Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-27
HUGHES STANDS BEST
CHANCE TO COME BACK
Long Tom and Jimmy Callahan Have
Never Been In
Retirement.
JESSE TANNEHILL IS A
DOUBTFUL PROPOSITION
Was Carried by Local Club, But
Failed to Make Good-Latest
Base Ball Gossip.
BY J. ED GRILLO.

OF the half dozen more veteran play
ers who expect new lease of life this
season. Tom Hughes and Jimmy Gala
han seem to be the only ones who have
a chance to come back. This for the
reason that both have been actively en-
gagged in the game ever since they left
fast company. Hughes has been out of
the big show but one year. and in that
year he pitched forty-odd games of ball
and won a very large portion CT them.
Callahan. while no longer a youngster,
has played three or four games a week
ever since he left the White Sox and he
has, therefore, not been in retirement
Besides Hughes and Callahan. there are
Jiggs Donohue. Fred Tenney and Jesse
Tannehill all trying to come back. Her
man Schaefer has been mentioned among
this list. but schaefer has not been out
Of the big league and. while he did not
play regularly. he got into good many
games last season, and it might be said
i'm this connection that he did not show
any evidence of going back. 1t is not
likely that more than the two players re-
ferred to will return to major league
form. Donohue and Tannehill looked to
be through two years ago and it would be
most remarkable if either should be
able to hold his own in fast company
the coming season.
Jesse TannehilI, though suffering with
bad arm. believes that he can come
back. But fanny has been doing that
for several years The local club car
red him whole season in the hope that
he might regain his form, but found that
he could not. fanny pitched but one full
game of ball for the Nationals, and he
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But he never got over that effort. Neither
was he success for the Minneapolis
team, where Cantillon sent him. but he
believes that he can help Clarke Griffith s
Reds, and has gone to Hot Springs to
take course of baths in the hope that
his arm will come around again. II it
should he would be a winning pitcher,
for Tannehill when he was right was
one of the greatest left handlers in the
game.
Base ball players with losing clubs
have hard time, says the ST. Louis
Post Dispatch. They get scant recogni-
ton for exceptional performances, and as
the team is not making money they gem
orally are underpaid for their work.
They have no redress except to quit the
game, which is no redress at all. If
Walter Johnson were with the New York
of Chicago club he could get what he
asked virtually, besides a chance to prove
th0' hS ACoiis tlic SlSdtcSt pilCLcI VI
them all.
It's tough break for a real base ball
player to hook up with a tail-end team
when he's going his best.
Walter Johnson will not suffer by rea-
son of being on a losing team There
is little doubt that he will be the best
paid pitcher In the American Leas que
this year, draw ng a salary g. eater than
that of several star pitchers VINO have
been winners Tor several years.
Charles Webb Murphy must get credit
for one thing. He is always on the
aui vive to keep the Cubs braced up and
to forestall any weak spots. Whether
this vigilance is his or Frank Chances
somebody connected with the Chicago
club has it. The latest from Chicago is
that not only has Ar1ie Hoffman signed,
but a deal has been made win Bos son
whereby Dave Shean, the intelIer, goes
to Chicago in cxcnan2e for Pitcher
Pfeffer and Ingerton. young third base
man who comes frcm the Tr.stat, Leag.e
Shean adds reserve strength to the Cubs
and nowadays array UT capa ole sub
stitutes is almost a necessary as cepa-
BILE first-string men. \ notable item in
McGraWS managerial career always,-haS
been his plan of having men on the bench
able to serve stop-sapS when a regu-
lar is inCapaCitated.