Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-07
NATIONALS TOPLAy
| GAME IN CINCINNATI
Griffith Arranges ? Exhibition
Struggle With Reds for
i, March 80.
WANTS REVENGE FOR
SYRACUSE DEFEAT
Navin Denies Story That Jen-
nings Is to Manage New
York HighIanders.
BY J. ED GRILLO.

An exhibition game to be played by
the Nationals with the Cincinnati Reds
at Cincinnati March 3O has been ar
ranged by Manager Griffith. The game
will inaugurate the base ball seas of
1913 In the Ohio metropolis. and falling
on Sunday, is expected To draw a rec
, ord crowd
Ever since the Reds gave the Nationals
that awful drubbing at Syracuse last
fall Griffith has been forced to stand for
lot of good-natured kidding from his
Cincinnati friends, and he has sworn re-
venge. With this in view he has been
trying to arrange another game and he
succeeded in this today, when he re-
ceived telegram from President Herr
mann naming March 30 as the day for
the game.
Griffith will take his strongest team to
Cincinnati. He has agreed to pitch John
son half of the game. while it is likely
that Bob Groom. if he is ready, will go
the remainder Of the route. special
trip will be made from here to Cincinnati
to play the game, and the following Mon
day will be put in on the return trip.
Ordinarily major league club would
not make that long trip on the chance
of playing single game, but the first
nous crowds in Cincinnati, and being
played on Sunday. all that is needed
to make the trip a big financial success
is a clear day.
The story that it is the intention to
send Hughey Jennings to manage the
New York High anders and have Bill
Donovan in charge of the Detroit Tigers
Is strenuously denied by President Navin
Of the Detroit club. Navin says that the
sto:y is absolutely absurd; that he has no
intention of parting with Jennings and
that such a deal was Never thought of
From a reliable source it is learned that
the New York club hopes to secure Frank
Chance. Chance Is now the property of
the Cincinnati club, and not until that
cub reiinquishes its CAIN on him can
New York open negotiations for his serv-
Ices 1t seems settled fact that Chance
VIII not manage Cincinnati, even if the
position were offered to him. Chance is
too prominent a man in base ball to al
low himself to be figured as secondary
consideration for any position. Neither
is 1t by any means certain that he will
want to return to the game even if it
were to the American League. But the
New York club will make a desperate eff
fort to secure him just as soon as the
cincinnati club announces that it does
not want to use Chance.
1t goes without saying that Ed Walsh
the king of spit ball pitchers and one of
the best hurlers base ball has ever known
VIII have a new battery partner next sea-
son Walsh has worked with the veteran
Billy Sullivan SO long that every time it
was announced that the spit baller would
go to the firing line it was reasonable to
expect Sully to do the catching.
But base balls best battery combina
tons. such as Young Criger Joss-Clarke.
Mathewson-B resnahan and any number
of others, cannot go on forever And so
1t is with Walsh and Sullivan.
The catcher who will work with Walsh
regularly next season has not vet attained
his majority. He is Raw Schalk, who
backstopped for the Milwaukee Brewers
the past season and who finished with the
White SOx.
Schalk handled Walsh's offerings in Big
Eds victories over the Cubs in the post
season series. Ed regards the kid as the
coming star catcher. Sullivan has run
his race as a big Lacquer. and Walsh is
fortunate in having such worthy sue
cessor as Schalk to take Sullivans place