Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-03-26
GR|FF'S BEST BOYS
TAKE ON NASHVILLE
Game Today to Be Played Out
side of Town on Ac-
count of Flood.
"GABBY" STREET ON HAND
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

BY DENMAN THOMPSON.
Washington's base ball elect arrived
here this morning for a two-day stand
just as William Howard Taft, former
and somewhat noted resident Of the
capital, was leaving. The exPresident
yesterday enthused 5000 Nashvillians
with a speech in support of world
league to enforce peace. Grimth's CO.
horts are not sanguine of drawing
many of the natives to the games. as
league park is under about four feet
of water, and the contests will have
to be held at Dudley Field on the col
lege campus, some two or three miles
from the center of town.
1t was Griffith's announced intention
to send Molly Craft and Charlie jamie
son to the firing line against the Vol
unteers, as Roy Ellam's local outfit is
called, opposing Ernie Herbert and
Pug" Savet, the latter formerly a
member of the Detroit Americans.
Charlie Street-yes the same old Cab
mates in the first half of the game.
Gabby has been working in the South
ern Association for a number of years
since he quit catching balls tossed from
L,
and is highly regarded in these parts.
Street. who was Johnson's first bat
| terry mate in the big league, held a
sort of reunion at the ball park before
! the game with Walter Johnson, Zeb
Milan and George Mcbride.
Between innings at the game at Mem
phis yesterday with Cincinnati. Cueto,
| the Reds outfielder, came over to the
Washington bench and impaired to
! \, ia 81, ion,
Merito Acosta, his countryman. had in
! formed him that the little Cuban gar
dener would report to the Washington
| club within week or so. Cueto said
he thought Acosta would reach Wash
| ington by the time Griffith and crew
returned to the capital, April 3.
Milan's father was at the train to
greet him this morning. having come
over from Linden. Zeb is well ac-
auainted in Nashville and was kept
busy shaking hands with friends.
Rain was the official weather predic-
ton for today, but Mike Martin, who
poses as a sharp on things climatic.
was confident there would be little, IL
any. IL showers do interfere with the
playing of the game it will be the first
time since the tourists left Augusta.
Nick Altrock had a field day in Mem
phis yesterday. Nick was put on his
| mettle by the crowd of nearly 5000
there were $3.50 paid admissions. to be
eXact-and he put on his best stunts.
II seems he slightly overdid the wres-
thing contest with himself, however.
hurting his foot when he pinned his
shoulders to the turf with a toe hold.
He was limping slightly today as re-
suit, but expects generous applica-
ton of iodine to fix him.
Claude Thomas is threatened with
being relegated to the hospital list.
He caught a cold in Memphis which has
settled in his tonsils: They are 50
swollen that it is with difficulty that
he can talk, and when the southpaw
cannot talk he is disa bled.
Manager Griffith this morning got his
first word from the Yannigans since
| leaving Augusta. The message was an
IS 0 s. call from Raleigh. which read:
Wire 500. Are stranded"
Manager Griffth yesterday morning
received a telegram from Nashville,
where the Washington team is sched-
uled to play today and Tuesday.
saying that the ball park there is under
six feet of water. due to the Ohio river
that the game can be played on the
grounds of Vanderbilt University. some
three and one-half miles out of Nash
vile. Griffith does not fancy playing
will have to do so. as his contract calls
for him to appear there. and as long as
grounds can be provided he will have
to live up to the agreement.
CLYDE Milan had birthday anniver-
sary yesterday. Had" is used advised
ly instead of Celebrated as Zeb did
not remember that it was just thirty
years ago that he first saw the light of
day in Linden. Tenn. until reminded of
it. Clyde's eighteen -year-old brother,
Clint. visited him in Memphis. Zeb says
the youngster is g. natural ball player
and should be heard from some day.
Clint expects to get a chance to play
in Tulsa, okla, this coming summer.
Clint, like Clyde and Horace, also is an
outf1elder.
Manager Griffith was the guest of
Mike Donln 1.-THE latter's home in
Memphis Saturday evening. The former
National League star, who is making his
debut as a pilot this season. has gone
about the managing business in earnest
style. Donlin has married again and
has a pretty bungalow in Memphis,
where he intends to make his home.
Christie Mathewson. pilot of the Gin
cinnati Reds, is a golf enthusiast of the
first order and seldom loses an oppor-
tunity to get out on the links. After
eating breakfast upon his arrival in
Memphis. Matty hiked to one of the two
courses here for a round of eighteen
holes with Jack Ryder, a scribe accom-
panying the team.
George Mcbride was the victim of a
sneak thief some time early Sunday
morning. While he and John Henry,
who was rooming with him, We're asleI p
some one entered their room and rified
McBrides clothes, removing $50 in cash