The Washington herald., 1914-03-13
GRIFFITH WILL RETAIN
WALLY SMITH WITH CLUB
In6elder Secured from Attain
ia Is Slated for Utility
Berth with Nationals.
REAL SNOW FIGHTERS
By WILLIAM PEET.


widespread feeling against capital pun.
ishment. and yet they sentence baseball
players to Charlottesville, CT, to bt
more correct, University, Va. That fam
Gus poem. ''Snowb, und," by John Green
leaf Whittier, might just as well have
been penned from this training camp, and
the worst is yet to come, for tomorrow
Is Friday the thirteenth. One of two ca
tastrophes is scheduled. This place viii
either be visited by al earthquake, or
Walter johnson win jump to the Feds.
Five times in less than three weeks has
Manager Gritith ordered the snow TO be
scraped OF Lambeth Field This after
noon the old Fo-- himself, armed with
shovel and a pocket full Of sponges .ss-
sisted in the work.
"Pn have my men out here practicing
tomorrow and on Saturday we will play
a ball game.,s Just wait and see." cried
the determined manager at the dinner
table tonight. .-.
Two traits in Grifith's character stand
out In the front row-persistency and
fight He refuscr to be driven out or
this town by a succession of snowstorms
and starts scraping the white stun on
the ball yard just as soon as the cppor-
tunity presents.
As a provider Of news for the repre-
sentatives of Washingtons quartet OF
daiIies. -Grir is a great snow shovelef.
Draw on your own imaginations, he
says, 4" you can see for yourselves what
] am up against"
The writer did manage to pry loose
from the Old Fox one stray bit OF news
Said item follows:
Wallace Smith, the Atlanta fence
buster. will be retained during the COM
ing season and held as utility infielder
when / bought Smith from the At
lanta club" vouchsafed the Old FOX L
got him for one of my utility inhelders.
and I purpose keeping him, for know
what he can do. He is the type OF pan
PLAYER ] like TO have on my oench. ne
aggressive. can hit. knows how TO run
bases and is a rattling good fielder. smith
Is a better man that either Rebel VIII
i.ms or RilI Morley, who were with US
last season when We were trying OUT I"
Iust who else will be retained nobody
knows except the Old Fox, and he won
tell.
Pitcher Henry Collier worked out Tor
the first time today and mace eoou
impression. He possesses Iree,
motion and although apparently ran Oh
build. appears to have lot OF speeo.
Griff admitted from the looks OF the
vounrster today, that Collier had
chance to make good in fast company
but he wants to sec more of the young
man before he commits himself.
Practice both morning and afternoon
was confined to within the four walls
of Fayerweather gymnasium. where the
pitchers went through their usual course
of sprouts and the others passed the
medicine ball. played catch. and chased
ha track
Joe EngeI had a lot OF trouble on his
hands today celebrating his twenty-first
birthday and nursing a sore arm III
was limited that the lame arm was the
result Of opening a stack Of mail that
nearly staggered the postman. Joe. him-
self declares that the sore arm is no
Joke and is more worried than he cares
to show. he fears that he may possibly
have caught cold in his right shoulder.
During a tanning bee tonight Griff
waxed enthusiastic over his great trio
of outfielders Shanks. Milan and Noel
lcr He said: Il consider Howard Shsnks
just as good a fielder as Iris Speaker, OF
the Boston Red Sox. and any ball hit
to left field which Shanks cannot catch
or scoop up no outfielder in the world
can get"
The Old Fox also believes that both
during the coming season in games played
on the home grounds. as he says con-
ditions underfoot will be much better
than any time in the history of the
Florida Avenue Park.
Mrs. Daniel Moeller. and Mrs. Chick
GandiI peeped in at headquarters for a
few minutes this noon. They were
curious to see what a baseball camp
looked like, and Griff received them
cordially. 1t was the frst time ladies
had stepped foot inside the camp quarters
since the club has been training down
here. Both ladies left for Washington
on late train this afternoon.
Unless il SHOWS again tonight Griff
feels sure he will be able to work on the
Lambeth Field diamond tomorrow aft
ernoon. There is still plenty of snow
covering the outfield, but this will be
scraped off in the morning and it is
hoped that the twice postponed game
against Virginia can be staged Saturday.
Eddie Foster is a vastly different look
ing kid from the Foster who was with
the squad last year. His eyes are bright
and there is plenty of color in his cheeks
There is no reason why the midget should
not get of to a flying start this season.
GILMORE A FIGHTER