The Washington herald., 1911-03-05
By WILLIAM FEET.

'GOOd-bN. Jimmy, and good !uEh-
shouted a chorus Of voices at Union Sta
lion rs the 4:l5 train pulled out. car
ryiuE Manager James \. McAIeer and his
squad of husky young ball players to the
Atlanta, Ga. spring training camp,
Curious to catch glimpse of the new
recruits. several hundred fans lined the
depot entrance and tried to pick the men
tho local papers have been talking so
much about during tho past few weeks.
Tho party numbered exactly twenty per-
sons. and was composed of fourteen ball
rlarers, Manager and Mrs McAleer,
Trainer Joe Qujrk, Scout Mike Kahoe,
Business Manager Lehman, and the
newspaper men.
You may tell the fans for me-" said
Manager Jim to the writer, that with
any kind Of decent weather down in
Atlanta I will have these ball players
ur mine in first-class shape when W" show
up in Washington for the opening game
with Georgetown April l"
The manager continued: 7 am mighty
pleased with the looks of my new recruits.
You can tell they have been living the
right kind of lives during the winter, and
as for the veterans. Street, Gessler, and
the bell rings
Warren Miller. the outfielder. and Bunt-
ing, third bascman. slipped into the
hotel yesterday noon just few minutes
before the dinner bell rang. Second Base
man Bill Cunningham and Catcher Cab
hy street reached the Capital early in
the morning. and they looked TO be in
lin" shape. Cunningham has taken on
a little extra weight. but says it Will
easily come off after few days of hard
work,
The picture published in another col
umn was snapped outside tho Arlington
Hotel by The Herald man right after the
boys had eaten dinner, and the only
faces missing are Ga5by Stree, EIber-
field. and Cunningham, the first two
named dined elsewhere. and that Gun
ningham was lett out is due to peculiar
incident.
The writer invited the boys to face the
camera man. and the bunch trekked out
of the main foyer to the | street en-
trance Of the hotel Cunningham thought
the boys were going into the bar, and aS he
is total abstainer of the most rabid
type, promptly buried himself in a big
easy chair and was not missed until after
the man with the camera had diSap
pcared.
''Cunny'' was numerically jOshed by
his team mates. but when the boys
talked il over it was found that had he
been in the group the squad would have
numbered thirteen, and so everybody
was glad the affair turned out as it did.
Trainer Joe Quirk was as busy as
dog covered with fieas looking after all
the baggage and taking care of Kid Ell
berfelds bats. II seems that EIberfeld
recently visited all the sporting goods
stores in Washington and picked out the
best bats he could find. When he came
10 collect them he found that he had
enough to stock a league, and Joe QUirk
refused to send down more than dozen.
When it comes TO grabbing good bats,
the Kid is some grabber.
Second Baseman Bill Cunningham is
the idol of the Schenectady IN. " fans,
his home town, and hardly a day passes
but what one Of the papers comes out
with big black headlines telling what a
great player is Bill.
The following is from a Schenectady
exchange of last Wednesday:
There is no gainsaying the truth of
the old assertion, He's the idol Of tho
local fans" Bill Cunningham is popular.
that's the unadulterated truth of the sit |
uation-and popular in Washington.
where Billy Taft Uncle Joe Cannon. Jim
Sherman, and other equally famous fans
get out and root.
Now, there is something about Wash
ington that Bill likes. OF course any
OF US would like TO go out there on the
big lot and prance about before the
notables OF the earth and just common
American rooters. And some of those
dips" go wild over baseball. There is 4
the little Jap Ambassador-why, he is