Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-12

Park tomorrow with the two above-named
clubs as an attraction, the matter had to be
dropped. as several Of the Baltimore play
ers refused to participate. The long tour
OF these two clubs begins the latter part Of
this week. and the players want to axe q
hurried visit to their homes before starting
out.
Emslie and Hurst will get as much as
the losers. for each receives $50 per game
In the Temple cup series.
Perry Werden. the Louisville teams first
baseman. will probably be with the Detroits
next season. So will Billy Wittrock of
Cincinnati.
Jesse Tannehill of the Pittsourgs. who Is
at his home in Dayton, KY, played With
the Bellevue Browns yesterday. and didn't
40 thing to the Manhattan pitcher In
his first four times at tho bat he made
double; triple and two home runs.
The Philadelphia ball Team disbanded for
the season after Saturdays game with the
Wyoming nine. and few regretted that the
END had come. The season has bean a most
disappointing one, and it will take good ball
playing next year to win back patrons Of
the game who deserted when the slump
came The probabilities are that Manager
Staiiings will again De in charge rext sea-
son. he has an abundance of materia,
from which to make up a team, fourteen
young players having been bought or draft
ed to help out the eighteen reserved. But
II IS quality. not quantity, that counts, and
II the Philadelphia management is WISE
deals will be made at the coming league
meeting which will reduce the number Of
men under engagement fully half. Ore
good seasoned short stop will be worth
dozen experiments to the team.
I'VE will make at least 81, 600 apiece and
proDably more on our trip to the coast"
writes Manager Tebeau concerning the trip
OF Of, the Baltimore and All-American clubs.
The west Is billed as thoroughly as IL
circus were coming. We expect to play
every day until we reach San Francisco
and then play three games a week. I have
been all over this circuit before, and know
MnreQvpr Wa yxf1l hos
the Baltimores. We will have Burkett,
Tango and Stahl in the outfield; Tebeau,
Dahlen. Collins and Duffy in the infield
Powell, Rhines and Dunkle for pitchers and
Tim Donahue and A. c. Smith for CATCH
ers. Such a team ought to win three out of
four games from Baltimore without
trouble"
Charlie Comiskey of the st. Paul team
spent Sunday in st. Louis. The Post-Dis-
patch says: "Comiskey, like all the other
Western League managers. is hustling
two on the present st. Louis team that
Comiskey- would like to get hold of. AS if
to pave the way in that direction he re-
leased Fielder Billy George of his ST. Paul
man. having an average of $40 in the
Western League, and is also an excellent
fielder.
Ten years ago Tommy Corcoran, now
rated as among the greatest shortstcps in
the world. left his home to earn his living
as ball player. He and q companion
drifted away down into Arkansas, ana in
Little Rock Tommy drew his first money as
the crack pitcher of that team
Arson has tried twenty-one men this sea-
son. The Colonies have tried so many that
1t takes two or three books in which to
Keep their records. During the season
Wilson, Dexter. Butler and Schreckengost
have been catching for the Colonies. Fra
ger, HILL Cunningham, Waddell. .McGee,
Herman. Hemming. Evans, Dad" Clarke,
Jones, Miller and Bowling have pitched
a RrSf hose
rogers. w. Clark, johnson Martin Doiau
and Smith have garrisoned second. Cling
man has been the regular third baseman,
Dexter filling in while he was laid up Do
Ian and Stafford have taken turns at short.
In the field Clarke, McCreery, Pickering.
Hoimes, wagner and Nance have done the
best they could. That's thirty-two men,
and few may have escaped.
From all accounts Baltimore will have
quite new crop of pitchers next season,
but otherwise Hanion will keep his nine
about as 1t is at present. The story that
Jack Doyle would be traded for Dahle. of
Chicago has already been nailed as a ca
nard. Only the other day DAMIEN signed
contract with the Chicago club to play
nowhere but Chicago next season. Doyle
has been valuable man for Baltimore.
true. ne Is rather hot-headed individual.
but great ball player nevertheless
since blue Monday" some disagreeable
tnings have been said about Baltimore's
pitching corps. As Corbett has been the
leading figure in late disasters, he has been
made to bear the brunt of rooters' dis
pleasure in manner betokening little fair
ness or recognition of the peerless wor,,
he did until the late trip to New York
Previous records must not be lost sight of
because upon two occasions opposing hats
men were able to win out, though these
occasions unmade the champions. Cor
tetts work this year has been second to
none. In the early spring he started TO
pitch under discouraging circumstances
He had been subjected to hard training in
working with his brother, was completely
tired out in body and mind, and was TWEEN
ty-hve pounds underweight Game after
game he won, nevertheless, until he had
rolled up an unbroken list of victories new
er before equaled in the league. The sea
son mad far advanced before he lost a sin
gle game. and not until his shoulder was
hurt during the first western trip did he
slack his pace. In that first Boston game
Corbett went in to win or perish No one
could have done better than he did in the
carrier stages of the game. but in doing it
ne nurt his arm. Every ball he pitched
AFTER the fourth inning was with set teeth
TO Keep down cry of pain. What physi-
cal pain 1t cost him to remain in the box at
all Will never be known, but through it all
ne was as effective as one need usually be
TO win. There are not many pitchers who
would run the risk of throwing away their
means of making livelihood for the empty
honor OF plotting their comrades to one
victory, yet this Is what Corbett used mis-
best efforts to accomplish. That he failed
Is not due to inferior work on his part
Baltimore News.