waived, 1t is understood. Holmes has
received q contract just the same as
the other Tigers. and has oeen or
dered to report at Lakewood on March
q, the same as the other players.
Secretary Frank J. Mcrague Will
e out the transportation money 70
the players some time this week. Cy
Parkin, the first arrival, paid his own
expenses here, but hit the Newark
management UP for the heat lit. e sd4n
that was coming to him Immediately
on his arrival.
The Newark secretary and business
manager ia not finding time Weighing
heavily on his hands these days. There
are q hundred troublesome details CON
nected with the o~pening-day arrange
ments which must be attended to. M
a delay over the printing Of the tickets
has prevented the Newark Club from
sending the valuable ~pasteboards, goo1
for bcx seats, to many VINO nave
already written in for them.
A young recruit named ~Spitznagie.
recommended by George Mcconnell.
Will be taken on the spring training
trip with the Hustlers al his own ex-
pense and then placed with some team
In the South.
The Providence Club has arranged an
exhibition gnme with the Boston Rust
lers for April 16, which Is Easter Sun
day.
The Cardinals" (not Roger Bresna-
han's) have signihed their willingness
to lend their aid in making Joe Nc
Ginnity's opening day parade . suc-
cess by taking part in the affair. The
Cardinals are from Kearny. which
town. by the way, will be pretty well
represented IL the applicat ions continue
TO pour In from that burg al the pres
ent rate. Wake up. Newarkerss
Jack Dunn. manager Of the Baltf-
more Club. mas been hit haro by the
Illness of Simon Nichols. the Baltimore
shortstop, who Is down with an attack
OF typhoid at his home In Baltimore
II was the sarle case with Johnny
Flater. the Newark pitcher. last year.
and IL will be marvellous II Nichols
will be able to play this year. Dunn's
hardest problem all along has been to
get a good infeid that will work to-
gether. Nichols was a valuable man
and was with the Athletics and the
Maps before joining the Orioles
Bob Stafford, who umpired In the
Eastern League last year. VIII have
no regular Job. but will umpire on his
own hook. He has booked sixty coll
lege games, in which the umpire has
II much easier and makes more than
the average minor league arpiter. He
may accept an offer to umpire occa-
sionally In the New England League.
Manager Jack Ryan, of the Jersey
City Club, believes there are some hon
est people left in the world after all
While at the Baltimore meeting he
dropped a wallet containing $50 In bills
A newsboy picked 1t up and returned
II to Jack, who was so elated that no
will give the finder a pass good foZ
every game the Skeeters play In h9
Monumental City.
Ward Miller, the new Royal out
neided, has taken a big load off of Sam
Lachenhein's heart by signing his con-
tract to play an outfield position for
Montreal this season. Miller gained 6
great deal Of advertising by holding
out. but IL is doubtful II he gained any
thing In the way OF salary. He was
the hero OF the series for the cham
pionship of Ohio played by Cincinnati
and Cleveland last year. his work being
one Of the features of the Reds play
Ing IN this series.
Del Mason evidently has written 10
every club In the Eastern League ask
ing for q trial and sending newspaper
clippings of his work in the Florida
Hotel League. A letter was received
at the offices Of the Newark club on
Saturday from Del. who was or the
Newark payroll for a time last year.
Another pitcher and an outfielder
and / will be satisfied with the Toronto
lineup" says Joe Kelley.
A claim OF back salary from Short
stop Hit, given a trial by the Orioles
last year. was disallowed by the Ma
tional Commission. Hit sprained his
ankle and was unable to play.
Manager Jack Dunn has received nc
word from Pitcher Jimmy Dygert, who
refuses TO Join the Birds.
lie Roy Osborne. a ~six-footer. who n
some pitcher, according to Buffalo
scribes. has been signed by the Buffalo
Club. He halls from Blaisdaie. a sub
urb of Buffalo. The Toronto Club and
the Troy New York State League Club
have beer after him for some time
Osborne Is said to be so tall that q
circus car such is used for carry
ing giraffes win have TO be hired for
him by the Bison management when
on the road.
~ 1890 ~ ( 70 Che Chseaeo