| Show i iI I MEYERS THORPE 1 BATTERY SHOULD fi BE SENSA TIO j Great Carlisle Indian Has Has' j 1 J Makit Making g of T p lotch r-J r S Said d i. i al J SHAFER MAY MAY COME OME COMEBACK B BACK I I b by Publishers resi BY DY WALTER fALTEn 1 New York Feb 8 S. s.-rn In a a. little more mor 1 than a week weck now the preliminary work of or the baseball season will be under I way McGraws McGraw's s recruits will be begin ln Jo to J limber up up at at Martin Marlin T Tx x and within I the next week or ten days das all the youngsters will rom be hard at It and find be before before be- be fore th the month i out spring spring- training will be I In fu l blast Mirabile as our old friend Virgil Vir Vir- Virgil gil was was wont to remark Jim Thorpe l the he worlds world's greatest nth athlete lP will h hI nn of the tho CATI early birds at Marlin and Sic Mo o J Graw may be able before the sen season Oft I h is out to give the Uie American n public a first class big Ig l league gue battery balter all all all' the th 1 component parts part of ot whiCh whiCh- which are are original American Alread Already he has In r. r the tile perI person person per per- I son of oC John Mc Meyers ers Missions Us ion ionI I Indian o one e O of the very ery best bes backstops backstop in the business and there is reason to believe that thal Thorpe Sac ac and anti Fox Fol has the he he making o of a topnotch pitcher H lie certainly has the physique and anti stamina stam m- m mj j lina ina and with two such mentors as ItS WM-t WM l I bert Robinson and an Chief Chic Meyers if It he hie has the other other- attributes of ot a a a. pitcher 1 it It soon will Ihl be demonstrated Even If H ho he cannot pItch big lg league ball Thorpe will be a a. t e man O on the team tam after he becomes seasoned Think of a a. bat battery batH ry where herc the the catcher bats near the tile mark arid and the pitcher c can ln do the tho hun hundred cd in close to 10 iO MCC cc- ends an and who r port says saiS Is like likely tol to tat above e McGraw Is certainly a wise bird i While others were talking o of signing up Thorpe 1 Muggsy went over to Pitts Pitt i burgh and turned the trick I He lie very er truthfully tr says Ya that hat ever everli If T Thorpe docs does not turn lurn out to b b lie i dl great player cr he will earn n his salary as asa as' as asI I tit a a. drawing car card l. l Experts are very cry confident confident con con- though that Thorpe Thorp can VIA pla plax ball baIr about as well as he can do prett pretty much everything e else on the athlete line lino and that Is going tome some Shafer In n Return turn As time passes and the days das grow row longer an and J the thc grass raS grows grow in 10 Flatbush an and nil all that sort of ot tiling there develops e a s stronger stronger- and s stronger t el hunch th that t Tilly Shafer is In la a t ic so c mood mood- that the young mat man might be tempted hack back into profession professional slon Cj al baseball all l properly approached it I It seems that he lie does not stand sane Ii 11 I perpetual fear of d I all aU That dread wn given t cn out a as hl orl original ina I reason for fol leaving the Gianti prostrate next nett season but ut he lie has sine since 11 revised sed it Ills His grouch l Is now rw directed r. r a against other members of ul the I entourage Ho Is a a. heR heap vexed over thi action of certain of the thc athletes Snodgrass Snodgrass veIl well whets when did lid It didn't and doesn't seem Mcm to mind mind- 1 what the e bo boys bos s may ni-iy have o said on tha to be d occasion but S Sha Shafer Shafer fer did and does docs lie He says Fays the b boy oy treated Fred most shamefully crl i IllS Ing him hin harshly et etc e overt even en going olno- nd rd far as to accuse him of ot lack of ot samen game game- t n ness s. s 1 I hope Till Tilly gets et er over his grouch Heis lit He t i is a great r at little ball player and with eVer every ex-ery prospect of oC becoming greater s i f Chris Von der Abe Ahe who is ill at hl his j 1 home In St. St Louis was ono of or th the tho mosi eccentric characters In baseball huc du 1 tire tile hel height ht of his Iris career He lie was the the- Weber and Fields s of the national am l' l for fo 3 earn ear and innumerable stories ar are told of his earl early years and the odd rulings rul rul- I ings InS's anti and tactics lactiC's he used when he controlled con con- trolled tile the St. St Louis club Claud Martin T was as at ono one lime time a m member mem m ber of or Chriss Chris's board of ot directors Martin Martin Mar Mar- MarI d. d I Itin tin and anti some other mon on the boar J thou thought ht that the they were there to dc IC I something ln Chris brought up the tue therin fins i j. j 4 I In Ing of a a. pla player er Dowd a R friend of Martins Martin's Mar 1 i tins tin's and allI put pUl It to a vote otE There There we wel cettour i tour four votes upholding Dowd an and J One ri Von n r dt-r tr Ahe's hes hes he's for tor fining him Der ayes hat haf id declared Von Yon 7 Jj 1 Ahe who x was in the tile chair Dowl I Is' Is fined filled 0 It Is ort ordered Mr rr Secre Secre- JI i tary tan Hold on Mr President inter 1 I Jw posed d Martin let us see about this There were tour four our votes no and but hut on vote ote aye I submit that the nc noes lIa l It an and demand a rising vote i cried Chris who x WL I I I presiding presiding- You are of 4 Mardin Der Deros os vos four votes x No Xo bud hurl who lO voted ote J deni You Mardin laJ ln und Gott 1 Hob lIeb Gruen Peck J John hn W. W Peck I Ington un und J Lehman Voi Soi t q fellers hold run vun share sharo each vich Ich T I gl i you a a. season Hel bass ass Now Nos I to 11 own 19 1911 i J shares 1 tle t Do fined 50 O. O An who to vote ote No o vii fl bl blease a han handt Jt In iu his share of or stock un und also hl iris his season On IH bass baas a s. s I J Chris Von doi l I she he un tIU running running- die e un und don I you forged It lar l Mardin Marilin ln j jA A About out thirty Sax Savannah motorcyclist celebrated J th th birthday of or General L LAi LAiI u i in Lx LP a n mile fifty motorcycle run t r rt f. f I t |
