Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

games to be played here in the spring.
me season will most likely be opened
BY the Brooklyn Dodgers, which team
Is expected to open here March 81 and
play two games. the final being April 1.
The Boston Braves will come here
april 5 and 6. while the Champion
Phillies will drop in for a three-eame
series April 8, 10 and II. A member Of
zach Of the major league umpire STATS
Viii of1clate in these games. but there
VIII be other games arranged with
local college mines. and also a game
with the team from the bureau of en-
craving and printing.
Eddie Handiboe, the local boy who
has been an umpire in several of the
high-class minor leagues for the past
Few years. yesterday signed his con
tract with the International League, of
which Edward Barrows is the presi-
dent. Handiboe did particularly clever
sending his contract for next season
the head of the league complimented
Handiboe for his good showing.
Handiboe will, in all Likelihood. be
the umpire who will oficiate at the
college n minor games which the
Nationals will play here next spring.
Howard Shanks undoubtedly will be
with the Nationals again mex season,
for conditions are such that Manager
Griffith may have to use him on his in
field. But Griffith figures on using
Howard only during the early part of
the season "a it seems to have
been his falling to hit well up to about
July and then fall fat with the stick.
Every year that Shanks has been
with us he has electrified the fans
with his splendid hitting in the spring
of the year. Last season he went like
of July and then he fell down badly.
II will have Shanks in the lineup,
but when the time. comes for him to
slump next season I will get him out"
This is the way Griffith sizes up
Shanks.
Dan Moeller never plays his real
game on the local grounds. For some
reason or other Moeller looks like a
different player when he is on the
ers who gets into a batting slump at
times and goes very poorly. Griffith
proposes to give Moeller frequent lay
offs during the coming season in the
thus get his best services for the team.
Moeller has spells when he looks like
the best ball player on the team, but
as said at other times he looks medi-
OGRE.
Sherwood Magee in a recent inter-
view said the greatest infeld he had
yer seen was the one which the ALL
Americans presented on tn trip to the
coast last fall. 1t was made up of Pipp
at first, Mullen, the Yankees other first
baseman, at second: Howard Shanks at
short and Wally Schang at third. Ma
gee insists that he never saw such
playing as this quartet did since he has
been in base ball. He ompares Pipp
to a combination of Daubert and Nc
Innis, Mullen to Eddie Collins. says
Shank is as good as any shortstop he
has ever seen and Schang at third re-
1S~1nJ l,ft, ~ royov Collins in tiG
best days.
Barring Mullen. who never played
second base before. the other players
have been seen in the positions they
occupied on the trip, and while Pipp Is
a good first baseman. Shanks is no bet
ter shortstop than Schang was a third
baseman and they both were seen in
these positions during the regular sea-
son.
1t is of course proper for one ball
player to praise the work of another,
and say Kind things of him, but in
this instance Magee went a bit too
far.
There is considerable surprise shown
in bas Sc ball circles that clubs in or
ganized base ball should be willing to
give Hal Chase a job. Chase jumped
the White Sox in midseason. He did
not as much as give notice of his in
tentions, but packed his grip one night
and left to join the Buffalo Feds in
strict violation of the contract under
which he was dra wing salary from the
Chicago club. A player who would so
faerantly violate an agreement might
be suspected of doing worse things,
and cannot possibly be figured a bene-
fit to the game.
The greed of club owners for players
of ability, while commendable, should
not go so far as to put n reward on
that sort of contract jumping by max
ing a special effort to get the player
Il position.
It was reported a week or so g
that Comiskey had given Manager
Rowland permission to sign Chase, but
since then there has been a conference
between the White Sox owner and his
manager, with the result that the Sox
will not sign a single Federal League
player.
Fielder Jones of the Browns. how
ever, is said to be hot after Chase, n
may land him for his team,