The evening world., 1914-05-09
Secretary Foster Of Giants
Hires a Band TO Drown Cheer.
ing Of Visiting Second Base.
mans Upstate Friends.
Bv BO.en,an Bulger.

TOMMY EvERs may not be able
to lead the Braves as u hitter.
= but there is one place In which
he always goes far beyond tho 200
mark fixed as par excellence In the
Big League. Said place Is Troy. Now.
Just to give you an idea. the newspa-
pers OF Troy. one OF which In In front
OF us, for two weeks have carried a
half column "ad" explaining that
this, Saturday. IL tho ono and only
occasion on which the native sons
Of Troy. the city from where J. Evcrs
sprang. can see tho second base star
at his best and an excursion rate Of
3i.b0 round trip Is offered as an in
ducement for the homefolks to come
down to the Polo Grounds and cele-
brate. Az n result three hundred
Trojan rooters are In New York this
morning and J. Evers Ii In position
70 be fully repaid for the rough work
received at the hands OF Z. Webb
Murphy.
Yes, sir. the Braves are scheduled
TO be beaten on what has been de-
clared J. Evcrs day. ana John Foster
having furnished a brass band to
drown out the roofing. II should be
considerable occasion.
Up TO the present writing the
| Braves have yet to wan game from
the Giants, but with Dick Rudolph
primed and cooked for the fray and
Matty working on the defensive
| George Stallings thinks is about as
good chance as any. The fight may
not be the most cory affair on re-
| cord, but, at any rate. there VIII be
no mediation or Il watchful waiting
pc!!cy. q
The rain interfered with everything
but interviews. and the Braves were
quite willing to be quoted on any
thing that tended to show them fun
Of pep and confident OF finishing one
two-three. George Stallings and
Herman Nickerson, the demon, secre-
tary, attended IA matinee In the after
noon, but came back to tho hotel full
OF talk and long distance messages
StaIlings had to answer five OF these
long distance calls, which would indi-
cate that some kind OF trade is on
foot. George would not admit this
however, and we'll have to walt.
When the series With the
Brdpes Is opcr the Giants are
! going out to Pittsburgh to see
about that big lead of tho
Pirates. but as McGrdr says,
they are destined 10 lose some Of
Q the advertising. While the
r Giants are battling diody IN
! EmOketOrn. the YdnkS tDiH BE-
y tearing up the Polo Grounds. and
y u the Federdls piH be opening
a their season over in BROOKLYN.
a Those right handed hitters OF tn
Highlanders must have had som
tough Shedding against tho southpa,
~ shoots OF Dutch Leonard yesterday
n Again they were shut out. IA matte
|. that will require considerable explain
n ing. The enthusiastic fans hereabou
v have a notion that those pepper
h youths can hit anybody.
=. A crowd Of men grown gray
baseball were discussing artist
pitching during the rain yesterda
afternoon. and II was unanimous
decided that the work OF Ray Cal'
we'll In his shutout OF the Red Sc
a few days ago was the most artist
performance OF twirlinI that has ev'
II
I'd agreed that Nap Rucker had doi
er we'll against the Giants. but he maj
w. aged to do 1t on science alone al
without the natural stun.
ts Over IN Pittsburgh they are st
at marvelling at the work OF Hans Wa
.r ner, the gray-hairedN veteran, nc
g entering his fortieth year. The Ge
up man fee: leads all the inhelders al
has done more work on the bas
at than any man in the club, lie sa
he the acquisition OF Mowrey and Kons
TO chy has made Of the Pirates re
n pennant winning team.
One of the surprises Of the seas
8. a. well as ono Of the evidences
IL how youth win have Its sway h
M. been the benching Of Frank Schul
~. Of the Cubs. Two years ago Schul
~ vas presented With an automob
for being the best Aii'FSund a
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