Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-17
JAP BALL PLAYER
WILL TRAIN WITH
GIANTS THIS YEAR
Yellow Man to Absorb Nc
Graw's Ideas So as to Go Back
Home to Lead in the Work of
Developing Baseball ia the
Great Pacific Island.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1t

NEW YORK, Jan. II.
/ Ohm j. McGRAW, manager of the
New York Giants, Is going to act
= as tutor to the Japanese nation in
the great Yankee game. Togo S.
of Toxic, has applied for
the position of baseball apostle to his
countrymen. and McGraw plans to do
all in his power TO spread the gospel
of the game In foreign lands,
Hamamoto. who has the backing of a
number of influential citizens of Toxic.
Will go to Marlin Springs with the
Giants when they start training, and
Will devote his time to mastering the
game. His hackers plan to develop
professional baseball In their own
country as a great popular sport. With
their characteristic enterprise when de-
string to learn something from the
Western nations, they decided to send
a delegate to America to study the
game n bring back the best OF Amer
lean methods and training.
AS a matter Of fact, the JAPANESE
have been playing a sort of Indifferent
baseball for several years, but the
game has not been brought to a high
stage of development. Several of the
college teams of this country have
made excursions I've there. among
these being the trip of the University
of Chicago nine last fall. While the
japanese do not play much of a gene
as yet. they are said to be alert and
quick.
Their speed makes them promising
material, n Manager McGraw Is
prophesying that some day a real
worlds championship Will be played.
with the United States and Japan as
rivals.
Bobby" Wallace. the new manager
of the st. LOUIS Americans, returned
to st. LOUIS yesterday from his home IN
MlllVale, pa. Wallace does not believe
in anu-drink clauses In he contracts
OF bail payers.
Il think a little beer every day helps
ball players" said Wallace, land Ii
you try to shut 1t out entirely you are
pound to offend some of them"
President Farrell, Of the New York
State League, last night
that the annual mee,lng of the leas Ne
vail be heId IN Auburn en- January II.
SUNDAY baseball wlIl be an important
feature of the discussion and there ma '
pe some Changes IN territory, several
cues IN Ncrttern Pennsylvania haV-
Ing applied tor admission to the league,
Larry Sutton. the only Eastern base
baI representative Ut the american
Association meeting, held In Chicago
last Week, arrived IN Newark yesler-
day. sutton says thaC 1t was the dull
est BASEBALL meeting he ever attended.
Not Il trade OF Importance or n SAFE
was announced. Larry met Hughey
Jennings at the meeting inc mad u
pleasant chat with MIN. jennings and
his better half were on Their way to
the a on their honeymoon Tour.
Sutton n the olrel-topped leader of
the Detroit team had not met In years
and their meeting vas a pleasant one
Tor both.
The conversation drlfted to baseball
''finds,' n the manner in which they
are picked up sometimes by the scouts.
hughey congratulated Larry and paid
a high tribute to him: You are ono
lilhit dlu JtJlillSF, WIN 10 RlChtile
up real live ones these days. But ! II
never forgive you for cheating me out
of the services of Jake Daubert."
That led Larry TO tell the story of
how he met Bob Lowe, August 10, 1903,
scouting for Jennings and looking for
q first sacker. Bob said that he was
thinking Of buying Daubert from the
Memphis Club.
You are too late said Larry. 81
bought him for s., 500 last week for the
Brooklyn Club"
Lowe believed him and returned to
Detroit. At the same time Larry the
next day got Jake by the draft route
for 81, 900. The following day he was
offered S. 500 for the first sacker by the
Mobile Club. Zach Wheat cost the
Brooklyn Club 81, 500. Brooklyn would
not sell this pair now for $4,000.
Babe Adams, the hero of the 1903
worlds series, and Harry Martin, A
catcher picked up by the Pirates from
Dayton, signed their contracts yester-
day.
Fred Merkle, the Giants first sacker,
Is In New York oil business. He has
just purchased a big fruit farm and lie
anxious to find a market for his pro.
duce. Merkle believes that he has lived
down his reputation as a b~onehead. but
that one little slip of his viii be re-
membered forever and he will be re-
minded of 1t when he least expects It,
John Martin, a New Brunswick semi
pro, has beer signed by h Yanks.