Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-16
Nal Work of Shaping Team
for Playing Season =
Starts.
EXHIBITION ON THURSDAY
First Encounter to Be With
Boston Braves at
Macon.
from STAFF Correspondent of the New
ark Evening Starr

are making before starting on their
exhibition game tour took place today
when Harry Smith called his regulars
together and the band had long con-
Fab in Harry's room at the Racine
Hotel. Signals were the principal
topic of conversation. Hitherto, lit
tie team work was attempted, but
y, now that Harry Smith has shaped up
d lineup which he will try out in the
exhibition games beginning Thursday.
signals known to all of the men on
the regular squad are essential The
Tigers will leave here Wednesday for
Macon and will open their campaign
of spring battles with the Boston Ma
tionals on Thursday, in spite of George
Stellings' protests that he had ar
ranged but one game with the Inter
\ national League champions. Presi-
dent Charles H. Ebbetts, jr., has in
structed Harry Smith that two games
are scheduled in Macon with the Bos-
ton Nationals, and two games must
be played, if the weather is good.
Henry W. Medicus, treasurer of the
Newark club, will come down TO Ma
con to meet the boys and will look
after the hotel accommodations and
the details of travelling.
Smith Hopes for Hummel.
1t may be of some interest to the
fans to know that Harry Smith has
oil TNhH
Hummel on first base for the Tigers
on the opening day of the Interna-
tional League season. Harry says he
knows absolutely no more about tho
deal than a stranger, but his famous
bunch is working again and Smith
bet a straw hat that Hummel would
be at Swacina's position when the
Tigers face the Hustlers on April 81
at Newark. Something is bound to
happen very soon and there may be
some interesting news when the
Tigers reach Augusta, where the
Brooklyn club is in training. The
team is due there Saturday Roches-
ter has obtained Joe Schultz and New
ark naturally expects to get Bill Col
Inns. With Collins the Tigers may OBJ
tain Lew McCarty and Tex Erwin.
Erwin, it is known, wants to rejoin
the Tigers. For some reason Wilbert
Robinson wanted the veteran back
stop to help him coach his young
pitchers, and Erwin may be turned
over to Newark at any time to help
out Harry Smith Both Erwin and
McCarty will be welcomed, as the
team needs experienced catchers, in
the opinion of most of the Bengal
players.
Billy Jimmy at Work.
Billy Zimmerman is the life of the
camp since his arrival here. There
never is an idle minute that Bill is
not up to some new trick. Bill, just
now, has all of the boys sold to major
completed a deal yesterday whereby
Edward Zimmerman, the human 1y-
namo, who covers third base for the
Champions, will go to Chicago; Jack
Dalton is sure to wand up in Cincin-
natl and Gus Getz is carded for the
Harry Swacina and Eddie Gagnier
last year.
One sutry afternoon, when every
body was feeling that life was a bur-
den. and nothing on earth worth
while, Bill sidled up beside Eddie
Gagnier and said; "Look-a here, Ed,
] oughtn't tell you this, but l got it
straight that Frank Chance wants
you. He is going to send this here
Pecky-Pec-you know who I mean"
Bill pretending he coulds not recall
the name of Peckinpaugh. yes, he
will send Peck-here''
81 know who you mean," butted in
Gagnier, "Peckinpaugh," he said,
swelling up with pride.
Yes, that's it," said Bill, sort of
acting like he had recognized the
name. "Peckinpaugh is coming to
Newark and you are going to the
Yanks."
Now Gagnier took particular pleas
ure in his ability to bunt and the
boys often fed him vanity by prais-
ing him on his art of sacrificing. So
Bill said Ed, you are going to hit
300 in bunts alone next year for the
Yankees"
Gagnier was in supreme estasy now
and he posed with an imaginary bat,
showing just how he hunted the best
pitchers in the International League.
II am so sure that the deal will go
through" said Bill, II will bet you q
s. hat that you go up this fall. A
friend of mine on the inside told me
all about it,
you're on came back Gagnier,
with an ever widening grin. And he
sat down and wrote out an agree
ment which read, 81 promise to pay
Bill Zimmerman a IS hat if do not
go up to the big show this fall"
Bill was kidding at the time, but
he woke up one late summers day to
find that Gagnier had been drafted
by Brooklyn, and Bill was out a s.
hat. Gagnier would probably have
been sent to Troy, as Hank Ramsey
wanted him, if he had not jumped to
the outlaws Bill is getting ready to
pay for the hat Gagnier won, how
ever.
Zimmerman, in recounting his
many experiences in Porto Rico, tells
how seven men were swept off a life
boat by one wave and seven men We're
sweDt back again by the same wave.