Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-07
LOSS OF DEAL MAY
AFFECT THE BRAVES
Team Will Be Handicapped if
Smiths Broken Leg Gives
Him Trouble.
ST. LOUIS A HOME FOR "BUGS"
Baumgardner the Third Eccen-
trio Player Appearing
in Lineup.

Jim Garney. OF tho " worlds ord champion
a Bos GSd braves, makes light of the loss
Feds. Deal was hero in the big
series" he says. but only because Red
Smith, our regular third baseman, was
earnest young fellow, but he was only
a second-string player. substitute, SO
we Will not miss him much"
What Gaffney says about Deal being
only substitute Is al true enough.
But indications are that Gaffney is
missing The mark when he says the
times when substitute rises to tho
Importance of regular, and the pres
those times. Red Smith broke his leg
badly just before the close. of last sea-
son: and peal proved quite so useful thd
worlds series against the Athletics
was played. Smiths leg mended in
and he has been able to walk since
about six weeks after the injury. How.
ever. it is no sure thing the limb will
playing. 1t may mend just as we'll as
Johnny Evers's leg did several years
ago. 1t may be just as good as ever.
But the chances are about two to one
that it won't, basinE the calculations
on nov ssS mapH ersd IN the
If Smith should be bothered with his
bad leg during the coming season and
nnabls to perform on reginarly w The
Deal gone. there is possibility that
Stallings's men will not have n single
of real R WGrth e9
George Whitfield to a, Quaker contract
nelder Sherwood Magee goes to Boston:
ye esr rested Gf In the the crseE
pitching staff. and 40 per cent In the
star infeld, composed OF Charley
Schmidt, Johnny Eyers, Rabbit Maran-
with Deal missing, everything depends
one cog will be taken from that infield
it it to ruin the chances OF the Braves
for n second National League pennant
Gilmore n Muster Tnlkcr.
James ~. Gilmore, president of tho
Federal League has come In for his
leading the fight against organized
baseball. The chief fault found with
him is that he will make statement
apparently lacking sincerity. Blu:
what other big man In baseball, on tho
other side Of the fence. has not APP
Johnson has not held the same opin-
ions day In and day out. The same San
be said of Garry Hermann and other
Perhans Gilmore is guilty Of the vac
iliating he has been accused Of, Per-
haps he is even n bit worse in this. re.
baseball. Even granting. that this Is
SO. there are plenty OF things that can
be said In the extenuation of him. In
n number of respects Gilmore is abso-
lutely tho ideal kind of man to have
as proxy of n new venture like the In
dependent league. First among his viz
tues is being master talker for effect:
This has been shown in n number OF
ways. 1t is not his forensic ability-he
is no great orator or gesticulator-so
original ideas that gets results for
him.
by Gilmore was getting men of money
Interested in tho league. He was able
to impress utter strangers with the
sincerity, Of his belief that the Federal
thing eventually. and he also drove
homo the conviction that his reaching
In sps
men of tho organized fold that the
Feds did not have chance. Gilmore's
Keeping these capitalists in line. and
in fact whipping others into line.
though thus far the league as been a
and nothing coming In.
Where Gilmore has made the most
prononnced impression Is among the
sympathy with organized baseball and I'd
quite number lack respect for some
of Gilmorc'ss methods. yet they. all have
maker he is Particularly when Gil
more hits New York is he beseiged by
the baseball writer's. and he will parry
and thrust with them for hours. Spring
ing something brand new every few
minutes. He is one of the most re-
markable publicity builders every
known in the world of American sport.
Rowland between Two Fires.
If Charles Rowland. the new man
aEer of the White SoN, proves n sue
cess in the new job, he Will be deserv-
Rowland g N
about as peculiar position as ma
jor league manager ever found him
himseif--he comes directly from the
leadership of the Peroia club OF the
Thrce-I League-hc will be awkwardly
fact that he Viii be trying to boss
major performers, That. however, is
only small part of his worries. His
within the Chicago club. Jimmy Cal
lahan, who managed the team last
year Is now Owner Comiskey's assis-
tant, as business manager Eddie Col
Inns just purchased from the Athletics,
and who will be out there on the field
playing second base. is said to have had
Thus Rowland seems to be between two
flres-Callahan from. above and Collins
from below-It takes firm hand to
get through with this sort OF an as
signment If Rowland makes good he
Will deserve every ounce of praise be-
slowed on him.
-. srcRt Hugs.
II George BaumGardner is all that Is
said OF him, st. Louis Is keeping up Its
reputation as home for the eccentric
baseball player. According to stories
being told about the Browns tall south
paw, he sings street corners and
takes up collections. refuses to sleep
In Pullman berth II there Is an
empty seat handy, has his face mas
saGcd every day, insists on being paid
In one dollar bills and has other harm
less but amusing .peculiarities which
ever 1t is doubtful whether George will
ever achieve the fame for eccentricities
possessed by the late RUDE Wadden and
Bugs Raymond Waddell. who died
OF tuberculosis in Texas last April and
Raymond, who was killed by a thrown
brick In Chicago n year before, both
spent a large part OF their time In St
Louis. Rube pitched for the Browns
after Connie Mack, OF the Athletics.
gave him pp, and Bugs twirled for the
Cardinals before he was traded TO the
Giants. Both were chuck full OF ori-
ginality in the queer things they chose
to perform, and always had somebody
laughing at their antics At the same