The Washington herald., 1920-02-04

League team against President
porting him against insurgents.
game lot of harm, and will not
II have not received any summonss
as yet so do not know what we must
answer.
II suppose. however. that 1t will ar
rive all right. then 1 will have
chance to study the contents Of the
summons. But until then 1 have
nothing to give out"
when asked what he thought the
outcome would be he again refused
to be quoted He did vouch the infor-
nation that in his opinion the New
York courts would grant any request
of the Yank owners. You know any
one can enter a suit and get salts
faction. but until the other side has
an opportunity to answer the ques-
lions that will be put up to them.
they are not guilty"
Rsppert Trouble MAKER.
II want to see this trouble fixed
up and the sooner the better 1t will
be for everybody. l look for deh-
rite settlement next week when all the
meeting That is the place to thrash
out your troubles. 1t is not the bus
mess OF outsiders to know all the
family troubles. Let US keep them to
ourselves as we have always done
until Col Rupert got into the game;
then trouble began. BY the end of
next week I look for the two factions
10 have all their differences settled
and 20 along as though nothing had
happened"
Club to Leave :7th.
All arrangements were completed
Yesterday with the Atlantic Coast
Line to take the Washington PLAYERS
South to the training camp. The boys
who will leave from this city will de-
part Friday. the 9Th. at BIS, arriH-
ing at Tampa Saturday at IL p. m
This will give the members OF the
club all day Sunday to get settled
in their new quarters. which Will De
the Tampa Bay Hotel.
On Monday all the kids and older
members Of the battery will get busy,
and under the direction OF Griffith and
Altrock. who will be on hand to see
that they get to work and wprk /
steadily. they all should be in fair
shane by the time the balance of the
players arrive
n is likely that about twenty-five
players will leave here on the 18th,
while the others will leave from their
homes and go direct to camp. Many
of them live in the West or South, /
so that it would be a useless trip to
come to Washington and start right
back over the same trip.
Cubans Want Money.
From the 1st until the 18th every
one will be busy. for on that date
IL Is likely that Brooklyn will be on
hand. There is some controversy with
the White Cubans over terms. and
IL they still ask for all the money
and Walter johnson they will be
disappointed. and the Brooklyn club
will get the three days that the Gu
hans were to play. After the open
ing series the Indianapolis club will
be played both at Tampa and st.
Petersburg. and then comes the tug
Of war with the worlds champions.
beginning on the I'd and finishing
at Cincinnati as per route printed
last Sunday in The Herald.
A Letter to AItrock.
The comedian received a very in
teresting letter from an old friend
of his out in Sacramento, Cal.
named George Simms. who is super
intendent of Fairgrounds in that
city. In the letter ii is stated that
fully 5000 people were on hand on
Sunday. the e5th of January. to see
a bal. game between two local teams.
Not a Sunday game has been post
poned all winter.
A few interesting facts are Sc
lected fTum the letter that may
prove in resting to the local play
grounds managers:
There are 81 organized teams
playing regular scheduled games on
the various parks and Fairgrounds:
IS ball teams. 80 soccer teams and
&c basketball teams. Another
league of FIVE basketball teams Is
about to play. which will make Sc
teams using the Fairgrounds.
Over 1000 names of boys and
men are enrolled in the various
playground sports
Few Remarks from Letter.
One of the most popular men at
Mckinley Park last Sunday was the
ice cream man.
We have seen worlds series cham
pionship ball games. but the kick"
we got last Sunday watching the
boys was just as exciting as some
OF those we got in days gone by.
The oil was not up to the stand
ard this week; in fact. it was
crude" Bowman took the gas"
out of John DIS boys. and they went
home with "empties."
The South Siders Cof the league
clubs). are still using the double
system. One lost and the other
won.
Remember. fellows. the best team
is going to Oakland to play the
Judson Iron workers. We suggest
that q scout" be sent to Oakland
TO find out II the iron boys use the
open hearth or "Bessemer pro-
cess to reduce the enemy
II Walter Pipp wants to come to
Sacramento to play ball next winter.
We might be able to get him a job
on a nearby orange ranch putting
''Pipp" into the pippins.
And Frank Baker might make
little dough" at one of the bake
shops.
= A common brick measures Tx
l-2xs but Brick CEldred) is all
wool and a yard wide"
A lone aviator was about Sunday
watching the game from his ship.
The Umpire.
with apologies to Shakespeare
Hath not an umpire eyes, hath
he not hands. organs. dimensions.
senses. affections. passions? fed
with the same food. hurt with the
same weapons, subject to the same
diseases. healed by the same means?
II Won prick him. does he not bleed?