Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22


as Brooklyn is not coming back. and
Wagner & Co. any time after March 1.
Saturday. March %. will probably be the
date of the maiden clash between the two
starry outfits. and Shippers Stahl and
Clarke will be pleasing the local bugs
and the touris. if they book a series of
nine or eleven scraps. Neither team will
have to duck out much before April or
10. so they would make hit all around
and add to their bank rolus by booking
bouts for decision each Tuesday. Thurs
day, Saturday and Sunday from March %
to April 6, inclusive. That would be ten
games, with an eleventh staged Monday,
April Z, should honors be even up.
Watch Out for Athletics.
Magnate McRoy stated before returning
east for the holidays that Manager Stahl
and the Boston players are figuring upon
the Athletics giving them a tight tussle
for championship honors in 1913. Despite
the fact that the Red Sox won the PEN
nant, pulled up to snaillike walk this
year, they don't intend entering the 1913
grind believing that they are invincible
and paying the penalty of becoming over
confident.
THE dope will show that the Athletics
travelled just as swiftly from July this
| year as they did from July 4 last year,
and the pennant only became our prop
erty because, unlike the Detroit Tigers,
we refused to back up remarked Mag
nate McRoy in the rotunda of the Airing
| ton Hotel the night before he beat 1t
eastward Then, remembering that Con-
ME Mack was forced to administer pun
ishment to Pitcher Bender and Outfielder
Cldring. two Of his star players. in mid
season, his team was certainly sorely
crippled.
1.-The Athletics were just as close to
the Red Sox July last summer as they
were to the Tigers Independence day the
previous year. The Mackites were con-
fident that We would initiate the Tigers
and back up. But We didn't. 1t was
simply because we kept going that the
flag became our property. However. the
dope doesn't show that the Athletics have
| blown up, and every soul In the employ
of the Boston club is anticipating that
the worlds champions Of 1910 and 1911
will be hard to beat next year.
Bresnahan Expected in March.
| The indications are that Roger Bresna-
han. the deposed monarch of the ST.
Louis "Suffragettes,' will be a member
Of Fred Clarke's Pittsburgh party when
| it reaches the Eastman Hotel in mid
the Duke going to become a Pirate. but
that he will succeed George Gibson as
the teams chief windpadist Further
more, that Roger will top the batting
order.
In bygone years the Pittsburgh team
has always received the lions share of
the play here in the spring. Their
the easiest reached, but it owns the SUI
perior set of stands; in fact is the only
property of the three that can really
take the proper care of anything like a
crowd Furthermore, the only Hans
Wagner. the G. o. NJ. of Balloon, is the
darb of all drawing cards. 1t is in March
and early April when the big leagues
are in training here, that the Spa s sea
SON. is at its height. Tourists young
and tourists old, tourists of stern
and tender sex. tourists rich and tourists
poor-Hans Wagner Is the player they
go out to see in the merry springtime.
Clarke's All-Star Cast.
Wagner has always had an illustrious
companion or two in the ranks of the
Pirates For years upon years there
was Clarke, crack outfielder and star
base runner, and Leach, skilled in the
games every department. But Clarke
now runs things from the bench. while
Leach is operating in Chicago. Follow
ing the worlds series of 1909, when the
Pirates grabbed the odd verdict from the
Tigers, thanks to Babe Adams remark
able heaving, the Mount Moriah (Mo.)
you h basked in the spotlight on the
trainiie trip here. Last year Marty
O'Toole and Mike Donlin We're promi-
nent additions to Fred Clarke's starry
cast Now, unless the unexpected hap
pens, Roger Bresnahan will bust in as
one of the end men.
Then, not forgetting Howard Camnitz.
- n0A,
Miller, Bobby Byrne, Scoops Carey and
Chief Wilson, the Dreyfuss and Clarke
show hobs up just as noisy, on paper and
on wall, as any musical offering ever
turned loose by Conan & Harris, so far
as topliners in the cast are concerned.
Dreyfuss always gets the money, and
figuring that he always has the right
goods, he deserves his prosp Gritty Fur
thermore 1t sure does look as If Brains"
McGraw must commence to quit winning
National League championships the COM
ing year.
Hendrix Is Coming King.
Raibirds here see so much base ball
in the spring that their forecasts can
scarcely be classed as childish chatter
A year ago at this time yours truly
waited it northward that Joe Wood, the
Boston Red Sox's star young twirler, was
down to enjoy phenomenally success
full season. He had it. Now Rialto talk
has Claude Hendrix. the crack young
Pittsburgh pitcher who is blessed with
as stunning athletic frame and as
much strength as the best in the pro-
fession, slated to be the best bet in the
National Leagues fiinging set. Hendrix
had a big season this year. He was
high as to victories and was second high
as to strike-outs.
Hendrix is a whale of q young man.
His habits could not be better; in fact
in praising Claude's habits the appended
little anecdote is not amiSS: Yours truly
was engaged by a New York firm last
March to secure the signatures of a lot
of base ball stars. Said signatures were
desired to enable big New York to-
bacco house to give away the photos Of
said stars with a certain brand of ciga-
rettes. Under the laws of the state Of
New York no photos of a celebrity can
be given away in an advertising scheme
without written permission. l was in
structed to line up the Pirates. and thanks
TO a good pal of mine on the team secur-
ed the bunch with one exception. The
exception was Hendrix He fatty re-
fused to sign the little contract.
az don't think it right for a bunch OF
athletes to boost for a cigarette house
and by signing to let them give away their
pictures; that's what it practically
MEANS" stated the crack young twirler
i'm making known his objection. 1.-THE
kids are tempted to buy cigarettes with
our photos inside each package. and
while I am generally agreeable. here is
where I balk"