The Washington herald., 1914-01-14
foster SIGNS
! With GRIFFITH
Climbers Third Sacker Dis
pels All Doubt as to Where
He Will Play.
RECEIVES AN INCREASE
Midget ln6elder Satisfied with Terms.
Old Fox Raps the Federal
League.
BY WILLIAM PEET.


contract with the Washington club yes
torday afternoon. thereby killing all
rumors to the effect that he might
jump TO the Federal League.
No sooner had Foster affixed his name
TO the necessary papers than Griff fired
a broadside at the Federal League, giv-
ing out the following statement:
1T looks to me as If the Federals
were trying to get whole lot of cheap
advertising, by announcing through the
papers the names of players they had
grabbed from the ranks of organized
baseball, when as a matter of fact only
very few have really signed.
Offering a player terms or contract
amounts to the same thing as signing
him according to Federal methods. First
il was Gedeon who had gone over and
today it was announced that Eddie Fos.
ter had agreed to terms, but you re-
member that Gedeon telegraphed a de
NAL from the Pacific Coast as soon as
he heard of the rumor. and now Foster
comes around TO my office when he gets
his contract, and signs up.
Il am not afraid of the Federal League
stealing my players. II any OF them
should quit the Nationals for outlaw
baseball, would make no effort to get
them back, for man with such little
sense would be of no use to me-
II is understood that Foster was given
an increase over the figures on his 1913
contract He said he never felt better
il, his life, and indeed he looked to be
IN the pink
Il hope to get away to a good start
this spring" Foster avered, "and would
rather work under riff than any other
manager in the big show"
\ cableSram says that a Frenchman
has lived a year without brain, but
some of our amateur ball players can
make his record look poor.
Howard Drew, the wonderful schoolboy
sprinter from Springfield, Mass, who
won honors for the United States at the
last Olympiad, is attending college in
Souther:. California.
Wearing the colors of his college he
virtually won for his team an important
relay race against a rival institution, and
the crowd which was beaten immedi
ately started to probe Drew's amateur
status raising the question. Why should
he go all the way to California for the
purpose OF obtaining an education. when
he would have been welcome at any OF
the big Eastern universities
1t is hoped that Drew can successfully
clear himself of all these charges. which
TO US appear shallow. and show an un-
sportsmanlike spirit
George Chip declares that his big bony
feet handicap him. Most scrappers are
bothered with something big and bony on
the other end.
Voolfolk. the big lanky tackle. who has
just been elected captain OF the Univer-
sity football eleven for 1914, is well
known to followers of the gridiron sport
here in the Capital. Voolfolk prepared
for Virginia at Episcopal High School in
Alexandria, where he played on the team
for nree years.
4" Philadelphia writer hints that the
source from which some of the Federal
League money comes may be laid at the
doors of an independent firm manufac-
turing baseballs, and that when the Fed
erals start doing business a baseball will
be adopted other than one bearing the
trade marks of Reach or Spalding.
1t is pointed out that q league like the
Federal. which at present is receiving
so much advertising, could boost and do
n lot of business for some big firm manu-
featuring basebafls.
What a corking fight a match between
Mike Gibbons and Packey Mcfarland
would make? Both can hit. are clever
and game as they make 'em.