The Washington herald., 1913-12-14
AINSMITH HERE
TO SEE GRIFF;
WON'T TELL why
The Climbers Young Catcher
Comes from Texas on
Secret Mission.
HUGHES TO BALTIMORE
Long Tom Likely to Sign Up with In
transitional Leaguers-0ther
Sport Comment.
HUGHES TO BALTIMORE
by WILLIAM PEfET.

Catcher Eddie Ainsmith is in
town.
"Say, boys, l had a tough time
getting here from San Antonio, but
here l am" he said to little knot
of friends at the Ebbitt House last
night.
We'll, what are you here fol p
one of them inquired.
lust to look over the town. |
wanted to see if they had moved
the Washington Monument" he
facetiously added.
Ainsmith's errand to the Capital
is shrouded in mystery. He is here
on personal business, he states, and
plans to hike back to the wildS of
Texas rot later than Monday
evening.
Griffith doesn't know, and Ain
smith won't tell; so there you are.
The catcher admits that he has
an appointment with the Old Fox
bright and early Monday morning,
but what its all about could not
be learned.
Asked if he expected to sign his con-
tract before he departed for Texas, Ain
smith replied with a smile: Il might
there's no telling what will happen"
The Cambridge boy looks the very pic
ture of health. He has been hunting
wild turkeys all fall. and living the out
door life on a big ranch thirty miles
from San Antonio.
Il wish the old season would start to-
morrow-Tm ready" he said.
According to Ainsmith, he just man.
aged to duck out of San Antonio in time
to escape the floods which swept away a
number of railroad bridges. 1t took him
thirty-six hours 10 go from San An
tonic to Dallas, ordinarily a six-hour
journey.
Contrary to the general belief, Ain
smith does not intend to go to Cam
bridge Mass, for the Christmas holi-
DAYS. neither does he propose to spend
the remainder of the winter in wash
;ngton. He is up here on important bust
ness Of a personal nature and won't tel
what il is.
Failing TO obtain an umpire's berth for
promised Jack Dunn. pilot of the Bal
timore International League club, first
chance. and from where we sit it looks
very much as if Hughes would wear
Baltimore uniform next season.
That the Old Fox will not retain
Hughes next season Grif himself has
said, but intimates that for valuable
service rendered, he will not sell or
I IN "A
the pitcher himself does not care to
play. ii.
when Barney Petty and Dixie walker
were sent to Baltimore, and thinks the
WASHINGTON club owes him small debt
which has never been wiped out Dunn
said yesterday:
Hughes. and although he would not give
me a definite answer he has promised me
3rst chance to bid, and 1 hope to land
the veteran"
II is said that Yale is peeved because
1.nrigbt the Exeter baseball and football
star will enter Harvard. as he figured on
entering the New Haven institution.
Frank Smith, sporting editor OF the
New Haven Register. who is In close
touch with affairs at Yale, gives this
rumor the merry no. no. :.
eft WAS known in New Haven since last
summer that Enright was headed Tor
Harvard, and Yale men are DIT olsap-
pointed"
Ont in st. Louis recently 5O-yard for.
ward mass that was completed was the
feature of the football game between
eIeyens representing the Haskell Indians
and Christian Brothers. The pass was
longer than any kick recorded during the
contest.
lin Gaffney, owner of the Boston
Braves, is a big New York contractor
and a politician. He is also said to be
a concrete expert, but announces that ne
i,+.nds TO leave the management of his
han club entirely in the hands of George
Stallings, his manager.