The Washington herald., 1913-10-23
Carolina Curver" VIII Re-
port to Nationals Next
Spring.
STOVE LEAGUE GOSSIP
BY WILLIAM PEET.

Back on the job again aft@ short
trip to Chicago, Manager Griffith, of the
Washington baseball club, yesterday lost
no time in denying the many rumors
which have been flying thick and fast
the past few days. Grin said:
Il have never asked for waivers on
Pitchef Carl Cashion and cannot under
stand how such a story could have been
given credence. Cashion will be with us
in Charlottesville next spring and I
have hopes that ne will come around all
right Casnion is a big. strong fellow,
and everything is favorable to his regain
ing the use of his arm 1t will be time
TO ask for waivers when / am convinced
that he can no longer deliver the goods"
Griff again denied that he was looking
for ball players while in Chicago and
added that the story printed in many of
the newspapers TO the effect that he had
granted George Mcbride permission to
accompany Charley Comiskey's White
Sox on their globe-trotting tour was all
bunk.
Il talked with Mcbride in Milwaukee"
vouchsafed Griff, land did tell him that
II he wanted to help out the White Sox
for a week or so 1 saw no harm In his
doing so, but as for going around the
world with that team, well, George
knows how l feel about that and re-
spects my wishes
In commenting about the action taken
by the majority of the Washington play
ers in holding of before signing their 1914
contracts, Eddie Foster the Climbers
third sacker. said yesterday:
whats the use Of belonging to ira
ternity. such as ours, il you don't pull
with them and do as they suggest? we
have all agreed to pass up signing our
contracts until the demands of the asso-
b,, nraSenfRd and discussed
with the National Commission We have
nothing TO lose by so doing, and we may
gain by it,
personally. I never have any trouble
about contracts, have never been hold
out. and don't expect TO be. j am willins
TO sign when the Players Fraternity says
the word
The first real, live stove league story
came to us last night in the shape OF a
news dispatch from Trappe, Nd, TO the
effect that Frank Baker, the Athletics
great sIugger, was going to retire, as he
had collected for himself a small fortune
and would rather be gentleman
farmer than professional ball player.
The fGea of Baker, while in his prime,
retiring from the diamond is really funny.
wonder what the next yarn will be?
Sporting Editor Herald-Dear Sir: Did
New York trade Crandall to st. Louis Tor
Larry Mclean? ALEXANDRIA FAN.
Answer-Yes, but the Giants bought
CrandaH back shortly after the swap
was made.
The following is from the editorial page
of the New York Sun:
Baseball now has the center of the |
stage at Havana, and La Lucha knows
how to serve up reports Of the game to |
please the ecstatic Cubans. American |
visiting teams find the Almendares, the |
Giants of Havana, hard nut to crack |
Pedroso has all the curves and fade |
aways; at first base Cabrera is as sure
as death or taxes on any ball he can
reach with his mitt; sRomanach is !
''star" at shortstop; Torriente is another |
J. Franklin Baker at the bat, while |
Hidalgo is equally good with the stick
and in center field The Almendares re-
Gently polished of the Birminghams,
10 !. This is a specimen inning for the |
visitors as reported in La Lucha:
''Mayer no las We pasaf (did not see
them go by-struck out). ELAN So suicida |
en- foul fly al catcher. Foxen muere en-
primera con asistencia del short tdies at
first with assistance from shortstopD |
skunk
No report CT a baseball game in Span
ish can be complete without borrowings
suit being a sort Of pigeon Castilian, thus:
"Hidalgo batea de roller al short Y es Que
en- la iuiciaI'-a blunt" that went wrong. /
Again: "KniseIey two bagger al right y
CENTER The "sumario" is almost pure
basebalIese, there being no convenient
Spanish equivalents for sacrifice hits,
stolen bases" and struck OUT
Over in dear old England the followers |
of the turf are lamenting the excessive
use of cigarettes among their jockeys
There is at present in England a most
noticeable dearth of capable jockeys, and
the reason is said to be that the young |
sters are entirely too fond of the coffin
tacks. Hon. G. Lambton, who trains for
Lord Derby, declares this to be the fact |
lie mentions the case of an acquaintance
Of his who happened to be travelling in
the same car with young jockey on the |
way to a race meeting, and the friend |
noticed that in less than an hour the
youngster had consumed three cigarettes. /
He rode hot favorite that day and was
beaten. The average English jockey-and |
most any Jockey, for that matter-is apt i
TO be Of rather humble origin, and the |
ease and influence they win when once
successful generally unbalances their /
judgment, They are paid too well and |
are pampered too much. and the result is |
that hey are frequently spoiled. There
is a -lg demand in England for jockeys
who mingie little common sense with
their success.
Baseball men are wondering who the /
joke will be on il Dode Criss, the big |
pitcher who was with the Browns sew
ersl years ago, and who was with Hous-
ton this season in the Texas League, |
turned out to be wonder for the New |
York Yankees. There are many who /
think that it is likely to happen. We
know one thing about Crisss and that Is
he can hit
The usual post-season picking of all
star baseball teams is on again in full
earnest. One of the latest selections is
that Of Manager Miller Higgins. of the
St Louie Cardinals, whose list is inter-
esting principally because he accords
first base position to Jake Daubert, of
Brooklyn. rather than his own Ed.
Konetchy. Many believe Huggins is
quite right in giving Daubert the prefer
ence as being the best first-sacler in the
game today. But what blow It must
be to Konetchy himself The Cardinals
manager and his first baseman have,
however, never been any too friendly.
Cardinal MidEets Win.
The Cardinal MIdeets easily defeated