The Washington herald., 1911-09-01

Manager MCAleer has put In draftSt
for about fifteen minor league players.
and he will be lucky If he grabs off half
a dozen, as 1t is known that other big
league clubs are after the same men.
of the fifteen drafted players II IS safe
to say that four or five will be pitchers.
In fact, the writer knows of at least one
twirler the Nationals want. He Is
Red" AinswOrth, of the Youngstown
club, heralded as a conner. Youngstown
is at present leading the o. and p.
League. and Ainsworth has been their
winning pitcher.
According to Referee Pat O'Connor.
there promises to be a right lively scrap
in Annapolis next Monday when Pat
Eaedy and Burns De Marr. both Wash
ington boxers, hook up for ten rounds.
Raedy's age is against him, and II is
doubtful if he will be able to stick the
limit as De Mari is a strong, husky
young chap with a wallop in either mitt.
Subscriber-I-ave Cross played with
the Phillies in 1883.
Those New York baseball critics who
picked the Giants to win the National
League flag early this season will wear
McGraw's bunch come out on top. and.
according to the present dope, the New
Workers. stand a mighty good chance of
coming out on top of the heap. Grant
land Rice of the New York Mail, has
it all figured out as follows: If the
| Giants can emerge from the sCrimmage
this week against St. Louis and Phila-
delphia with any sort of a lead the
/ co.
better things ahead. For while Pitts
burg and Chicago have nine games on
tap with Cincinnati and st. Louis.
Manhattan's fiag-hopes face nine serried
conflicts with Boston and Brooklyn,
where as many as even two defeats will
come as chilling and sUrnDer surprise.
Two weeks FROM yesterday the Giant
caravan swings into Pittsburg for four
games, and by that date these nine
BOston-BrOOklyn melees should have
the home clan we'll out in front and
fairly well stocked against any PiratiCal
eruption. Nothing like having a bit of
velvet to topple upon when the foe
begins hacking at the mainmast or
starts in pushing the ladder over.
The National League baseball writer's
are still camping on the trails of some
OF President Lylch's umpires, and do
not minCe matters in referring to bits
of raw work One Western critic says:
why this talk of batting the umpire
when the bare hook is what some Of
them should get?''
Bob Spade, the old Cincinnati pitcher,
is now IN umpire in the Appalachian
League. st. Louis had Spade for a few
weeks last season, and about the only
game ne won was against the Nationals
! in the Mound City. Spade was signed
uD by one of the Cotton States League
teams early last spring, but his south
paw whip went dead completely, so that
he was forced to take the first thing
that was offered. and he has been Civ
ing good satisfaction in the Appalachian
League.
That baseball act at the Gayety would
be all right IL the girls in the chorus
handled their bats like sure-enough hit
tiers instead of swinging them about like
mop rags. This is no knock on the
show, which, taken as a whole. is a
corker. -
Joe Cantillon is planning to build a
brand new ball park in Minneapolis with
in easy walking distance of the center
of the city. Joe and his brother have
cleaned up a neat bunch of coin out in
the Minnesota city.
Talking about pitching. wouldn't some
of the leading clubs Of both leagues
] put up some coin to grab Ed Walsh at