Evening journal., 1914-03-07
JACKSON In
JOVIAL MOOD
AFTER CHICKS
Sets "COIn High" Pitcher and
a Few etherS Who Are
Afraid Of Southern Bugs

Il weigh as much as sixteen
shocks Of Jersey corn. stand as high
as the tallest stalk and am growing
yet" was the information Fritz
Soluble. a Williamstown, N. j., lad,
sent to Jimmy Jackson's letter Of in
formation recently regarding his
weight and height after "Fritzie" had
been recommended TO the Wilmington
Tri-State manager as a Chick mound
artist this year Being a bakers
bread and bagged cereal fed Philadel-
phian just now. Jimmy wasn't salts
fed with Schuble's vague information
regarding his claim to a Tri-State
pitchers berth, so he got into COM
munication with the pennsylvania
Agricultural College at once, and
learned that Fritzie ought to have
written that his weight was 100
pounds. his height six feet three-and
"he's growing YET Jimmie was
satisfied, OF course Fritzle comes
we'll recommended, and unless somo
cog in his pitching machinery slips.
he ought to 90 Allen Russell a few
better this year And Fritzic is only
20 years old. Jackson has since
learned that Fritzie is a second "Cy'
foung, which. of course, is all the
better
Jackson told the Fritzie story while
In town yesterday He also brought
the information that Clarence Bussius.
another six-footer, of Washington. and
Earl Bennett of Cambridge, Maryland.
had been signed by the Chicks as
nitching rockies. Allen Russell has
written Jackson that Bennett will
make good. Bussius. likewise, Is
well recommended. and even though
Tobln and Darlington balk this year
IN favor Of the Federals, jackson feels
that in Tom Brown, Soluble and
Bennett he will have the nucleus of
as good a pitching staff as the Chicks
ever started with. To date, Tobin
and Darlington have failed to send
IN their contracts
AS to hold-outs. there are five on
the team--Kerr. Tobin, Darlington.
Sharpe and McKenna. of whom only
Kerr seems to be making any real
noise. The National Commission
has sent the doctor back to the
Chicks and If he does not come It will
be his funeral. Tobin and Darling
ton, Of course, are wanted. but if Nc
Kenna and Sharpe refuse to sign at
The Tri-State limit, Jackson has men
whom he believes can fill their shoes.
IA fact, Jackson has W. j. Neylan. Of
he New London, Connecticut League
team, TO play regular outfield posi-
tion. Last year Neyan batted 2.55
IN khort season, and with himself,
Neylan and another hard hitting
helder in sight. Jimmy is satisfied
thYt the champions will have as swift
anl put garden as they had when Gus
Glqchman cavorted near the Bull.
1l e Fritz status is not worrying
JacA m. just now Fritz is in the
Chict Ii Federal iimelight. but no
lnattQ whether Harry goes to Chicago
or toNroy. jackson will have a good
man o4 the third corner. The latest
Chick Nlird baseman in sight is Oscar
Jacobs Of Aberdeen. Md, who star
red in the Tri-County League last
year, and from first hand informa-
ton, seems to be good enough Tri-
State material.
The Chicks have sold Louis Grohe
TO the Evansville. Indiana. Central
League team Grohe covered third
station after Mecherly was disabled in
1912, and was suspended last year at
his own request because of outside
business reason. In appreciation
of Grohe, the Evansville owners have
promised the Wilmington owners a
man who has a good chance TO sue
coed Tony Marhefka. and il Jackson
and Pete Cassidy know ANYTHING
about the ability of a player, the
Chicks short garden man this year
will make Kid Stutz look like a
loaded ice wagon.
Jimmy has raised an awful fuss in
philadelphia because he has signed al.
most every ball player worth signing
while the other managers sat around bv
The stove and wondered what one they
would take. Jimmy Just beat them to
y that's all. Many of the younger fell
lows who looked very promising has
been promised a spring training trip in
the South. That's a pretty big thing i'm
the eyes OF a youngster. and IL seemed
that Jimmy was going TO lose out but
not so with the manager of the Cham
pion Chicks He had turned a few tricks
before
With line of talk that sounded like
friend telling his dying pal good bye,
Jimmy let slip the fact that many young
Uul NlHN tir WIN ~ uuWN INTO Iit
swamps of the South and play bah in
gum boots when not lodging alligators.
o. trying to escape the bite of some
dangerous bug. seldom amount to much
ufterward All OF them had heard of
malaria and the way it affects North
crDers In a Southern climate. Jimmy
told them he had known severa, young
fellows who went South got malaria and
never werc any more good BY this time
th, youngsters mouths We're open One
Of them. Pierce. jackson SAYS. asked for
a Chick contraf Immediately. and
signed up Pierce also hit the trail for
q doctor at once. The other fellow,
swallow, was a little wiser Well. he
says, Cobb IS from Georgia
Jimmy felt gone. Yes he sighed
'it's too bad the other boy didn't live
have seen him fan his brother seven
straight times and he was his equal as
slugger. but he got malaria. on was IL
yellow fever and died. I believe he
would have been the greatest pitcher in
the business
Swallow said goodbye, and Jimmy
fiio1ght it was the last Of him. Two
ddys later up rolled a big automobile
fd Jimmie's door and out got Mr. Swal-
loAf Two days OF thinking about the
dsngers of the South was enough for
him. He, too. asked for a contract and
signed up. at the same salary az Earl
Mack had offered him, but without the
"trip in the South.
Jackson Is now in a trade dicker
that involves one of the old Chicks
ftr another good man, but whether
the player is. or Is not. doc" Kerr,
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