Evening star., 1916-07-22
Scout A1trock Advises Against Purchase Of Cuban Hi
MINOR LEAGUE SLUGGER FAILS
TO IMPRESS GRIFFITHS SCOUT
Nick Altrock Wires Local Manager Not to
Buy After Seeing Manuel Cueto In
Action With Portsmouth Club

! titled to a chance when he came up in
| fast company, but Charity broke into
| the game only once or twice during the
| first two months of the campaign, and
were it not for the crippled condition
| of the Grifmen, he might still be sit
| ting on the bench without getting
chance to show what he could do with
the bat.
| Charity has been hitting we'll since
, he broke into the game few days
ago. Yesterday he got three hits. one
| triple. In all the youngster has made
extra bases. in the four games he has
been used in. which surely is a very
| satisfactory showing.
! Merito Acosta got into a local uni
! form and practiced with the team be-
/ fore the game Had Mcbride gotten
on in the ninth Acosta was picked to
bat for Jim Shaw.
Eddie Collins had a remarka BILE rec
ord at bat yesterday. He faced Du-
mont, Ayers and Shaw and he walked
four times and on the other occasion
got single. This figured a batting
average of 1000 for the day, and all on
one hit.
The White Sox played a clean game
of ball in the field, the only error
| charged against them was a ridicu-
lous throw by Jackson in the eighth
inning, when there was no occasion
for any sort of a peg.
Cicotte relieved Scott after seven
teen hits had been made off him.
Clcotte walked Charity. but he did
not allow a hit while he was on the
mound. He had but two men to retire
10 save the game and he had no
trouble doing that.
There is disposition on the part of
some of the fans who attend games
when things are not going smoothly.
ihere were some uncaIied-for re-
marks passed from the stands during
yesterdays game. Any ball team is
apt 10 nave an off day in the field. for
errors are part of the game and no
payer IS perfect nor immune from
them But there is no occasion for
sarcasm being hurled at any of the
a1Inle'es. ,,1a VINO are just as anxious to
want to see them do it.
Christy Mathewson made his debut
as major league manager at Cincin-
natl yesterday, when his team was
beaten by the PhilIies in a ten-inning
game by score of s to a. Herzog
joined the Giants yesterday, and in the
scored the winning run for the Giants
Fate is cruel.
This is not the first time that Math-
e"son has been a member of the Gin
clnnatI team. The Cincinnati club
drafted Matty in the fall of 1900 from
the Norfolk club of the Virginia
League, where he had been playing for
$50 month. That winter John T.
Brush. who then was the owner of the
Cincinnati club, made a trade with New
York for Amos Rusie for Ma athewson,
who. of course, had never reported to
the Cincinnati club. which did not
know he was star. Rusie proved
that he was all through as pitcher
when he tried to work for the Reds,
while Mathewson developed into one
Of the greatest pitchers the game has
known.
Just whether Matty has ability to
manage q team remains to be seen. He
never proved successful in coaching
big college teams, though he was thus
engaged on several occasions.
The game today will be the last to
be played here until August Is. The
GriTnnen. the entire squad, will leave
here at { o'clock tomorrow evening for