Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-27
BASE BALL BRIEFS.
Ed Reulbach may pitch the opening
game for the Cubs.

BASE BALL BkxEkS.
Ed Reulbach may pitch the opening
game for the Cubs.
Davy Crockett, the "Parson." will man.
age the Bristol. Va. team this year.
Rudy Schwenk, sold by Louisville to
Spokane, has decided to quit "holdout-
ing and report.
missing when the American Association
starts its season.
Moving pictures have been taken at all
the big league teams training quarters
down south.
Dayton of the Central League has sold
Tim O'Brien to Grand Rapids. Tim will
do backstopping.
Chief Miller. the Louisville Indian pitch
er. is said to be the only port-side Red
skin in the fast set.
Brooklyn has released Outhelder Blake
ly to the Birmingham team Of the New
York State League.
The Detroit Tigers are claiming right
and left handed spit ball twirlers in Live
'ly. right. and Mitchell. left.
Dial Williams. veteran minor league
catcher, will manage an Independent team
at Newcastle, Ind, this year.
Walter McCredie Of Portland is figuring
on getting Pitcher Knapp back from
Cleveland after the season opens.
Noisy John Kings delay in joining
the Cubs this year is making considerably
less noise than it did last season.
ter Of the Cubs was only a blank cart
ridge. much to the joy Of the Chicago
fans.
Ed Kusel. pitcher. who was tried out by
the Browns In 1910, then sent to Sagi-
nav. is now with Austin in the Texas
League.
They persist in calling Jimmy Dygert
the diminutive pitcher, yet he reported to
the Baltimore camp weighing ia pounds.
The Columbus, Ohio. club is wondering
IL its Mexican player. Casas, can get
through the lines of soldiers on the border
and report.
Chief" Fairbanks. q ball player soon
to join his club at Spartanburg, was
killed by a deputy sheriff at Etovah.
Tenn, in q quarrel
The father Of George Paskert of the
Phillies died last week at Cleveland and
''Dode" has temporarily been excused by
Manager Doom.
OF course Mullin will pitch the opening
game for Detroit, but as q matter of
form. Manager Jennings has made the
announcement for 1911.
Iosn cefoa, or+Aaldor NTH No.h,;,,a Ia
the Southern last year. has been named
manager Of the GAINESVILLE club Of the
Kitty League.
team from the bench, because, he says.
his youngsters are SO good they would
show him up.
Kansas City Post. will become president
of the Western Association May /, Thom-
as c. Hayden having resigned.
Mont Pfyl will be the first baseman for
the Oakland team on the coast this year,
Manager Wolverton deciding to let the
baking Don Cameron go by the waiver
route.
Jimmy Cockman reports to the Lincoln
Western League team this spring with
one less finger than he had last fall. He
lost it in an accident in a piano factory
where he worked. 1t will not interfere
with his ball playing.
Fred Blanding, the pitcher secured by
Cleveland from Texas, now confesses
that under an assumed name he pitched
for q team in the Central Kansas League
in 1909. He won't tell the name Of the
club
Amos Rusie is in 1t again. A Charles
ton. Miss. millionaire has given the for
nit O. opt0A xxytva
ming team for Charleston next year. and
Amos writes he will play first base and
pitch.
Larry Mclean won't wear shin guards
this year. He is having a pair OF leather
knee-caps made. Il used to be quite a
Uase runner" explains Larry. II have q
notion II I discard the shin guards I can
steal as many bases as Bob Bescher."
to his new fadeaway ball. has developed
an underhand affair to mix with 1t. He
starts it at a height OF seven feet,
swoops it down to the ground and it
crosses the plate with the chin elevated
like an angry old maid.
Sgd Smith, 1t is said, is to do the CATCH
ing for the left-handed Nap pitchers this
season. The rotund backstop is said to
be a past master at handling port siders.
George Stovall will continue as captain
of the Cleveland brigade. He has been
field boss practically all the time since
Lateie quit being manaser-captain back
in 1909.
At least a dozen OF the athletes taken
on the trip to the coast at the expense
OF John I. Taylor will be let out there
unless some of the major league clubs
want them. for it is reported that waivers
will be asked and the players turned
over to coast teams.
Atlanta is not the only ball club to 60
into the United States Army to get
ball player. At Macon, in the South At
lantic League. one Of Uncle Sans boys
on furlough- IS trying out for first base.
and IL he makes good the ball club will
buy his release from the army.
John "Bucky" Freeman Of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, who played with the Washingtons.
Boston Americans and Albany OF the
New York State League. and Williamsport.
of the Tri-State1 League. has signed a
contract to become q playing manager