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as such a promise was made when
the Wards bought into the league.
Charley Williams, secretary of the
team, has gone to Baltimore to assist
at the schedule meeting, which will
be held Monday. A big. task confronts
the game fixers in avoiding conflict
ing dates. Where a conflict is certain,
as in Chicago, the schedule will prob
' ably be drawn to compete with the
least popular of the two big league
teams.
Manager Hank O'Day ran into cold
weather yesterday at Birmingham,
forcing a postponement of hostilities,
and immediately became pessimistic.
Reports along the route' to be trav
ersed by the Cubs are that chilly
weather will be encountered at every
step, and O'Day fears the effect on
his veteran pitchers.
He has wired permission to leave
the grapevhiers in the far south until
a week or so before the opening of
the season. Otherwise, he fears he
will be forced to start the campaign
with a bunch of sore-armed heavers,
who will not boil out until the middle
of summer.
The scheme calls for leaving Che
ney, Vaughn, Humphries, Smith,
Pierce and Lavender in the care of
Catchers Bresnahan and Tyree for
daily work under the hot southern
, sun.
Such a plan sounds like fine busi
ness. The pitchers would get plenty
to do every day, instead of a game
now and then, as would be the case
if all came north together. They
would be under the guidance of Bres
nahan, a wise bird, hep to the tricks
of the trade, and' able to impart some
of his gray matter to them.
The Sox firsts trimmed Venice, 6 to
4, and the seconds were licked by
'Frisco, 8 to 6. This defeat was due
to a sore arm carried by Catcher
Mayer. He couldn't peg to bases and
the coasters stole at will.
Larry Chappell, Sox outfielder,
who is in an Oakland sanitarium, is
in a more serious condition than was
at first thought, and may be out ox
the game for two weeks more at the
least.
Larry played a game in a pair of
new shoes. The skin was rubbed off
his ankle, and blood poisoning set in,
which has infected his whole leg.
The prop is swollen and extremely
painful.
There was some talk that Larry
might lose his leg, but the physicians
believe that this danger has been
overcome, and that complete rest and
constant care will bring the expen
sive Frenchman around in time to
join the team before the opening of
the season.
When he was hurt Larry was just
beginning to strike his stride. The
leg he injured last year was properly
healed, and he was showing the speed
and vaunted ability that made him
the most sought after man in the
American Association last year.
In the second 'base battle yester
day Russell Blackburne again got the
decision over Berger. Russell soak
ed a double and single with the sec
onds while Berger was going hitless
with the first team. Both did some
sensational fielding, but batting is the
quantity which will decide the con
test, and Blackburne is pulling farth
er ahead each day.
The firsts made 17 hits, but wasted
most of them. Reb Russell was
pounded viciously, and had to get as
sistance from Eddie Cicote to stave
off defeat.
Jack Fournier unbuttoned a single
and homer with the seconds.
Arnold Hauser, St. Louis Card
shortstop, has been sent to an asy
lum, his nerves shattered. An injured
knee prevented him playing ball last
season, and the death of his mother
and baby added to his worries. His
case is similar to that of Johnny Ev
ers, and his ultimate recovery is look
ed for.
Ray Caldwell, string bean catcher,
is in bad with Frank Chance. The
boss of the Yanks fined Caldwell $50
two weeks ago for breaking training,
and added a $100 plaster when Cald-