The Washington herald., 1911-08-27

Jesse Tannehill, the old Washington
player who was canned" from the
Southern League a few weeks ago, is
now filling an umpire's role in the Blue
Grass League. If reports are to be
credited, "Tanny' is giving fine satis-
faction.
Patsy Donovan, manager of the Bos-
ton Red Sox, has a good word to say
regarding the three players the st. Louis
Browns have purchased from the New
England League. They are Pitcher
wolfang Infielder Moulton, and Out
fielder Magee, of the Lowell club of the
New England League. Magee is
brother of Sherwood Magee. of the
Phillies. Donovan says all three are
fine players. and predicts they will
make good in the big show.
Baltimore players have a penchant
for hitting the bull sign this season.
Already ten Orioles have collected $50
each for accomplishing this trick. At
National Park, where the bull sign is
now located. it looks like the sig gn will
live to a ripe old age without once
having been Jared by batted ball.
Seems as if it was a mile away from
home plate
Can you beat this? The Ladies' Home
Journal, that dear old sheet, has start
ed crusade against football. An arti-
Gle in a current issue. by Dr. Morris
Clurman, evolves the theory that eight
cen men are going to be killed each
year in the gridiron sport. Don't pass
this up a s joke, for a woman's maya
zine to cut loose against a mannish
game, for if the women are turned
against football the game is deader
than Jobs turkey. Clurman's article
however, is manifestly unfair to the
game, as are the screeds from most all
of the so-called reformers of the grand
outdoor game.
Johnny Priest, the Washington boy who I
was tried out by the New York Yankees
early this season and farmed to Rich
mond of the Virginia League is now
holding down first base for the Southern
ers. This position is a new one for
Johnny, as he has always PLAYED either
second or shortstop, but he has the phys-
cal requirements of a first sacker, and
seems to be just as much at home as
duck in water. Some ball player, Johnny
Priest.
First bear story from a football camp. |
"Hurry-up" Yost, of Michigan, states
that prospects for good team are poor
Hardly expected to hear a yelp of this
kind for a month. AS a matter of fact, |
Michigan prospects this season are the
brightest in years.
Martin, the pitcher Connie Mack
grabbed from Tufts College, combines
work with pleasure. He is at present |
travelling with the White Elephants. and
sims fo
for couple of hours or so study. Mar
tin expects to return to Tufts this fall |
to complete his course and graduate with |
a degree of NJ. D.
Umpire Silk o'Loughlin pulls a funny !
one. He says that more hits are made
on bad balls than good ones. Silk has |
seen thousands of hits made, and says a |
big majority were on balls that were too /
far out, too close, or too high or too
low to be strikes.
Il don't know any scientific reason for
it, said Silk. The only way I can
figure it is that a batter makes up his
mind to hit certain ball. gets set to
hit and swings, whether the ball is over
or wide Of the plate.
"A peculiar thing about it is that a
pitcher generally has more stuff on a
bad ball than on a good one. That's
why 1t goes bad. A pitcher devotes so
much attention to getting a lot of stuff
on the ball he sometimes neglects con-
troll. Free hitters like Lajoie, jackson, l.
Cobb, and Crawford seldom hit good
balls. One reason is that they don't
get many good ones. Even when
a pitcher does get one over for Larry
and a few others the batters let it go Il
and then crack a bad one.
"A lot Of hits are made on balls that
were not intended to be hit. A pitcher
will often waste a ball, when he has
the batter in a hole, and won't put much
stun on it: If batter can outguess
the pitcher on a ball like that it isn't
hard for him to hit"