Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-21
SOL L|CHENHE|N
To Be TIGERS
GUEST, APRIL 70
Game Montreal Sport Win
Travel from Montreal to This
City for the Occasion-Cleary
VIII Report in a Few Days.
Paraders Still Entering.

SpOTLs every 1flCn OF Hllils VIII Do
n Of Joe McGinnity's 8 Tests Of ho nor
on April 20. when tne Montreal club
opens the season here. Lichennein was
de4lghted to learn that The hoJals
would open here when the draft of the
schedule adopted at the Baltimore
meeting IN February was hanued out.
Nothing would SUIT him be ter THAI
to down the Newarkers on that day.
The Montreal club crew better here
last season than in any other town In
the league as a road attraction. and
naturally Lichenhein likes this urg."
The Montreal manager stands for more
Kidding from his fellow managers than
any other owner IN the league becauAe
he has what is called the dad town"
of the league, but he takes 1t ali, AMI
is a real red-blooded sport.
Montreal did not break ever last
| year, but there was enough improve
ment in the attendance to give the
Montreal magnate encouragement, and
he intends to stick it out a few more
| years. The mold hat the national
game OF Uncle Sans domain 10 tax ng
| on John Bulls dominion Is noticeac Gle
in the manner In which the youngsters
are picking up the game on the corner
lots. In Toronto. which is almost an
American city. the game draws as well
as in the average class A town in this
/ country, but Coronto Is a bit more pro-
gressive than Montreal.
Lichenhein boasts that with all the
knocking his town gets he has a big
ger income from his score-card privi-
leges than any other club in the East
trn League. Lichenhein is conspicuous
at every Eastern League meeting by his
diamonds and his sporty attire. His
| father made a fortune in the rag bust
ness, and he himself had been q sue
cessful bookmaker on the Canadian
| turf for years. He Is a millionaire, and
can easily stand the drain on his
| purse, and does II expecting thai in
the end he win be doubly repaid. FIR
he has a big territory from which to
| draw In the metropolis Of Canada
Cle.ry to Report In Few Days-
Jimmy Cieary, whom Joe @
expects will prove q winner this year.
is due to arrive In Newark within me
next couple days, according to a letter
received at the local offices Of the New
ark club yesterday. Cleary has peen
working out all winter IN a Buffalo I.
M. C. A. gymnasium. and will report
ready to get right down to work.
This gym" work keeps the muscles
up to the summertime elast city, ano
| the player who takes these exercises All
| winter has an advantage over his
| teammates who are L-ftlicted with sore
arms, "charley-horse'' and a thousand
| other troublesome ailments during the
first few days of the spr ng workout.
| Cleary writes that he expects to have
a good year and will be glad to get
back into harness.
Clearly pitched good ball for the
| Tigers while he Vas with the Newark
| club last year, but his one dislike wa
the cooking at the hotels. Clearly loves
| the old fashioned home cooking n re-
fused TO stay over with the Tigers last
year for exhibition games. Like ar,
Arab, he folded his tent and stole home
In the night.
oakfnnds Eater.
The Oakland team OF this city 10 the
latest to enter the big opening day Pc
rade. There are close to forty entries
now. Some Broad street business men
are making arrangements to decor te
their places OF business and their win
dows m the opening day.
Yoaas Hastiers Dropped.
Fred Spitznagle, a Rochester semi
| pro catcher. and Louis Humphry, also
| of the Flower City. who We're taken
| South with the Hustlers, will play wi h
the Admission Club this fall.
M.user's Discovery.
Chubby Manser is proving valuable
to the Rochester Club In more ways
than one. Recently some Of the champs
wanted to play poker but had nc chips.
| The Irvington doctor. with instinct
born of his long service as q druggist.
suggested that ten cents worth Of pep
| permint lozenges be substituted, ana
| the idea worked like a charm.
Paise,s League Not Dead.
j. Paige, OF New York city. promoter
of the new Pennsylvania State Base
bali League, Indignantly denied the
story afioat that the scheme had fallen
through. Paige says the new league
will be formed at a meeting to be hell
| at Pottsvfl1e on April 10. He says he
has received every encourf cement to
go ahead with the rev league. which
will embrace coal region towns, VIZ:
Pottsville, Shenandoah, Haziet. n.
| Shamokin and Mt. Carmel.
He expects that three more towns
| car easily be added to make the new
league an eight-club circuit.
Promoter Paige says that the teams
composing the circuit will be m dc
up for the most part OF college players.
Bisons Get pitcher.
The deal has been closed whereby
Southpaw Peasley becomes q member
of the Bisons. Peasley was with the
| Detroit team on the spring training trip
this year and showed good form.
RaEcn WnIkiss.
Pitcher Ragon, last year with the
Rochester Hustlers, threw aside bis
cane yesterday and got into the prec-
tise with the Brooklyn team at Mer,-
phis for the first time since he injured
his foot in Hot Springs.
A Rsce
Buffalo and Newark are no two
Eastern League towns that are pro-
| duc!ng the most professional baseball
players just now. The Biaon City will
send out close to fifty youngsters to
| the different leagues this year, and
Nepyark will send out about half that