The Washington herald., 1912-05-01
BOSTON RED SOX
AREHERE TO-DAY
: As LOCALS FOB
Nationals Series with Stahls
Team Promises to Be
Bitterly Fought.
GRIFF NAY GET BAILEY
By WILLIAM PEET.

BY WILLIAM FEET.
Roston,s American League club. piloted
by Jake StahI and owned by Jim McAleer'
both former Washington managers Is
booked 10 show in the concrete cohseum
here to-day for the opening battle OF a
four-gsme series
7rba Red Sox will be hard to beat-they
always have been for washington JUST
Al present Stahrs henchmen are IN sec
ond place and putting up fne article
Of ball.
n the weather man interposes no OBJ
sections Grffith will start either Long
rom Hughes or Jay Carl Cashion- II
viii be remembered that Hughes, al,
though beaten by the fery-hosed oano
in the City OF Culture last Week' @ onls
allowed them six hits, so II seems more
than likely that Sir Thomas VIII do the
honors to-day.
With Jake stahI back on first base and
the Red sox twirIers going nicely, ex-
perts claim the team is 25 per cent strong
er than last season. Stahl has oeen OUT
OF the game the past few days on ac-
count Of a slight injury, and Hugh Brad
ley, utility catcher last year, Is nlling
the bill nicely and hitting hard.
As Griffth's boys are also travelling
along at a fast clip. the Boston series
promises to be well worth watching
II was learned yestrday that Manager
Clark Grifith, of the Nationals, refused
to waive claim on Southpaw Bill Bailey,
of the St Louis Browns, and there Is q
possibility that the lanky finger may De
added to the local stan.
When Bailey first broke into the Aneri-
can League he looked like the best
pitcher in the world. In fact Bailey has
always been a hard man for Washington
TO beat although the other clubs IN the
American League found little trouble in
hitting him.
Il was so cold and dismal at noon yes
terday that Grin decided to call on the
ball game, although the contest might
have been played. as the park was not
in poor condition.
The New York Yankees were tickled to
death at the .postponement, for there was
a general feeling Of uneasiness in the
camp, feeling that the Nationals were
about TO make Il three straight wins In
a row, and ball players punches sell
dom go wrong.
Manager wolverton hustled his woe
begone outfit on board the o'clock ex-
press for Philadelphia, where the Hapless
Yanks open a four-game series this aft
The postponement of yesterdays game
makes the fifth for the Nationals this
season, and double-heaGers later will
come thick and fast
This wretched weather has cost major
league clubs thousands of dollars. The
Nationals have lost heavily as a re-
su-t, but Grih says he boes not mind the
financial loss as long as his team is
winning games.
That the other major league ball clubs
have been hit hard this spring is shown
in the following article from the pen
of a weh-known Philadelphia baseball
writer. This is what he says:
Winters lingering in the lap of
spring. means a heavy blow to every
cub in the major leagues. Financially
the season TO date has been a bad one
for the club owners.
In the point Of physical condition.
players Of every club are little better
on than they were before they went
South When team play is considered.
the clubs. are sadly deficient in the finer
points Of their work. and 1t may be sew
eral weeks before any club will be able
to play at its top speed.
About the best that esn . be said for
the players is that they have been able
10 strengthen their throwing arms and
legs and improve their batting eyes af-
ter the winters lay-off. At the present
time high class ballpIaying is out of
the question, and. with the weather cold
and rainy, Il would be unwise for any
manager to attempt to press his club to
the limit.
Il is tantalizing for the managers to
see all their well-laid plans go awry,
and for them to see the players idling
around the clubrooms, instead CT aut on
the field banging the ball or chasing It
around the lot, but to attempt to drive
the players would be as foolish as try
ing. TO swim In q Washtlb.
Not until the weather loosenS up will
the clubs be able to attempt TO make up
for lost time First-class ballplaying or
team work cannot be looked for until aft-r
a couple Of weeks of warm sunshine.
How much the various clubs have lost
cannot be estimated President Fogel. of
the Phillies, is quoted as declaring that
his club is $35, 900 behind on the season
to date. This, II compared with the in
take Of the Phillies last spring, does not
look like an exaggeration. The PhiIlies
had bad weather for their opening game
at Boston and their opening contest in
Philadelphia with the 3eaneaters had TO
be postponed on accoTat OF. bad wealth
er and ground conditions.
The Phillies have been hit harder in
the matter of players injured and III
than any other club. but not so in the
matter OF receipts. For instance, the
Detroit club is considered the greatest
drawing card on the road in the Ameri-
can League.
Last week the Tigers played in De-
troit According to the figures Of Sid c.
y,Keeasr. OF the St. Louis Times, four
games at st. Louis between the Browns
Z and Detroit last week drew only $3.50
persons. With fair weather. the Tigers
would ordinarily have played before
900 persons in these games.
A fair estimate would probably be a
financial loss for each major league club
OF 1900 per day since the championship
race started. This would be about $4,000
Ter club or $4,000 to date. OF course,
some Of this money will be saved by
the doable-headers which will come
later, but all baseball officials figure that
the money lost on opening days, Satur-
Us, and Sundays Is gone for good.
All that each club can DO Is to grin
and bear IL. and TO hope that the races
for the pennants Will be very close, and
that its team win be in the first flight
until the finish.
Out IN Denver they call Johnny BeaII,
the washington boy, the Frank Baker
OF the Western League Beau in a re-
cent game smashed out two home runs.
Bob canley. the former washington
and Pittsburg outfelder. is this year
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