The Washington herald., 1918-12-17

One hears a lot about baseball prob
lens, but after all the principal one
is TO get the winning run over
The greatest thing done by the win
ming of the war next TO making the
world safe for democracy was 10 re-
duce to one winter a season of the
most fatuous lot of baseball politics
and animosities ever foisted on the
public by magnates and smeared over
Il sport page.
But look on that picture, then on
this-This Brown, who wrote baseball
before he went to France to fight. was
promoted to a captaincy before the
warning ceased. In a letter to II. n.
Hampstead, of the Giants, and dated
November l6. he said: Have see n
quite a bit of the show since the lat
ter part of August. Was in the drive
on st, Mihiel and also in the Argonne
Forest show. Was slightly wounded in
the hip by a shell splinter in the last
named melee. Saw Grant Rice the day
before l was plugged. He belonged
to my regiment, but has since been
trapsferred to the Intelligence Corps"
Branch Hickey, president of the St
Louis Cardinals, who went to France
as a major in the army, has been I'll
there with pneumonia but is improv-
ing.
Harry Weaver, rookie member of
the Cub slab artist staff last year and
in the spring of 1918. is now chief yeo-
man in the navy. with headquarters at
Philadelphia His duties are connected
with cost inspection, but he is not
satisfied with being a petty officer and
has passed examination for an Off
RArSf tr~nt tnftn
hopes to earn the rank of ensign. IL
successful, IL will mean his perma-
nent retirement from baseball.
Joe Corbett, former well-known Ma
tional and Pacific Coast League
pitcher. and brother of the former
heavyweight boxing champion, is now
a member of the staff of the Bank
of Italy. in San Francisco, and is
learning the banking business. He re-
signed his Job in the county clerks
office to take up his new line of work.
DIR, A. II. Gianinni. president of the
Bank of italy. was Joe's catcher when
they were students at st. Mary's
A Chicago scribe states that the
profits of the Chicago National League
Club the past season will be, all told,
about $4,000. To reap that reward all
the hackers of the Cubs have had to
do in the past four years is to spend
something like a million and a half.
Basebalf follows the flag, but isn't
the only game which does. An Uncle
Sam socker team, made up of Ameri-
can soldiers, beat a team of Czecho-
Slovak soldiers in Siberia, three goals
to two.
Frank Arellanes, who pitched for
the Red Sox and since then on the
Pacific Coast. died of influenza in San
Jose last week.
Barney Dreyfuss met Provost Gen.
eral Crowder in the Waldorf the other
day. WELL" said the latter to- the
Pittsburgher. baseball has a clear
field ahead, and wish it all the luck
in the world
One of the things done by the Ma
tional Leaguers at their meeting was
to renew the pensions of Mrs. Mary
Johnson Pulliam and John b. Day.
Cincinnati will not have to look
very far for a manager now that
Pat Moran is free.
Rabbit Maranville. who is on the
Pennsylvania, convoy to the Presi-
dents ship across the Atlantic. was
reported to be at the meeting II
may be. Rabbits are plentiful this
season.
Before the National League holds
another meeting the Chicago club
win try to bring about a change in
its rule permitting President-Man-
ager Mitchell to sit in.
II is rumored that Hal Chase may
come to the Giants. If the Daubert
deal goes through. however, there
is no chance Of such thing ma
terializing.