The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-05
new YORK GIANTS
PLAY TWO GAMES
WEATHER PERMITTING THEY WILL
NE SEEN AT PARK wEDNEs-
DAY AND THURSDAY.
ALL THE STARS HERE
MATHEWsON, RAYMOND. MYERS,
MERKLEv MURRAY, SNODGRAsS
AND THE GREAT MeGRAw
HIMSELF ARE PRESENT.

Giants will play the Richmond Colts
in Broad Street Park Wednesday af-
ternoon. Also. they will play here
Thursday, with the same proviso.
The weather has been quite busy.
it has been too busy to take account
of baseball. When 1t hasn't been
weathering rain it has been wealth
ering wind. and when it hasn't been
doing either 1t has been doing both.
Altogether. it has been some real
hard working weather that's been
seen around these parts the past few
days. As Mr.. Tenney. who is poet
In his moments of leisure. remarked:
Teams may come and teams may
go. but the weather goes on forever"
The quotation has somewhat Ia
miliar ring. but 1t sort of expresses
the feelings of the fans.
Tenney's team went to Norfolk
Wednesday morning. except that part
of it which went to Roanoke. The
Boston bunch have date with the
Tigers and SO what Is termed q sec
ond eleven went after the Tiger skins
Father Tenney will endcavor to give
the Norfolk Pirates little brush.
Among the Giants.
The Giants are registered at Muir
phys Hotel. They are all there. from
John j. McGraw himself down to the
latest recruit from the bushes. Chris
" Mathewscn is there, and so. is
Arthur Raymond. who went and had
himself rechristened Bugs few
days ago. Chief Myers. the noble
red man with the college education.
is there and Arlie Latham. who used
TO give limitations OF Chris Won Der
~. wt~ tm~ IL
hack In the early history of base
ball. when royal rooter Bell had just
began to root. They do say that
royal rooter Bell was Il fan from the
time he opened his eyes He could
throw up his hands then and let out
a howl that would startie the nurse
with the same alarm that bush
league umpire feels when royal rooter
Bell now let's out a war-whoop.
But to continue:
wilbert Robinson. the famous old
Baltimore catcher. who used to call
John McGraw names when Ed Han
Ion was manager OF the team, and
McGraw would kick himself out of a
game. Is among the bunch. And so
is Ruhe Marquard, the s11,s beauty
who hasn't bloomed yet. but who is
no boomer after all; and Josh De-
wore, who Is little but who can play
ball. and Red Murray, the Swat Mif-
iigan of the outfit: ana Fred Sned-
grass who intended to be a catcher
and was appointed 10 play the outheid
by the wise Mr.. McGraw: and Beals
Becker, late OF Boston. and Louis
Drucke. the tall Texan. who prays
every night and morning he will
grow more like Christy Mathcwson
every day. and Tesereau. newcomer,
h,,t xahA To- n ha r.ffEhgr
and cy Forsythe. the demon slagser.
and Fullerton. the dashing recruit;
and Gowdy. who can play first or go
behind tho bat; and Manush. who
has been tried out in the big league
hut who falls back TO star among
the minors. and Arthur peviin. who
WAS VI Georgetown man ones and "a
proper rival for any Virginia team.
naturally; and Merkle, who is one of
the hest, wtsest and eisaser young
sackers who ever played the game
and who learned more about base
bali in one afternoon than some
youngsters will learn all their life
be. too. As with the Giants, and
Correspondents With Them.
Well. that will do about the play
ers There are more than the ones
mentioned. but the above viii serve
for a time. A brigade OF correspon
dents travel with the Giants. inciud-
inK Sam Crane. who used to. play
baseball before he wrote IL: and John
n Foster, one Of the greatest living
authorities on the game, according
10 the baseball manuals, and Boze-
man BulEer, who wrote Battling Mel
sons autobiography; and Sid Mercer
and Harry Mercer and Damon Run
yan--no relation TO the old doctor
in spite of the fact that he writes
poetry; and Harry Schumacher.
who loves baseball almost as much as
he loves track athletics.
With such a band OF boosters the
Giants naturally feel cocky. Repre-
senting the town OF little old New
York they have lot OF dignity to
uphold. UNFOLDING dignity is one OF
the hardest 3sbs a peer. lorn. base
ball man ever tackles. especially when
he tries to overload himself with dig.
nifty and importauce during game
Looking dignfied in a baseball sui,
il about as difficult as q female I'M
personation. Some of 'em can gel
away with 1t. With the majority i,
Is a low-brow failure and the wiss
boys merely 20 to the game to pla,
their little parts, amuse the fans. win
il they can. and look for more none.
through hard work and a good bat
ting average.
Thus the Giants-the scrappies,
bunch of scrappy players under the
scrappiest leader that ever represent
ed q snrappy town--the Giants---pre.
nounced Jints-of LITTLE old New
Yorkt