The Washington times., 1912-01-21
CHEF AND WATERS
!. MAY GO WITH TEAM
ON TRAINING TRIP
Griffith Wants Players to
Enjoy Well Cooked
Meals.
RED SOX WILL PLAY
PHILLIES AT SPRINGS
Odds Seem to Favor Dooin's
u Outfit to Win. the
wv. Honors.
By SENATOR"

BY SENATOR"
Unless his tentative plans fall through,
Manager Clark Griffith will take, with
him to Charlottesville q well-known
Washington chef and a corps Of expert
walters to care for the physical com.
forts Of the Nationals Of 1912. He will
visit Charlottesville In a week or SO to
look over the ground.
r'or the time that the Nationals will
train at Charlottesville, they will most
likely live In an old colonial house espe-
cially hired for their stay In town. It IL
possible that they may dine at the regu.
lar training table of the Virginia var
sity nine, but Griff is more inclined to
bring with him a Washington chef to
II haven't made up my mind finally It
says the Nationals brain box. I'm go-
ing down to Charlottesville to look over
what will be best to do. am inclined
to favor the idea of bringing along my
own commissary department, and then
III know Just what the boys are get
as there might be had they to put up
with whatever food they might be able
II Grinith.s plans are followed. the
Nationals will be the only team in the
pArtment.
Red Sox Meet Phillies.
During the training season at Hot
Springs. Ark. the Boston Red Sox will
hook UP In a series OF five games with
Charlie Dooin's Phillies. Jimmy Nc
Aleer is highly delighted with the pros
poets ahead of him and figures that the
games with the National Leaguers will
just about put his team on edge for the
regular games to follow the opening of
the season.
The Phillies will arrive at the Springs
on March 3, a week before the Red Sox
show UP. 1t Is expected that the series
will commence on March 10, three days
after the arrival OF the Red Sox. In
this case Dooin's team will be backed to
take the honors in the series.
washington fans will be interested to
know that the Bridgeport club, of the
Connecticut League, which will have
Its ltne-up next season. is on the mar
ket. Gene Mccain, known to many in
this city, announces that the other own
prs, j. H. Freeman and George J. Cor
bett, are willing to sell their holdings.
&. Gives System a Blow.
In deciding to train their players IN
st, Louis, Manager Bresnahan, OF the
Cardinals, and Manager Wallace, of the
Browns, have handed body blow to
the practice of sending teams South for
a long campaign. Bresnahan says the
time is coming when the spring training
will be limited to two or three weeks,
which, in hi sopinionfi Is long enough to
fit players for the pennant races. Sew
eral major league club owners hold a
similar opinion. They believe that there
is such a thing as too much hard train
ing. which Is inclined to make the
teams stale when the championship sea-
son begins. The sudden return from a
warm climate to cold weather is be-
lieved to be injurious, and many play
ers are said to have suffered from lame
srms and legs as result. The training
exhibition games played In Southern
cities net practically nothing In gate re-
ceipts. -,
August Herman, chairman Of the Ma
uonal Commission, declines to discuss
the threat by President Powers. Of the
new Columbian Baseball League, anent
q suit under the Sherman antitrust
law. but invites all independent major
leagues into competitions: He says:
1.-THE more the merrier." Organized
baseball Is strong.
Speaks From Book.
In declaring that a major league
team can have too many pitchers and
that the work can be done by rotat-
ing two or three regular boxmen
throughout the season, John M. Ward
speaks from experience. When Ward
was a member of the Providence cham
pions Charley Radbourne practically
the Ghsmp0nshp By bs pitching fSrs
team also did we'll with Ward as the
only 'twirler, while later Radbourne and
Charley Sweeney did all the work on
the slab.
Ward was member of the Giants
when they won the worlds champion
ship in 1898 and 1889, with two star
pitchers, Keefe and WEIGH. He man
aged the Giants when they finished
second and then defeated the cham
1894, although they had but two first
class boxmen. Rusie and Meekin.
Ward argues that the more the pitch
err works the greater his effectiveness
as a striking illustration of this prin'
ciple. Practice makes perfect" il
Kauff, an outhelder of the Eridgepor
team of the Connecticut League, ha,
sent In his signed contract with tia
Yankees. He had batting average o
.e4 for 116 games last season, with 4
1elding average of .gSi Wolvelt ton ha
decided to give Zach Erhardt, tn,
former infielder Of the New York Higl
School of Commerce team. another trial
lie was with the Yankees last fall an
played in several exhibition games. III
has been signed to 80 to Atlanta will
the recruits. Erhardt is now studying
at Columbia University.
Jack Sheridan, the veteran American
League umpire. is spending the winte
In San Francisco. II see by the paper
that the American League has vote
TO pension me and has given me
medal 10 wear on my breast" sal
Sheridan recently. But I guess whe
the bell rings I'll be back in harness
Ban johnson will need me when til
fight grows hot"
Hank O'Day. who has quit umpirin
to manage the Cincinnati Reds, ha
two young pitchers named Bagby an
ProuRh, who have Lecome a source a
merriment among the Porkville hamme
throwers, O'Day. incidentally. has re
quested the Cincinnati critics to re
frain from the annual winter custom a
claiming the pennant. "The Reds vii
play ball on the diamond, not indoors,
declares Hank, "and nothing can b
gained BY idle predictions"