Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-09

have seen service in the past in the
Virginia League. among these being
John Raley, Phil Hinton and Parry
Thackera. The men under contract
now are as follows: First base, John
Steve Griffin. Toledo. Ohio: third base.
Willie Baker, Baltimore. and Fred
Grar. Canton. Ohio; shortstop, Harold
Cable. Detroit. Mich, and Andrew
Sperry Newark. n. j.; outfielders. John
Flournoy. Louisville, KY; William Nc
Cabe. Philadelphia: Ralph Maths. Rox-
borough. Pa: Arthur Wallace. Laurens.
5. c. j. Charles. Washington. ID. C..
and Richard Coates Winchester. Ind.
catchers. Parry Thackera. Bristol. Pa;
Phil Hinton, Baltimore, and Fred Lucia.
Richmond: pitchers. +. {. Muster.
Wheeling, w. Va: John Eerbout. Jer-
sey City; NJ. o. Lonnhoff Hartford.
Conn. Rudolf Gorsch. New York city.
and Roger Dreaming, whose address Is
not given.
Harvey Bussey. who was the star
pitcher of the champion Danri.le club in
1910. has signed to pitch for the team
again this year. Bussey had bad year
last season. He was tried out by Wash
ington and failed TO convince Manager
McAleer of the fact that he was worth
| much to the Nationals. When he got ms
release he went to Charleston In the Sally
League. From there he went to Green
Vile tCaroliua). where he won six and
lost seven gamek with a tail-end team.
He was reserved by Greenville but seems
to have been turned adrift during the
winter
Busseys brilliant work I'M the Virginia
League in 1910 the luckiest any
pitcher has ever had i'm this city. tie
merely got a good start, and with the
confidence thus received had no trouble
| to whip the teams right and left, with a
good team behind him. When he was
sold to Washington the prediction was
made here that he had nothing like major
league caliber. and he failed To make
good later in ID class circuit. Or course,
| il he comes back to his 1910 form ana
| has another good break of luck he VIII
| make the Red Sox a good man this year.
Outfielder J. $. Coutts and First Base
man J. L. Garman. who were secured
| from Charlotte Caroiinal by Roanoke-
Coutts by purchase and Garman by draft
| have signed with the Tigers, and they
| are being touted as coming stars. Last
| season Garman hit at .23S in ITO games
| and fieIded at .917 at first base. white
| Coutts hit at 237 and fie,ded at Gii in
| the outfeld i'm les games. Coutts has
been signed to take Shaugnessy's place
| in the right field but he will have to
| sting the pill much harder than .G't Y
| he hopes to fill it.
The signing of first sacker for the
| Tigers makes it look as though Manager
| Pressly expects 10 go back to catching as
a regular thing.
Yum Moreland. the Washington man.
who had trial with the local team IN
the spring of 1902 has signed with the
Norfolk team. Since playing here More
land has been in the Carolina Association.
the Tidewater (outlaw) League and the
Tri-State. Last season In forty games
| with Wilmington. Del. he hit at .ZlS
and felded at $40 i'm the outfield.
Down in Newport News they refer to
Charles, the player who finished the sea-
son last year with Richmond, as 1.-THE
home-run hitter" Charles may have hit
'em out i'm the outlaw circuit last sea-
son. but he was near frost IN Inc
Virginia League. after the Tidewater
blew. In thirty-two games he hit 'em up
to .2fS.
When the manager of the Red Sox gets
to work he will find a likely nucleus for
the Danville team for the following old
men are on the string for the 1872 team:
Schrader, Cooper Jobson, Mace. Hudgins:
Mayberry, Dugan, Kaufman, Boyne and
Jimmy Jackson. If a winning team can
not be built around this staff of men 1t
ought to be charged to the management.
The constitution of the new Virginia
League is nodded much after the fashion
of the Central League, copies ,of which
were furnished the magnates by DIR. Car
son when he attended the last meeting OF
the old league here in January and helped
form the new one.
Umpire Flynn is quoted as saying he
enjoyed his work I'm the Virginia League
last year. Flynn certainly does not look
like man who would enjoy a rough
| house and that's about what he had from
| the time he started here until the sea-
son closed. A fine fellow personally. but
| he did not have the goods as an indica
tor man. even If he was signed by the old
league for another year. He will hardly
| be on the job here this year.