The Washington herald., 1913-11-07
MORLEY AND HEDGEPETH
SOLD TO ATLANTA CLUB
Griffith Lets In6elder and
Pitcher Go to Billy Smiths
Southern League Club.
OTHER SPORTING GOSSIP
BY WILLIAM PEEr.

Manager Clark Grimth has already
started to WELD the pruning knife and
announced last night that he had sold
Infelder Bill Morley and Pitcher DoS
Hedgepeth to the Atlanta club of the
Southern League.
Both these players have been worked
in championship games by the Nationals,
and viii not be required to report In
Charlottesville next March.
In discussing the sale of Morley and
Bedgepeth Manager Griffith said: Il be-
neve that Hejgepetb has the makings
Of a major league twirler. / know he
was a lot better thai he shovel me this
fall, because at that time he was In
poor physical shape, but ! have plenty
of young pitchers on my staff and can
afford to part with one of them.
LAS for Morley. I think that one more
season in a fast league like the South
ern, will improve him IS per cent, and
have already under contract more ex-
perienced fnfielder in Wally Smith whom
1 purchased from the club to which
am sending Morley"
AS a matter of fact, the Washington
club and the Atlanta team have a work.
ing agreement. Grif can pull back
either Morley or Hecgepeth when the
1914 season closes, and in addition has
first choice on any other good ball player
the Crackers may develop.
Hedgepeth was purchased from the
Petersburg club of the Virginia League
last summer. He is a lett-handed pitcher
and attracted the attention of Scout
Kahoe, who recommended the young
man to the Washington club.
Morley was with the Nationals last
spring and sold to the Hartford club Of
the Eastern Association, where he made
good at shortstop and was recalled by
the Climbers this fall.
According to a well-known Cleveland
baseball writer, the Maps could have had
Jim Shaw, the Nationals promising
right-hander, had they been disposed
to grab him from the Pittsburgh Col
legians two years ago.
It is claimed that a Cleveland scout
looked Shaw over and reported un.
favorably.
Shaw would be a welcome addition to
the Naplanders next year no doubt and
the Cleveland scout may feel like kick
ing himself before the coming season
closes.
Here's a story on John J. McGraw,
from a newspaper published in Houston,
Texas: Among one or two good stories
left in town on the hegira of the Giants
and Sox is this story of the Little Ma
poleon.
McGraw was leaning nonchalantly
against the stands at West End Sunday
when the crowd got impatient over the
poor showing of Art Fromme and be-
gan TO call for Tesreau. Hey, you."
yelled a Teutonic rooter to the Little
Napoleon, This is ball game. by gol-
leysr' Ach. you ain'd in Honolulu yet or
Hongkong."
No" said Jawn J., turning and eye
ing the fan in question, And I didn't
know I was in Berlin, either"
P. T. Knox. of the New York Evening
Telegram, rises to remark:
Dartmouth is practicing against Penn
syIvania plays, Pennsylvania is practicing
against Dartmouth plays. Princeton Is
practicing against Harvard plays. Har-
ward is practicing against Princeton
plays, Cornell is practicing against Mich
igan plays, Michigan is practicing against
Cornell plays. and they all play on Sat
urday. This means only one thing to the
iayman-that the scrub teams at these
various habitats Of knowledge must be
among the most versatile things in the
world.
They must be like a stock company of
actors. While they are playing one thing
this week they are already rehearsing
next weeks performance. And, like
some of the actors in question, the most
the scrubs get out of il is a bruised
body, a swollen face. blacked eyes. a dis
located nose, shattered vertebrae, and
the glory of conditioning the varsity.
IF these scrub teams are so aIl-hred
proficient at initiating the attack and de-
fense, why don't the coaches use them
in place Of the regular organizations"