Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-28

shape outside the pitchers box, but as Mr..
Wagner has been securing the country Tor
some time for an additional twirler, the
chances are that the pitching department
will be strengthened in few days. Cap
tain Brown intimated Saturday evening to
a Star reporter that he wanted at least
ten victories out of the twenty-four games
on the trip, and that he would not be sur
prised If half dozen additional wins came
the Senators way before they returned to
National Park, July %.
The crowd took great delight In yelling
at Joyce during his stay in this city over
every play he made, whether in practice
or during the progress of the games, but
"Scrappy" took it all good-naturedly, and
as his team was winning, several OF MS
replies caught his detractors on the solar
picks good and hard. Joyce told several
close friends that he considered Washing
ton an ideal city to live and play In, and
that he regretted the fact that he was
forced away from the national capital
through the decision of Mr.. Wagner that
Schmelz was a better man for the team.
Frank Selee says that Hill of the Louis
villes is the best ieft-hander in the country,
next to klobedanz. But he hasn't seen
Nops lately.-Baltimore News. oh, yes; he
has
At the close of the eastern trip the Done
Browns had won exactly as many games
as the RaltmoreS had lost.
Corbett can't be blamed for making all
the money he can by masquerad:ng as
ball player. 1t is bad policy, however, to
run a base ball club as a sideshow 10
puSiiist
Kansas City should suspend Fred. Lake
for the season for jumping his contract.
Six years ago he left the Boston club, and
year later departed from Milwaukee
without leaving his address. A player who
leaves his manager in the lurch should be
biacki Sted.-Nti%aU!Sce sentinel.
President Hart has pulled the string on
Pitcher Friend, and that player is back
with the Chicago club. The Chicago club
IN
MN to the Kansas City club after the be-
ginning OF the season, and President Man
ring has laid himself liable to a fine of $ID
tor each Western League game in which
Friend took part. Let no guilty man es-
cape
The Bostons will have difficult road to
travel. playing thirty-one straight games
away from home.
New York is the first club to win the
series from another club, having beaten
the W&sh:nstons seven games.
Hanicn has any amount of money needed
10 purchase the release of two first-class
pitchers. But WHO has first-class pitchers
On the market? The champions manager
has confessed to a scare
On his way to PittshurS week ago An
son volunteered the opinion that in Sey-
,noIr the New Yorils have the most won
Gerful left-hander seen since the pailny
days Of Ramsey. Praise from Sir Adrian
IS praise indeed.
The man who set ahoat the carard that
.sus:e would DE traded for Hawley must
nave had dream. There is no more
chance of such a trade going through than
there is of a swop OF Nichols for Dan
Dauh.
The Rostons were shut out for the first
time tbs season Saturday. Only three
cluhs-New YORK. Baltimore and Phiiadel-
ph:a-save escaped the whtewash brush
Washington and Cleveland have been shut
o@t four times. Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Louis
Vile and F.tts5Grg twice, and Boston, Chi
caSo and st. Louis once.
ION Tucker, " no $ playing great ball
by the way, did his best to rattle Seymour
by rushing up and down the lines and
moving Ike an lnelan, says Bin Joyce to
sun reporter. ICY surprised all of us By
turning to Tuck with the remark: Say
you are coming up TO the bat again. amt
you? Well. III make you look like a
monkey. Tucker kept on with his coach
ing until it was his t,irn at the plate. arn
;aen seymour. with frishtful speed, struck
him out