Evening star., 1913-12-03
GR|FF TO MAKE TRY
| FOR MIKE MITCHELL
Pittsburgh Club Said to Be
Willing to Part With
0utfieIder.
ONE OF LOCAL CATCHERS
MAY BE USED IN DEAL
Joe Kelley Tells Story of 0ld-Time
Teams Trying to Be Po-
lite I'D.
BY J. 6 LILO.

Mike Mitchell. right fielder of the Pitts
burgh team, is one of the players Man
ager Griffith will make an effort to obtain
during the coming meeting of the Ma
tIonal League in New York, which he
VIII attend. Press reports are to the
erect that Manager Clarke of the Pirates
Will part with Mitchell during the meet
ing. and Griffith proposes to have talk
with him.
Mitchell played under Griffith at Gin
clnnati and he considers him a splendid
ball player and d hitter of more than
ordinary ability.
Clarke will most likely want playing
material in exchange for Mitchell. and
he may be willing to accept a catcher,
in which department the Pirates are
weak.
Pittsburgh is also thinking of letting
OUT Chief Wilson. a hard-hitting out
helder. In fact, there are so many play
ers to be put on the market during the
meeting in New York next week that
Manager Griffith feels encouraged that
his trip there may result in his benefiting
his team.
Joe Kelley, the old Baltimore PLAYER
and now manager of the Toronto team
OF the International League, relates the
following story of a game played be-
tween Baltimore and Boston in which
ootn teams promised to be on their good
behavior sa
You can refine base ball all you please
and you can make parlor game of it
oy giving the umpire power of life and
death, but you can't stop the players
tongues without an ak.
Base ball can be made gentlemanly all
right, but it won't stand for this Lord
Cnesterneid stun. not any. despite the
enorts of writer's and magnates.
Years ago Baltimore and Boston
and they were some ball clubs-tried to
play polite. courteous game to see how
it would work. Both teams agreed to
try out the polished conversation stun
instead of the usual flow of CAB.
THE newspapers had been criticising
the players for roughness and bad Ian
guage and we wanted to prove we could
be real decent.
The first half inning was lovely. Even
when Tim Hurst called strike on HON
Mccarthy that was a foot high, there
was no outbreak
Wasn't that ball trHe high, Mr..
Umpire?' Tom asked. all courtesy
:" fear | may have erred in judgment,
Mr.. Mccarthy; kindly overlook it, if you
will, replied Tim. with grin
And in our half when Jack Doyle
went down to second in a cloud of dust
and Tim said Out" Jack jumped up. red
in the face. yelled. What the caught
nlHlSelI ana SalQ ParQOn me, Dut
thought Mr.. Long failed to touch me-
And, says Herman Long, equally polite.
1 am under the impression that / did
touch Mr.. Doyle just as Chesterfieldian
as you please.
But the blow-off came in the second.
We had three on the bases and two gone,
with Jennings at the bat. Reitz made a
dash for the plate on what he thought
was a passed ball. The Boston catcher
recovered the ball, but as he dived for the
plate Jennings wandered into him and
spilled him ten feet away.
Out for interferencer yelled Hurst
and then everybody arrived at the plate
in bunch.
You Irish loafer!' shrieked K)eitz.
what am 1 out for?'
You red-headed stiff roared the Bos-
ton catcher at Jennings, I ought to knock
your block off, and for two cents I'd do it.
You're a piece of cheese snarled
Jennings, and this bum umpire is a
porch-climbing burglar.
:" For Moses sake, remember | butted
in. that this is supposed to be polite
and courteous game to prove we know
how to behave And somebody hit me
across the map with catcher's glove
Il can lick every man of yez- howled
Tim Hurst, and I'll do it if yere not back
in yer places inside half a minute
You're a cheap crook howled Mugg-
sy McGraw.
"'Ye're a bunch of yellow dogs replied
Hurst, and there the matter ended