Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
TRA|N|NGPLACE TO
BEF|XED AT ONCE
Griffith Going to Charlottes-
vile Monday to Make
Arrangements.
CHANCE TO PROVE WORTH
OF MANAGER TO A TEAM
Will Also Be Able to Say
Which of Major Leagues
Plays Faster Ball.
BY j. ED GRILLO.

The question of whether Charlottesville
will be the training place Of the National:
this spring or not will be definitely de-
cided Monday. On this day Griffith /:
going to make a visit to the Virginia
town. and he proposes to stay there until
he has completed arrangements for his
players stay or absolutely determines
that he cannot train there.
Long-distance messages and CORES
pondence have not proved a satisfactory
system of arriving at conclusions, and
Griffith has made up his mind to take
the bit in his teeth and get down to real
business. He was to have had a definite
answer as to a lease on an adequate
house. but the word he got was not salts
factory and he has come to the conclu-
sion that it will be best for him to go
there himself and see what can be done.
Griffith is anxious to close the matter
one way or the other. as the time for the
players to report is drawing near.
Two greatly mooted questions will be
answered during the base ball season of
1913. and all because Frank Chance.
former peerless leader of the Chicago
Cubs. will pilot the New York Highland
ers of the American League. First of all.
We will know whether 1t is a manager
that makes a ball club. and then again
We will be given to understand whether
the article of ball played in the Ameri-
can League Is superior to that in the Ma
tional. says Ed Bang, in the Cleveland
News.
Chance will answer both questions If
he is successful with the Yankees, the
tailenders of the 1912 campaign. the
manager makes ball club will surely
have the call as against the players
make manager" 1t has been said by
some of the wise men of the American
League that the New York Americans
have an abundance of good material. and
all that is needed to weld it into win
ming combination is a good manager
Judging Chance by his work with the
Cubs he must be an excellent leader or
the Cub players made his reputation for
him.
ish in the coming campaign. the fans can
rest assured that the peerless leader will
put himself on record as to whether the
American League teams play a faster
game than the National League clubs.
II Is the consensus of opinion hereabOutS
that the American League brand of base
ball is 10 per cent superior to that of the
older organization. and We wouldn't be
surprised to have Chance confirm this
conviction before the season is half over.
Whether Chance made the Chicago
Cubs or the Cubs made Chance may
never be known. but every we'll read
ran does know that the combination on
the West Side Oh the Windy city was
winning one. Chance is said to have re-
ceived S., a year for guiding the des-
TIMES of the Cubs. But now comes the
story from Chicago, where Chance ac-
cepted terms with Frank Farrell, owner
OF the HighlanderS, Wednesday, that
the California orange merchant Is to re-
ceive s25,OUO year salary for 1913, 1914
and 1919, and in addition will receive >
per cent of the net earnings.
Bill Phelon has the following to say
about the change in styles of base ball:
Woe has come upon the left-handed
batsmen. Nobody wants them. nobody
cares to have them around-unless they
are such long-established stars as Cobb
and Crawford-and everybody cries: Give
us the right-handed sluggers. The Reds.
when trying to work Eddie Grant into a
trade found that everybody turned him
down merely because he hit left-handed
and they already had too many of that
variety on the roster. If new recruit
is announced as left-hander 1t crabs
him right away: if he is a Highlander
they are dead willing to give him a show.
a few years back the kids were all ad
vised to bat left-handed. They were told
that the extra hop they got from being
nearer to first base was everything. Many
managers spent their time trying to turn
riGht-handed batters into left-handed
hunters and the craze for the left-hand
s'appers spread over the land like
measles.