Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-28
Base Ball Notes.

| Goodbye. Pittsburg.
| The Cincinnati ''hoodoo'' held good.
The gloom in Pittsburg is said to be
| thicker than the smoke.
| Boston has been easy for Brooklyn all
season. and likewise the Pirates for the
| Reds.
! Ned Hanlon has not asked for and needs
| no sympathy. The Brooklyn crowd can
| take care of itself.
| EVERYTHING was going along nicely for the
| Pttsburgs until Barney Dreyfus pompously
announced that they would win the cham
ponship. The Pirates have been on the to-
| bog ever since.
| Cincinnati has won eleven games out of
eighteen from the Pirates and the series Is
not yet concluded.
| Jake Beckley has been playing the game
of his life in Pittsburg the last two days
| for the Cincinnatis. and his work has
helped materially in the Pirates downfall.
Wagner of the Pittsburgs is the quickest
| big man that ever broke into base ball.
Hickman is very much pleased with the
way he has been treated by Squire Freed
man.
Doyle, who led in base running for a
while. has stolen but three bases in his
| last fifty games.
Lajoie made his 10th safe drive on Mon
day. Larry" has been stealing bases with
| vengeance-ten In twenty-six games.
| 1t is said that Pitcher Yeager will not
| join the Brooklyns, after all, but has gone
straight home.
Lever has landed eight out Of his last
| nine games That leaves McGinnity in the
shade.
! The Pittsburg club has purchased Short
stop Goshnaur, Second Baseman Burns and
/ Pitcher Wicker from the Dayton interstate
| club.
Donovan holds the record for strike outs
in the Eastern League, tanning eleven
Providence batters
Jimmy Williams the Pirates third base
| man. is Ill abed. and may not be able to
play in the present series with Cincinnati
| However. he has a capable substitute In
| Leach. who played nicely In the position
yesterday.
Next year Nick Young will probably have
| to schedule policemen for each game to
maintain order. 1t looks as it the cops"
| are going to become just as much part
| Of the game as the umpires.
Philadelphia. with all its signal-service
scheming.. has never been able to land a
I flag, so there are more efficacous ways of
playing the game than by stacking the
cards for a bunch.
| After ALL there is something funny in the
fact that the Reds the weakest team in
| the business. can come here time and again
| and knock the tar out of the gay Pirates.-
| Pittsburg News
| "Once in a while you meet a pessimist
whose heart is full of lamentation and dire
foreboGing" says Arson. HE fears for the
future Of the game Poor idiot! Ragweed
will be growing on his neglected grave long
| before the crack of the bat ceases to be
music to the ear of the fan. The national
game itself is 0. K.''
Leach is a game youngSter, Forced to
| sub for regulars who are as good as any in
| the business, he goes from one position to
another with all the confidence of vet
| eran. When he gets a regular position, as
| he surely will, Manager Clarke will have
| hard work in digging up SO clever utility
man..
The Cincinnati Enquirer hits the nail on
its head when 1t says that, with Setback,
Barrett and Donovan, the Cincinnati club
would have had an outfield that would have
batted, fielded and run the bases with the
best of them. 1t pays to get the best and
pay the best In base ball. The magnate
who attempts to get cheap men has a good
chance to repent his folly.
The National League has selected a COM
mittee of three to meet Harry Taylor the
players attorney. and listen to what he
has to say concerning the players grfev-
ances The committee selected will not be
given out at present, but consists of two
men from the east and one from the west,
together with A. III. Soden of Boston, Col.
Rodgers of Philadelphia and John T.
Brush Of Cincinnati
Pittsburg has walloped the best IL the
league. 1t made the crack Boston club look
like q minor league organization; forced
HanlOn into using questionable tricks to save
his champions from being crushed; beat the
Philllies-signal service bureau and all;
killed the hoodoo in New York, and walked
over Chicago and st. Louis. Then along
comes Cincinnati. and the Pirates take to
the woods Every one whose opinion IL