Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-20
TIE RECORD.
The sixteen big clubs now stand as follows:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
NOTES..
NOTES.
New York and Boston are having tight pull

New York and Boston are having tight pull
for advantage in the league. So far things
look pretty even between them, but the New
Workers are undoubtedly playing winning ball
and ought to be in the lead by the LIST of Au-
gust. The weakening on the part of the Cleve-
land team is very apparent. Their pitchers are
not as effective as they were at the start nor is
the club fieidlng or batting as they did month
ago. The pace, in short, was a little too fast
Tor them. Philadelphia has braced up and is
playing good ball and winning ball, while Chi
cago Is jogging along at an easy gait apparently
satisfied with the leadership Of the second
platoon. indianapolis and Pittsburg have
tumbled woefully on this trip and have thus
gwen the Senators hope The improvement Of
the home team is not an imaginary quality but
fact verified by results. The men are play
Ing strong game, and, while fielding rather
loosely at times. are managing to bat SO hard
and SO often that errors are compensated and
runs are earned in large numbers. Much of
this has been done while Irwin was sick and
his place filled by Clarke. His captaining is
missed badly, for Sam Wi Sc has not yet found
the right combination in directing the men on
the field Irwin will prof. ably join the team as
Boston tomorrow night.
Three games in Boston and then three in New
York are not just the kin of contests tail end
ers Ike to pick out as vi ctories, yet the home
taken, ought to get two games out of the six
without much difficulty
The other games on Monday are as follows:
New York in Philadelp' ala, Pittsburg in Cleve-
land and Indianapolis in Chicago
III the Senators win ;he one game from Cleye-
land most folks will b e satisfied
IL VIII be interes' ing TO see just how long
Daiy can catch with out stopping. He is play
ing the best ball on the team to-day.
If any one still believes that Walter Hewett
made mistake in selling Myers he ought to
cast ms eye In tn direction Of the second base
as 1t is being gus .rded now by Samuel Wise and
then let him gr' imble if he dare.
Poor James Calvin! After his last three
dru6bings fro m Washington, New York and
Philadelphia, he ought to feel that he has lost
his grip on tt @ ball. He and Deacon White are
ambllng dow q the slide hand in hand and base
oaL people re rather sorry to see them go.
Does anyi body hear OF Whitney nowadays?
He once pit ched for Washington and then went
TO Indianal ,olis, but for several weeks he has
oeen siien' IN the base ball world. 1t would
seem as u rough he had gone ON ahead to clear
the way Il Or the men Just mentioned
deaiy has done some good work for Chicago
SINCE he was released by Washington, but for
| some re lson il has hardly been good enough to
WIN ne trouble at present with Healy is that
ne cam 'ot inspire the men behind him with any
sort OF confidence, and that he has the mis-
| than he.
There is but one weak spot in Washington
yast now, and that is the same spot that was
\ sore wheii the season opened, third base. Peter
Il
\ bau In that position, but he is primarily unre-
liable, nd he goes to pieces at the most inop-
Portunfi times. He is q player, but he ough,
to go ratio training for about year more in q
good dnion league club and try to remedy some
very siouchy habits out of himself.
| u arke's play at short has been one Of the
sur prises of the week, but he has also proved
hiT aself to be somewhat streaky in his work
| " at he is plucky and goes for everything with
in hundred feet The way he backs up thirt
J and second is refreshing. He and Wise have
developed into a team that is hard to beat, ant
some very pretty double plays have been exc
cuked.
There is but little doubt among baseball
spectators but that the foul-tip rule OF 1889 il
not altogether success. While it is undoubt
edly wise to prevent the sacrifice of bass
runner by not calling caught tip out it surely
seems unjust to the pitcher to let it go fol
nothing. IL is a failing attempt to hit the bal
just az much as strike and the ball is not de
nected out OF its course to any extent. As 1
stands, the tip is q wasted pitch, and az sucl
should be counted, for the man in the box Ia
hard enough time OF IL now. Let the foul III