Evening star., 1915-02-13

| ten an ode to Frank Chance.
| Pat Powers, the new Fed League
angel. is said to have $12,OOO,0OO be-
hind him. That's more than he has in
front of him.
| Roger Bresnahan has been living the
| peaceful life all winter. He has been
| careful not to take on much weight
| Bresnahan does not intend to be q
bench manager in any sense of the
| word.
Rumor associates the name of Frank
]. Farrell. former president of the New
York Americans, as one of the pro-
posed hackers of Billy Gibson in the
proposed transfer of the Jersey City
| international League club to the Bronx
Hugh Jennings says that Lajoie won't
NIL Eddie Collins shoes and that the
SoX will beat the Athletics out As
Hugh has the shoes of about nine men
to fill. he shouldn't worry about Lajoie.
Why all this hum about Hans" Wag-
ner not signing contract? He never
has signed until he reported for spring
framing in the eighteen years he has
been with Pittsburgh
Stuffy McInnis is great admirer of
Eddie Collins, but he declares that no
man could be found better able to fill
the gap left at second than the veteran
Larry Lajoie.
Just because 'Bill" Donovan hit .ese
sidering the possibilities of deyeIopinr
himself into pinch-hitter. Joe" Kelly
is ''agin" it.
Heinie Zimmerman. the Cub off.rd.r
thinks that when the National League
chose governor for it's president II
should have picked Cole Blease. the
pardoner.
Leslie Nunamaker, catcher is the first
or the Yankees to begin practice He is
at Hot Springs, Ark, where he hopes
TO Doll on ten or fifteen pounds before
reporting to Donovan at Savannah. Ga
When the st. Louis Federals reach Ha-
Vana the first week in March, Eddie Plank
Will have the pleasure of meeting once
again Charlie Deal who scored the
only run against him in the second
game OF the world series.
Should Wilbur Robinson slide his
Dodgers into the first division next season
he will have lost chance for a record
as the club only needs to trail this wear
to be In a class alone in this respect.
They have been in the second division
Tor twelve years now.
Joe birmingham, managers of the
Maps. declares that Mitchell has more
natural ability than any other n;tcb.r
VINO has been developed within the mast
iive years. Mitchell has not always taken
the best of care of himself and has been
rather unfortunate in meeting with ac-
Charley Ebbets told an interesting tale
OF me signing of Jack Coombs. When
,s,-d, ne Sisaleo with us he insisted that the
.eh-oay clause be inserted in his con-
tract You see, If he don't make good he
doesn't want US to keep him, If he dos
, ne can serve his ten-day notice and then
several outlaw league clubs want .b:
former Athletic pitcher '''e
Evidently Tommy Leach must bav.
peeh tipped Off that Roger Bresnahan has
sought waivers on his services for ~
veteran outfielder of the Cubs has notif;nd
Dave Fultz, Garry Hermann and RE-
laiaan i1s.I that he will demand his uncon-
II no one in the majors desires Tommv.s
services The ten-year service r7,ie -
plies to the midget o "p
nose reds overlooked presenting the
case OF Buster Brown in their PRAYER
10 Judge Lands. Brown. while a men.
Der OF the Phils several wears 80
went full season without pitching an
iii'iihs' yet ne received full salary.
one OF the novelties of the season
| is the Federal League holdouts. II was
! supposed that all Federal League play-
Si' "cAc PciicCtiy SATISFIED. bur Such
| is not the case. One baking nlaver
was Ed Rousch of the Indiana nolis
| Feds. who insisted on and received a
| big increase in pay. Another Hoosier
Fed who is holding out is Vim Camp-
| bell.
| Joe Villa has printed some figures on
the salary lists of the various ma ior
| league teams for the coming season
He says the Giants will pay out 500.
900 and he puts the Cardinals at the
bottom of the list with $4,000. Mr..
| Villa may, II he will investigate. learn
that President Britton pays salaries
! that will average higher than, say. 1--WE
| clubs in his league.
Two ball clubs came near losing val
liable players last week. Roscoe Faw-
cetr sends an account of the narrow es-
cape of Buddy Ryan. Salt Lake out
fielder. and Bill Rodgers, second base
man for the Cleveland Indians, while
| on motor boat in Oregon, from going
over falls and being dashed to death
along with several other members OF
| their party. Their motor failed to work
and they were so near death that all
hands had said goodbye and were pre-
pared for the end when by desperate
efforts they got the motor going and
checked their progress toward certain
death.