New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-07
NEED FOR ONE MORE
SLASHING HITTER
Left.Handed Pitcher Also Might
Help Put the Team Over the
Great Divide This Year.
By GRANTLAND RICE.

insert an unusual quality OF PINK INTO
the squad.
.. That Colonel Donovan esteems
the spirit. personality and early actions
of his men highly. but hasn't seen
enough Of their play yet 10 know
whether they will finish first, NTH OF
seventh.
2. That the bunch esteem Smiling
Bill highly. Just as every one else does
who knows him, Smiling Bill being mat
tyne of a man.
3. Tha: Nally Pipp can pickle the
nil and play considerable first base
in practice. We've never seen MN IN
;. Tina. Hughey High is the hardest
man on the club TO pitch TO- being
conservative picker of strikes; that ne
is fast enough and one Of the easiest
working outfelders in the game, hand,
ling fy ball with the deirness OF
George Burns.
6. That Plus L. Schwert. the Penn
Svlvania University catcher, is well
above the average recruit. They all
look that way in the spring you say ;
Well. Connie Mack said it last fall and
put il good bit stronger.
:. That if Fritz Maisel. the human
DYNAMO. absorbs any more pep into his
svstev, he is liable 20 blow wide open.
while fragments sire" me hclo.
The finish Of the first weeks play Is
no time TO he offering any prophecy OF
VIVA. may happen by October. 80 we
won't offer any. But we can say with
out straining our conscience that 'he
Yank cause looks much brighter now
than We expected il TO look. Still we
doubt very much il the club can finish
IN the first division, beating out such
machines as the Red SoX. Senators,
Tigers and Nackmen-provided Baker
returns. But they have certainly
started out Of the rut In fact, another
slashinC hitter and a first class LETT
handcr in the box would put the cluD
over the Great Divide into the polite
society OF the game.
Ii is easy 10 see now why Smiling
Rill made such energetic efforts to
round up Hugh High and Wally Pipp.
II these two estimable young men don't
help the Yank cause we'll drift away
from the dope for good. With High,
Cree. Cook and Daley the Gank outheid
is AZ least Of standard worth. The IN
field dccenSivcly is as good As any IN
the league. OfensiVely. meaning AT
bat. it must improve 30 pc cent TO DC
Of first division mould.
Joe Kelly and his battery men VIII
arrive from Hot Springs on MONDAY
and then. with the entire squad IN daily
review. il will be easier TO obtain some
thing of a lire on the general status.
Kelly reports his pitchers in fair con
&. dition. and when they begin to worh
we'll know more about few batting
eyes that havs bee so far trained onl!
on warm-up pitching.
The practice to-day was another
splcy affair. Bill sent the men at top
speed over both routes. batting and
fielding. Cy Pieh led the pitching
charge with a twenty-minute stand on
top Of the red clay box.
The OYSTER roast down at Tybec TO-
morrow has been called off. 1t seems
tbat the wary oysters have got gun
shv lately. IS two of the best oyster
hounds i'm this vicinity were crippled. u
was thought best to postpone the party
Unlike Roger Bresnahan and Dick Kin
sella. Bill Donovan made no attempt to
trade one of his recruits for an oyster
dog in order that the programme might
n be carried out.
On Friday Captain Huston took two
y hour workout in the gym. That after
noon he attempted to add round OF
golf. When he had topped his seventh
consecutive approach he asked ms
duskv caddie what the trouble was.
an tell you, colonel replied the
young Ethiopian, Il thinks you S les
plump wore out"
President Nick CorSh OF the South
Atlantic League has started warfare on
the Feds by making request that all
bic league clubs train as far as possible
on ball fields operated ny organized
ball
He has had this suggestion sent to
the national board of arbitration for
consideration. The main idea IS 70
freeze out the Feds, who have done
minor league baseball untold damage
by grabbing their stars without the
payment of a cent.
Wallv Pipp had to refrain from active
practice TO-DAY with a wounded hoof
II seems that a large square patch OF
tender epidcrmis was erased from the
heel. SO the tall first baseman limped
around with the injured foot housed IN
white lawn tennis shoe. DugGan, the
trainer went to the rescue at once. and
says the hoof will be ready for Mon
days work.
Charley Mullen IS play ing inc Odll
around first base and batting like one
who means to stick. The duel between
Mullen and Pipp should be worth while
A few of the Yanks were punching
the bag this forenoon. when One Round
Pipp. the Rochester siege gun. stalhed
in. took one left-handed wallop and
snapped the quarter-inch raWhide rope
holding the bag aloft. No wonder he
led the international IN extra base
blows, with a kick like that packed
away in his system.
Roy Hartzell. ono Of the best utility
ball players in the game and one OF
the hardest workers and most depend
able athletes. IS already down to proper
weight, eYuding the old pink from
every pore. Roy Is valuable add
ton TO any ball club. for the simple
reason that he gives the best he has
regardless of conditions or the break
Of battle.
Wheezer Dell is attracting not lit.
tie attention. This boy Is giant snC
looks like real pitcher. lie played
with Seattle in the Northwes tern
League last year. and finished with a
percentage of .6is. He has not shown
his true worth as yet, hut under the in
fuence of the broilpg sun nc shot
few twisteTs into the NIT OF Lew Nc
Carthy to-day. Dell is a serious mind
cd chap. He intends 10 spend the sum
mer in Brooklyn and also visit other
towns i'm the National League circuit.