The Washington herald., 1912-02-28
GR|FF MAY TRY
BIG SOUTHPAW
Schultz, Owned by Savannah,
Likely to Wear Wash.
ington Uniform.
~ WILLIAM PEET.

includes thirteen, regarded by the super
stitious brethren as hoodoo-
Thirteen will never CO." said Griff
yesterday. Guess I'll have to get an
ether man and make it fourteen, or let
one of them out before they report
II is Just barely possible that the local
boss will try out big southpaw named
Schultz, who belongs TO the Savannah
club of the South Atlantic League.
Schultz has been recommended highly.
anu Griff is considering the matter. 1t
is understood that a proposition will be
submitted the Savannah club whereby
Washington will agree TO take on Schultz
during the training trip in Charlottes-
willie, and IL he shows promise of future
greatness will buy the youngsters re-
lease.
Joe Giebel. the Washington boy who
was Savapnah's mainstay behind the bat
last season, speaks highly Of Schultz, and
declares the big southpaw has the neces-
ssry requirements of major Lacquer.
Schultz pitched for Savannah early last
season. but was injured and did not re-
port until the closing weeks of the cam
paign. He is reserved by the South At
lantic League club. -.-
Manager Grifith was somewhat wor-
ried yesterday by the report from Char
lcttesville that an epidemic Of pink
eye had struck the college town and that
a number of students had BEEN inrced TO
so home. -
II the disease spreads to any great ex-
tent. Grifith may be forced to issue an
order forbidding the ball players to
mingle with the college boys during their
stay in the Virginia town.
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been found. He is in Stuttgart, Ark, on
hunting trip, and has been telegraphed
Tn report here Saturday, at whict. time
the salary matter will likely be adjusted
and Williams name affixed TO Wash
ington contract.
Uncle Nick Young. former president of
the National League, was a caller at
headquarters yesterday afternoon and
spent a pleasant hour talking over old
times with the Nationals boss.
The Grand Old Man of Baseball is
an enthusiastic rooter for Griff and the
Washington club, and has not missed a
game at the Florida avenue park for
years.
Uncle Nick took occasion to throw a
few bouquets at John McGraw. manager
OF the New York Giants. He said:
They can talk all they want to about
McGraw but / have always liked and
admired him. A squarer man never
walked.
Back in the old days, when the Balti-
more Orioles were the talk of the coun-
try and McGraw was their leader, 1 had
occasion many times to infiict fines on
him ordered by the umpires, and in
those dayC the players paid their own
fines. McGraw never whimpered. He
always paid up like man and wrote the
finest letters. If he was wrong and de-
served what he got, he admitted it."
When Trainer Mike Martin hits Char
lottesviIie tomorrow he will have nothing
10 do jUt work-and don't forget IL,
either. Mike has been ordered to get the
furniture for the rooms, see that there
is plenty Of coal in the cellar, look over
the gymnasium, and, in fact attend to
hundred and one details necessary to
the comfort and pleasure Of the baseball
Party.
Last spring Jack Knight signed
three year contract with the New York
Highlanders, and the Nationals have
taken over this instrument. The contract
is filed away in Manager Griffith's strong
box.
Detroit baseball fans have absolutely no
cause for alarm in the holding OUT of
Owen Bush, the sensational Tiger short
stop, says a Detroit writer. Bush has
not signed his contract, it is true, and
may not do so for several days, but he
will be on hand when the time comes for
the Tiger veterans to go South. That's
the surest thing you know.
Donies failure to atIiS his autograph
to the document that binds him to De-
tre:t is due TO the fact that he received
a cut in salary of 800 in the new contract
offered him. No ball player likes to be
cut, especially a star, and the midget
probably was somewhat wrathy when he
saw the figures written in the paper sent
him from the baseball officeS
1t is a moral cinch, however, that a
mere matter OF $500 isn't going to keep
Bush from playing ball this summer.
DOME never has been a ''tightwad''
with his money and probably wouldn't
hesitate to peel off couple of centuries
10 loan a friend who was in tough luck,
or to buy himself something that he
wanted. 1t isn't the loss Of the 500 that
hurts, so much as the fact that he is
being cut
Bush is one of the best paid men with
the Tigers and probably is the highest
priced shortstop in the game, barring
only Honus Wagner. who writes his own
contract and isn't afraid OF wasting ink
when 1t comes to making large numbers
The exact figures for which the midget
sells his talent to President Navin are
private matter between the club and
the player, but the fans may be assured
that there are lots OF excellent men in
town who would be tickled to death to
trade salaries with the youngster.
This doesn't mean that DOME is over
paid, for any one who has seen him per-
form on the field will be willing TO say
that he gets no more than he deserves
May Extend Series 20 Nine Games.
San Antonio, Tex, Feb 2I.-The move
ment 10 extend the world series to nine
games instead Of seven found an ardent
supporter to-day in Connie Mack. manager
of the Athletics.
'T favor nine games" he said, be
cause the result would be more satis-I
factory to the fans as regards the merits
of the competing teams. 1t would also
help e, kill that absurd belief entertained
by so many people that the games are
fixed in advance"
Always the Same