The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-30


from Hot Springs TO the Sporting
News, signed by II. w. Lanigan, says;
II candidly believe that Magnates
McAleer and Dreyfuss and Managers
6tahl and Clarke are sincerely sorry
that they booked their spring series
and sincerely doubt IL the games
will be repeated next March. More
than likely TX the two teams toe the
scratch a year hence their series Will
be limited to one or two battles
week. But no scrap every other day.
as Is the gag this spring. While the
bugs among the natives and tourists
are getting their moneys worth see
Ing peppery hot contests between the
best team in the world and an
other team that ranks In the first
night, the two camps were Well
TANNED with aiiing warriors by the
time the second game was played,
and II is naught but the truth that
i the series came near going by the
boards. and that despite the fact that
the gate Is bound TO be buxom enough
to pay aii bills for the trip. The
players are trying too hard, and 1t
goes without saying that mid March
In very early turn in the baseball
speedway. Appended Is a summary
of the damage done to date:
Byrne--Hit in head by one Of Joe
Woods fast shoots. Unconscious an
hour. For a few hours no sure thing
Robert the Wee would live. Hard To
say when he can play again. May
show inside OF n week, but Clarke
viii be immensely tickled If his third
baseman is in trim for the champion
Ehip opening, April 10th. Then. il
remains to be seen whether or not
Byrne becomes plate shy and his
value as stleker lost.
Butler-collapsed after second
game as result Of heat and strain of
battle. Fever Of los all night and
deiirlous. Was really in far worse
shape than Byrne,
Mccarthy Spiked in hoof by
Speaker; gave chiropodist a job Of
taklne off his big toe nall and walked
ON cane greater part OF week.
Redieut~-f}at ugly stone bruise on
right foot and did not don uniform
fer fatiF days
Cady and Nunarnak err Badly dent
ed up hands as result OF catching mid
summer speed first dash out Of box.
Keliy--Same complaint.
All other catchers Same complaint
70 certain degree.
cardner-Ht on arm by one of
Tohinson's fast ones and member
lame for three days
Hans Wsgner-~M issed being struck
I'm eye .s% less than inch by one of
Woods fast ones same day Byrne was
beaned
weod-~Took beaniug OF Byrne to
heart and outside chance he will be
effected by accident all summer and
be afraid to cut loose in pinches, fear
Ing he may knock out some other
warrior
The list could be added tn so as to
include practically every ether player
on each team. If minor omplaints
like gore arms. slight Charley horses.
etc, etc, were enumerated.
Series Drawing Good Crowds.
The series is drawing capacity
houses which means turnouts OF from
1000 to 2,50o. During the winter
the tip was freely circulated that tho
Red Sox and Pirates could perform
on the Sabbath. However, the Spa
had so much trouble with the gam
bling boys and the light fingered gem
try during the cold months, that Shcr-
fff Bob Williams, who is understood
TO be staunch champion OF sunday
baseball did not feel like assuring
Staht and Clarke that they could
stage bouts on Sunday though the tip
was freely circulated that there would
not be any interference. Therefore
Stahl and Clarke refused TO take the
chance of being pinchea and thus We
did not get a Sunday matinee. The
natives are very sore as a consequence,
for down this away few people quit
their stands before 8 T. NJ So their
one chance Of seeing the two illus
trious teams at war was for them to
clash on Sunday.
The attendance, as already stated,
has been very satisfactory 10 all con-
X cerned The tariff is so and Is cents
and just about 95 per cent of the daily
turnout is comprised of tourists They
are seeing the hottest and fastest sort
OF ball. The players may hand it out
that they arc not going their best and
don't care much of whoop who wins
or who loses. But the bugs and the
! scribes know differently The first
three games of the series have been
as stiffiy contested as will be played
all season up North.
The managers are not inserting
enough rockies into the games. Stal1l
declared In advance of the series that
he was going to give his young fingers
plenty of work In the first four or FIVE
shows. Instead. he rung up with Hugh
y Redient and IN the second game started
with Joe Wood and wound up with
Charley Hall
Bedient and Wood also Hall, it is
their speed and all their stun. Bedient
got away with three runless and hit
less Innings Wood worked four
came as result Of trying to slip
slow one past Wilson. Chief met il
and bumped it into the center garden
for a base.
CLARKE. too. opened with his old
boys. Babe Adams was the first
pitcher used and he was followed by
q Robinson. who was with pittshurg all
season in 1912. In the second game
Robinson and Cooperate latter was
KeeMred from Columbus by Clarke last
Iuly did the ninging. oToole and
CHmnitx were slated for the show
s Friday, which was called off owing 10
the thermometer tumhling TO the 40
degrees notch, and on saturday Clarke
nred his best shots with Hendrix and
IN Adams again
Both BETS Aiio' n a to Lie.
As Your truly prop u lied a fortnight
Il A&D there are not going 10 be ans
marked changes IN the Boston and
II E4ttsburE fronts this year. janvrin
IN hardly ready to take Stahfs place.
\ So. Garland l am certain, win CON
tfnue to ba his own-sfirst baseman. or
II 00ufse ferkes. Gardner and Wagner
\ Will stick In their old jobs. Its some
hing like million TO- one that Lewis,
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