The Washington herald., 1913-02-27
A|NSM|TH GETS
into HARNESS
Nationals Catcher Dons Togs
and Works Out with Re-
cruit Twirlers.
GRIFF LEAVES MARCH 4
Washington Manager Decides to Ac-
company Regulars to Training
Camp-Other Gossip.
GRIFF LEAVES MARCH 4
BY WILLIAM PEET.

By WILLIAM PEET.
Eddie Afnsmith, unable to sit around
anv longer and watch the little baseball
colony work out in the Y. NJ {. \.
gymnasium, jumped into uniform yes
terdav morning and before anybody real
lied what had happened was shouting
to the young pitchers, Come on boys
put 'er over"
The backstop did a little catching.
tossed around the medicine ball and
ioined the gang who tried to lmltate
real basket ball players. Ainsmith wie
ON the jump from the time he entered
the gym. and wound up the festivities
with a swim in the big pool
II was good move on the part OF
Manager Griffith, that of sending Ain
smith into the wilds of Texas during the
past winter. where all temptation to en-
gage in basketball or other sport was
removed, for the Cambridge boy refuses
TO keep i'll the background. He loves
basketball and if ne had his way would
hc at it from morning until night.
As Mike Martin, the trainer. left for
charlottesville Yesterday morning with
with the Nationals baseball togs. sew
cral bats and other implements OF dia-
m"nd warfare. the Y. NJ. c. A. squad
Vas in charge Of catcher Alya Williams
and scout Mike kahoe. Manager Griffith
Was 50 busy with office affairs that he
,uvld not spar" the time to look the
hoNS over
Tom Drohan. the latest recruit to get
down Ia business. took his first workout
,oSt"r,lstN and lnhhed the ball for half
an hour 10 catcher Williams. prohan
looks very much like Doe R"isinS. the
FORMER Nationals spitbal finger. He
is built like a brick post-ottic" and gives
on" tn" impression of being 4 Slutton
FOR work.
Instead Of accompanying tn" recruits
I" charlottesville" next Sunday morning.
Manager Griffith las decided to send
down the Youngsters in charge OF Jack
Ryan. the veteran catcher. who will have
,.harCc uf them until the Old Fox appears
an tn" scene with his regulars on the
night IF March {
There is SO much detail connected with
Tho tIsk of rounding up bunch OF ball
players a time like this when the in
"ugurarion is in fun swing, that Manager
Grltfth wants /" II" here himself to as
~umr 'hv r"ln~. and has decided to wait
over uutL Tuesday instead Of going down
Sunday.
Iu return for the kindness that Charley
C"rriSkey. of chicago, showed the Boston
Red SoN laSr summer. when the date for
The raising of the city championship flag
WAS saved for President McAleer and
his team. the White Hose gentlemen will
h.. present on June =. when the Americas
I'a-5I" remnant j. flung t" the breeze 70:
TIN first time. The chicago club is Il,
@roai rav"r:t- IN Boston. and as the
"T.urng eNcrcIs~S last year We're held up
81 uHv b"r.Ius, of rain the Gala hans were
not forgotten when the flag DAYS Were
being handed around
WhIIc tn" White Son will he Oh hand
'Hr daN the American League flag is
'tlsfd frank chance and the New York
UighGtndcrs will help lift the Gonfal"n
OH hI"inatir Of the worlds championship
=" h.. rnr "f IN" flag pole in center field
ga Jun. :, 1T the Red SoN park. 1t will
l'.. an unusual occasion. especially with
Franz, Chance. who has figured i'll raising
worlds championship emhems when at
tacn"d to tho chicago Cubs. Frank will
old nUc "ud Of the rope and Manager
Jake - hi the other. 1t should not cause
C..nur" L. t." at all nervous although he
Ill he III. first manager o. a National
lcagu" club who has won the worlds
Championship to ever figure in "A cere-
'n"ny Of tn" other league in raising the
worlds tit" ribbon.
capt. l1OnuS Wagner. of the PittSburg
'.lmh. VAS thirty-eight years old last
Monday. Wagner is native of Car
u"cie. Pa. He owns n brewery and is
"rl.. Of tn" wnalthest hall players in the
profession. Wagner is still bachelor.
he was 'diSCOVcred'' by Jack Chapman.
Naturally You will say. WHO the
dickens is Chapman. and how came he
to discover the 'Flying Dutchman'?"
Rig Jack Chapman used TO manage
the Louisville National Lcagu" Club.
Tn" club had to have players. but had
n" money in the treasury to buy them,
50 Chapman ran a fine comb through
the corner lots for anything he could
get. Wagner came up in the dragnct.
He was PLAYING hall with a semi-pro-
f"ssionaI team over in New Jersey.
chapman got him for nothing. Barney
0rcyfuSs took Wagner to Pittsburg
W non he bought the Pirates.
It is expected that Tomorrow and Sat
urday will sec tn" regulars drift into the
Capital. although the ma iority of them
have been ordered to report here on
Monday, March ,. Danny Moeller,
Howard Shanks and Frank Laporte are
expected Saturday. while Kid Foster
Rob Groom. Walter Johnson. CLYDE
Milan. George Mcbride and others are
due Monday
Victor Bickcrs, the mammoth Buffalo
scnii-pro, who has been hard at work
with the other recruits in the GYM
asiur. complained Yesterday of pains
in the region of his thighs Bickers
blamos the hard gymnasium floor for
this trouble. which is entirely a muscu-
lar ailment and will soon wear away
when the youngster shifts to terra firma
1t is strange that others have not COM
rlained of the gym floor. but thus far
Bickers seems to be the only member of
the crew who is suffering.
Ed Dent. former Newark finger blames
his poor showing with the Brooklyn Dod-
gers last spring to the method Manager
Dahlen employed in working out the
pitchers.
According to Dent all of the twirlers
We're forced to pitch to the batters in
the morning. and then ordered to work
three innings during the afternoon In
games between the first and second teams
The Dodgers trained at Hot Springs,
and it rained nearly every day. so that
tossing around a mud-soaked ball, Dent
claims. gave him a sore arm, which stuck
with him until the season was nearly a
month old.
Griff's plan for his pitchers last March
was to have them get a good. stiff work
ont once a day. If a twirler pitched to
ihr h1trers in tho morning he was -eS-