Evening star., 1897-04-12

with the hitting ability of his men. Nc
Gam, the much-talked-of Boston player Of
last year, will be found Ph first base. and
Freeman. who pitched a Few games for
the Washington club some years ago. has
blossomed into a fielder, and is a sticker
of the first class. Wagner, at third. and
Casey, at short. are two other men that
the wiseacres are asked to keep eyes on
as coming men. Dfneen will likely go on
the rubber at the beginning of the game
for the visitors, and perhaps two others of
the Toronto staff will finish out the game.
McJames, Ashe and German will do the
twirling for the Senators,-and very In
teresting contest should be the result. The
following is the batting order of the clubs:
Washington. Toronto.
Lush. r.-f. Freeman. T. f.
DeMontreville. s.. 8. White. J. f.
Selbach l. f. Ahern, r. t.
Mcclure, C. Casey, s. s.
Cartwright: 1st b. Magner, Sd b.
Reilly, Sd b. Baker, C.
cJames, p. Dineen. p. -
DcMontreville, who will get back into the
game this afternoon, is conceded by all
the judges of the game to be running
right alongside Of Jennings and Long Tor
the championship of the position. and
should his improvement this season con-
tinue on the ratio of the last two years
there is no telling where the Capitol Hill
boy will land. Tim Murnaiie, the Boston
base hall writer. in recent article said
that DeMontrev1ile had all the earmarks
Of the coming premier shortstop of the
big league, and lacked only the experience
Of the Baltimore and Boston players TO
place him neck and neck with them. The
coming season will be DeMontreville's
fourth as a professional ball player and
his second in the big league. In 1894 his
sensational playing with the Albany, New
York State League club attracted the at
tention Of the Pittsburg management, and
he was secured for that club. But he was
too young then, being but eighteen years
old. and as one of the players put 1t, was
not done growing" After playing few
games in the smoky city DeMontreville
was released and finished the season with
Allentown; of the Pennsylvania State
League, when 1t was under the manage
ment of the popular Mike Kelly In lSJ5
DeMontrevfile started out with the Toronto
team and finished the last fifteen games
OF the season with the Buffalo club Of the
Eastern League. His work with the TO.
rofto club attracted the attention Of Earl
Wagner, and in the late summer OF 10
Mr. Wagner took a trip to that city es-
peclally to see DeMontrevtile play.
Mr.. Wagner says he sat through hve
games in which the little shortstop played
and saw him make sixteen errors. enough
TO almost kill off an ordinary player. But
it was the way DeMontreville went after
the ball that caught Mr.. Wagner's eye, and
a week later he had the players name to
contract for the remainder of the season.
and after the Eastern League closed ne
donned the Washington uniform for
couple of weeks. While in Toronto Mr..
Wagner says he received a telegram from
one of his friends. saying. Your boy
doesn't seem to be doing SO we'll" Mr. Wag-
ner replied to this. mo. but he is a good
one, Just the same.
The season of 1896 demonstrated that Mr..
Wagner possesses good eye for players.
AS q hitter DeMontreville led the club last
season, and although he hasn't started in
on his rapid work this year. he Will no
doubt round up when the season starts on
Jennings was the only shortstop in the big
league that led him in the heiaverages for last
season DeMontreville' dsg an easy man to
handle, he is a man nov, and loves the
game better than the average southern
gentleman loves the game Of poker.
No more ladies day"l tickets will be
given out after today. as Sthe supply mas
been exhausted. Mr.. Wagner says If the
applications kept up in the way they were
coming the past two or three days the
grounds wouldn't hold all the beauties that
wanted to attend the garnes. Mr.. Wagner
says that 5000 tickets have been given out,
and that in justice to. his regular patrons
he cannot allow the number to get over this
limit, as it will crowd the grand stand. and,
Of course, the choice seats will be appropri-
ated by the first comers., u
Childs, who played second base for the
Athletic Club in Saturdays game, Is not a
brother of Cupid ChildSi of the Cleveland
club, but halls from iMabayunk. a suburb
of Philadelphia, and is ndt<even related to
the clever Cleveland player. whose home Is
in Baltimore. III
Tomorrow will be ladies, day. at Ma
tional Park, and 1t Is expected that the
Toronto players will have the opportunity
Of witnessing a group of the fpest looking
ladies in the country.
Pitcher Win Mercer and First Baseman
Cartwright of the Washington Base Ball
Club had an exciting experience OH the
Brightwood road yes terday afternoon. Both
the players were coasting at lively clip
down one of the hills. when a pedestrian
got in Cartwright's way. The big boy tried
to pass the man. but only partly succeeded.
his shoulder striking the walker a good
hard blow and sending him flying across
the road. The collision swerved Cart
wright's wheel over in front of Mercer's.
and quicker than flash the crash came
and the pitcher went clean over Eds
head and landed in the road all in heap.
Both players and the unfortunate pedes-
trian were considerably shaken up, but no
bones were broken, and, the wheels re-
naming intact. the ride was continued for
the remainder of the afternoon. report
vas circulated down town this morning
that Mercer's collar bone was broken in
the collision. but the pitcher was out at
National Park as usual this morning. look
Ing none the worse for his exciting expert
ence.