Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-18
Base Ball Notes.

Cleveland again today
Seven straight defeats
Another hard week confronts the Sena-
tors.
And Charley Farrell is still on the in
jured list
Childs and Mexican took care of eighteen
chances Saturday without a slip up, sew
erai Of them being corkers.
There is not better lot of pinch hit
ters IN the league than that Cleveland
crowd. In fact they seem to enjoy the OPP
portunity of coming to the bat with men
on bases.
Outside of Powell there was nothing new
about the Cleveland club Saturday. 1t is
the same aggregation that has been play
Ing winning ball for the past three years.
and from the present outlook If not broken
up, should continue winning indefinitely
what pity it is that Jake Gettman has
lost his batting eye. He is fielding superb
~, his catch in the first inning of Satur-
days game being a double ringer, and on
the bases he is using Judgment and great
speed A little encouragement from the
other players might boost Jake back into
the Slugger class.
The Washington management closed a
deal with First Baseman Fields Saturday
night, whereby that player comes to this
city and will be in today's game Fields
is one of the best first basemen in the
minors. He refused to accept the cut in
salaries and quit the Syracuse club some
"A
City club recently picking UP a little extra
money. Fields played first base for the
Newark club and appeared the old 18th
street grounds when Washington had a
cub In the Atlantic League. He is a good
steady player and a hitter of more than
ordinary ability.
If Mr. Frank De Haas Robson is tired
or Cleveland and doesn't want to quit base
ball why not talk business with J. Earl
Wagner? The Washington magnate is dis
gusted and dshearteued with base ball,
and good stiff price would land him out
side the breastworks. The Cleveland club
transferred bodily to Washington would
prove a great financial success. When
Earl looks the Wanderers over it makes
his mouth water to think of what he could
do with that aggregation located at Ma
tional Park.
Tim Hurst's poor old Browns broke their
losing streak Saturday by winning from
Brooklyn. 1t was the first victory for St.
Louis since July L. Since then the Rough
Riders have lost ten games. They came
near winning Friday, being beaten 3 to 2
In q twelve-inning contest with Brooklyn.
Hughey and Dunn pitching. Taylor
pitched Saturday.
For the first time in thirteen years base
ball was played in Indianapolis on Sun
| day. The Hoosiers defeated Kansas City
in a brilliant fielding game. Mcfarland s
triple and MOTIFS single scored the only
run of the game Attendance, 5000. Score:
indianapolis, !; Kansas City, o.
Everitt has made more hits than any
man in the league. He hit safely 10 times
in y games for Chicago, coming to bat
81 times, Lajoie was the only other player
who passed the 100 mark up to Monday.
His coed hitting last week brought him
to the century, and in two games since he
has gone up several points. Patsey Dono-
van passed the 100 mark last Monday.
The season of 1898 is about half over and
already there seems to be waning of in
terest in base ball. OF course, the length
of the season, too, has a great deal to
do with the gradual cessation of interest in
the game There is such thing as giving
the public a surfeit of a good thing, and
that is what the magnates seem TO have
done when they adopted a schedule cover
ing period of six full months and adding
twenty-five games to the usual schedule.
The experience heretofore in base ball has
been that after the middle of August in
terest in the game Jagged. This year this
iethargy seems to have come on the public
earlier than usual, and with the season
only half over the prospect is not bright
for inspiring one.-Cincinnati Commercial.