Evening journal., 1913-01-08
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip.

Diamond News and Gossip.
There seems to be general satisfac-
ton among the club owners in the
Tri-State over the reduction in the
salary limit to $1,000 The owners
seem to be allied against the man
ayers who put up a half-hearted kick
over the reduction The reduction
means that there will be only an in
dividual reduction Of s25. Not a whole
lot.
There will be more players after
the limit these days Of lower salary
or We miss our guess
The reduction is not expected to
lower the class Of baseball furnished
to the fans. Time will tell
Now is, the season of hold-outs. II
will soon be time for managers to
mail contracts to players. That will
be the first test.
No Tri-State managers have am
nounced Southern training as yet. We
remember now that Altoona is out Of
the game.
The announcement that Bert Conn
will be the next Trenton leader seems
to please the fans In the New Jersey
city wonderfully Il will be a differ
ence from the Hecxert form of man
agement. Bert is hard worker and
should get as many home runs over
the short field fences at Trenton as
anybody alse An effort was made
this year to have the Trenton Coun-
ellis close a street so that the field
could be heightened, but the City
Fathers decided that it was an ad-
vantage too good to lose,
Dr. Morgan Griffith, who starred on
the diamond with the University of
Pennsylvania, and played with York
in the Tri-State League, has located
an Office at 52s Carey avenue, Scran-
ton.
Charley Frank hints that he has
offered Nashville a fat price" for
Rowdy Elliott Imagine the Nash
Vile club turning down a fat price"
for anything.
Johnny Evers is counting very
strong on Jimmy Lavender, the Geor-
gian. He points out that last year
was Jim's first in big league company
and that he ought to be better this
coming season.
Maybe one reason Charley Frank
is so quiet about his players for the
coming season is that Charley Sum-
mers, Of the Maps, hasn't told him
yet what will be handed him.
The South Atlantic League would
like to annex Charleston or Mont
gomery (both dead ones) to fill the
place Columbia will leave vacant.
Owing to great success in the draft
Topsy Hartsel believes he has a team
that will win the association pennant
Seven other managers think the same
thing-abolt their own club.
AS Hans Wagner escaped unmar-
ried to January ! It is presumed that
he will escape matrimonial entangle-
ments until 1916 at least That's the
next leap year.
Manager Bill Friel, Of the St. Paul
Club, has moved TO st. Paul He says
the radiators are better there
Youngstown and Erie are said to
be slated for berths in the Interstate
League, instead of in the Central.
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Dispatches from New York stated
that Groundkeeper Murphy was en-
route to Marlin Springs. Dispatches
ten days ago stated that he had
started. He must find the walking
mighty trying in this weather.
Well, now that Bresnahan has COM
promised his claim against the Car
dinals (for 100000. II is reported)
there isn't much left to write about
but the Ty Cobb holdout and the
: Frank Chance stuff.
Jack Summers, alias Jack Hinton.
bought by Nashville. isn't the only
two-named player the South has ever
known Rudy Baerwald turned VI
i'm Atlanta first as a New York High.
lander recruit and his name was
BELL" And as for Johnny Berkle
nobody ever knew where Berkle OF
Bierkotte was hrs real cog.
The st. Louis Cardinals have beer
> scheduled for four exhibition games
in Atlanta n Miller Higgins woult
agree to let Mrs. Britton pitch three
q innings on a Saturday afternoon
would draw some crowd
The latest In the Cobb-Navin feui
is that Cobb will never play for les
, than $4,000 a season-and that Navil
: will never give It.
The BROOKLYN team will report Il