Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-24

all The new recruit is a right -hando-
md achieved fame while pitching for in
teams.
outiieldcr Hanger of the Waterbury
,lub has been sold 10 the Evansville
rcntrai League club. Manager Ice Foil
IF Waterbury accuses the player OF ~
difference. and on several occasions dur
ng the 1917: season. Hanger was tenn
porarily suspended.
The Victoria. British Columbia. clGh
mas secured the services of Bill German,
former manager of the Decatur ThreeI
League team. from Terre itaute of the
Central Association. German. along with
Pitcher Doyle. was traded for Pitcher
Charles Alberts.
Nashville critics are jubilant over the
chance to be given George Beck. youth
full pitcher who will be taken south under
George Stallings for a trial with
the Boston Braves. Beck was originally
signed by the Phillies. but Stallings be-
lieves he's landed a first-class twirler.
E. w Dickerson, president of the Mich
igan State League. believes that six clubs
should limit the census of "A minor leagu-
circuit The Michigan State League first
the advantages of this con
tention, Dickerson remarks. while the
Central and Tr-State Leagues followed in
the order named.
Putting the jersey City team of the In
ternational League in Brooklyn and the
Toledo nine of the American Association
ii Cincinnati is the scheme now undcr
consideration To foil the NallinSfoia
League. Vast changes III the base bal!
map will be made before the ides OF Sep
TENDER.
Mike Rosch. well known base ball char
acter. has decided to again follow The
charms of professional base ball. Accord
ingly Rosch has sold the Hotel Mcdonald
of Binghamton n Y. and is now prepar-
ing to loosen up his rluscles for an active
1914 come back Rosch desires To be-
come manager of a minor league club.
Run down and killed by a switch engine
on the eve of his marriage was the SAD
fate of Bill Clayton. pitcher FOR the
Bloomington club OF the Three-l League
for brief period in 1919. Clayton accept
ed position as q brakeman in Salem, III
in December 1913. and met his death
while attending to his duties as track in
Spector.
Catcher Mccabe. who will be given a
trial with the St Louis Cardinals next
spring. halls from a little jerk-water town
in Missouri. McCabe started his base bah
career with a troupe of transformers. and
so deep was the impression made that tn
big league scouts grabbed him. lie IS
said to be reliable. thrifty and an intelli-
gent player.
The battery candidates of the Harvard
base ball team will begin work in The
cage at Cambridge February ! under
the direction of the coach. DIR. l.. b.
Nicholas The fielding candidates viii
not be called out until March ]. ON" ~
the infield candidates is Charles Brick
ley, the foot bali player.
The famous pitcher of the Portland
tOre.) club last season. Zerah H. IL
german, has announced that ne mas
not signed with the Federal League
and never expected to. Hagermah mas
! been purchased by the Cleveland club.
and states that he will sign contract
| lust as soon as he receives one i,ase
| ball scouts say that HaSerman VIII Ne
! a sensation III the American League
| next season
| President william r. Baker Of tho
| Philadelphia club returned TO New
York from the Quaker city. whefe ne
has been looking after the business =
/ his club. He is not alarmed u, me
outlook and believes that hiabe -
tbe only PLAYER his club VIII lose 10
the Federal League. While IN fhiA-
| delphia Mr.. Baker had talk Win
! PRESIDENT John X. Tener of the Ma
| tional League.
| New York fans are anxious to see Frank
! Chance get back into the game as reeui''i
| 1rst sacker for the Yankees. There :
| chance that the former peerless ieader
| will he seen at the initial station ~
| few contests during the 1914 season
] Domestic comforts and thriving
| bnstel,y of which he rules supreme.
I caused President Galloway of the ~
| lapta Southern League club to ree',NF
AN unsigned contract from 10 ~
! AIpcrm.t. the captain OF tue Sou'"t'
! Lea que champs last year AiptF"i"f
! saws there's too great a proht ~ nl'h
| aging a hotel TO decide as TO his ba''e
| ball career at this early period.
! cant Adrian L. Arson has been
.;ov ned With Il =ood-szed horseshoe
/ bv George NJ Conan. the celebrated
| Nv 10 I;uit opei comedian. "ha
wrote the vaudeville sketch whieh "
| now beng presented N an edS ~,
| circuit bv the veteran PLAYER and the
| yankee boy refused to accept one
| copper cent for instructing Arson nov
/ to buck and wing in an up-to-date
| manner.
! starting his professional base bali ca
! reer with the Des Moines club of the
! western League W. X. Marshall. tof-
1 mer catcher for the Chicago cubs. hHs
! affixed the doctor symbol before hiS
/ name ;.Itd is now "A fun fiedged i'iiN-
iciap with his home ana office n tli"-
: ton XIV Follow ing his stay with l'tS
1 NnireS br Marshall was dra fist ~
| the New York Nationals and assisNd tue
| Giants in winning the championship IN
! 1905 In 1905 he played with the -
| Louis Nationals and in 1905 he was
member of the worlds champion CUBS.
While il takes but three strikes 10
4 convince the umpire that your man ~
! out Willie Mitchell hurler for the
| Cleveland Maps. will testify that "
| takes an extra shoot to down a Srowl-
| a quail-hunting expedition in Sardis.
J ing from behind tree. The beast
, started to pounce upon Mitchell. hut
after Willie had missed three times
| straight. The fourth shot took effect
and now the animals skin is adpfh7
: .,..- Mitcheirs honor den
( Tf Ed SniiI the Chicago sporting writ
err. purchases the franchise of the Denver
! Western League club from the enterpriS-
/ ing James e. Mstiill. Billy Sullivan. vet
| eran White SoN PLAYER. viii be appointed
manager of the team without further
dickering Smith considers Sullv one or
the greatest characters in base bah and
points to the fact that it was sullivan
who developed Ed Walsh and other
pitchers of note.
| bia have subscribed literally to fund
which will he used in launching teams 10
represent those cities in the South A.
! a