Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-19
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are picked to pieces at every turn.

to provide amusement for the citizens
are picked to pieces at every turn.
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Mike Donlin with Jersey City
doesn't seem natural at all. He
played his first game with the Skeet-
ers at Rochester yesterday and he
was there with a two-bagger with a
man on base. But 1t looks as IL il
can give to make anything out of Jer-
sey City. The team is down at the
| bottom of the league standing and
| anything the Skeeters might do from
| now on wouldn't cut much of a figure
with the fans. The acquisition of
Donlin was not a bad stroke at all.
He Is likely to pay for himself in more
ways than one.
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As a ball player par excellence it
has always been my opinion that
Johnny Evers belonged in the front
row, but when he was appointed
manager of the Chicago Cubs l, like
good many others, ventuRed the
prediction that he wouldn't do. And
he won't. Although on the surface
1t might appear as If the Cubs were
not doing so badly, sometimes you
can't show plays in print that occur
on the diamond. Evers's failure is as
big as a house, yet 1t doesn't seem
so. He has ball club that should
be battling with the Giants or even
leading them. And he is third now,
although you can't show 1t on paper,
through good fortune rather than
through good management. Eyers
has Grabbed" it something awful
and his players have been in a tur-
MOL all season. Withal, though,
there is so much strength, apparent
ly, in the Cubs lineup that it is just
impossible to keep them out of the
first division.
Seeing is believing, and from Mike
Mitchell, who was with the Cubs
for a while, comes the story that
Evers is the worst ever. Mitchell
came from Cincinnati to Chicago and
is now with Pittsburgh. During his
present visit to New York he had
the following to say about the Chi
cago clubs manager:
ut is impossible for anyone to get
along with Evers. l never had a word
nit n4 I
worked for but l couldn't please
Johnny. He seemed determined to
get my money, no matter now hard
tried to make good for him. Near
ly every other player on the team
feels just the same way as I do about
him, but they have to keep still or
be fined all that is coming to them.
The feeling that pervades the team
is one of resignation, all the boys
just simply waiting for the eason to
be over, when they hope they will be
traded elsewhere. There Is not
chance in the world for Evers to sue
coed as a winning manager, for he
cannot keep harmony on his team.
The difference between working for
him and for a gentleman like Fred
Clarke is like going from dark Gel
lar to a bright roof garden. l don't
know that you can blame Johnny.
1t is his awful temper, which he can
not control. 1t was a tremendous re-
lief to me to get away from Chicago,
and the other boys certainly envied
me the chance"
Walter Johnson, like all big men,
has many cares on his hands. This
great baseball pitcher, who is Just
now out to break the record, and he
Is also out for an increase of salary,
seems to be suffering from a sore
arm. He says so himself, and it may
be that his arm will be much better
IL he is soothed with some of that
most healing medicine-wealth of the
nation. Anyway, while the Wash
ington club magnates are thinking
over his demands on their exehequer,
the great pitcher is taking a short
rest, but says he expects to be back
in the game in a few days as well as
ever
TT has been paining me ever since
| worked in that flfteen-inning tie
Johnson explains his sore arm condi-
ton. ''At times it pains so badly
that l want to quit, but am stalling
along because I do not want the OPP
posing players to know that l am not
right. / have surprised myself by
winning the games / have been in,
for 1 have been far, far from right.
When / pitched in Detroit on Friday
I wanted Griff to take me out much
sooner than he did, for l feared that
conditions would come up where l
would have to let my arm out. l
might injure myself permanently.
1.-THE trouble came from a cold,
am sure, for 1 have not hurt my
arm The great twirler, who is after
raise, goes on to say:
TT is the second time since | have
bttH WIN INC lSdni liht iidNe Deeii
troubled in this way. During Cantil-
Ions regime, you will remember that
l was sent home from Chicago with
bad arm, and did not work for
three weeks, after which it came
around again. l think my arm will
be right in a few days, and I shall
try to work in my turn next week,
but my arm, as l say, has not been
right for several weeks, and l don't
understand why l haven't been hit
harder"
The fact that Johnson believes his
arm will be all right is more evidence