Evening star., 1917-03-13
REGULARS MAKE GOOD RECORD
AT BAT IN OPENING CONTESTS
Griffith First-String Men Obtain Eighteen
Hits in Sixteen Innines-Other Gossip
of Training Camp Athletes.

ultimately scored the only run his team
made when Mcbride booted Ainsmith's 8
grounder. Horace Milan. who also had
walked. scored. too, but Umpire Alt
rock waved him out for failure to touch
third base.
Each of the Regulars obtained a hit
except Eddie Foster and Jim Shaw.
while Judge and Ainsmith contributed
j, team.
About score Of young men. resi-.
oents OF Augusta, were at the ball
park yesterday morning to see the
payers drill. but none volunteered to
get in line. The players went at their
olt OF the preparedness stunt some
what timidly, but with commendable
earnestness. and at its end Corporal
Dean paid them the high compliment
rapidly than any raw squad he ever
had seen. Some humorous incidents de-
veloped. Claude Thomas. the southpaw
pitcher. insisted on saldting with his
left hand, and Harry Harper. another
portsider. slightly gummed things by
starting at the command march" with
the wrong foot. When his attention
was called to it he asserted that he
was In step; that everybody in the
squad was out of step except him.
what faulty in that he occasionally
turned in the wrong direction at the
command right face" or left face"
but on the whole the boys acquitted
themselves creditably for soldiers who
were greener about affairs military
than the grass they were drilling on.
The players were considerably handi-
capped in the turning movements by
the fact that the spikes in their base
ball shoes caught in the ground, but
hereafter this angle of the work will
be done on the skinned part of the dia-
mond.
One immediate result of the drilling
expected is an Improvement in the car
riage of the player as he goes to his
position before and after innings. In
stead of slouching on and off the field
he should. with military training, move
with some snap and precision. 1t is
believed the discipline also will i'm
prove his all around worth and eff
cheney.
The start of the first drill was delayed
for some minutes by tardiness OF
Eddie Foster. Hank Sinks and Sam Rice
who did not reach the ball park until
nearly 10 o'clock and had to don theiI
uniforms before drilling. The trio was
threatened with a term in the guard
house" if the offense is repeated.
Claude Thomas, the southpaw twirleI
Griffith obtained from Des Moines, to
boy. will go as final payment. yesterday
exhibited a copy of the Smallest
newspaper in the United States. 1t con-
sists of four pages. eight by six inches
in size. 1t was published in Copan
Okla. and the entire first page of this
issue, August 9, 1909, is devoted to a
story of ball game in which the Copan
team, with Thomas pitching, beat the
Caney club. Thomas allowing only one
hit and tanning twelve men.
Grif1ith's second team ,outclassed the
firSt-StrinR men in the morning game
today and obtained revenge for their
defeat of yesterday. Craft and Hum
phries were fund for eleven hits, seven
off the former. who also was wild
Shaw displayed the best form Of any
of the twirlers.
Menoskey had the best batting record
with three hits and walk out of four
times up. His home run cleared the
right field fence just inside the foul
mark. Horace Milan got two doubles
and Crane also came to life. Mcbride
and Shanks each got two hits for the
regulars.