The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-18
BASEBALL BRIEFS
FROM BIG LEAGUES
NEWS AND GOSSIP THAT is GO.
ING ROUNDS IN MAJOR
CIRCLES.

Pitcher Griffin, Atlanta recruit, ha,
signed with the Chicago club.
Barney Schneider. the star pitche,
of the Denver team last summer, ha!
signed his Cincinnati contract.
| Pitcher Lefty George, the Cardi
nails indianapolis recruit, refuses e
sign with ST. Louis at the terms OF,
| fered
Lawyer John NJ. Ward. the forme,
Giant shortstop. says the McGraw
clan will win the National League
championship
Joe Villa rises to remark ITS cas-,
Ter 70 beat McGraw out OF the pennani
than 1t will be next summer"
The Cleveland Club has turned
Pitcher Mayberry over to the Chat.
tagoona tSouthern League) club.
Ty Cobb. of Detroit. and Eddie Col.
Inns, of the Athletics. intend to be-
come scribes when their ball days are
over.
Infieider Jay Kirke. the former
Scranton player. has signed his con-
tract with Detroit and will be tried
out In the infieId.
Detroit may solve the first base
problem by switching George Morl-
arty to the first corner. In that case
Lathers you'd cover third.
The Detroit club has secured the
training rights in Monroe. La. for
I'VE years. The Tigers will reach
that town on February 81.
George Moriarty has written a new
song which he calls The Abe for
the FAN" In this verse the names
of the Tigers are included.
On the breasts of the sweaters worn
Rngfnn nj
be emblazoned the words Red Sox''
In large letters in place of the old
English b.
Big Ed Walsh has about decided to
take the baths at Hot Springs. Ark,
before Joining the Chicago White Sox
at Mineral Springs.
The acquisition of "Jiggs" Donohue
gives the Chicago club four first has,
candidates. the other three are Tan
nehill. Collins and Tex" Jones.
Outfielder Harry Wolter, of the
Hfghianders. has been spending most
Of the winter hunting in California,
and writes that he weighs $50 pounds
Pitcher Walter johnson, of Wash
ington. gives Fred Hartsel. of the Ath-
letics. credit OF being the closest OBJ
server of pitched balls in the Ameri-
can League.
When Kid Nichols won pennants for
Boston he received $4,000. Nowadays
pitcher from the minors wants that
much money when starting in with a
big league team.
Jack Quinn, the Highlander pitch
er, says that he thinks Cy Caldwell.
the new pitcher, win surely be a big
factor in the New York pitching star
next season Quinn says that Cald-
we'll has the speed and was coming
Ia
last season.
Joe Tinker says that Jesse Baker,
signed by Comiskey's White Sox, will
prove sensation In the American
League before two years. Baker comes
from the coast, and with Spokane last
season made a most enviable record.
Manush, the third baseman whom
Connie Mack had and let go, liz to be
tried by McGraw. This will be an in-
tcresting experiment as to the iudg-
rnent of two OF the abisst managers
in the business.
Larry Mclean won't wear shin
guards this year. He is having a pair
OF leather kneecaps made II used
to be quite a base-runner," explains
Larry. Il have a notion IL / discard
| the Nssaa guards can Stsai' as many
bases as Bob Bescher."
Training in Porto Rico should helm
the Brooklyn team If anything can
help them. Charley Ebbets is wise
enough to know that If he kneeds
enough to know that tf he gets his
men down there he will be able to
keep them under his eye all the time
and have them keep striety araansnk
Regulations.
Manager Chase has notified Presi-
dent Farrell that he has signed Out
90
lege. OF San Jose, Cal. OF him Chase
writes: Wilkinson is only nineteen
Years old. but is big fellow and
fast. He can run a hundred yards In
10 2-5 seconds What Impressed me
most was his quick thinking powers
and tine clever way in which he han
dies himself. He can hit the ball A.
hard as any man ever saw. is a
sure catch and a player of the ag-
grassivs, lighting sert. always in the
game"
Lefty Russell. the southpaw SEN
sation of the Eastern League last year
and alleged $4,000 beauty" in re-
ported to have remarked after he had
taken glance at the contract Connie
Mack sent to him last fall: Why, /
couldn't see them ole figGers with
the Lick telescope" He In still nurs-
Ing that crouch, but diplomatic Con-
ME refuses to consider Lefty" hold
out.
AT recent meeting of the Cemmor-
oial Club OF Mineral Wells, Tex, a
motion was made and carried by
unanimous vote that the club give q
Texas burro to each of the White Sox
players. IL after training at Mineral
Wells they finish as we'll as one, two,
three In their league next season. The
new baseball park which was built
for the White Sox was completed, and
experts who have seen 1t say 1t is
drst-class In every respect.
Pitcher Fred F'alkenberg says Ty
Cobb's one alleged weak spot in hit
ting is an error. 1t Is said Ty can't
judge a low curve. "Falky'' doubts n
Ty has just that one defect. and he
knows from experience that Ty can
hit low curve just as effectively az
q high ball, even though he doesn't
hit Ii as hard