The Washington herald., 1911-04-06
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BIGLEAGUE GOSSIP

| PRESIDENT Hedges, OF St Louis, Is
anxious to secure First Baseman Holm
horst Of the Maps. There is no chance
for Hohnhorst to get out of the league.
According to Charles Murphy, his Cub
athletes will have to pay for laundering
their own suits if they do not stop play
| ing football in their uniforms. He says
| it is not only hard on the suits, but that
| they have to be washed every other day.
The Maps claim that II JOSS and Young
come through the Cleveland club will
have a pitching staff which cannot be
excelled. The more enthusiastic of the
| Nap players believe that even without
these men the clubs hurlers will register
| Just as high as any other staff.
McGraw asserts it is only a question
| of few years before practically every
major league team will practice in Texas.
He says the excellent condition of the
| Giants and White Sox at this time has
| convinced club owners that Texas is the
only place to train in the spring.
| Queerer things in the national frolic
have developed than for the Athletics,
winning a world S series one fall. to lose
city championship next spring. The
Phillies, by slipping one across, can at
| least insert dent in the crown now re-
| posing upon Mr.. Mack's pallid brow.
| Branch Hickey. the former American
League catcher. signed a contract to
coach the baseball team of the University
of Michigan. The terms call for 800 per
week for fifteen weeks during the 1912
season. During the remainder of the
year he will practice law. He gets the
doctors degree from the university.
Dick Cooley. former big league player
and owner of the Topeka club in the
Western League last year. cannot keep
| out of the national game. He retired
| for good last fall, when he sold the To-
! peka franchise, but he now is trying to
buy the Salt Lake City franchise in the
| new Union League
In his career as a league player. Jack
son again in the Cleveland outfeld. has
been charged with 1,SSS times at bat
and has garnered 475 hits, which gives
him the sweet average Of $50 In four
leagues in three years.
II Hugh Jennings keeps the Tigers
from gambling hereafter he will save a
lot of money for most of them. The
crap game used to run into hundreds
of dollars every time the players got
going Now it will be a 5000 fine for any
of them If they indulge in the game
Boston Nationals will meet the Yale
nine at New Haven. April IL Boston al
ready has a game scheduled at Lynn on
that date, but the Yannigans very likely
will play against the New England
leaguers.
For the third successive time the
Cardinals beat the Browns yesterday. 5
to l. Steele and Powell were the pitch
ers.
Tooley. Brooklyn's new shortstop,
seems to have made good on the train |
ing trip, and Dahlen is delighted with
him
Fred Beebe is pitching elegant ball for
Doom. His work on the spring trip has |
been of the classiest order.
Connie Mack thinks he has picked up
q new star in a pitcher named Cola |
more. The boy looks like a sure win |
ner.
Chalmers, who was touted as a second !
Rusie. is living up to the advance notices. |
Doom believes he is a genuine wonder.
Bob CuulsCn has earned a regular joh |
with Brooklyn, and is counted on as the |
garden mate to Wheat and Davidson or
Burch.
The White Sox will hardly answer to
the name of hitless wonders if they keep |
up the. slugging habits they have started |
on the training trip.
Manager Donovan is row forcing his |
Red Sox pitchers to go through the full |
nine innings in order to get the box men
tuned up for the big games.
Dutch" Revelle, the Virginia League
pitcher, now with the Yanks, is due to
return to that circuit This is his seventh
venture under the maintop and looks to
be his last.
Christy Mathewson got the middle
finger OF his left hand nipped by a bat
ted ball in practice. but while the finger
is pretty sore it does not interfere with
his pitching.
Sheldon Lajeune, the long distance
throwing champion. with the Dodgers.
who was injured in an automobile acci-
dent at Knoxville, Tenn. will be out of
commission for two weeks.
Mike Kahoe is jealous in his daily
stunt as the youngest rookie with the
Washington team. and is among the first
dressed for work and the last to take
the car back to the hotel.
President Barrow, Of the Eastern
League, is going to land hard on UNI
pire baiters. He was one of the best
ones in the game himself, but evidently
he has turned over a new leaf
Jiggs Donahue. once a White Sox star,
has been dropped by Comisky, after fu-
tile comeback effort. The Jigger will
open a bowling alley and billiard en-
porium at Hot Springs, Ark.