Evening star., 1916-04-15
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

Southpaw pitchers have showed up
Cincinnati batsmen all spring There
will be few cases of left t-handers com
planning of sore arms when the Reds
strike their town.
Catcher Nunamaller of the New York
Americans won wrist watch in raf-
fle the other day, and in spite of his
Jess Willard build, he is afraid to wear it.
wear it
Chicago fans say that Charles
Wee gilman was thirty days late in pro-
posing a rule that would prevent spring
exhibition games between teams in the
same league.
Manager Elberfcld of the Chattanooga
Lookouts said his team positively was
made up and that he was standing pat.
Then he signed Pitcher Gene Knapp.
cN-Fed. and SRortstop Frank Smykal.
recently made Il free agent by the OF
tawa Canadian League club when it de-
cided to go out of business.
Joe Corbett's efforts to come back
have not been success in the training
camp of the San Francisco Seals. He
tried to pitch in a practice game. and
in two innings was hammered for seven
hits and as many runs. The young bat
ters might have had more pity for an
old man and let him dream on a bit
The Atlanta club of the Southern
League has made deal by which it
secures Shortstop Tommy Mcmillan
from the Richmond international
League club. Richmond had got Nc
MILAN from Indianapolis, but he re-
fused to accept the transfer. Atlanta
is his home town and he was willing
to play there.
The transfer by the st. Louis Browns
of Hugh Miller. eX-Fed, to Spokane
did not take and it is now announced
that Hugh will join Memphis in the
Southern League. The Browns are
understood to have settled their obli-
cations to him by payment of a cash
sum. He had one of those iron-clad
Fed contracts.
/ Though International League club
owners. for good business reasons,
would not admit they had agreed
ual salary limit of $3.50 TO the player
it was disclosed that the team limit
had been raised from sixteen to seven
teen men. which will mean a higher
J team salary limit at any rate.
| Dick Cooley and Mig Perrine have
given up their plans for organizing
| the Continental League, to include
towns in eastern Kansas and south
| western Missouri. They couldn't get
will have an independent team in
| Springfield. Mo. while Cooley has
opened saloon in Kansas City.
| Mig Clarke. the veteran catcher. with
| Houston last year, will play with
| Mobile this season, the Houston club
having traded him for Hub Northen,
outfielder. Clarke may be used on
! first base by Mobile. as Calhoun, the
first sacker of the team for the past
| Ia1S n m
with Second Baseman Perry.
Dennis Willie, secured by the Port
land coasters from Cleveland, wrote
the officials of the club that he must
have a bonus if he hits .2I5 or better
President NIcCredie of the club wrote
back that he would have to hit at least
800 to even hold his job. whereupon
Willie came to and signed his contract.
Queer birds, some of these ball players
Manager Wild Conroy of the Elmira
New York State League team gave the
fans a big laugh when he announced
that he had signed up a Burd. a Wurm
and a Bottle. Burd is giant catcher,
who played good ball with the Rich
mond and jersey City lnternatonals
last year. after a season in the Caro-
lima League Wurm is a pitcher who
starred for the White Autos of Cleve-
land. and Bottle is clever semi-pro-
fessional
Monte Prieste. the pitcher released by
brooklyn to Montreal. had been eN-
pected to make good with the Dodgers
on his record in the New York State
League last year. where he won some
thing like a dozen games and lost but
one.
Let's see George Stovall is the man
who said he never would bury the
hatchet until organized ball was finally
and forever put out OF business. TINS
same Stovall is quite glad however. it
seems. to take a job in the fold. i'll spite
of all his warlike declara tions.
Benny Kauff says his name is not
pronounced that way at all. 1t is
'tovf'' Of the barnyard or dairy farm
variety Some people thought it could
he pronounced to rhyme with laugh.
and the news from Benny viii be a
disappointment to poets who were
framing up a few things on him.
There is one bright spot in the whole
mess that the Chicago Cubs are in and
that is the pitching of Hippo Vaughn.
In the final game of the disastrous
series with the Phillies Hippo pitched
three innings and allowed but one hit.
He also famed four cf the champions,
including CraVath and LuderuS.
The owners of the New York Yankees
have closed a contract to return to Ma
con for training next year. All man
ayers, by the way, seem satisfied with
their 1916 training camps The wealth
er has been generally good. you see.
Next year there may be a few bad days,
and then hear the howl 20 up that this
place never was any good" It's the
way of managers and magnates.
The Cincinnati Reds may be able to
win game in the National League
now and then, but they have been
mighty unsuccessful against the mi
nors. The New Orleans Pelicans have
handed them about the same dose as
did the Shreveport Texans, while as
for their showing against the Cleve-
land Indians considered minor leaguers
by Hugh Fullerton) the less said the
better.
Catcher Bill Meyers of the Athletics
is only twenty-three years old. but has
had a good dea! of base ball eXpe
rieTce- Almost every body has been
narveling at the knowledge Meyers
has of the fine points of catching and
could not understand where he had
picked them up until Meyers Informed
Mack that he had been under the wing
of Bill Sullivan. the veteran catcher,
while with the White SoX, four years
ago.