Evening star., 1916-03-09

wooden shirts and was topped by
heavy sweater. and the Baltimore boy
could hardly bend ove". After most
of the others had gone in Jack Ryan
had him fielding bunts and was chasing
him from one end of the court to the
other. Morgan was game, however.
and went the limit.
Clark Griffith can hardly be disap-
pointed in Morgan's condition when he
arrives with the rest of the regulars
this afternoon. The keystone guardian
has worked increasingly to get him
self in the proper shape to give the
Old Fox the best i'll him and il is safe
to say that there will he few other
regulars ready for the strenuous
work as Morgan. He has ia: avoid
ed all the common spring ailments. The
work at the bat has. of course. been
very light and nothing much can be
gathered from it. but Morgan has been
meeting the ball sauarely with a mean
swing. and this preliminary work with
the willow indicates that he at least
has his eye on the pill
Harry Harper was allowed Il days
rest by Martin yesterday. The Hack
ensack hurler was feeling bit under
the weather and the trainer thought it
best not to expose him with his slight
cold to the raw weather. Harper is
another one of the men who has shown
he is in good shape and fit to bear a
lot of work. Harper started in with
a lot of speed in the daily workouts
from the first practice in the gym and
has been keeping it up right along. He
Will be back in harness today and
ready to work with the regulars.
Jack Bentley, another of the Minne-
apolis trio. also Will nave to be given
good looking over by Griffith. From
all indications this southpaw is ripe
for a good season under the big tent
I tn W he
his first appearance at Camp Griff that
he had taken care of himself during
the winter months. Nick AltrocI
thinks Bentley has the stuff and that
he will come through with it. The
veteran coach has been devOting con-
siderable time to Bentley and the
southpaw has profited by the instruc-
ton.
The third member of the Minneap-
oils squad boys is Ed Charity. This
boy reported fit, having worked hard
all winter on a basket ball court and
has been working right along since
then. Charity contracted a slight
cold Monday with several others, but
this has not bothered him much and
the big catcher decided that work was
good way to drive OFF the spring all
ment. 1t is believed he will make "a
valuable addition to Griffth's catching
staff. If his batting is anywhere near
SOOI IL va last year IN the as
sociation, he should be assured Of a
berth with the Nationals.
Jim Shaw and Doc Ayers two of last
years regular staff of pitchers, are
both in great shape. Ayers has con-
tracted cold which has choked him up
a bit, but outside of that the big doe
tor is ready. He has taken this pre-
training exactly the Old
Fox meant it to be taken. slowly and
merely as limbering up for later hard
work. Ayers has as yet to put any
have been thorough. but not
and his present condition
warrants the system. Yesterday he
took lively fielding practice Oh the
courts with Charity hitting.
The other type of spring training is
in Jim Shaw's method Jim
has been fairly overlooking with pep
ever since the first day. No matter
whether in the dressing-room. the gym,
on the field muskrat trapping, the
big right handler is there with a will
He has worked at fast pace most of
the time and yesterday took good
warming UP with Jack Ryan. He loos
ened up his old arm in good fashion
and Ryan was pleased with the work
1t tales :, Longer time for Joe Roeh-
ling TO get in shape and the Richmond
is DeGSinG away with the
that he viii round to with
the rest He has been having things
easy and has been taking the best
possible care of his arm. At the prac-
tice yesterday afternoon he, warmed
up for several minutes with Ryan.
Among the recruit pitchers Humphries
seems to have the call. The Georgia
portsider has been going good all along
and Altrock gave him orders TO take
things easy yesterday, as he had had
yx.nr |. he da baf I1aG
his size he is able to bear up under
work. was shown last seasoa ut
when he was used in the ma
jority of the first ten games with that
team.
Sam Cuttings, the Washington boy,