Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-18
WILL COACH WAKE FOREST
SHAG THOMPSON GETTING
IN TRIM WITH COLltGIANS
Hopes Connie MnrE VIII Send Him
Here II lie Cannot tsr Him.
Other Dope.

since the close OF the season. shay has
been working III local runition plant.
hut ,esterday lie dropped his tools and
boarded tra,u for the South From
this time until he reports TO Connie
Mack at Jacksonville, Thompson Will
h"li coach the Wake Forest baseball
suuad.
Thompson is in the best possible
shape for the coming baseball cam
pn,=u and should give 4 good account
cf himself when hc reports to the Attn
ietics He has been working hard all
winter and IS as hard as nails The
Two or three weeks work NJ Wake
Forest VIII also DO him world of
good.
While no is naturally hoping that
he VIII he able TO stick with the ma
Jors. shay would like to come back TO
Richmond 20 play ihis season. BEFORE
leaving he SO expressed himself, and
II he learns that Connie Mack cannot
lind use for him. Shag Will ask 10 be
sent back here.
Everett Bankston, the nifty young
outnelder who joined the Climbers at
the rag end of the season. has sent
In his signed contract In q letter
Yesterday TO a friend here Bankston
stated that he was greatly pleased that
he had landed a berth with Richmond
This town. ne says. Just suits his taste
ana nc promises 10 snow the itHS StIhe
real fielding and hitting. He has kept
in condition all winter. and is ready
for the spring campaign to open.
Dewitt Newing, who Will be secrc-
tary OF the local club. will not repor;
hore on March !, but vii drift in about
the middle OF the month. He Will be
an hand TO welcome the hrsi arrivals
30 the training camp and TO maize ar
engagements for looking after the COM
fort OF the rockies.
Billy Smith will not get MerIto
Acosta the young Cuban outtielder
Clark Griffith viii farm ont this sea-
son. Joe Cantillon, OF Minneapolis.
has snapped up the younSster, and Will
also take over Morley Jennings, who
has been released outright by Wash
imgton Acosta will he recalled by
Grin at the close OF the season.
less Willard has a cold, but accord
ing to most fight fans, Il has dropped
from his lungs 10 his feet. He has
not been receiving company since his
indi osition
The military track meet scheduled
for tonight has been called OFF This
was one Federation event that Should
have been fostcred. but many Of the
militiamen have become SO disguised
with the rulings OF that body that they
have lost interest in track work.
BY the same token, a number OF
nifty baseball players are not going
20 be under Federation colors this
summer. Parents OF at least three
well-known prep school stars have
stated that their offspring will not
play ball at all, il they have to play
on Federation teams TO hold their anna
tcur standing.
The training camp of the Boston
Braves Will be an Eveless Eden. ac-
cording TO the plans OF Stallinrs, who
has ordered married men TO leave their
wives at home this spring.
II IS never any trouble for Chicago
10 rig up a baseball trade. Tho Windy
City experts pursued j. Franklin Baker
through one column after another.
They spent as much as $4,000 Of Mr..
Corniskey's money In one edition TO
land the Trappc Terror. and yet they
didn't get him. Now, they say, they
want Fritz Mniscl.
Eppa Rixey, the Phillics southpaw
and former Virginia varsity pitcher,
mas not yet signed his Philadelphia
contract for 1916 Rixcy is not salts
ned with Tho tc,sl,s offered though he
was on a pen.napx- winning team and
won only eleven games and lost
twelve His performance was not so
had but IL hardly called for an in
crease OF pay. considering that his
team won the nag In rather handy
fashion.