The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-05
.SPEAKERLIKES
OUR RAY MORGAN
Red Sox's Star Says Every
Club in League Would
Welcome Him.
TO QUIT USING TOBACCO
Griffith Offers Engel and Shanks 500
to Stop Using Weed in
Any Style.
TO QUIT USING TOBACCO
Special to The Washington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald.
| Boston, Mass, May 4.-Rival ball play
ers and fans around the circuit have Just
awakened to the fact that in Ray Nor
gan the Griffmen have a nifty little
second baseman, a kid who can hit and
run bases, and who refuses to be driven
| away from the plate, no matter who
| pitches against him.
| Once in while Morgan gets tangled
up with his feet, and inserts into the
| fracas a costly boot" The veteran Tom
Hughes, always ready with a jest, fire.
quently calls Morgan Little Tanglefoot"
tanning bee was in progress at the
Copley Square Hotel, in Boston and in
Guided in the party was Joe Wood and
Iris Speaker, of the Red SoX. Speaker
was touting Harold Janvrin, of the
and added: "Janvrin's only fault seems
to be his inability to get out of his
! own way. Why, | have seen him step
| on his own toes more than once" cried
Speaker
Huh. That's nothing" retorted Tom
Hughes. You should see Morgan get
tangled up-sometimes he's fright
'Mebbe So" answered Speaker, but
he never does it against us, and every
| one of our pitchers tighten up when
Morgan walks into the box | wish we
| had him right now. I'll venture the
prediction that Morgan could play with
| any club in either, league should Griff
decide to ask for waivers on him."
So you see, Washington fans, that
Morgan is thought pretty well of up in
dear old Boston.
Some kid in the crowd Saturday asked
Nick Altrock to make a prediction as to
the pennant race, and Sir Nicholas,
drawing himself up to his fun 5 feet 8
inches and throwing out his chest, re-
piled:
81 want TO tell You, young man, that
the two teams which will participate in
the coming worlds series will win the
pennants in their respective leagues. |
would even advise you to bet on this.
It's a good tip
Umpire Tommy Connolly always shows
10 best advantage right here in Boston.
The Car of the diamond will brook no
interference, and the coaching of Ger
many Schaefer somehow or other gets
on his nerves. The Teuton never has a
chance to start talking until men are on
the bases.
In the game Saturday Schaefer
mimcked Connolly while in the third
base coacners DON ana was promptly
chased to the bench.
At that, both Connolly and McGreevey
are great Improvement over Hart and
Dineen; at least, they have been in the
games played here to date.
Griff has been criticised in some quar-
tiers for shifting his batting order
around and placing Catcher Ainsmith
third on the list, but the Nationals are
Il
ball game against a lost ball game is
the best test of what is the right COM
bination.
Ainsmith's speed on the bases and the
fact that he is hitting the ball these
days caused Griff to make the shift
The boys took Joe Gedeon out walking
yesterday and lost him downtown. 1t
was not until after everybody had eaten
dinner that Gedeon strolled into the
hotel. and he was> madder than wet
hen.
''Of all the towns in the world. Boston
IS the limit" he said. ''Why the streets
are so crooked that / met myself coming
back. The cops here don't speak Eng
lish either. / asked one of them how to
get to the Copley Square Hotel and he
said take this surface car into the SUBJ
way and ride on the elevated, then hop
off at Castle Street, and walk five
blocks How on earth can a guy go into
the subway and ride on the elevated?
II told the cop to go chase himself
and called a ta.xicab- The next time I
go walking in Boston / will not wander
more than couple of blocks from the
hotel"
Manager Griffith has offered to give
Howard Shanks and Joe Engel the sum
of 500 each if both youngsters abstain
from using tobacco during the remainder
of the season, and the boys have thrown
away their smoking utensils
Griff has put them on their honor, and
if at the close of the 1913 season they
come to him and say that they have not
smoked cigar, cigarette, or pipe he will
kick in with the century notes.
Bill Donovan former Detroit pitcher,
and Bill Clymer, both rival managers in
the International League, wanted to know
il Griff had any ball players on the mar
ket when they called upon him at the
Copley Square Hotel Friday evening.
1.-The men I have with me now I in
tend to keep was the short answer the
Old Fox gave them.
Owing to the comparatively small
crowds at the games here Thursday and
Friday, the Boston newspapers are of
the opinion that the fans are still sore
on the Red Sox because of that unpleas-
ant incident during the worlds series
last fall when seats reserved by the royal
rooters were sold to others. and small
riot, which ended with the breaking down
of temporary fence, ensued.
1t does seem strange that the Red Sox
are not better supported. but the chances
are that this hostile feeling, II any ex-
lists. will soon be wiped out and all for
gotten.
There are several members Of the
Washington team who do not believe
Johnson will lose game this season. |
Others sag that II. he is beaten it win be |
by one of the tail-end clubs with bush |
league twirler and in game full of err !
rors by the men behind the Kansas
Cyclone.