Evening star., 1925-02-23


Peck Has Bad Cold.
Just when Manager Harris was
congratuIating himself over the ap-
preaching complete recovery of Fred
Marberry from the painful injury to
his hand, received in fall last Tues
day, the name of Roger Peckinpaugh
was entered on the hospital list.
Peck contracted a heavy cold Sat
hrday which settled in both his chest
and head, and he is fearful from past
experiences with this troublesome
complaint that difficulty may be en-
countered in throwing it off. Although
he spent considerable time phoning
the offices of various medicos, Peck
was unable to obtain the services
of a physician until yesterday, but he
is hopeful that the home remedies
he resorted to will serve to lessen
the severity of his attack and that
he will not be laid up.
Weather Is Adverse.
Other candidates for the dispensary
may be developed If the brand of
weather on tap yesterday continues
to prevail. 1t started raining early
in the morning and q steady down
pour continued throughout the day,
the plans of the Washington delega
tion for the Sabbath being drowned
the customary hike over the hills for
squad consisting of Harris. McNally,
Ruether, Judge, Marberry and Ogden,
but the uninterrupted descent of
moisture prevented even a loosening
of arms through tossing on the lawn
in front of their hostelry.
The fishing trip that Coveleskie and
Peck had planned under the leadership
of Morris Ackerman, noted Cleveland
authority on denizens of the deep, nat
urally went by the board, too. as did
Goslin's daily battle on the links with
Babe Ruth. Goose voiced no regrets
over the fact, however, as he has had
little luck at golf with the Bambino as
his opponent since their first clash
last week, and he probably figures that
the enforced inactivity fOrestalled a
further defiation of his bank roll.
Milan Retains Title.
Held indoors by the elements, there
was nothing for the athletes to do but
bat 'em out in the conversational
league, and a big tanning bee was in
progress in the hotel lobby when the
group was joined by Clyde Milan. Some
one mentioned fishing, which always is
Milan's cue. For years Zeb has been
known as the narrator of some of the
choicest fishing yarns ever spun. He
found in Alderman worthy rival and
the pair of them provided entertain
ment for couple of hours. But at the
finish the Clevelander cheerfully cast
his vote to make unanimous Milan's
election as champion"
Sunday was not total loss so far
as preliminary training for the Ma
tionals is concerned, however. Bad
weather has no power to interfere
with bathing in the far-famed radio
active waters of the Spa, the chief
justification for the expense involved
in transportation and board for
sizable group of diamond perform
ers, and every member of the Wash
ington delegation had his customary
tub. The system followed is similar
TO that of Turkish bath establish
ments, and, including the period al
lOtted for cooling off," requires
about an hour and half.
Speaker Boosts Indians.
The base ball colony here. which
includes representatives. of the
Yankees, Browns, Indians and White
Sox of the American League, in addi-
tion to the Griffmen, was further aug
mented yesterday by the arrival of
Tristram Speaker, the silver -thatched
field leader of the Cleveland club, who
journeyed all the way from Lakeland,
Fla, where he was spending his
honeymoon, to supervise the work of
his veteran batterymen before pilot,
ing them back to the Tribes Spring
training camp.
The Indians last season escaped by
only narrow margin from landing