The Washington times., 1915-06-03

A month ago the shrewd leader or
the Athletics remarked that Tor Two
wears he had seen his great team fall-
ing behind. For those two years the
team had been winning largely on past
reputation, opponents being daszled oy
,nere names. Connie named no names.
but he evidently meant more than
Bender, Plank. and Coombs when ne
so spoke. He could not have meant
either Eddie Collins or Frank BAKER
80 there must be other Mackfnen now
who have begun to show the STRAIN Oh
the years. ..
1roday the Mackmen have q greaI
catcher in wallie schang;. a w9nderiul
Trst baseman In "Stuffy' Mclnnis. d
fine outfielder In Amos Strunk' al tlIee
Young enough to form a nucleus. WIN WIN
a pitcher or two, tor ohahis Lne that Eddie
Murphy will be retained ana that JAZZ
Rsrrv will be kept for his headwork
in the infield. but the Atnletics r'un, uo,
be reconstructed, II they are 10 ,,,t,,ra i,num'
EhamptoiM And pnnnie Mack has hinted his readi-
nass to reconstruct his team In MS own
The The Macks' leader has a weakness
for college players. those ,,iTns sapabie of
absorbing his ideas of diamond iore,
apsS' Il H. NOR more than likely that every one
- his new players will be college men.
many from obscure institutions; tor the
Philadelphia leader goes out vs mo- For his his
raer,,its' Malone is the first OF these
voungsters to appear, but II Is peneVeo
,era fhat before the end Of the month az
least three more will be found IN fniia-
delphia uniforms, looking t3r r Tnnnis
to break into the lineup; For Conn.e
doesn't like being in the cellar any more
than do the philadelphia fans.
over here they are crediting Joe Enge,
with making public the idene desenS col.
iegian. Engers alma mater MT: 81
Merv's. has for her principal opponen'
on diamond and gridiron this same M
ST. Joseph's. Engel has played SEM;
pro ball with Malone. ana ne rec reGoEiI9 intro.
duced Malone under the name OF Ryan
promising to tell his real name nsX' .
| week. That would have been atter MI
St Joseph's had played its champion
ship contest with MI: ST NARY ot ,itti.
plan. and so Malone will hardly play
against Engers alma mater.
| II Engel had not recognized malone
Tommy Connolly would have. for I'M
newest Griffman played against MaIOn' rn
about Ave weeks ago at Baltimore Con
molly, like Engel. recognized the Mack
man as soon as he saw him.
| When Eddie Collins broke into bit
league baseball, he did 30 under th'
name of Sullivan. At that time Collins
was star OF the Columbia Universit!
nine. His professionalism was discoV
, erred md he was barred from playing
any more baseball on the Columbi'
team. Like him, Malone Is out OF anna
teur snort hereafter but as he Is booke'
TO graduate in a few weeks, he Is hardl!
worrying over 1t. go,
By the way, Malone looks like a com
ing star. He Is a right-feld hitter, driv
ing the ball viciously after a poWerfu
swing. Facing. Walter johnson Is hard
ly good medicine for youngster' ou
he stood up to the plate with grea
Goodness and was not frightened by tn
great reputation OF his adversary. H
handles himself well in the field, show
ing unexpected ability to tag a slidin
runner. Malone has evidently played
lot of baseball, and has learned some
thing, Last year he was with Fred
erick, Md, in the Tricity League. II
played for that team on May z thi
year against Martinsburg. When Con
ME Mack induced him to join the Ath
letics, Frederick gave him his releas
so that he could take his place In highe
ranks.
Jack Bentley, the Sandy Spring (Md
southoaw, has joined the Gritfmen herr
getting in late Tuesday night and M
pearing for breakfast yesterday morn
ing When the Grihmen were In tn
West Bentley showed an unwillingnes'
J away from home. He has overcom
.Loa. ahtaetinna n0yU and admita hi