The Washington herald., 1919-03-17

But leave it to the greatest Httle'
handy man in the world, one Mike
Martin, to pitch in and place things
in ship shape. Mikey has been wres-
Ting with lawn mowers and plows
for the past three days, and had plans
all set to put the finishing touches on
the diamond tomorrow when Mr..
"Joykfller'' stepped in. All the
grounds really need is rolling, but
when Martin attempted to hire the
Augusta street cleaning and repairing
departments steam roller he was no
tihed by the mayor of this wonderful
little city that the hired men of the
county were on a strike for higher
wages. and it is now up to Mickey to
bust the strike.
Just how Mike figures in pulling an
"a la Sammy Gompers" he Is not
even telling his best friends. but he
claims that all will be in readiness
for the afternoon work tomorrow.
while Uncle Nick states that he will
not sidestep any workouts II possible.
as he intends to have the young ath-
letes pound the paths in the outer
garden.
The heavy rainstorm which
greeted the Nationals shortly before
arriving at Charlottesville last
night, was sidcstepped somewhere
in the cover of darkness. Augusta
is the same training camp as of old
as overcoats and vests were shed
upon arrival here and the early pre-
diction is lame arms from sunburns,
In Of a
Terrace Annex. which is we'll back
in the hills OF this carpetbag State
Is the home of the Nationals during
this training season. Trainer Mar
tin had completed all the details
with the hotel management, even
to enforcing his menu upon both
the head chef and the young
athletes. but after the long ride the
boys would have stood for army
rations.
Ike Davis. the -gob" from the Pa
cific Coast who is touted as ready
to fill Johnny Lavin's shoes. report
ed just in time for the evening meat.
Davis is a promising looking young
ster being built along the same lines
as Lieut. Johnny. He is a well set
yOungster who is anxious for the
FIRE works to start.
The topic Of conversation during
the train ride today and until taps
tonight was the question of Jimmy
Shaw casting himself among the
holdOuts- Sammy Agnew who re-
Gently left Shaw, claims the Pitts
bUrgh stogie is sincere in his efforts
to obtain a better contract from the
Washington Club. but the consensus
of ipiniOn is that Shaw will sooner
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Captain Walter Rathbone. the
former Georgetown University and
Business High School athlete of
Washington. was a visitor at camp
today. He was impressed with the
brilliant array of youngsters that
Grin had lined up. and like all per-
sons who live in or near Augusta,
he is already predicting pennant
cha noes for the Nationals.
The first casualty Of the season was
announced tonight when it was found
that Molly Craft, the young hurler
from Portsmouth, Va. is suffering
from a bad case of blood poisoning.
Craft, who was recently released
from the officers training school at
Camp Lee, Virginia, contracted some
kind OF a skin disease on his right
ankle shortly after being released.
This trouble, which has puzzled the
doctors in Crafts home town. will
prove no drawback to the young
hurler as Trainer Martin has already
started his wonder OIL treatment
and he expects to have him perfect
in a day or so. This ankle, it will be
remembered by the fans, was broken
in the spring OF the year of 1917 in
Chicago when Buck Weaver slid into
the lanky hurler.
Hughey Jennings. the pilot Of the
Detroit Jungleers. who made the
trip South with the Nationals, stop
ped off here today and talked over
baseball with Ty Cobb. This Is
Cobb's home town, and as the
Georgia Peach" is having some
trouble with Jennings over his con-
tract. the fiery Pilot attempted to
straighten il out personally. Jen-
nings stated before leaving for the
Tigers camp at Macon. Ga, tonight
that he had como IN No def nifp n