Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-05
BY J. ED GRILLO.

With two dates still open Man
ager Griffith has arranged d
spring exhibition schedule for the
local grounds which will bring
four OF the eight National League
teams here to clash with the
Nationals. In all the local leader
has twelve games scheduled. Eight
OF these will be with four clubs
from the rival league to be played
here. One game will be played at
Cincinnati, while Toronto will
close the exhibition games here
the day before the season is eN-
pected to open. In addition Gritf
will send second team for games
TO Norfolk and Richmond. so that
with good weather prevailing he
Is sure to have all his players busy
every day during the period that
the team stays here after coming
from its training grounds, and
before the championship season
opens.
At no time has the local club
had a more attractive lot OF games
carded for the exhibition period.
Local fans will have an opportu-
nitv to see some of the most ia
nous players in the National
League in action against their
pets. Griffith arranged these
games for the sole purpose of put
ting his players on edge If he
trans at Charlottesville he will, OF
course, play quite a number of
games with the Virginia College
team, but the real test will come
when he stacks his charges against
the National League here.
Every one OF the National League
teams Will reach here direct from a
months trip in the south. and should be
in prime condition when they reach here,
which will force Grifiiths players to put
forth their best efforts and furnish just
the kind OF work that Griffith wants them
10 have prior to the opening of the
championship season.
March 81 and April | are still open
dates. The regulars will be in Cincin-
natl March 10, and. OF course, will re-
qlre the next day to travel back here.
where they are TO meet Brooklyn for
couple of games. The second team, how
ever, is sure to be kept busy March 81,
and the April date will also most like
iy be filled here by the regulars.
John Henry is at Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital. where his injured knee VIII
be operated on either today tomorrow.
The surgeons who have Henry's case in
hand had not decided last night which
day would be selected for the operation.
In no game which will be placed on the
Nationals schedule next season will
Griffith present a stronger front than in
tho one which Is to be played by the To-
Gals at Cincinnati March -. This will
inau"urate the season i'm the Ohio me-
trupolis under the management of Joe
Tinker. and ore OF the big crowds Of the
year Is expected, providing the day IS
clear. Griffith wants that game. The
Nationals defeat at the hands of the
Reds at Syracuse last fall was one of
the bitterest pills that Griff has ever
been forced to swallow. The game was
played on an improvised diamond and
proved a miserable exhibition, in which
the Nationals were routed from the out
set. The .'Old Fox wants revenge. He
has promised Garry Hermann, the own
or of the Reds, that he will work Groom
and Johnson in that one game, and
whatever may prove the strongest COM
bination possible will be found in the
field.
Sharp practice and trickery have been
In vogue in base ball for many years
whenever a players services have been
at stake. II is only of recent years In
fact. that mans standing in the game
is not graded by the number OF schemes
he manipulates In an effort to build up
his team his league. Perhaps the
best illustration that IL Is possible now
adays TO rely on the word of a club own
or was illustrated the other day, when
Garry Hermann of the Cincinnati club
turned over Frank Chances release 10
the New York Americans. Hermann got
Chance for the waiver price. of 81 500.
lie did not cost New York one cent more,
though there is no doubt that Hermann
could have cleared a neat profit and prob
ably helped his own league had he so
desired.
Will Locke. who only recently purchased
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