Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-01
Baseball.

for the, Jersey City Club by
Manager Jack Ryan has been an
nounced. The Skeeters open on the
same day as do the Tigers. playing the
Philadelphia Nationals at West Side
! Park, while the Bengals are entertain
ing the Philadelphia Americans at
wiedenmayer's. The other exhibition
games for the Skeeters follow: April
S, 6 and Z Yankees second team at
| Jersey City; Q. Giants at Jersey City;
10, Jersey City at Polo Grounds; II,
| Springfield at Jersey City; Is. Troy at
, Jersey City; 16, Yankees at Jersey City,
and 10, Jersey City at Holyoke, morning
and afternoon.
Joe Hamilton, one of the New York
American recruits who was sold TO
Jersey City last year. but refused to
report, has been reinstated by the Ma
tional Commission, as he sent LAY
showing that he was too Ill to play
baseball last season.
Pitcher Leclaire, a French Canadian,
will be taken South with the Montreal
Royals this year. The Montreal fans
rave over native players. and Sam
Lichenhein Is hoping that the new
DlICIcI E1dhcS eO0o. IL AC oOCo ~ aS
will be turned over to a New England
League club.
A Detroit paper states that the deal
whereby Harry Beckendorf. the catcher.
goes to Buffalo has been practically
closed.
Joe Crisp leaves with the st. Louis
Browns today for Hot Springs. 1t Gin
be a sort of reunion when he and Eddie
Zimmerman meet, as the Brooklyn club
works out at the same resort. Crisp
will have to beat out Paul Krichell to
become the Browns second catcher.
Jack Dunn is the first Eastern League
ana to declare that he will make
extra efforts to stamp out gambling
this year at Oriole Park. Joe McGin-
nifty was pestered for awhile IN SUM-
days by some sports in the grand
stands, but special officers stationed
there soon drove the sports" away.
This year joe says that he will be more
stringent thar ever n will eject n.y.
one guilty of this offense.
The Baltimore Club expects to an
nounce within a week that Connie
Mack has turned over another pitcher to
the Birds, now that Lefty" Russell
has signed.
It Ia Said that Providence will get a
player named "Snub' Nelson as part Of
the deal whereby Izzy Hoffman be-
comes a member OF the Oakland team.
Pitcher Bobby Speer, who refused to
play with the Buffalo Club last year
after a row with Billy Smith, has asked
for another trial and may be given q
| chance to make, good by George STALL
| fngs. He was sold to Buffalo by De-
troit. Jack Cronin has been uncon-
ditionaIly released by h Buffalo Club.
Perhaps Jack Dunn did not lose out
on Vic Willis after all. II Is said that
he is contemplating the purchase Of a
i hosiery in Newark, Del, his home
town, and that he will not play with
the Cubs. even though he has already
signed his contract.
Manager Jack Ryan. OF the Skeeters.
played his first game IN fast company
on April Is, 1890. catching for the
| Louisville Club of the American AS
ISOLATION against the ST. Louis
Browns. His record was as follows:
Three times at bat, 1 run. l hit, 6 put
outs, / assist and no errors. When
Ryan was with the Colonies their first
baseman was Judge Harry L. Taylor,
now of Buffalo, who was president OF
the Eastern League in 1906,
The passing of another star. Elmer
Flick, the heavy-hitting Clevelandite,
was sold TO the Toledo club yesterday
by Manager Jim Mcclure.
Eddie Zimmerman. the former Tiger
third baseman, was with the Brooklyn
! party, composed Of Burch. Daubert,
McElveen. Coulson. Burke. Knetzer.
| Myers. Miller, Berger and Bergen,
which reached Hot Springs.
Edward L. Grant, the former Phila-
delphia National and Jersey City third
baseman, now on the Cincinnati roster,
is the latest baseball player to fall for
Cupid. Her am wal Miss Irene
Soest.
There were twenty-three In the party
which left with Manager Doom, of the
Phillies. fer birmingham, Ala, where
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