The Washington herald., 1911-03-17

| willing to learn. Here is where the hard
part of the managers job shows itself.
Amateurs breaking into the bush league
| are only too apt to get out on the field
and attempt to show their prowess as
! hitters and circus fielders when they
should be trying to show the manager
that they know something OF the inside
! working OF the game. This Is where
many of them make their mistakes and
results in their hiking to some uncultured
team of the sagebrush class.
Most OF the college teams are already
under the tutorship Of experienced base
ball men, many of whom have had ex-
perience IN the major leagues. Bill Lush.
the old Cleveland outfelder. is at Yale;
Billy Lauder, the former Brown player
and ex-Giant, is coaching Williams; Roy
| Thomas is at Pennsylvania; Doc Sexton,
| the old Brown player, is at Harvard; {;
! Danny Coogan. formerly with the Provl-
dence Grays, is at Cornell; Dave Fultz.
| the former Yankee, is working with the
! Columbia squad; Bill Clarke, the former
| Giant, is coaching the Princeton team;
Fred Woodcock. an ex-Brown player, is
| coaching Brown, and Jack Chesbro, the
former Yankee pitcher. is at Massachu-
setts Agricultural College.
It is a significant fact-signifcant either
way-that during only one professional
sport season are amateur athletics over
Swallowed. Baseball is the only profess
sional game that is at all able to COM
pete in season before the general public
with the athletics of colleges and schools.
1t so happens that in its season, for a
part OF the time, professional baseball
has to compete with a number of college
sports in the interest of the fans, the
main or which is college baseball That
the professional game holds sway is sig
nificant. In other seasons of the year
there are other professional sports. but
they have to take second place TO the
sports of colleges and schools. After all.
baseball is king Whenever the national
! sport raises its SCepter all others bow.
A new season is at hand, but 1t will be
the same old story Of baseball supremacy.
! Every young amateur player and a lot
OF the old ones should let Johnny Kling's
advice to catchers sink into the gray
matter Too much throwing to the
bases increases the chances of errors
and keeps the infelders out of their po-
sitions. What may be called crucial mo-
ments arise in almost every game, and
then is the time for the catcher to get
in the peg that removes a runner from
the lines and simplifies the situation.
Killing says Candidly that he went a long
distance before he became a good catcher.
The Baltimore American, in speaking
Of Kelly Harriss. the Washington young
ster who Will join the Orioles, as an
nounced exclusively in The Washington
Herald recently. prints the following:
The Birds will be we'll stocked with
| third basemen during the preliminary
season, but the material is rather un-
certain as far as a regular job is con-
oerned. Although he has Fritz Maisel
and Nat Sadosky to call on, Dunn yester-
! day consented TO give Harriss a Washing
ton boy. a show to make a regular sal
! AIRY from the Orioles. If he doesn't make
good, Harriss will be placed with some
! club by Dunn.
"HarriSs is but twenty-one years of age
| is a right-hand hitter and thrower and
| started out in the game some five or six
! years ago on the diamonds in Druid Hill
| Park. He has had experience in fast
company. He was with Birmingham, of
the southern League, at the opening of
! last season and was traded to Tulsa. Of
! the Western Association, where he did
fine work In forty games he batted $50
! The Tulsa club broke up in the middle OF
| the season, and HaTrisS was signed by
| Dallas, in the Texas League where he hit
! 30 in fourteen games. Not wishing to
! return to Texas. he induced President
| J. W. Gardner. of the Dallas club. to sell
| him his release, the deal being put
through last week.
During the 1909 season Harriss played
with Cumberland. Danville, of the Vir-
ginia League. and Johnstown, of the
| Tri-State League"
One eminent physician tells US never
to eat when we are tired, and another
perhaps fully as eminent, says we should
never go to bed when hungry This
leaves US nothing to do but sit up after
hard days work until fully rested and
then eat heartily and go to bed and fall
into fitfuI slumber and see all manner
of nightmare things, from mammoth
Shiny tOads with incandescent eyes to
sea snakes with pea green whiskers and
heliotrOpe fins. Scientific warnings are,
as the postcard description of life, Just
one dummed thing after another"
The open season is now at hand for
baseball players on the local lots to hustle
off into the minor league ranks for a
tryout. Recently several Washington
boys have been fortunate enough to OBJ
tain excellent berths in fast company,
notably Harris and Buscher, who join
ed the Baltimore Orioles in the Eaest-
ern League, and Thompson, Gieble,
and Robertson, who are with Savannah,
Each minor league manager will now
take pot shot at the flock of aspirants,
and the percentage of failures will be
about as usual everywhere. as will be
the percentage of those who will make
good
Each Of those who are so fortunate
as to be given a trial must be thoroughly
tried out, and with keen competition
between host of men for every position
the choice is always a delicate one for
the manager, and he often allows ia
voritism to enter into his selections. But
then one player may loom up in the
fancy work in the spring and turn out
to be valueless in the heat of the pen
nant race.
Minor league managers do not take
very long chances when they sign up
green recruits from the sand lots in the
spring, before they have seen the players
in action. If a player is not what he
should be, they Immediately book him
for some far-off, out of the way place,
and the unfortunate amateur light is
only too glad to get his release and re-
turn home rather than be sent miles
away to some bush league team.
Manager Schroeder, of the Takoma team
will have the greatest galaxy of high school
stars ever seen on one club in this city
The suburban team has already on its
roster such stars as Burley. of Business;
Burlay Tew, Morris. Austin, Bennett
Heald. Hutchinson, Heinie, Colley Charl-
ton Roberts and Hall, of the Black