Evening star., 1915-12-07
CHARLOTTESVILLE
AGAIN |SFAV0RED
Manager Griffith Not Deferred
by Failure to Lease Old
Fraternity House.
WILL SEND MIKE MARTIN
TO ARRANGE FOR TRAINING
Comparison Of Averages Shows De-
troit's Outfeld Excelled That
Of the Red Sox.
BY J. ED GRILLo.

The fact that Manager Griffith has
been unable to lease the fraternity
house at Charlottesville. which the
players have occupied during the previ-
GUS stays at the Virginia town during
their spring training, does not mean
that Charlottesville will be abandoned
as the Nationals training quarters.
There is a fraternity house next door
to the house which has been leased by
the Nationals for the past two springs,
which is understood to be available. and
Manager Griffith intends to send Train
er Mike Martin down there within the
next few days to determine what sort
of arrangements can be made.
There appears to be not the slightest
chance of Griffith making a change in
his choice of training quarters. He
will go to Charlottesville in preference
to anywhere else, and something seri-
ously Objectionable would have to de-
velop before he would think of going
elsewhere to train.
The provisions of the rule Manager
Griffith will propose at the coming
meeting of the American League to
govern the sale of players from one
clue in the league to another, are very
explicit. The plan is to prevent these
sales by forcing a club which wants
to get rid Of a player to.first ask watv
ers from all the other clubs II any
club refuses to waive the owners can
not withdraw the player. but will be
compelled to sell. If more than one
club puts in a claim for such a player,
they must decide by drawing lots for
the player, and all players so chosen
are to net but $2.500 to the club part
ing with them.
Griffith, like most men in base ball,
realizes that the public loses interest in
the club it supports If some Of the
stars are sold for the purpose Of get
ermore, the wealthy clubs would by
this system be able to buy winning
teams. Griffith's plan is to put stop
to the sale Of players, and yet II
stars star Is It cannot 40 s get more m e than ;2.5oo
for his release and every club in the
league will have an equal chance OF OBJ
tanning the player at exactly the same
figure.
Griffith has been working on the reso-
luton covering this proposed change
in the rules Of the league, and 1t will
not be made public in its entirety until
1t has been presented to the league in
session.
After the batting averages and the
figures giving the runs batted in by in
dividuals are carefully perused, the Oft
repeated claim that the Boston Red Sox
had the greatest outf1eld in base ball
seems not to be substantiated by the
official figures.
doubt most valuable trio for an out
field. but when one stops to look at
what Cobb. Crawford and Veach ac-
complished for the Detroit Tigers in
the last campaign then Boston's IA
nous trio does not look SO good.
True. Carrigan's outfield may have
something on the Tigers trio when it
comes to fielding and throwing. but as
to real productive value there is no
comparison.
The Boston trio hit 2s2 for Carrigan.
while Cobb, Crawford and Veach re-
corded combined average Of 1926. In
cidentally they led in batting in runs.
Crawford being first, Veach second and
Cobb third. There is no more valuable
attainment a ball player can boast of
than ability to drive runs in. Jennings
outfielders stepped to the plate 1.744
times and walloped out a total of $50
hits for collective average Of 1926.
Speaker. Lewis and Hooper were at bat
1870 times and made All hits for
collective everage of .2S2.
Crawford led the league in batting
IN runs, with 116. Veach trailed Just
Sne run behind and Cobb came through
In enough pinches to send home nine
ty-fve runs, making the immense total
of 326. That constitutes quite a record
and surely offsets the good fielding of
the Boston trio.
Joe Cantillon has a novel training
scheme. He will train the Minneapolis
team at Hickman, Ky. Milwaukee will
train at Paducah. KY; Columbus will
go to Cairo, ILL.,, and the st. Paul team
Is slated for Fulton. Tenn. By locating
the four teams in this manner a spring
series can be played, and it is believed
these games will prove profitable All
the clubs have agreed to enter this
proposition except st. Paul. for Mike
Kelley, who manages that team, is anx-
ious to go back to Fort Smith, Ark,
where his team and the st. Louis Car
dinals trained last spring.
The towns that Cantillon has selected
are but few hours jump from each
other, and for this reason are figured
to net profits in a couple of weeks of
exhibition games.