Evening star., 1914-01-26
YOUNGP|TCHERS
TO TRAIN EARLY
Griffith to Have His Recruits
Report Here Latter Part
of February.
WANTS THEM IN SHAPE
TO AFFORD TEAM PRACTICE
Regular Outfeld Will Have to Show
Form to Keep New Men From
Breaking Into Line-Up.
BY j. ED GRILLo.

! Jast When the squad of young pitchers
/ viii be ordered to report here to start
training has not been definitely decided
! oy Manager Griffith. He figures on giving
| the recruits about one week of indoor
/ work at the local y. NJ. G. A gym and
/ then sending them to Charlottesville
/ about week before the full squad re-
ports where outGoor work will be in
dulsed i'll The regular team will report
/ March 10 at Charlottesville
/ Neither Williams the Helena recruit,
| nor Bert Galla Will he asked to take part
i'll this preliminary practice, because they
are located too far away and both are in
a climate where they can work out
! doors.
! The pitchers who Will report here are
J Schwartz. Shaw. Engel Bentley and IIar-
per, -Ainslnitli Ryan and Munich will do
the backstopping, while Henry will report
i here in time To make the trip to Char
/ lottesvilld with the Young tWirlers.
/ BY giving the Young pitchers this
amount of preliminary work. l ought to
! have them in fairly good shape by the
! ufne the regulars report. and this viii
/ give them chance to indulge in some
beneficial batting practice for the next
month or so explained Griffith The
| seasoned pitchers Will take things easy
I for the first ten days or 50. SO that their
arms Will not be put under any strain.
+ l propose to go slowly with Cashon,
I too. to determine how good his arm in.
! He shall use his undeihand deiyerdy
| almost exclusively. and if he developes
| he ought to be one of our mainstays on
4 the rubber.
! 1T will he a lot of help to US next sea-
/ son if some OF these young pitchers come
| through. and | think We will have fair
/ y good line on them by the time the
season opens.
That Young Acosta and Ray
Spencer are going 10 put up Il hard tight
I for regular outtield positions on the team
| is admitted by Manager Griffith GriH be-
+, lieVcS that the time is not far off when
| Acosta will break into the lineup. and
| he hopes that Spencer. if he RECEIVERS his
health, will also show to better advan-
| ta-e. This pair looks to be the most
| formidable of the batch of recruit out
| feeders which will report this spring.
though McCabe. Meusel. Nye and Paul
Smith may prove To be of d calber which
will warrant their being considered. Meu-
/ sell the California recruit, is hitting 80
We'll this winter out on the coast that his
showing in practice viii be watched with
| interest. II he is the natural hitter that
| ne seems to be, he stands "a good chance
| Of cutting some figure when the makeup
| of the outtield is considered
! Nick Aitrocks signed contract
reached Manager Griffith this morning.
/ Nick had signed one of the old-form
| agreements some time ago. but Crit
| fifth returned this and forwarded Il
| new contract SO that Nick's engage
ment with the locals would not differ
| from that of the regular players.
! Nick writes that he is doing vaude
! vile turn with an actor named Evans
and that they are making "A big hit.
| Altrock will be one of the members of
=, the team to report early, as he Will
!. n n "A I'll
J pitchers during the training season.
/ The veteran knows a lot about the art
| of southpaw twlrllnS and IS an expert
| on catching runners mapping at first.
1 a trick which he will try to teach
| Griffith's recruits.
| For some unaccountable reason the
/ Federal League is keeping the form of
: its contracts in the dark. Harry Nelly,
| sporting editor of the st. Louis Times.
| after obtaining the forms in use in the
| two big leagues. wired President Gilmore
| Of the Feds for copy vi Il Federal
! League contract and WAS refused Gill
more sd wing that he could not acconino-
! date him at this time. but hoped to
! later on
| one of these contracts fell into the
| hands of Chairms. n Hermann of the
| tional commissio some time ago. and he
/ mad. the discovery that it contained "a
| reserve clause as veil as ten-day notice
| of release proposi ton.
| The fact that clyde Milan has not
| signed his contraot is nothing unusual
| Not since he has been "A member of
i the Nationals has Milan been among
the early signers. IN recent years he
has never come int" the fold until the
team reported at its trainin. camp
and that Is just about what viii hap
pen this year. MilsE has always con-
tended that 1t is no; satisfactory to
have "a lot of CORES pondence anent his
contract and that he iinds it easier to
do business by means of ii personal
! confab with his manager. The list Of
players signed and unsigned printed
in Sundays Star, as furnished by Man
lager Griffith, accidentally omitted the
name of Milan. There is no lnisunder-