Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-04
Base Ball Notes.

Base Ball Notes.
Louisville again to day.
Dope! Get together, boys.
Hillary was strictly all right.
Back into the eleventh hole we go.
Pitcher Amole was released yesterday,
but Donovan is retained.
Cunningham is enc of the cleyerest
pitchers in the league.
Even Jim Mcclure got in the game with
an error yesterday.
The Senators can't play ball and talk
Stop Ginning.
Catcher Frank Snyder did the best he
could to down his old companions.
Defeats are part of the game. Think of
st; Louis beating cut Baltimore!
Dinneen will probably do the twirlng for
the Senators today, with Ehret on the
slab for the Colonies.
Ladies day, and the boys will do better.
Swain makes matters worse for him
self by kicking at the players when they
| make errors behind him. He had Wagner
in the air after his first error.
Donovan hit Hoy at the plate, in the
eighth inning yesterday, and it looked as
if the mute was seriously injured 1t was
| a terrific in-shoot and landed on the
breastbone With thud that could easily
be heard in the press box.
Catcher Bowerman and Utility Man
O Bren of the Baltimore club were sold
to Flttsburg yesterday for a good stiff
price. Both these men are good players
and should strengthen the Pirates very
materially.
The game scheduled for Boston yester-
day was postponed on account of rain.
Brooklyn is said to be negotiating for
bird Baseman Billy Nash of the Phillies.
The New York papers censure Billy
Joyce for his bad break yesterday in hit
ting Beckley with the ball. What can
they expect? Joyce has been urged to
win games in any old way and the Giants
are sticking to last years game, and win
ming at it, too.
Less than a thousand spectators were
at the Baltimore-St. Louis game yester-
day No wonder Manager Hanlon is re-
leasing players. Pitcher Joe Corbett
stands a small chance of getting big
money this season under the circum-
stances. Al. Maui will he tried today by
Hanlon, as the ex-senator has inti;nated
that his arm is ell right.
There was a well defined rumor around
National Park yesterday afternoon that
President Young had about decided to give
his staff of umpires shaking up, that is,
putting men behind the bat who are known
to be competent and shifting the regular
umpires into assistant positions. An in
teryiew with President Brush of the Gin
cinnat club yesterday said that he had
protested against several of the present
force of umpres and had advised Presi-
dent Young to make several changes. Con-
nelly, who has been umpiring with Lynch,
| is frst-rate man ard will be brought in
behind the bat, while there is a possibility
| that Tim. keefe, Jack Sheridan and Car
| staff.
| At the last meeting of the league Presi-
| dent Young was instructed to select the
best available talent in the market for UNI
| pires, and whenever all other things are
| ey en-, to give the old ball players the pref
erence. Mr.. Young has done this, but it
seems change has been demanded. When
Mr.. Earl Wagner came back from the
v estern trip he was the first to Tip"
| Uncle Nick off on the competency of his
| staff of umpires, and he advised certain
| changes. Nothing definite has been de-
| cded upon yet, but the indications are that
| the Shaking up" of the staff will occur
next week.
| A special from New York says that Phil
| adelphia is trying to secure Bert Myers
| from the Milwaukee club, and that Wash
ington has made Connie Mack another Of
fer Also but the trio of managers are
widely apart in their views and the deals
still hang fire.
1t is reported that the Washington club
will give a pitcher and an outfielder for
Myers, while Stallngs Of the Phllies offers
an infielder and a pitcher. AT the present
time it is not a pitcher that Mack needs,
but an extra outfeder and infielder as
with Shoch and Weaver out of the game
the team is badly crippled.