The Washington times., 1913-01-26
Big Backstop's Knee Improves,
But He Will Not Leave Town
for Some Days Yet.
AlD0MER0 AC0STA
TO JOIN CLIMBERS
Manager Griffith Signs Lad
From Cradle to Try for Out
field Job This Spring.
By SENATOR"


John Henry expects to leave his room
at Georgetown University Hospital to-
day. His knee is yielding rapidly to
the treatment provided for 1t by Mique
Martin, the safe and sane trainer of
the Climbers, and the big catcher
should be out and around town tomor-
row. However, he will continue to
have Martin treat the injured knee.
visiting him at the Y. NJ. c. A. each
day.
II am pleased to hear of Henry's re-
coyery," said Manager Griffith today,
but I don't intend to let any accident
rob me of him now that he has gone
through the operation for that floating
cartilage. 1 shall keep him around
here, though, for a while. / want to
be sure that he has recovered before
letting him run home TO Massachusetts.
III John RECEIVERS as Martin expects,
he should be going home next Satur-
day or Sunday. He'll have short va
cation then at his home and return
here for the weeks preliminary train
ing before we go down to Charlottes-
ville.'i
Manager Griffith counts on Henry to
divide the seasons work with "Rippy'
williams. Ainsmith will catch walter
johnson. but viii hardly work with any
handles the big fellow as II he were a
rookie, delightfng in his tremendous
speed But Eddie will rest when Wal
ter isn't down to twirl.
Gets Another Cuban.
Two young Cubans will struggle for
outfeld job with the Climbers at Char
lottesville. The second one is Baldo-
micro Acosta. a sixteen-year-old youth.
who has been doing good work in
Havana this winter and has the recon-
mendstion of Victor Munoz, Griff s
Cuban agent.
the team this spring. but If he comes
anywhere near predictions, he will be
kept attached to a string from the
Southern building in this city to some
minor league outfit for at least year.
He is an outfielder of remarkable speed,
some ability at the bat and needs only
age and experience.
Young Calvo. whose brother will try
TO beat out Bill Carrigan with the
worlds champion Red sox, is playing
with the Almendares, the strongest
team in Havana, and should report at
Charlottesville in shape 10 jump right
into the fray. As neithersof these young
Cubans is master Of English, GrIff is
thinking OF tean1fng them up with
some other member of the team in
order that they may learn. Tom Hughes
VIII make fine roomie for Calyo and
Ray Morgan an excellent companion for
Acosta-
Groom Is Confident.
Bobby Groom, the elongated, attenu-
ated toothpick twirler, wintering in St.
Louis, where he is attending classes at
g medical school-in the hopes OF be-
coming a saw-bones some day when he
quits playing the national game, says
that II the Mackmen don't cop the ban
ner. the Climbers will Bob must have
his ear to the ground, or have an inside
tip from somebody TO have discovered
this charming bit OF information.
II is strange, but nevertheless true,
that most writers, managers, and
players dope the Red Sox TO fall down
this season in their efforts to cop their
second successive pennant. That re-
markable run of the champions last
year, when they went clear through
Till September without humping into a
hospital list. is not looked for this sea-
son, and that's the answer. II the Red
Sox had bumped into the same luck
that hit the Climbers and the Mackmen
in 1912. they would not have been in
first place when the curtain, tumbled
The Mackmen got away poorly, and
not till the end OF the campaign did
Bender and Coombs round into winning
FORM Danny Murphy, a most depend
able sluggeT, was lost 10 his team for
half the season, following an injury to
his knee in Chicago. Despite their win
ming streak, the Climbers were hard hit
when they lost Johnson's services for
three weeks right when he was needed
most They. too, got away TO a poor
start, and yet chung on like bulldogs
10 the very end.
1t is more than unlikely that the Red
Sox will have such good luck two years
running. II they fail to start well, no
youngsters will be battling for jobs III
Wood and Bedient fail to equal last
years records, and one or two of the
inhelders slow up, it'll be good night
10 the chances Of the champions.