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- ' TIGERS WILL GIVE US AN INFIELDER ""//// y By LOUIS A. DOUGHER V. / Ihnager Griffith seems to have meant business when he pr&miaad By LOUIS A. DOUGHER. I/a So <3lAD "THAT ha II to strengthen his ball dab for the coming season. Were ft not that Harold C. conceded to be best ha! Janvrin, the all-around athlete in Wou ARE. ^C?T UkE OLP TaaER. Johnny Lavan has decided to quit the cane, a right smart infield would Boston's schoolboy circles in 1910, is today the property of the Wash¬ AiR. SMITH his U/IFE there is booked be offered the fans by the acquisition of Hal Janvrin from the world's ington ball club in exchange for Eddie Ainsmith and Du Mont. TouD ME HE 15 For ) George Go»M(* th£ same u champion Red Sox. . a part of a three-cornered deal, the Detroit club will obtain t To a Poker <5nV*6. Gtame!1. from three! d from Baltimore that Jo* bwball ^As may = ' Reports Judge quit organized Boston Eddie Slim Love, and Chick Shorten in return for (two = TONlCrHT ! DEAR- ME , Ainsmith, WITH But he ll for and instead of a Oscar SHE CERTAiwLv has the drydock shipbuilding company, having saddening Vitt and some other infielder who will be awarded to the KEV/ER MAkLt cffect, offers Griffith still another opportunity to strengthen his ball club. a*v ' Washington sv/vvPATHy, IT *JOUJ club. Judge has played fair baseball since joining the Griffmen, tot ha Manager Griffith expects to use Janvrin at second base, he "BUGS" BAER her HUS5AK/D is ALWAYS er. ve.H . though ! has never come to ZATSo up expectations. has played al! around the infield with the Red Sox. The infielder to N y CromCi to Poker. CtAmes. "? If Judge really intends quitting the UJtLu - aaAVBE come from Detroit will be a shortstop. Meanwhile the Old Fox will Washington club, Manager Griffith Foch that X ujouldnt tolerate SHE UJAWTS should easily be able to handla the watch carefully for any infielders other clubs on chirps Germany HfN\ tO dropped by big league must kick in with it for a momemt. I situation. The Boston Red Sox have Joe May 6 when the player limit rule of twenty-one men goes into effect. twelve bil¬ EMvJOV ? today four first basemen, "Stuffy" Me> Judge May Quit Janvrin. being a "home boy." has lion iron as for HfMSEuF Innis, Dick Moblitzel. Del Gather and never succeeded in becoming a regu-" boys indemnity Jack Bentley. Mclnnie is chosen for Griff's Club lar with the Red Sox. The fans have damaging France, rough- the job, acc^rdlttg to all reports, never been able to "see" him. He housing Belgium and causing the leaving tbe other throe to be dis^ would so like a streak of lightning Taft, Wood, Crowder, posed of to clubs needing them, Joe Judge, first buemu, and a failure of the in on first base with the Washing- for week or so and then some sar¬ receipt crops good Frank Schnlta, outfielder, may castic remark from the bleachers Back the minor baseball ? ^00 don first base with the Washing¬ Boxing league of and not be with the would send him tip into the air. Back towns. . li/-. ton club in plac« Judge, Grlffmen next to the bench he would go. NEW YORK, Jan. 18..Former neither would weaken tbe club. summer, according to a report "I can't take Janny out," said Jack Hobby was introduced to major President Gen. Leon¬ ALTHOUGH THIRTY-SIX JOLTS in Cincinnati from where both arc Barry late in 1817, when Harry Taft, Maj. WERE league baseball by Baltimore, Krazee asked him when he ard EXOVGH, WYOM1XG A XI) Clark Griffith, who knows all about at the and would Wood and Provost Marshal 3II8SOR1 ALSO TOOK A SLAM AT h' employed Diydock return to second base, "without EX-KINK . / I « him. He is of an unusually high the team." General Crowder were reported ALCOHOL. AIS'T FAIR type of player, a c'ean fielder £.nd Shipbuilding Company. Schulte weakening That's what TO KICK A GUY WHEX HE S Barry thought of the newest Griff- today to be interested in a DRY. quite as good a batsman as Judge. is said to be on the fence, bat man. There is. no place in Boston for Mm project to nationalize un¬ Xcw Yoik is Judge is said to have Informed Right From School. boxing boxing something like and he may be obtained for the der new laws which will a red-headed stepchild. Runs away waiver price. Sam Frock, the man¬ Janvrin's interscholastic success provide but always comes back. r Drydoekers' State contests for Del Gainer is a better batsman that he will was so great that he was taken right champion¬ than either Hobby or Judge. He ager, quit organized from school the Red Sox. He and later a national tourna¬ Berlin wire says there is noting in th» for baseball and hold his by had ships Donhoffplatz and Zokkvonnnrkt. You'd reached .308 in fifty-two games Job in the .hone on the track, gridiron and dia¬ ment to decide national cham¬ have a touch lime telling wher* centerfleld the Bed Sox in 1917. and is extreme¬ was in that he yard. mond and even rowed on the Boston league. ly fast on his feet. Furthermore, pionships. Organization of a can do a fair job in the outfield, English High School crcw. board of control is among the Wo know that an elephant wiggles lif which he has played on many occa¬ Hardly more than a boy, he hung himself to shake the inserts off. We both fo' Detroit and Boston. this sions, stitnte the draft themselves around the Boston bench in 1911. but changes suggested, board to are hep that when a dog vibrates like Joe Judge is extremely fast, but imong a V CUui AA club* take one the next year he was sent to Jersey establish weights and rules. plate of gelatine in a sou'wester he his short stature maizes him a poor may player City for the There he has a reason. He ain't shaking for mark for the iniielders to hit on from Class A clubs. bat no limit is experience. Colonel it was on the number c.* played 132 games at third base and Roosevelt, said, the drinks, but because he is trying fast plays. He overcomes much placed thoee low for .291. He had agreed to head the board. to evict a couple of fleas that haven't this handicap, however, by his agility. classification may draft. shortstop, hitting stayed v this seat of one with the Red Sox thereafter. Here paid the rent. He is willing and earnest, but fre¬ From wisdom, we«M is his record with Boston: We wised up to that bunch. quently has been tied up on inside say that the next yell in baseball will T5ut will somebody please explain plays since coming to Washington. corr-e- from Class AA players who art G. AB. R. H. SB. Pet. the shimmy dance? kept and not allowed to gradual* late 1SU3... 86 276 18 67 16 If Judge goes through with his re¬ .206 promising youngsters with the Red ported intention of chitting the the big leagues. Exorbitant price; 1914... 143 492 65 117 29 .238 Sox, has been turned over to Connie Ty Cobb only icants lu t placed on Class AA stajrs will serve te 99 316 41 cutj/ l.ousaid Washington club. Griff may be able 1915... 85 8 .269 Mack, thus completing the deal lor berries for three meals a in the thus keep the majors from bey.rig them aad 1916... 117 310 32 69 6 day to obtain Gainer or Hoblitzet. .223 Jack Melnnis. American League. Twenty thousand still further adding to the attractive¬ the minors, not the majors, will tmm 1917... 55 127 21 25 2 as soon .197 Jake Daubert, as he quash¬ smackers is some velvet. Either 7'y Copyright, 191?, International Features Service, Inc. ness club new faccs. oat es of his with He's ¦ Touixntrr. his legal suit against the Brooklyn considers that he in much better this club, will be traded to Boston or the Mlsa Sebalte. Janvrin is a for year looking inu.il be terrible comparative youngster, Ed Konetchy. out in Detroit. While Frank Scnulte more thar. and. if he improves by constant work made gooH with the Washington club as well as Manager Griffith expects, Train at St. Petersburg missed The Th" lasi year, he will hardly be should play bang up ball for six or New York Giants will train at golf bucr ain't like the flu. with Sam Rice and MAGNATESPROTEST SERVICE 1915*. lneed. St. You can rid of LEAGUERS! in, seven years yet. He was born at Petersburg, Fla.. this spring, for¬ set the flu. back in uniform. for Mike Menosk:' Haverhill, Mass., August 27, 1892. and saking Martin, Te\., all time. Schulte can be little more than a so is now in his Ban Johnson will come to Wash' Speaking of autocracy, u hi< n we twenty-seventh year. Ran pinch-hitter and utility outfielder. He is five feet ten inches tall and. ington Monday and present to Gen¬ weren't, Johnson has the Kaiser He is to be undecided about eral a like Santa reported when in playing condition, weighs March complete list of Amer¬ 'looking Claus and all his to baseball and AGAINST BIG TAX. UP organized SMS An" CALL returning reindeer. BATTLESOFF ican around 100 or 165. League players now in France. planning to retrain with tbe Balti¬ ..anvrm is and in¬ He has been promised assistance in 1 young, peppery, their Swcr Xebraika took the more drydockers. telligent,'* said Griff one last obtaining discharges from the bo dry flop, a who has seen day the er-Kecser Tho District J ntcrcolle Bas¬ Service League basketball is no I Georgetown's bafketers eiic'ed the Schulte is veteran NEW YORK, Jan. 18 .The base summer. "I'd like to have him on my army. Sam Rice and Menosky are may demand another fliate his best When he was let the tcar on the of weir ketball more. The circuit, after last I week with days. ball fear ball elub. I've always been sweet only Washington players now in ground evidence. lBill Donovan, last year's Street broker buys the Giants. he must ad¬ ington coach with the Chewing-gum millionaire is State and Gallaudet College meet in a managers to get healthy patronage. Humphreys by fifty-nine to fourteen bill acceptably, though ident John A. Heydler. of the N't Ainsmith, who is now outclassed here Detroit Tigers, has owner of earlier in the week that the American offer¬ signed with the Inter¬ the Cub plantation and all Its I big double header. The fact that so many r«en are leav¬ has netted the mit League tional league, has eent the by Val Picinich. and George Dumont.1 Jersey City slaves. Hilltoppers 113 on the floor ed little major league baseball last following nationals for 1910 as Showing that you don't a ing the various camps involved points the daring shipyarder, who has never manager. II.* need tnusi The C. U.-G. W. U. contest goes on is for two sampf. But what he was supposed to protest to the Senate Committee te formerly managed cal education to play in a year. been able to go the route. It is Providence in the jazz band, at S o'clock. George won ascribed as another contributing he and be is a favorite with Washington: pos same with - Washington Freddy Fees was held out of the do, did. cible that in a league entire success. cause to the defection of the account. We and working shipyard has I Pure, we need three birds on the title last season, little is Known circuit. line-up for awhile to jfive the visitor? the fans on that earnestly respectfully pro¬ the National At a test as put strength into I>umont, but if it Comrrush of the present strength of the meeting of managers after last a chance to collect a. few. George¬ It is said that the Ited Sox may unfair the proposed increase hasn't, ho will prove of small value to GRAND RALLY LANDS IT Hen Johnson and two others. night's contest it was decided to play I town played defensive basketball for hand over a catchcr to the Griffmcn of tax on our admissions to JO pei the Red Sox. One cuckoo to hold Kan's hat. Hatchetlte squad, which has been un¬ the games independently. Kort the latfr. will be for Vsl Pici- cent. And the other to Myer, first ten minutes and then cut That good, zapp brush It off der the direction of Charley Allen. NTaval Operations, and the teal one left here. Baseball is the Red Sax 5>tronjrer. FOR CENTRAL'S PLAYERS Camp Hum¬ loose. | r.ich is the only Ed national sport sjk. Three first claws players are back phreys teams made up their minds to The Ghf-rrity's pegging wing is not of the appeals to all the people because oi The big three-<-orn»red deal has Some loh won a chess match In two for C. 17. in Oleason. Glasscott and continue the bul not Hilltop captain cot Into the] the One minutes out in i-eason. under a same for nine baskets and free best, while Joe Casey's grandchildren reasonable prices of cdnUeaior grand last minute rally In which Ohio. Well, a guy McDonougli. Gallaudet, with a vet¬ eigrht strengthened the Red Sox where they Xewbv and be league management. tosses. Carney, O'Cotincll and £az;;;le are complaining of his long absences charged. These prices have not bear . Dasher figured ought to allowed to waste eran were weakest In 1918, third base. for bas¬ two Quintet, is expecting a walk¬ According to the present sinnding figured In from home. IT.ey want to see mere of | increased except fractionally in th« kets from the floor landed Central a minutes once In a while. away with the State men, who have Naval Kort and Georgetown's erorlnjr. Oscar Vitt is nuite the best third 31 to Operations Myer, the Horner, of the him. last ten years. in victory over the strong l'.ail little practii'fi ?o far. Marines are ti<-d up for the Randolph-Mac^n now aacker the American Leaguo, and Shenando:th Looks the Quantico team. was the beet f'.r the Wc are endeavoring to reeo»c» easilv fill Valley Military Academy llks Xational t'ommish James Colliftower and Bryan Morse leadership. The teams have won two player from the losses will the shoes left vacant lesni In i he trill concede all of the visitors. Tiie were un¬ They Changed Qaiekly. great cau*eant in the iret tifti lite new owners tne Waller Slayer, a cat -her. frori when the Baltimore the bosom his family v, hen Sunday were opened fans, of Washing-' with of teams by at to JO ia the Business i>.ej Polytechnic score ball with the various tank corpn. VI hippr will manage who Red Sox before the sr .son Is underi Institute t«-am grabbed the is tied ami a runner on sr-mi-pro teams to?i last night, replacing the historic! Ch'.nts, have gone on reoord as gymnasium yejierday. of? a 24-lo-M game at and do as hint in the future, and in now plan¬ way. Last year I,d l-arr-iw offered In the Y M. C. A. third base. practically well as he l.as old l'alace alleys, where so many willing to spend money to land pen- The irr been in ning a bout with of «- yesterday. contest was not de (More when think of em.) doing Chicago. records were hung up in tii« past, George Chane.v, i.antv sell him to Griffith I bull elded until the last j 11a Uimore. WILL PLAY TODAY. the Old l-'ox would off-r only »1 ."xKI few* minutes of Kilt. Ilariy Armigcr, of the old Palace, 1st and the deal fell llirou^r. Now, play. I BRADLEY IS ILL. j now alii'd with the ISecrration. Tfce Sane Old Draft. Georgetown Preps are taking on wilhj I l.a.st was SINGLE POINT MARGIN. Western in Ryan ia a . Agnew, Hchang. and A! W'.tlu ra <>n TENDLER TO APPEAR. night's opening in the! "Abolish the draft!" shouted Ui« Gymnasium Westerr.'s players are having the ol a ) return the elub, there is no room for CENTRAL IS AHEAD. nature preliminary afia'r. A' a skaters le r.« to their ftm» today. Mnyer. | l'HIRAPKI.I'HIA. Jan. 18. -lyew "Klu" regularly. Ilerron. is Gor.zapra t. !aini game wttk Gonzaga team. Then the miners get together and la- Eastern last night. . V a