Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-08
base Ball Briefs.

The Senators will play the Giants today
and tomorrow, and then move over to
Brooklyn.
A miss is as good as mile The Senators
are playing close games, but continue to
lose just the same
only one Senator hitting over 800 'Old
Reliable" Jimmy Mcclure, accounts in a.
great measure for the Senators not win
ming.
Burkett, st. Louis left fielder, is really
IL aiding the league batters, with an average
OF -toi. Pittsburg Clark is given the honor
but T;l ne has has only played in six games.
Jim McGuire's average is 1888 and then
comes big gap, Dick Padden being sec
or d, with an average of .261.
How weak the Senators are can be gath
cred from the club averages. compiled by
an expert, which places the local team ah-
solutely last in batting and fielding Last
year our world beaters were also in the
eleventh hole at this time
Criger of st. Louis leads the catchers,
Mcclure and Farrell being fourteen and
hrteen on the list. Beckley leads the first
basemen, Harry Davis being tenth. Stein
feldt is the leader among second base ar
usts, Padden Is tenth, with Childs, McPhee
and Richie back of him. Cross is the best
third baseman and Casey the worst ac-
cOrdihS to these figures.
AT short stop Herman Long is the leader.
with Mexican. Dahlen and Corcoran close
up. Billy Huien is tenth, but Cross of the
Phllies and Ely of the Pirates are back of
him.
Delehanty is the best left fielder, Burkett
being in tenth place, with Mercer and
o Brien bringing UP the rear Jake Gett-
man is as good the best in center field.
tieing Brodie. Blake and Hamilton for the
honors of leader in that position, neither
OF these men having made an error. Aigie
Mcbride, the exWashingtonian is leading
the right fielders Buck" Freeman being
sixth. Freemans one error threw him out
of the leaders class.
Jerry Mons heads the ritche
nth and Willis close up, while Gus weighing
Is the only Senator mentioned. the Senator
being twenty-fourth. Carsey, Donohue
Klobedanz, Sudhor, Magee and Carrick
being below him
Sias Herring, lately pitcher for the local
HamiltoDs is the left-hander signed by
Manager Irwin. He is about eighteen years
old. Herring has been twrlng against the
Senators in practice. and has done so well
that Manager Irwin believes he has a
bright future. He has all the curves
faded" plenty of speed, and fields his DO
sition exceptionally well.
DE Montreville has not yet struck his
batting gait, but he shouldn't feel badly
for there are about fifty others all over the
league In the same boat. They will come
and Washington will have half a dozen
representatives in the line of march
Dispatches from Cleveland credit Tommy
Dowd with some great ball playing He is
hitting the ball with power and great reg
ularity, fielding his position. and, wonder
full to relate. they say he is throwing like
Jimmy Ryan. In the old days Tommy's
wing always a fit subject for Joe
Quinn's preservative talents.
Nobody seems to have noticed the fact
that old Jack Stivetts returned to the rub
Der Wednesday, and pitched a mighty eff
fective game against the Chlcagos. Umpire
Brennan's rank work cost Jack his game in
the tenth inning Stivetts declares that his
arm is as good as ever He is said to have
shown all his old-time speed. Jack has
asked to be let pitch every third day. He
needs work to keep In condition.
Base ball plays queer FRANKS. Phillips,
whom the Cincinnati club kept on the In
diaDapolis farm for years, Is now the Reds
winning pitcher. and had not the Chicago
club refused its consent. he would have
been back on the hoosier team this season.
Lots Of luck, little judgment and a d. e