Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-31
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS.

GENERAL SPORTING NEWS.
At Philadelphia Monday night, at the
| Penn Art Club, Jack O'Bren had the better
| of James Handler of Newark, N J., in a
six-round bout.
The race against time of the harness pair,
Boralma and Senator. to be driven by John
place yesterday at Readville. has been post
pcred until Friday on account of the I'M
favorable condition Of the track.
James Ruddy. few years ago one of the
best-known turfmen in the west, and, with
his brother, Watson Ruddy, proprietor of a
| large racing stable. died at Aurora, H.,
Monday of typhoid fever, aged ffty-1ve
years.
Cornell's new additions to the coaching
and Dearborn, guard of 1897. They will
assist Houghton in rounding the varsity
into form for the Princeton contest at
Princeton next Saturday. A lineup be-
tween the regulars and the second eleven
resulted in an even score, play being for
fifteen-minute halves.
The form betters had setback in the
fourth race at Latonia yesterday, when
MoIo the heavily backed favorite, broke
down in the stretch and hobbled in on three
legs far behind his field. The judges did
not like WOnderly's ride on w. H. Mays
z,
suspended the boy indefinitely.
Favorites failed at Lakeside track, Chi
cago, II the first three of yesterdays races
Keniworth at I to 3, the first one to
win. He captured the fourth race without
an effort The chief downfall was Hans
wLrst in the third race He was 1.to-lo
favorite and barely got third place. Aim,
a good thing, at 20 to 1, won easily with
Hylo second. The weather was cloudy and
the track slow.
Base Fall Notes.
Sheckard of the Brooklyns is playing half
back on the team of the Baltimore Medical
College this season. He expects to gradu-
ate in dentistry before another base ball
season opens
Certainly. nobody pitched better ba!i IN
the league this season. taking all things
into consideration. than Dinneen. Game af-
ter game was lost with him in the box be-
cause Boston did not bat a little bit.
Hans Wagner'S new bat arrived In Pitts
burg from South America last Saturday.
and it is a beauty. 1t is made of the hard
est kind of wood. with a natural polish,
and is as heavy as iron. 1t is of the regu-
lation thickness and a yard long.
Capt. Dreyfuss says the Protective Asso-
cations resolution requiring players to re-
fuse to sign contracts until the union says
the word will save the clubs from the trou-
Bile and expense Of paying out advance
money.
The day has passed for giving I'D any
$4,000 for a players release. so that Brook
Ign will play in good luck to get an offer for
half of that amount for either Kelley or
Jennings.
Cincinnati writer's say that PETIT, Scott
Newton Hahn. Beckley, Corcoran and Bar
rett are sure of their jobs for 1901. no mat
ter whom Brush secures to manage the
team -
Hawley was to have gone to Cuba. but
at the last moment he backed out and
Howell of the Brooklyns was substituted
as one of New York's pitching staff. Pink
Il hell in MIA a.
son closes He thinks that after six months
of constant play. day after day. ball play
er needs a rest, and he looks with disfavor
on any scheme that will compel man to
continue at the game nine months IN the
year.
Billy Hart the well-known pitcher of the
Cleveland club, is Il candidate for a position
on the umpire staff of the National League
Billy announced that he would like to give
up twirling and take to the Indicator He
believes he can make a success of it and is
willing to try. Manager McAleer of Cleve-
land however. wants him to pitch and may
succeed in holding Billy off a while.
Hanlon's great success has been largely
due to the fact that he has been part own
er and in absolute command of his team, 50
that Kelley or Jennings cannot expect to
work out their ideas Hanlon has in the
past when he succeeded in molding win
nerS yet either one of these men would put
life into the game in at least five cities in
the league, for hustling captains and capa-
BILE, willing managers are growing scarce
just when most needed.-Chica go Times
Herald.
Winnie Mercer says: From what 1 have
learned the new National Association Is a
go. Every club in it has money up except
| Washington. ! don't know anything about
players intending to jump, but | do know
that there are many who are dissatisfied
and 1t wont take much to get them away
AS to Brooklyn, / don't think there is
| man in it who is dissatisfied. and those
who have been with that club and are now
| in other cities do not hesitate to say that
they have always been treated right by
that management If other clubs were like
| it there would be no cause for dissatisfac-
| ton"
| Says the Sporting Life "For the National
| League to yield to the players demands as
| regards buying, selling and reserving play
ers would be to so radically change all ex-
listing methods of conducting base ball as
| to amount virtually to revolution; and for
| that the league magnates are too old, too
| narrow. too selfish and too proud. We
| know for a fact that some of them would
| rather fight than yield to the players on
| these points; but we also know that several
would rather go out Of business than I'M
| dergo the wear and tear of another war"
| Some day the base ball magnates will
wake up, too. and realize how little ice they
| cut with the public. and that the player is
| the only ace in the deck" says a New
Yorker: Il saw peculiar instance of the
strength of this In the Chicago grandstand
| once. Demontreville was under suspicion
at the time and sat in the stand roasting
president Hart like overdone barbecue.
He was surrounded by host of sympathiz
ing patrons. Gene was probably all wrong
as TO the alleged Injustice of his suspension
| but he was telling some warm truths
| about base ball magnetism which he
| wouldn't otherwise have delivered himself
OF. and Won the fans glad hand New
| York Telegram.
In speaking of the lack of interest In
base ball in New York Manager HanIon
of Brooklyn made the following statement:
Il know very well what is the matter with
| base ball in Greater New York The news
| papers have the game by the throat and
you cannot blame them. Other sports are
| being doomed to such an extent that the
| public has temporarily lost interest in the
national game The newspapers have not
been treated with proper courtesy. Base
! bail depends upon the press for free ad-
Vertlslng such as no other public enter
tainment enjoys. The newspapers can make
or break anything in the way of sport
| During the past season 1 noticed that col
| umns were devoted to prize fighting, horse
racing and golf. where base ball got only
| a few lines"
Manager Mack of the Milwaukee club I'M
eXpectedly returned to that city Sunday
| night, after saying goodby to his friends
| ten days ago, when he ostensibly left for
| his home in Massachusetts. He regards
| 1t as certainty that the American League