Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30
Play of Pirates Shortstop
Praised by. Boston Red;Sox.
SERIES FAILS TO DRAW
Games May Be Discontinued, as
Players Fight Too Hard
to Win.
BY a. w. LANIGAN.

paign, where two games Will be played
with the IlEni, as requested by Athletic
Director George Huff, the gentleman who
brought ought Garland Stahl. April 3
l6 and the Red Sox show in Cincinnati
Then they will hike out for the east
They have games with Holy Cross and
Harvard before the curtain goes up.
Just as has been the, case in late
years. Fred Clarke will play but two
towns before going to the post in the
real thing, April 10. April and the
Pirates play in Memphis, while April B.
8, 4 and 8 are their dates in Kansas City
While the regulars are playing in those
two towns the Yannigans will visit Fay
etteville for two matinees with the Uni
|versity of Arkansas; Wichita, Kan,
where two-day stand also will be made,
and st. Mary's, Kan. which boasts Of
some classy college nine.
Spring Series Great One.
Magnates Dreyfuss and McAieer may
not book spring series for 1914. Lo-
cally, everybody hopes they do. The cur
rent series, SO far as rough and tough
base ball is concerned. has been an over
| Whelming success. 1t has not drawn any
too well, so there is no financial .incen-
f! tive for a continuation of the battling.
incidentally, the scrapping has been way
| too tough to suit the two club presidents
and the two team managers. Every body
knows base bali. is honest. It is because
| it has always been honest that 1t has
lived and thrived where cheating put
out horse racing and knocked out prize
| fighting
On paper the current spring series
between the worlds champions and the
| Pirates, another most classy team, one
which won the blue ribbon title In 1903
and which stands an excellent chance
l TT 49,
one that could be billed. Figuring that
the fair city of Hot Springs owns popu-
! lation of something like, II COO and that
| there are always between $4,000 and $4,000
visitors in town at this stage of the sea-
son, and that the admission fee Is only
| four bits and six bits, the crowds ought
! to be running over 1000 and 1,2OO. But
since the inaugural scrap st. Patrick s
day, when the base ball show bucked
Harry Lauder. We vaudeville topliner,
best at Wilmington Park. Lauder stood
| 'em up in playhous OF 1900 capacity
at So per, while the Red Sox and Pirates
played before turnout of something like
1000. But since the first game the crowds
have only been from 500 to 1000
Players Fighting Too Hard.
| 1t isn't the failure Of the gate to grow
that has Dreyfuss and McAleer vexed.
They are only losing their enthusiasm in
the games because their warriors are
| fighting too hard. They just won't pull
The lone real smart boy in the lot is
| Charley Wagner the Red Sox's clever
captain and classy shortstop. He ducked
the first four games and may duck the re-
| mainder. The bugs were looking forward
to the duel between the two Wagners
with great interest, as Honus has always
one in last October's big show with the
New York Giants. Honus hasn't missed
an inning thus far. Charley hasn't as
| much as shown himself. In passing it
| better form and that Charley had abso-
| lutely no chance Of showing the old
Duchman up had he got in the fray.
The Boston Wagner has got to be adj
mired for showing such good sense. He
| is a notorious late starter and must go
| slow with his whip, his stock in trade in
| the spring. The way the scrapping has
gone Charley might be lost to- his team
for two months, II not for all time, had
| he tried to have it out to a finuish with
King Honus. Many OF the Boston play
crs saw Honus In action for the first
time in this series. All of them are CIV
| irg it to the veteran for his wonderful
! work. AS Honus dug up an ugly roller
| in time for the out. Bill Carrigan who
| was coaching on third for the Red Sox,
| shouted to him:
"Honus, you amt playing fair. You've
| got the ball trained SO it hops right into
your mitt."
| It's downright pleasure to see the
| Boston boys, the youths Who go to make
| up the greatest base ball team in the
| world, boost and plug for Honus. Not an
ounce of jealousy is shown. They are
nimbie. neyer-complaining. easy-going,
| modest Dutchman as any OF Honus' own
playmates or any OF the dyed-in-the-
wool National League sympathizers
games.
No Big Changes Expected.
| The army of experts on the job have
seen enough Of the Red Sox and Pirates
to know pretty much all here Is to know
about the rockies. Yours truly doubts if
| there will be single change in the line
ups Of the two teams. Janvrin will be
| carried, but Harold isn't ready to take
| Stahrs place. nor is Stahl ready to re-
tire. Boston was always weak on first
| until Big Jake went on the bag. He isn't
| the most polished player in the game,
but is an unusually game worker. hard
and fierce hitter, when on his stride,
and an athlete who is always at his best
| in the pinciles. Jansrin did good enough
work subbing on first for Stahi in the
| first two matinees. At short in the ..lird
game Janvrin was a sensation. Incident
ally, he has a world Of speed, and when
| he goes in as a regular he will rank with
| Milan, Cobb and Collins In stealing bases,
providing he reaches first regularly
enough.
| Just about the time the shaIps were
pretty we'll satisfied that Carlstrom, the
| tall and Ianky infielder from Lawrence,
wasn't going to do he was switched from
short to third and offered a hurrah show.
Just the same. Albn will scarcely stick,
| though he probably will return next
March for another try-out. Scott Of
Youngstown will probably be returned
whence he came. Little Walsh, too is
down to go back to Lawrence unless
certain Coast League club which Is an
Cling for some of Stahls surplus talent
| connects. Janyrin Is sure to stick, also
Dutch Leonard, that very promising left
| retention. Foster and maybe Moseley
will also be carried for a while at least.
Booze Is Dreyfuss Special.
| Barney Dreyfuss, who is great judge
OF a young ball player. but who never
| suggests to Fred Clarke to keep this
rookie or slip transfer to that colt, is
very sweet on Booze. He comes out of
the Virginia State League and this is his
second visit to the spa with the Pirates
Booze Is short Of build and put up on
| roly-poly lines Speed is his long suit
He has finished up couple Of games for
Arthur Holman and seems ticketed to 20
to work in center il the ex-Cub fails
/ to make the team.