Evening star., 1915-02-25

Terry was effective in that game
against all batters but Delehanty. who.
that day. broke all batting records
Ed Delehanty was one of the greatest
batters that the game has ever pro-
duced. His drives were terrific. ana ne
was also a star player in the held ana
on the bases. But Delehanty was In
his prime in the days when salaries
were low, and he really never drew
big salary, though he jumped to the
American League the first year that
circuit expanded, taking in Washing
ton, with which team Delehanty was
playing at the time of his death.
Rube AIarouard is back with the
Giants. The eccentric southpaw OF the
New York team signed with the Fed
eraI League last fall and drew Sl,ooO
advance money. He was under two
year contract with the Giants at the
time, but had given the Fed club with
which he signed an affidavit In whicn
he stated that he was not tied up TO
the New York club. Just what action
the Feds will take against Marquard
now that he has failed to live up to ms
contract with them remains to be seen
He will. no doubt, arrange to pay back
the money he received from the in
dependents, but that may not be salts
factory, for Marquard misrepresented
facts to the Feds.
BY the end of next week all the ma
jor league training camps will be in
operation Several hundred ball play
ers will be striving to attain the phys-
ical condition and practice necessary
for them to give their respective ciuns
their best services by the time the
opening of the championship season
rolls around That is to be April IA.
A part of Grifith's team will start its
work Monday at Charlottesville. when
la squad of pitchers and catchers will
begin to timber up their arms.
Jacobsen, the former Chattanooga
outfielder, purchased by Detroit last
fall, seems to be slated for regular
job on Jennings team the coming sea
SON. This youngster proved himseli
quite a hitter, in the Southern League.
and Jennings would not be at all sur
prised if he proved strong enough 70
take the place of Veach in left field.
At any rate, he is sure to be the IT,
gers utility outfielder. for the only
other gardener Jennings had-Fred
Nicholson-has been sent to san Ahto-
nio. In the Texas League, which leaVes
Jennings with only Cobb. Crawford
Veach and Jacobsen
Branch Hickey of the Browns is beat
ing the barrier this spring: hickey az
ready has several of his athletes WORK
ing out under the not sun dt fiouS.C,''
Tex. The players are Shotton. VIII
liams, Pratt, Leary, Lowdermllk ana
Perryman.
Advance information is to the effect
that Hickey is going to spend much OF
his time trying to improve Pratt, his
second sacker The fielding of this
PLAYER was rather weak. but he Is
dangerous hitter, and for this reason
is being carried
Eddie Collins will be the third batter
on the White Sox batting order the
coming season if Manager Rowland
does not change his plans. Weaver,
as formerly, will lead off. and Brief,
the new first baseman, will follow him
Then will come Eddie Collins, who
will have ''Shano" Collins batting
after him After that Rowland has
not been able to decide how he viii
arrange his hitters. Felch. if he shows
ANYTHING, is sure to be well up in the
list. but it remains to be seen whether
this chap is the hitter that he proved
himself to be with Milwaukee last
season.
There appears to be some douo, IN
the minds of good judges as to how
good a hitter Felch is. He had the
record for strike-outs in his league
last season, tanning ia times Ron
deau, who comes here this spring. nm
ished ahead of him in the averages