Evening star., 1897-03-13

picnS will be found with the smoky city
team this season Perry Werden. the vet
eran first baseman. will make his reap
pearance in the league ranks. after several
years with the minors result of his
indiscretions. He will don a Louisville uni
form. and the probabilities are that he will
60 good work.
There are likely to be other but less
important changes before the season opens
Then, too. there will be number of young
sters who will make bid for a place on
some one of the major league clubs during
the preliminary season There can be but
little doubt that there will be big i'm
proVeUents in some of the major league
teams over last season. These improve
ments looked for in the Boston, New
York, Chicago and Washington clubs.
For placing the local team in ninth pace
in last Saturdays Star considerable criti-
cism caused. the more enthusiastic
patrons rating the club as high as fifth
and others expressing themselves a being
satisfied if they beat out the Brooklyns.
One thing is apparent. the Senators have
everything to win and nothing to lose by
getting good place in the race. That a
team of sluggers is not necessary to win
games is illustrated in the ability as win
Eers of the Cleveland and Chicago clubs
If the Senators will work together with a
Will and first ard third bases be well taken
care of. there is no telling what may hap
Zen. In placing the local club ahead of
Brooklyn a very good team is assigned to
tenth place Look at that outfield-Jones
Griffin and Anderson. Is there anything
weak in it? Lachance on first. Canavan at
second Shlndle at third and Smith at short
do no; seem to make a very weak infeld in
comparison with Washington. 1t is only in
pitchers and catchers that the Senators
show to better advantage.
OF the clubs ahead that might come back
and take the dust of Washington are the
Pittsburg. Philadelphias and Bostons
These three clubs will either play great bail
or go to pieces through factional strife
What the local followers of the game want
to do is TO lie low and say nothing. If the
Senators finish in ninth place. well and
good; If they go up to nth, II will be
glorious: but SO much shouting has been
done in past seasons in the first month or
two that the majority of fans" have about
come to the conclusion to keep under cover
and hope for the best.
The friends of the deaf boy BILLY" Hoy
will be glad to learn that the popular play
er has an invention which he thinks
seriously of having patented during the
winter months. Hoy hit upon a scheme
that will obviate considerable trouble that
players have experienced in having the
soles of their shoes torn by the rivets in
the plate pulling out. The little deaf mute
is i shoemaker by trade. and he has fixed
Up pair of shoes with a metal insole, to
" hich the iron plates can be attached with
out causing the player any Inconvenience.
He believes ii will prove winner. and he
has opened negotiations with a sporting
goods firm with view of putting his in
vention on the market. He will not take
chance Of getting the worst of it, as did
poor "Arlie'' Latham on an invention of
iearly the same kind. Latham is the orig
inator of the plate now used on the shoes
of al professional ball players. AT least,
he is the inventor of an Improvement on
the original shoe plate. He told a promi-
Eent manufacturer of base ball shoes OF
his idea. The shoe man grabbed at it. and
Latham never received as much as pair
of shoes for his pains. Hoy Will have his
invention patented and II there Is anything
In IL Will harvest.
Frank Dwyer is another player who
thought seriously of going into business
last fall Manager Bancroft of the Cincin-
natts had all arrangements made to secure
the rights. recently surrendered by Earl
Wagner and Gus SchmelZ to produce the
Texas Steer" Dwyer was to furnish part
of the capital and act treasurer Ban
croft was TO put up the balance of the
money and be the manager. Something
went amiss. and the base ball theatrical
venture did not take the road. although 1t
was rumored Uncle" Anson's trial trip in
"A Runaway Colt rather threw a wet
blanket on the contemplated tour
The news furnished The Star Thursday
| by President Young that he had arranged
definitely with all the members of his staff
Of umpires was hailed with considera Bile
satisfaction by thousands of followers of
the national game. The fact that the local
patrons can witness a game Of ball with
Hurst. Lynch or Errslie as arbitrator adds
additional charm to the contemplation Of
the coming season, and in the retention of
these three men Uncle Nick has again
given substantial demonstration of the
large quantity of gray matter that Is con-
/ fined in his Uranium back and above the
cars Whether the men secured the ad-
vance In salary lsked for is a question. but
as the magnates a rule did not kick very
hard over the demands of the big three, %
and as Mr.. Young Is really their represen-
| tattve. II Is not hard guess to make that
the advance was acceded to. II this. be