Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-29
. Baseball Notes.

Baseball Notes.
Anyhow, the Giants are champions
! of Cuba.
Good ballplayers don't come high.
Pitcher Hendrix, Of the Pirates, n of
the best-looktng youngsters in the
game. cost $27.50,' which was railroad
fare from n Kansas tank town to
Pittsburg. Hendrix was a free agent
when Manager Clarke grabbed him.
Cuban newspapers declare that
Christy Mathewson, who visited the
Sunny Isle during the current month,
is the only player who ever lived up to
his reputation while performing in
Cuba. Fans OF the latter place are get
ting weary of a burlesque ball game
and appreciated Matty's honest efforts.
Big Six beat the Cubans thrice.
Larry Mclean paid Manager Hank
O'Day a visit in Cincinnati the other
day and made his annual pledge to be-
have. Fifteen major league clubs
waived when Larry was put on the
market. There's a moral :, this note.
Elmer Stricklett, the original spit
ball pitcher, has Joined the California
outlaws.
Vean Gregg was pitted in battle
against Ed Walsh three times last
year n won all three of his games.
Jack Dunn is among the first Inter-
national League managers to send out
his 1912 contracts to the Baltimore
players.
A four-club baseball league has been
organized in Cleveland to play on the
ice of Lake Erie, starting as soon as
the ice appears. The open-air skat
tournament is next.
George S~tallings is sweet on Harry
Steinfeldt and is trying TO land him
for the third base job at Bisonville.
Baltimore will play an exhibition
game with Princeton at Baltimore on
April 8.
Catcher Fred Mitchell, of the Roehes-
ter champs, is out to buy the Lynn
club if he can get his release from
Rochester.
B%resnahan has a $100 bet that Ed
Honey will take a drink before he
Roger) does. Now it all depends on
what constitutes a drink
Harry Bay, the former mercury
footed ~fly-chaser of the Maps, has pur-
chased his release from Nashville to
manage the Bloomington (Three-I
League) club.
Scout Bill Armour, of the Cardinals,
finished seventh with the Tigers in
1904. In 1905 Hughey Jennings plotted
the Royal Bengals to a championship.
The same year Armour ran second
with the Toledo american Associa-
tion) club.
Ed Honey, a ballplayer, and Charles
Spencer, professional shot, participated
in a live turkey shoot in st. Louis
county Sunday. Honey copied a bird
and Spencer didn't. Something funny
here.
What a pity for future students of
baseball politics Thai the American
League meeting. at which Ban john
son started to read Comiskey out of
baseball, wasn't an open one.
Able Cooney, who was turned down
by Chance last spring, accepted more
chances both for putouts and for as
sists than any shortstop in the North
western League and hit 1888.
Some minor leaguers fear a lower
salary limit will mean slower sport. 1t
won't. 1t will mean more hustling to
get up where the salaries are better.
know a dozen players of major league
calihre who prefer minor league Jobs
and make more money.
The tale also comes from Detroit to
the effect that Jim Delahanty may be
shifted to the outfield. Detroit figures
hat Jim's injured leg may bother him
more next season n prevent his
playing second base regularly. The
Tigers want him, however, for his
batting, as good right-handed hitters
are needed in that bunch of left-hand-
ed sluggers, but Jim can also play a
good game at first base, demonstrating
his versatility when Gamer was hurt
last summer.
Clark Griffith is another big league
manager who intends to work hard to
prevent his pitchers running their arms
during the spring training. Griffith
will send his pitchers to the training
camp a week ahead of the other
players, but where most managers send
their catchers along with the hurlers,
Griffith VII leave his receivers at
home.