Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-21
FEDERAL LEAGUE SCOUT
CAUGHT IN BOSTON CAMP

team and look better almost man for
man.
This Federal League business has
the players all agog. 1t begins to
look as though the outlaws really in
tend to get players to jump contracts.
and they are even now preparing to
test, in Georgia courts, the validity
of the injunction which has been
drawn up to restrain Gessler and Sto-
vail. Stallings claimed to have a
John Doe paper for the same purpose,
but it was thought that George Is
saying q good deal just for the pur
pose of soaring off the Feds. Now.
however, it looks as though George
really knew what he was going about
when he made his moves. The Geor-
gia law, however, will not protect
Stallings's team after leaving this
State, so the Boston team will have
to switch to Georgia or stand the
risk of losing some of its players be-
fore the season opens.
GfhBru EFOuucbs
Zach Erhard is product of the
league, and so Is Jack O'ROurke.
George Stalllngs has two Cuban play
ers here, too who were with the New
York and New Jersey League, as 1t
was called, last year. The Tigers will
play in Augusta today and Monday.
Hall and Enxmann Ready
Beanie Hall and Johnny Enzmann
are ready to show the BrooSlyns that
Newark knows how. Johnny wants
to get square with Nap Rucker for
that / to defeat last year.
Holiness Modesty HeIps RucBSer.
The players are telling a funny
story about Ducky Holmes. the Tiger
pitcher. They say that when Holmes
was first drafted from Augusta by
Brooklyn he said to Patsy Donovan,
81 am not the man you wanted to
get. Nap Rucker down there has it
all over me-" Brooklyn went and got
Rucker for $500 and Holmes wound
up with Rochester. That's modesty
for you!
staillnRs Likes Tigers
George stallings is loud in his
praises of the Tiger champions, and
though George seldom has much to
say, he comes across with a state
ment that the Bengals are one of the
finest minor league clubs he ever
saw After watching the Smith crew
in two games. George, who Is a good
judge OF baseball material, has had
time to get a pretty good line on the
Newark players.
81 believe" said George, who very
seldom talks, that this Newark team
could whip most anything that ever
won a pennant In the International
League. What's more, with a few
deft touches 1t could be made into a
major league outfit that would be in
the running in either of the big
leagues. like this youngster Sher-
rod Smith He is natural ball player !
In every move he makes. He was too |
young and too light when Fred Clarke
let him out, but now he has filled out, |
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great year.
Stallings has little chance of get
ting any Tiger players unless through
the Brooklyn Club, but he win un-
doubleday put In drafts for two or
three next fall.
Iii Myers's Hitting Pieases.
Something which tickied Harry |
Smith here was the way Hi Myers
hit the ball. Harry seems to have
picked just the right man in select
ing Swacina's successor as cleanup
man. Myers is a fellow who re ponds
best under the pressure of coming up
in a pinch Yesterday he had two
line hits, one a single and the |
other double. Both drove in runs
Myers was the only Tiger to make |
hit while Perdue pitched Billy Zim- |
norman showed his class, too, by
starting a rally in the last round, |
when he singled as a starter.
Erhard Plays Well.
Erhard, too, came through with a
clean hit that sent home a run Zach
played first base after Smith tainted,
just as ne was taking his position in
the first inning to play first base. Err
hard handled himself well in the field
and lived up to expectations In every
way.
George Smith, Jr., TO Retire.
George Smith. jr, who had an at
tack of heart failure yesterday. will
probably play no more baseball. He
was left in charge of trained nurse
at the Dempsey Hotel, in Macon, with |
orders to leave for his home as soon
as he recovered. His transportation
was left with him by Treasurer Henry
w. Medicus.
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