The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-15
Mackmen Cannot See Boston Red SOx in 1913
Pennant Fight-Effort Will Be Made to Play
Game TOday-Other Sports
WARM UP ANOTHER WEATHER MAN
DO not wake or cal me esriy-let
Ne slumber, mother dear.
n hike to yonder ball yard / may
Drown to death j fear
By WILLIAM PEE'r

big money next October, and that the
only club in the Ban Johnson circuit he
has to fear is the Nationals.
Just think of it, you base ball fans,
the Athletics fearing Washington. Had
such a statement been made two years
ago, there would have been a hurry call
for sanity experts, and the guy pulling
such stuff would have been examined for
brainstorms, yet this is absolutely the
truth. The Athletics fear Griff's hus-
Ting youngsters.
Manager Mack is not shouting from the
housetops that but for Washington he
would start at once making plans for
the worlds series next fall, neither will
he impart this information to the local
baseball writer's, but such is the truth,
nevertheless, and he has made the state
ment to more tran one person since the
1913 season started, and down in his
heart he believes that if the Athletics
can beat the Griffmen the pennant is
virtually Won.
According to several of the Phila-
delphia players, there is a cog loose
in the Boston Red Sox machinery
the 1912 champions are far from right
at this stage of the game; in fact, the
Mackmen do not figure them better
than third or fourth place Just where
body seems 10 know, but they are
said to be far from the clean up
crowd of last year.
lis it true that Griff has refused to
ask for waivers on Catcher Ben Egan?
Connie Mack was asked.
Il do not discuss the question of
waivers with newspapermen,'' the
manager replied.
us Egan with the club now, and
Won 10 orrNr n Jim hi
SOM"
Yes answered Connie.
Further than that the White Elephants
leader would not talk. All of which
bears out the rumor printed by this
paper several days ago that, Connie
Mack was blocked in his efforts to
send Egan to Baltimore by Clark
Griffith, and that the Athletics would
carry four catchers this season rather
than allow Washington to add any
playing strength.
determined effort will be made to
pull off ball game in the concrete
coliseum this afternoon with the Ma
tionals and Athletics the contracting
parties. and if the playing field dries off
the combat will he staged with Bob
Groom or Tom Hughes in the box for
the Nationals, opposed to Carol Brown
of the Athletics.
Manager Griffith stated last night that
n game would have been played yester-
day had the sun appeared for a couple
OF hours, for a corps of workmen early
in the morning cleared the field of all
the surplus water, and a little sun would
have fixed things nicely, as it was, an
other day came and went the Nationals
and Athletics doing nothing but eatins'
and sleeping. the latter team at the ex-
pense of the owner
Whether the pennant race is resumed
in the near future is largely a ques-
ton of weather. (Joke)
Perhaps after all it would be good
policy for seven American League mag
mates TO pay Ty Cobb $4,000 year and
send him to Tombstone, Arizona
Jacinto Calvo the Nationals young
Cuban outfielder, was a visitor at the
Ebhitt House yesterday afternoon. call
ing upon the members of the Athletics.
Most of them are his friends, as the
Mackmen played in Havana last win
ter, winning the majority of their
games
Frank Baker Ira Thomas, and others
stated that Calvo looked like a mighty
sweet hitter, and withal promising
ball player to tnem.
With the Athletics is Harry Davis
the former manager of the Cleveland
Maps, who is Connie Macks right
hand man. The former first baseman
had nothing to say about his expert
ences with Cleveland last summer, but
on the contrary wished his prede-
cessor Joe Birmingham. the best of
luck.
Connie Mack is fortunate in having
right at his elbow a man like Harry
Davis. and if the White Elephants win
the championship this season, Mr..
Davis will have had big finger in
the pie.
The Athletics have with them four
promising young pitchers, who are be-
Ing carefully groomed by Connie Mack
for future service. They are Bush, a
big. husky highlander; Wyckoff, n
Wiliamsport, Pa, semi-pro; Burning,
from the sand lots of Louisville, Ky,
and Cottrel. left-hander, who made a
name for himself with Scranton. of the
New York State League last season.
This quartet will some day, it is be
lieved, take the places of Plank, Bender,
and Coombs, who are gradually drifting
into the "has-been" class.
Connie Mack was asked last night
shout his veteran outfielder, Danny Muir
nny, VINO, IL VIII De remembered, was
placed hors de combat all last year on
account of an injury
will you play Murphy in the outfeid
this season." Mack was asked.
That cannot say" he replied MUIR |
ply is not in the best of shape right |
now, and i certainly will not put him
i'm the game until he is right
Mansager Mack intiPated that Murphy
would be on the bench and used as a |
pinch hitter, or go into one of the outer |
gardens in case injury befell one of the |
young men now doing picket duty.
Although ii has been raining great |
guns ever since the opening game, Man
ager Griffith, of the Nationals has not !
permitted his twirlers to. do any loafing |
The Old Fox has insisted upon the ning- /
crs and catchers showing up every day /
and working out regularly underneath |
the grand stand. There is a space big |
enough for two pitchers to get busy at |
once, where the turf is firm and where
il is dry. Walter Johnson, Bob Groom |
and Tom Hughes work out in this shell
tered spot with the youngsters, so that
despite the fact that the sloppy diamond
has precluded practice the pitchers have
been enabled to keep in some sort of !