had against the Washington club.

3

In baseball of course they's only nine men on a side and that is where a
gen. in the war has got the advantage on a mgr. in baseball because they's
no rules in war fair to keep a man from useing all the men he feels like
so it looks to me like a gen. had all the best of it because suppose the
other side only had say 50 thousand men in a certain section they's nothing
to prevent a gen. from going after them with a 100 thousand men and if he
can't run them ragged when you got to them 2 to I its time to enlist in the
G. A. R. All though as I say a mgr. can't only use nine men at a time in
baseball, but at that I know of incidents where a mgr. has took advantage
of the oppts. being shy of men and one time the St. Louis club came to Chi
and Jones was all crippled up for pitchers but the game was on our home
grounds so it was up to Mgr. Rowland to say if the game should be played
or if he should call it off on acct. of cold weather because it was in the
spring. But he knowed Jones was shy of pitchers so he made him play the
game and Jones used big Laudermilk to pitch against us and they beat us
5 and 2.

4

Another advantage where a gen. got it on a baseball mgr. because in
baseball the game begins at 3 o'clock and the other club knows when its
going to begin just the same as your club so they can't neither club beat
the other one to it and start the game wile the other club is looking out
the window.

But a gen. don't half to tell the other side when he is going to attack