The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
Morgan VIII Pilot the Yanni-
gans on Their Trip
Northward.
By JOHN A. DUGAN.


Augusta, Ga, March lL-Ray Morgan.
the watch-charm infelder Of the Nation
ais. will manage the Yannigans on their
Transforming trip up the Atlantic coast
when the athletes break camp here next
Thursday night. Heretofore Uncle Nick
Altrock has always been IN charge of
the youngsters, but because Of the three
games that Grin has scheduled for the
Regulars IN Cincinnati. the Old Fox be-
TO his home town and he VIII no douot
prove the big drawing card when the
Grnmen play there on March 81, April
I and 4
The Old Fox has not definitely decided
upon the makeup of each squad. as
the Yannigans have been going at such
great clip that he may muster few
but. tonight. he figured the nne-ups OF
the clubs as follows:
Yannigans-Pitchers, Harper, Hum
phreys, Ayers, Shaw. Jameson, and Du
Mont; catcher. Eddie Charity; infield-
ers, Judge, Morgan, Sawyer. Moran and
Jameson; outhelders, Menoskey, Berry,
H. Milan and Acosta-
Regulars-Pitchers, Craft, F1aherty,
Gallia, Thomas. and johnson; catchers,
Henry and Ainsmith; infelders, Shanks.
Foster, Mcbride. Crane and Leonard;
outielders. c. Milan. Rice and Smith.
Grin may yet switch Menoskey or
Young Milan to the first squad as these
outfielders have been busting the old ball
open and may be taken on the western
trip while It Is now a toss-up as to who
Will get the call Of the first squad be-
tween Moran and Crane as the former
has been hitting like a demon and may
be carried In place of the Baltimore
Prize Beauty. Young Flaherty will make
the trip with the first squad as far as
Cincinnati. when the Old Fox will ship
him either to Des Moines or Minneapolis.
Jameson IL sure to make the trip with
the second string team. as he can be
used In both the In and out-feld when
he is not taking his regular turn on the
mound.
Ray Morgan has installed a great deal
Of the old pep and fight into the Yanni-
sans and he is already laying bets that
he makes a cleanup on his way to
Washington. Morgan realizes that the
kids will be compelled to hustle to
land the games against the Baltimore In
ternational League team in Wilmington
on Friday and Saturday. but he believes
that the rest of the games will be easy
pickings. even the ones against Billy
Smiths Richmond club.
The first touch Of sickness from the
results OF the impure water that the
athletes were compelled to drink up to
week ago came today when Bert Gal
liza. the curve-ball artist from Texas
was excused from the practices because
of slight attack of fever
Mex" complained to the Old Fox,
and Grin Immediately excused him from
work and Trainer Martin issued out a
few Of those wonderful pills that cure
everything from a cold to smallpox The
Old Fox Is not worried about GaIlia's
condition and Is confident that he will
be back in action on Monday morning.
Sammy Crane was excused from the
workout today because OF the sort foot
which he obtained yesterday in the af-
ternoon game. In running back after
a high fly ball. Crane spiked himself
,and this morning his foot was badly
swollen and Trainer Martin has taken
him in charge. Mike believes that he
by Monday or Tuesday Of next week.
as there Is no sign Of blood poisoning.
Corporal Dean. the drill-master OF the
Nationals, will not be taken on either
of the trips with the squad. but will
report in Washington on the 3rd of April
and drill the athletes from that time
on until the holding of the competitive
drill in Chicago.
Capt. Heidi, Of the recruiting station
at Atlanta, has recommended to the
War Department that Corporal Dean be
detailed to Washington for the purpose
of instructing the Nationals. and the Old
Fox Is keeping the wires busy tonight
in attempting to bring the little drill
master to the Capital
Griff intends that the athletes shall
give an exhibition drill OF the foot-move-
ments before the opening game with the
New York Yankees on April 20. and
wants Corporal Dean on hand to call the
commands.
Augusta is the real hoodoo town for
fires. as shortly after the midnight hour
last night the boys were dragged out of
their beds because of a forty-five thous-
and dollar blaze that was burning FIVE
squares back of Camp Albion. A big
bedding factory was ablaze and for a
time 1t looked like this little Dixie city
was to suffer from another big fire. but
the fire-fghters here wrestled with the
strong east wind and had the fire under
control about > O'Clock when the Old Fox
passed around the order for all hands to
get back in the shucks.
At late hour last night the Old Fox
had not received any word from Ban
B. johnson, the president OF the Ameri-
can League. in reference to the railroad
strike. but the squad is ready to pack up
at a minutes notice and beat It back to
the capital city.