Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-05

attendance was fine and now Petersburg
has the reputation Of being some pump.
kinS when 1t comes to being q base pal
town. But unless Heine Busch
and he has been retained as manager FOL
the coming season. can land another win.
ner and keep 1t right up in the race from
the start the association will need some
Of that 5000 the directors asked about
this week. Unless Busch is right up in
the race the fans will quit him, and he
knows It.
The effort of Frank Shaughnessy to
get away from the Fort Wayne Qnd.)
club should create no surprise in the
minds of Virginia League fans. fol-
Shaughnessy right now is trying to pull
off the same stunt that he failed In last
winter. When the big player was drafted
by Fort Wayne from Roanoke, and he
was drafted for the job as manager. he
tried to get away to go to Ottawa. where
his wife has some relations. Last year
he won the Central League pennant while
pfning for Ottawa, and his friends in the
Old Dominion are hopeful that he will be
more pleasantly situated in 1913.
1t has just developed that the Nor
folk team last summer for practically the
entire season had the services of sec
ond basemap who was the asset of the
Hopkinsville team of the X l. T.
League, for Jack Hinton now turns out
to be Jack Summers. who has been sold
by Hopkinsville to Nashville of the South
ern League, where he will again play
under his right name. for 1t is understood
that he will report to that team. Sum-
mers was easily one Of the best infielders
in the circuit last year. If he does not
attract attention I'm Judge kavanaugh' :
show the improvement ordinarily expect
ed of young and promising player. OF
course, no one presumes that Manager
Charley Shaffer knew that Hinton had
no right to play with the Norfolk team
and it seems strange that the player could
get by with about hundred games with
out being detected.
Lefty Russell, the erstwhile Baltimore
southpaw who failed to make it with the
Athletics last year. tried this stunt with
Danville a couple of seasons ago. but
Jack Dunn caught him before he played
more than two or three games. Russell
came down from Hagerstown and was
going like real Joe Wood for the Red
Sox for he was on the big end of every
game he pitched in. But Manager Dunn
did not have much trouble TO locate Rus
sell. for the yOungster actually had the
nerve to play within 80 miles of home
under his right name. The national board
got hold of 1t. fined the Danville club
and threw out the games he pitched in
and dumped Danville into the cellar. al
lowing Lynchburg to crawl out by reason
of the decision.
d
hard luck last season with Norfolk be-
cause he was i'll nearly the whole sea-
son. is on the job again for the Tars,
and 1T must be admitted that he is GO
ing to work hard to land a man to take
Hinton's or Summers place at second
and Dodge's place on the west side of
the diamond. To start this Shaffer has
signed Sammy Wycoff, who had trial
by the Tars last season. Shaffer wants
him for short Dodge's old position
After leaving Norfolk last spring wy
coff Joined a strong semi-prof team at
Paterson. N. j.. where he played good
ball Another man picked for the same
position Is Jerry Edwards. a Gotham
amateur. whom Shaffer has seen at
work, and he thinks he has the making
of good man.. Catcher Kelly. and
from the Paterson team, and another
OF Cleveland has been sent a
An outfielder named Petrick
has also been corralled. Gus Schrader,
the Baltimore player who refused to
report after Norfolk bought his con-
tract from the league when President
put the Danville team
and will hold down first next season.
unless Gus forgot how to play ball in
the last half of last years season. With
Pool Gordon and CASTOR to count on
from the start for slab work. together
with FIVE or six of the old men who put
I'D a neat fight last season, Shaffer can
be counted as a fighter next season, IL
nothing more.
Billy Wynne. one of the globe-trotters
of the lower minors. has hooked up the
Knoxville end of the Appalachian circuit
for next season. Wynne played ball in
the Virginia League Tong enough ago for