The Washington herald., 1912-02-20
BIeachers Are to Be Erected.
Also Dressing Rooms for
Visiting Teams.
GRIFF AT GALLAUDET
Local Boss Will Watch Battery Can
didates Work out-other
Gossip and Comment.
BY wILLIAM PEET.

Manager Clark Grinith. President
Noyes. and Vice President Walsh, OF
the Washington baseball club. took
trip to National Park yesterday after
noon and completed arrangements for
several important improvemer r..
Workmen will start tomorrow build
Ing the left field bleachers. and when
completed IT is expected that the stands
will seat close to 1000 persons. The
bleachers will be painted a dark green,
as win the inside OF the fences
1t was also decided to erect the dress
ing-rooms for the visiting club under
meath the main grand stand at once in
stead OF waiting until next year. Work
will soon start and the rooms, equipped
with shower baths and other apparatus,
will be ready for the opening of the
season.
An innovation is also planned which
VIII do away with the congestion at the
main entrance. Two ticket sellers will
do business from box placed some
twenty feet from the entrance OF the
park and in the middle OF the big drive
way. The ticket sellers box will accom-
modate two men and should greatly re-
lieve the crowd at the main gates on
big days. Heretofore persons with tick
cts In their possession found Il necessary
to fight their way to the various en-
frances on account Of the long lines Of
humanity waiting their turns to pur-
chase the pasteboards.
Just as soon as the frost leaves the
ground the diamond will be leveled
pitchers mound raEed and the batter's
boxes slightly elevated.
Nothing will be done with the outield
except rolling. the turf, but next fall a
plow will dig up the ground. and the
ne - lfra~~ ,TTUN NaNN
Manager Griffith and Scout Mike Ka-
hoe have accepted the invitation Of the
Gallaudet College baseball coach to visit
Kendall Green this afternoon. The local
boss Will watch the battery candidates
work out and have few words to say
to the boys.
1t Is Just such little acts as these that
are helping to make Clark Griffith the
most popular and best-liked manager in
the history OF organized baseball in
A report from Nashville states that
Doc Wiseman. veteran outfielder OF the
Nashville baseball team. has been given
his unconditional release. wiseman now
holds a record which, perhaps, will never |
be equaled. He is the only minor league |
player to start his professional career
on a minor league team and. stay with |
that team for eleven consecutive years |
without being tried out in the majors |
or being transferred to another team and |
back again. He Joined the Nashville |
team in 1900, and has been with II ever |
since. During his career he has played /
!. 40l games. In 1907 and 1910 he partici- /
pated in 142 games, and only one season /
put Of the eleven did he play in less than |
100 games. This was in 1900, when he /
look part in 90. He was never known /
10 miss a game unless on account Of /
serious injury. Many times he partici-
1ated in a game when he should have
been in bed.
Thus passes one OF the steadiest play
RS ever on a minor league team.
Catcher Alexander Sweeney, former
Eastern and Tri-State League player and
asst year manager OF the East Liverpool
cam in the Ohio-Pennsylvanla League,
has sprung a new idea in the baseball
world. He has opened a baseball school
n East Liverpool, through which he in
ends to instruct the art OF baseball to
I'll who enter. He intends to use charts
md give lectures, and will instruct in |
lis own way, which is the ''show-em-
way.
The school Is known by the name of
he Sweeney Baseball School Company,
md Mr.. Sweeney himself is the dean.
,osition is guaranteed every scholar as
his school will undoubtedly be watched
With interest by fans throughout the
Shole country.