Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01

The manager who can handle Ray Cald-
well. the telegrap her-twirler of the
Yankees. is yet to be found Several have
tried 1t, but none has succeeded. Cald-
well now is under ten-day suspension;
with loss of salary for the period. and
in addition has been fined 500 by Man
ager Donovan for breaking training rules.
Pitcher Urban Shocker also has been as
sessed $50 for the same offense, although
no suspension was given him, it being his
first offense Caldwell failed to return to
the Yankees hotel in Boston Thursday
night and also failed to appear at the
pension are exactly the same those
meted out to him late last July in st.
Louis. which resulted in his being idle
the remainder of the season and his loss
of about $4,000 in salary, as he failed to
rejoin the team.
Although he has lost eight games this
season. Caldwell has excelled the other
New York pitchers. as most of his de-
feats have been the result Of failure of
his teammates to furnish sufficient attack
with the stick. He has won seven and lost
eight of the fifteen games he has par
| ticipated in, but pitched poorly only three
times in the fifteen. Shocker, though hit
hard in most of his games, has been a
consistent winner.
In answer to the request of the New
York chapter of the Base Ball Writers
Association for a reopening Of the repudi-
ated interviews episode. involving Man
ager McGraw Of the Giants and the
Gotham newspaper men, whom he de-
clared had misquoted him, President Tener
has promised to give the entire affair a
thorough airing. The executive declares
the league has nothing to hide and asserts
he is more than willing to give the scribes
full opportunity Of vindicating themselves.
Tener is expected to call a special meet
ing of the board of directors for COM
prehensive probe of the case, including
the hearing of the newspaper men who
were placed in such a bad light by Nc
Graw's reputation of the TRADE of abuse
against the National League, it's president
and some of the clubs in the organization,
credited to the Giants pilot by the scribes
who were with the New York team in
Pittsburgh at the time McGraw is alleged
to have made the statements which start
ed the rumpua
Few, If any, persons believe that Nc
Graw was coerced into signing the state
ment of reputation. President Hemp
stead Of the New York club may have
the muddle. but it Is assured that Nc
Graws course was voluntary as far
as the National League was concerned
McGraw and the New York club are in
bad with press and public now and any
attempt at further subterfuge will only
serve to make their road still thornier.
Larry Lajoie, for years one of the
greatest stars that ever twinkled in the
major league armament, and always
known as a mild-mannered and gentle
manly chap on and of the ball field,
has been indefinitely suspended by Presi-
dent Barrow of the International League
on a charge of umpire batting. Unrest
and dissatisfaction over his minor league
berth is credited with being the cause
Of the breaking out of the manager and
second baseman Of the Toronto team.
The magnitude Of the achievement of
Pitcher Ernie Shore in twtrling nine
innings without allowing a hit or per-
hitting a batsman to reach first base
can be appreciated better when 1t is con-
sidered that on only eight occasions
prior to the time that the Boston
moundsmen victimized the Griffmen had
the feat ever been accomplished Dozens
of pitchers have entered the hall of fame
by going through nine innings without
allowing a hit. only to have their work
marred to some extent by committing
battery errors. such as giving bases on
balls or hitting batsman. but Shores
performance was hawless.
The first to achieve the distinction now
held to be one Of the greatest pitchers in
base ball history. but whose name is
little known to present-day fans. When
tho old Worcester club was in the Ma
| tional League. Richmond turned the trick
twice in 1879 and once the following sea
son, being the only pitcher who ever did
| 1t more than once. John NJ. Ward. pitch
| ing for Providence. when that city was
| in the National League. also got credit
| for such a performance. and George
Bradley. at present a member Of the
Philadelphia police force. once pitched
such game for the st. Louis club in the
National League. Cy Young Of the Bos-
| ton Americans. in retiring the Athletics
! without a single batsman reaching first,
was the first to accomplish the feat in the
American League and the late Acdie Joss
| of the Cleveland club topped an enviable
career with a similar performance early in
| the history of the Johnson circuit.
In paying SIG. 900 to Catcher Ed Sweeney
| for the last two years of his wartime