The Washington herald., 1915-10-16
Shanks, Henry, and Harper
Will Accompany Hoblitzers
Club to Pacific Coast.
OTHER SPORTING GOSSIP
Boston Braves Already Starting to Re-
build for Next Season-Phillies
Are Satisfied.
by WILLIAM PEET.

John Henry, Howard Shanks. and
Harry Harper. of the Washington club.
Will accompany the All Star American
League club on its trip to the Pacific
| Coast which starts next week under
| the guidance of Dick HoblitZel, first
baseman of the Boston Red Sox.
With the veteran Jack Coombs in
charge of an All Star National League
cast these teams will play exhibition
games against each other all the way
to Seattle, Wash, where they will dis
band and continue down to San Fran
cisco for peep at the big exposition.
Frank Bancroft. business manager of
tn" Cincinnati Reds, planned for the
transforming trip which is similar to
the one taken last year. and with
Shanks Henry. and Harper among the
American League players. there should
be considerable local interest in the
venture.
This trip should prove one of inesti
mable value to Harper. for it will give
him a chance to add to his control and
confidence.
On the proposed transforming jaunt
IL: married men of the teams will be
accompanied by their wives, and the
whole affair will be more in the nature
of a love fest than fcrcely contested
ball games.
Excerpt from a world series game
played on October ,. 1908. in Boston:
although the weather was threaten
ing, the crowd was extremely large"
The attendance this day was 5000.
Coach Rush. of the Princeton foot
ball squad. has called in an expert
camera man to aid him in whipping
the Tiger team INFO condition. Thurs
day while the squad were at practice
moving pictures were taken during
different stages of the ScrimmaginE.
and these pictures will be flashed on
tn" screen so that the football men
can see just how they show up going
through the formations. Coach Rush
says this plan Will help to develop
team play as well as good Individual
work. 1t will show the players where
their mistakes lie.
1t is significant that just one wear after
they had won the championship Of the
world. the Boston Braves should begin
to tear down their team. Indeed. start
was made last winter. but it looks now
as if still further and more radical
changes are to be made. The release of
Whaling and Herb Moran. announced
Thursday, will it is said. be followed by
other shifts StallinSs is said to realize
that his team cannot come back as at
present constituted and is planning som"
sensational changes before the season of
1915 dawns.
Now that the disappointment over the
failure of the Phillies 10 win the worlds
title is wearing out. the followers of the
team are beginning to realize how much
they have to he thankful for this year.
In every respect it has been the greatest
season that the QuakerS ever have had.
I'VE ALL" as they would say down in
George Whittcd's home. at Raleigh. y. c.,
wished for A little more, but the .'mLCh-
ness that got was SO much in excess
of what had been anticipated that no one
has any right to complain in the
slightest.
The Phillies got the short end of the
players money. but then the short end
was 50 much greater than any of them
he'd looked for when they started in to
train last spring. and could have been
secured Cnly by all pulling together that
they should consider it like finding
money.