The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-26
WADDE[L T0PLAY
IN THE NORTHERN
Cantillon Announces that the
Famous Southpaw Will
Work in Smaller Circuit

To-, c,n+;I1on. manager of the Min
.one,i. baseball team, has definitely
announced that Rube Waddel is COM
ing to the Northern league the pres
ent season. ,.ho
One of the greatest pltchefs Wiz
ever toed the rubber and perhaps 'tle
greatest southpaw in the history VI
the game. this %eccentrlc cnaraeess
still retains much Of the effectiveness
that made him the peer OF all the
nortside fingers in the two majors
during the years the rube was under
the guiding hand Of Connie Mack.
.Ioa Cantillon is one of the hreWo-
est men in baseball and this 1act ~
horne out by his decision to send the
reuben to the Northern league. Ihere
is not the least doubt in the wofio
but that Waddell will prove the great
est attraction that could possibly DE
secured for the new organization:
Around the American association
the treat southpaw has been the
greatest box office asset of any OF the
PLAYERS in the Chivington circuit. II
IL q conservative estimate to freely
predict that during the time the rube
is advertised to pitch that the attend
ance at all of the parks around the
new circuit will be Increased by hum
dreds over the normal attendance.
SChmirIer Will Sign.
Jack Schmirler, the former tWlrler
of the White SoX can OF Duluth ana
who secured a trial with the Comiskey
White Sox several years ago. going
up from the local team. will be given
q. trial with theAA'irginia team.
Jack announced today that he had
virtually agreed to the terms OF Spike
Shannon and that he would sign the
papers within the next few days.
"The old souper feels better this
year than it has for a number of sea-
sons" said the big fellow. II would
MT take a chance, for l have a good
Job at the present time. were it not
for the fact that I feel that I am go
ing to have a great year. Last season
the old whip was dead and there was
no action in it. 1 have tried my arm
as far as one can determine with in
door exercise, and it feels very good.
1 think that l am due for q great
year."
1t was rumored around the base
ball Office yesterday that HargroNe
and Bob Norman would not be with
the team during the present season.
While 1t is understood that both OF
these players have signed contracts. it
is also a rumored fact that the two
veterans are to figure in trades.
. AS a Oh 10 lOoll az SHC plCSSlS
time the White Sox are to start the
training eas at the Toledo Ameri-
can association grounds. as was an
nounced in The Herald yesterday. The
Winnipeg Maroons are to prepare at
Excelsior Springs, Mo-, the same spot
where the st. Paul team Of the Amer
lean association is collecting the effer-
vescent stuff for summer use.
According to one of those rumor
things regarding which there is ex-
ceeding gossip and occasional scandal,
rection Of Sam Foster, is to prepare
pennantwards at Red Wing, this state,
where naughty little boys are chast-
ened and sometimes, alas, chased.
Minneapolis is to utilize its own con-
crete-inclosed ball yard for the carry
spring knot untying. according to the
statement issued from thence yester-
day. and it may he taken for granted
that. h Little Saints will do their
training at a spot not SO many miles
from the city.
Superior is to gambol merrily and
recover the trusty batting eye at
Sterling, ILL.,, according to rumor tina.
was unleashed earlier in the year. If
Will Sommer's Southern California
real estate deals have not turned out
disastrously it is popularity supposed
that this program will be gone through
with.
Winona has o definitely decided
upon the locale of the spot where the
accumulated ails of winter will be
battled with. and When his royal
spikelets. Shannon. was in our fair
little city he had not the remotest idea
where the grooming Of the Virginia
team would be carried on.
In connection with the signing of
players it might be of passing inter.
: est to state that Secretary J.. II. Far
rell of the League Of Professional
Baseball clubs has announced the eX-
pulsion of an entire league, sometime
quite without precedent, and by this
sort of fell swoop act 100 players of
more or less promise have beer
thrown upon the market in the indie.
pendent role of little free agents,
Managers. please notice.