New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-03
JAMES THORPE
WHALES HOMER
WITH TWO ON
Olympic Champ, Hitting
Left Handed, Finally
Crashes One.
Gy PRANK O'NEILL.


many a flower born TO blush unseen ana
waste its fragrance on the desert ar
sang the poet. By the same token there
Is many man wasting his talents IN
some secretarisl capacity who might De
out playing the great national game
and making n lasting name for himsei'
Consider the strange case OF tdnie
Branu.ck lie IL under secretary 10 ,he
New YORK Giants. and we have II that
he is n good secretary. But how that
nov can pitch les, sir, and how ne
can hit the old baseball. Unless Eddle
is careful John J. McGraw Will send
Larry Doyle to attend TO the secre'ar-
ial affairs of the ub and draft hlm 10
cover second or pitch.
Brannick was much the whole snow
in the titanic struggle between Charley
Dooin's Lignum Nites and the Mallets'
cap,ained By r. Brannick. when tooh
place on the Marlin grounds TINS Ai'e'.
noon. The Mallets won by score OF
II 20 3. and Eddie not only pitched inc
entire seven innings, but he poieu ou'
three hits in three times up slhgle'
doub and triple-which drove
home six runs. OF course. this Is IN
tended 70 be story OF our future
greats. but. rs The Tribune says hs
truth from first to last others may
saw. credit where credit Is due.
Marlin was never kinder 70 he
Giants in the nine years they nave
trained here than to-day. a warm sun
heat down from cloudless skies and the
nlavars frisked about in regular Fourth
Of .Julv fashion. We refuse 10 say MD
season form. OF course. for the most
mart. the players are rockies. but the
nrosence OF Matty. Larry Doyle, Kube
Renton and Charley Doom lends dig-
r;tv IN the assembege. The regulars
vii beqin to troop IN after few days
nd Of course. will monopolize much
Of tho attention now held By the
youngsters. ch
We venture that George Sandoerrg'
the voungster from New iork, VIII DC
heard OF in baseball before long
Sandie is catcher and real catcher
lie is tall. broad Of shoulder and deep
~ chest. with a throwing arm tnat pro-
nels the leather with the speed OF
rifc builet. He made three or -FOUR
pegs 10 second base this afternoon
catching runners by several feet jimmy
Archer in his palmiest days never
threw them any better
lin, Thorpe hos decided 10 become
loft handed batter. The Carlis lc boy
thinks that he will be able 10 solve the
delivery Of the pitchers 20 better az
vantage from the portside of the plate
and also make more Of his speed. we
venture 10 prediction. but this after
noon he nit one right over me right
field fence for n home run. with two on
bases. He got another safe slam mat
counted in the scoring. also.
There came to Marlin on the plush
OF A Pullman coach recruit named
Roesinger. lie convinced the oihcers
Of the Giants that he was wonderful
ball player. lie wanted TO sign CON
tract, but was not offered anything
more promising than trial.
"A trial is all | ask for,n ne wrote
could A man ask" he wrote on, and by
that time mis- pen was in an absolutely
lachryrnose condition, and wept Tor
pages. =, -,
dom has anything like him been seen.
He attempted 10 pitch yeaterday, Dut
after heavng a few that died ten feet
In front Of the plate, and few others
that lust lived TO get over. he retired
.Wha: | needed" said Rosie, "was an
old head behind the bat 10 STEADY
mo" But others held that he needed
another kind Of head entirely. =,
The lineup of the victorious MAJ
lots this afternoon was: Jacobson, ~;
Thorpe. IF: Fish, CT; Darlington, Sp'
Brainerd. Sc; Kelly, lb; Wendell 80
Sandberg, c; Brannick. p. me -'g-
mum Vites took the field IN TINS fash-
ion: Cole. CT; Farrell, II; Harrison,
RI: DOYLE. Oh; Martin. So; Rodriguez
ID: Shepner, 3b; Kenney, c; Doom.
p: Sharman, 2.
The score b. innings follows:
Nallets ......0 3 . 3 o x-l2 81 0
Lignum Vitas. o 3 0 90 o ! .
Lev Wendell, the Bronx boy, - IN
line for a job. it would seem. He Il
on fire with the old pep and is ham
ding himself more like big Lacquer
every day. Lew can peg them down 70
second like a fash. and has a line OF
highly original chatter behind the bat.
Put something on that old APPLE
is one of mis- fayorites.
He entertains Palmero and Rodri-
guez. the Cubans. with his talk. Meth
er one understands him, bu, Lew keeps
trying just the same.
Some season or other McGraw will
come 20 Marlin with team of rea-
sonably sane ball players. and in such
an event he will award himself the
iron Cross. For several years IL was
Charley Faust, this year II is some one
else.
But Roesinger is a good umpire