Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13

Gftmth Is going to attend the Amer
lean League meeting in New York next
be adopted at that time and the local
manager is in hope Of getting rid Of
his surplus players. II he can't make
a trade for Gandil or Boehling, two
will sell them to the highest bidders.
But only after he finds that 1t Is i'm
possible to make an advantageous
trade will the selling process be re-
Grifiith is determined not to open the
season with either of these players on
his pay list.
''The team has more to do with max
ing the manager than the manager has
to do with making tho team" says
lanes J. Callahan, new manager Of the
Pittsburgh Pirates.
IF get together great team and
we win. I'll be 9 great manager" adds
Callahan, land II we don't win TIL be
q dub. I am trying to get the best
team l can because I-know it means a
II know what the future holds for
me. And I know that Barney Drey-
fuss will try to get me what I want.
When saw him offer $4,000 for Benny
my being turned down any time /
asked him to buy me ball player"
George stallings is a miracle man on
the farm as well as in the management
Of the Braves. He has a farm that is
show place. but he also makes it pa.-.
That is a miracle.
When the base ball season is over
Stallings hikes for his place, six miles
from Haddock, Ga. George then begins
to figure how much cotton will net him
and plans for the next year.
The farm Is stocked with horses that
have won blue ribbons, prize Holstein
cows and pigs with pedigrees. The
miracle man has the managerial knack
on the farm as well as on the ball field
He does not sit in front of the fireplace
and let his overseers do the work. He
gets out and oversees.
Stallings has two homes. One is at
40 Riverside Drive. New York, al
him in Boston most of the summer. The
other place Is at Haddock, and is built
along the old southern plantation
lines.
That Griffith let one of, the best hit
tiers in base ball GO when he traded
Tommy Long to the Cardinals for
pitcner Hopper there is not the slight
Il Tommy Long can learn to bunt
ball players in the National League"
Is the prediction Miller Higgins made
In New York the other day.
Long has all the other requisites
OF base ball greatness. He has speed
galore and knows how to use it on
the base paths. He has a good batting
eye and can clout the cover off the
ball with marked consistency. He also
knows how to place his long hits.
Long hit .2S4 last season. He would
able to bunt. Whenever Tommy came
to bat the opposition would play back
and stop many Of his drives, when ii
he gould have switched to a bunt he
would have beaten out a lot Of hits"
Whenever he came to bat with one on
and none down 1t was impracticable
for Huggins to order him to sacrifice.
He simply could not master the play
The Cardinals manager will get Long
to training early and he will make him
practice all spring in the hope of teach
Ing him the art. If he learns this
angle he will be marvellous ball play
er. and do lot to make the Cardinals
winning aggregation.
The last of the old Yanks was mus
tered out when Capt. Huston presented
Birdie Cree with an unconditional re-
lease. The veteran outfielder was un-
der contract for another year. but
asked for his discharge because he is
growing too heavy to play base ball
and desires to go into business this
spring at Sunbury, Pa, his home.
Cree Is the last Of the Yankees who
starred for George Stallings. Hemp
hill and VOTERS, his outfleld associates.
Jack Warhop. who graduated from the
club with Cree several
years ago, was let out last summer.
Even Cree heard the rattle of the can
once before; He was sent to the Balti-
well in the International League that
the management which had sold his re-
lease for modest sum, paid several
thousand dollars to facilitate his re-
turn.
Cree was the Frank Schultz of the
Yanka. Chase, Laporte, wolter, Hemp
hill. Elberfeld, Sweeney and all of the
old crowd that drew salary from
Frank Farrell are scattered far and
wide now.
Cree was never a sensational ball
player. He did not possess aggressive
ness or personal magnetism. He took
his base ball calmly and always did
his best. His attitude toward his as
sociates was always Just. For many
hitter on the team. He now
retires with the good wishes Of New
Workers following him In his business
venture.
Great outdeld catches are long re-
by fans, and the passing of
Jack (Red) Murray to the minors re-
calls grab that posterity will hear
about down through many a genera
tion, writes James Jerpa in the Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times.
Young In years. but old in the game,
the Notre Dame man and former Giant
star has been shipped to Kansas City
by Joe Tinker. Not only did Murray
make a catch in the biare of light
ming and rain. at Forbbes Field seven
years ago, but he passes out as the
greatest outfield thrower OF the past AZ
The catch was made Monday, Au-
gust 6, 1909. Not only did it tie up
bali game and save the Giants, but it
the mighty Matty from being
premiership and cheated the then
great little Howard camnits out of the
lightning flashing. thunder rolling. the
sensational one-handed grab was made
in a terrible rift Of lightning in the
The Pirates were behind. 2 to 1, and it
was their pennant year, with a red.not
fisft on thstr hands. In the eighth
Hyatt. batting tor Willis. tripled to
heaM fled to Seymour and Ahha tichio