Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-26
AMERICAN LEAGUE RULES
BEING VIOLATED BY CLUBS
Managers Are Not Adhering to Code Re
garding Scheduling of Double-Headers-
Milan Almost Equal to Munchau
sen as Story Teller.

Hughes. who on numerous OCCASIONS this
year has proven stumbling plock 10
the champions This is being done so as
to increase the chances of Johnson ana
Groom. who are figured the pitching
stars of the team. If Plank pitches to-
day Hughes will oppose him and then
Johnson and Groom Will take their
chances with any of the other members
Of the local staff. 1t is needless to say
that the series here will be hard fought.
Mack wants to finish second and he will
leave nothing undone to down the Ma
tionalS Griffith is about in the same
boat and if the three games are played
during the present series every one OIL
them will be hard fought.
Connolly, the new outfeder secured
from Montreal. has failed to report. The
Montreal club promised to send him to
join Griffith at Toronto but the young
ster failed to put in an appearance there.
Griffith is keeping the wires hot trying
to locate Connolly. and if he reports he
will be put into the game at once so as
to give Griffith a chance to get a line on
his ability.
None of the players who came direct
from Chicago to Washington has reported
here. This includes Walter Johnson and
Bob Groom. Griffith phoned Johnson
yesterday morning telling him that the
game here had been postponed and in
Structing him not to report with his
L
There has been SO much favorable COM
ment on Connolly. the new outfielder, that
Griffith is of the opinion he has picked up
a prize in this young man and the only
perpleXing feature of his case is that he
was not purchased and allowed to go to
the draft. Furthermore. he was not play
ed regularly SO as to keep his ability in
the dark. in the hope that he could re-
main with Montreal for another season.
Rainy days always give Claude Milan
a chance to shine. 'Zeb' is not only the
leagues champion base stealer, but he
outshines Munchausen when it comes to
telling tales. One of Milans favOrite
stories is about the creek near Linden
Tenn. his home, where the fish are so
plentiful that it is not uncommon to see
boy dive into the water and come up
with five fish, one in each hand. one un-
der each arm and one in his mouth This
Linden must be quite a place for char
acters who do unique things. Milan
claims that there is an eiShty-year-old
man now there who goes out in the
morning with a basket containing twenty
walnutS and returns with eighteen or
nineteen squirrels. which he has killed
by hitting them between the eyes with
the nuts.
Mlans father is the town smith. He
also shoes horses and occasionally mules.
One of the farmers owns particularly
obstreperOus mule which until last spring
had been successful in preventing any
one from shoeing him. But his record
was broken when they brought Mister
Mule down to the Milan shop. Milan,
senior took the mule out on the road.
where a deep trench had been dug. By
a quick twist of the halter he thrust the
vicious animal into the trench. back
downward, and while in this position he
placed four shoes on his hoofs. The best
feature of the Milan tales is that he is
able to tell them with a serious face.