Evening journal., 1913-01-29
BASEBALL.

Diamond News and Gossip.
Absolutely no use to pass rules for
bidding players to appear In vaude-
vile and to write for the papers. The
public will wake up to itself after a.
while and abolish them by ignoring
them.
Christy Matthewson says It's a cinch
to take off weight at Marlin Springs
that there is nothing to eat there.
Tho Pirates start for Hot Springs
March 9.
A bill has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania Legislature TO legalize
! Sunday ball.
Well, anyhow, Little Rock will have
a city league this season.
The average Phillie regular was out
Of 20 per cent of the games his team
played last year-because OF injury
, or Illness Luderus led the regulars
in regularity" He missed but four
! games. Lobert was out OF thirty
seven.
! The Maps wanted to trade Peckin-
paugh for George Mcconnell And
though Chance wanted Peck" he re-
/ fused TO let Mcconnell go.
Charles c'Deacon'D Philippe has
gone to work in a steel plant in Pitts
burgh. working along with wops and
: such. He does not have to, either,
] for he owns property. But he says he
is going to learn the steel business
from the ground up. He is Al years
e old
d Jimmy Jackson has received six
e pitchers for a trial-mostly un-
e knowns
= John K Tener, the baseball COVER
T, nor Of Pennsylvania, continus TO deny
I. that he was connected in any way
S with the recent sale Of the Phillies.
Babe" Adams has signed
Gus Hetling, who won the automo-
bile offered for the most useful Pacific
+, Coast League player. has sold the
pesky thing. Juice is two bits a
gallon" says Gus.
r Jim Baskette. who nearly blew out
s. both his eyes while celebrating the
* holidays, has wired the Cleveland
e club that his optics are all right II
s his arm is ditto, all viii be well
N Blossom Seeley, Rube Marquard'
u friend, has signed to exploit Americ-
X can ragtime specialties in Europe foI
y the next twelve months. -
Jimmy Jackson will have some
wedding to do down in Wilmington
this season. In addition to pockinp
IN up some high school boys he has
y signed the following: Thomas A
Brown, pitcher. Walter Campburn
pc pitcher; Homer Pierce. first base,
~ man; J. II. Keefer, Carlisle, short
e stop; Raymond Connell. pitcher; e
ss E. Lauther. pitcher and Thomas o
a. Hare, New York boy.
Jackson will play the, Philadelphi,
,o Athletics April s. That is an earl,
~ start The other teams viii get goini
% %to about the middle of April
Bill Clymer. part owner of tn
-. Wilkesbarre team of the New Yorl
,ie State League and manager of the Buf
- falo International League team; an
~ nounced that he will turn over thre
~ players to Bill Coughlin. manager o
- the Allentown team. when he return
- from the spring training.
President Ballet. of the Allentown
team. hands out the same kind of al
u. interview that everybody else in tn
D league from the president down hav'
pn handed out at one time or anothe
at since the close OF the last playing
Of season. namely: "The teams are bet
ch ter punched and a successful seasol
nd will follow" We are glad to know
NJ. that
r.
Clarke Griffith says that Fran
Bowerman is the first man who dis
covered the possibility Of throwin
he a spitball He used to do it whei
al warming up pitchers just for fur
Of Stricklett learned it from Bowermai
nm and Chesbro from Stricklett Theyl
,r- trace it right back to Adam after
hile.
The Yankees and the White So
will train at points something like 3
800 miles apart-one at Bermuda. tn
other in California. If the New York
sold a man to the Chicagos h
couldn't report before midseason.
New Orleans papers hint that Jak
Atz made an awfully poor shown
with the tail end club of the Inter
national League last year, and that
not likely to shine in the Southern
However. perhaps a change in leagu
and climate will be just what the oil
lad needs
Clark Griffith has been sick wit
gripe but is recovering.
The Detroit team nearly sold r
Cobb to the ST. Louis Browns once
just after he reported Bill Armou
blocked the deal and made Detro
retain Cobb. Imagine the dashin
Georgian playing with the Browns
II would be a companion picture 70
the awful reality of Nap Rucker wit
Brooklyn.