The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-05-18
LINING EN- OUT

The Senators have made complaint
against the Athletics score board.
claiming II lnterfercd with the play
ers' batting. The Athletics score
board has an old habit OF interfering
with the ponnant aspirations OF other
American league teams.
There are nearly nny doublc-head-
ers store up now In the big leagues
to be played Off later. Il begins to
look as u they'd ave to introduce
morning baseball to carry II off.
CLARK Griffth has picked an "ai
time baseball team Win his play.
ing days dating back to the early days
OF baseball and having, as manager.
a real line on the present stars. he is
peculiarly fitted for such "a job and
his choice is interesting.
Not the least notable h his choice
OF Comiskey as first baseman. lie
rates him far above Anson and
! Brouthora saying that he was the
first man 10 realize the possibilities
Of first base. Hal Chase az his best
ne picks as Comiskey's nearest rival
Eddie Collins is his choice Tor sec
ond. above fred PREFER Of the White
son OF other days n McPhee OF tho
old Cincinnati Reds as well as over
Ltjoie Herman Long. of the old
Boston club, above "a host Of men N
GLIDING Jennings, Dahlen, Corcoran
Wallace. Wagner at short. while Jim
mic Collins OF Boston Is placed at
third
OF the outficld. two are stars OF to-
day. Ty Cobb In right Speaker OF
the f,ed Sox In center. and Btl Lange
Ia loft Is the way he picks II. lie
says hat outficldors have improved
immensely. and that only Langc OF
all the old timer BE- eve close TO
Speaker and Cobb.
Buck" Ewing. OF New York. no
unhesitatingly gives the call as
catcher. saying that Mike Kelly. OF
the old Chicago club. was the only
man who ever approached aim. No
catcher Of today. declares Griff, is In
their class.
In pitching he gives today and yes
tegday an even break picking Rusie
and Young, OF the ancicntA and
Mathewson and johnson of the mod
crn pitchers.
Is Iris Speaker suffering from the
world tour has his ing salary affected
him. or IL he Just plain going back q?
Ever since he signed the famous
contract calling for "$1S.500" a year
AS "a matter OF fact his salary is
Sl2 00O-Tris has not looked himself.
lie rounded into shape slowly In
the spring. and since the season has
started he has looked anything but
good at bat II Is not only HE fall
ar. 60 get hits. but his attitude at
the plate hat les worrying He'd soN
followers.
,, may be that he has only tenn
porarily fallen off. but. taken In
connection with the fact that he did
not loo good at the close OF last
sensoR baseball men In the east
feel that Iris Is In for "A bad year.
"Clocking' each others attendance
10 "a faVoritc sport with the federal
and major league clubs Ia the towns
where the two compete. The COM
peting cities are s,urdily telling lies
about their crowds, b-' accurate fig
urcs can be- obtained from the other
league In each case.
They have introduced into baseball
the mysterious stranger, Tie leans
casually against something and
watches people enter. In his pocket
he holds a mechanical counter and
clecks off the fans as they go In.
The r counts seem To show that
the Feds have been getting a shade.
la 81 Louis a couple OF Saturdays
ago. a double header was staged and
with this advantage the Federals GU
drew the Browns about ii00O To $500
these figures being In each case
unofficial and therefore reasonably
truthful. In Chicago the Feds about
doubled the cubs crowd though eX'
act figures az, not to Zoe had.
Some Of the Chicago fans want the
scoring rules changed There was q
gent IN Minneapolis who wrote many
postcards telling about his simpiihet
; scoring. Any time that a bnttci
} reached first he was credited with one
} point. IL he reached second he re.
eeived two and u he got 20 thire
} three. OF course, " he scored h
was credited -four. A point for every
base, see.
The sox fans wan that system
adopted. They figure " they could
I have their was the S0X would vii
the penuant before July g. They ha'
, 10 men left On bases In a recent game
But they scored only two runs, They''
certainly be worlds champions, woul'
those Sox. II they could have tina
system adopted.
. Bili Carrigan IL not doing well will