Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-26

| club. Secretary Gross Of the Milwaukee
| club admitted that Hugh Duffy was wanted
| In that city in case Connie Mack goes to
| Philadelphia.
That old Baltimore team was always
| fighting on the field. McGraw. Kelley, Jen-
| nings and Doyle were always wrangling,
either among themselves or with some of
| the other members of the team. Yet it
| played great ball and won four pennants.
Doyle assisted in but one of these triumphs.
While he was with them the Orioles play
! ed their strongest game, however, and, fur
thermore. they played more aggressive ball
than ever before.
Jack Dobbs, the New York state Lacquer,
drafted from Utica by the Cincinnati club,
may be Cincfnnatfs extra outfielder. Good
words for the Utican are not lacking.
Dobbs was Mailer year before last, but
! he wasn't the slugger at Wheeling that he
proved to be in the New York league. He
added IL points to his Wheeling figure OF
233 and cracked out 1866 at Utica. It is
generally believed that neither Algy Nc
Bride nor Elmer Smith will wear the red
next year.
81 don't understand" said Jimmy Ryan,
''just where this retirement talk originated.
l see In various reports that l am off the
books, crossed out. and slated for the shelf:
that l am worn out, on the ragged edge OF
play, and sure to be passed up by next
April. Well, have just this to say: never
said word about quitting, and L will not
quit base ball till there are no longer any
financial Inducements for me to play the
game. When the time comes that nobody
| wants me I will think of going. and not
till then"
Claude Ritchey, the Pirates star second
baseman and the ex-Bison, bids fair to be
a man of wealth. He is economical, and
knows the value of a dollar His home is
in Pennsylvania in the heart of the oil dis
trict. Talking oil and sinking wells are his
delight. At the close of each season he hur-
ries to his home and invests in oil property.
He has well in his back yard which pays
him from $500 to 81, 900 per year. This Is
only of few He lie xyd
buyer, and with his brothers practical
knowledge Of the oil business he has accu-
mulated a number of good producers. Max
ing hay while the sun shines is one of his
notices. A few years time will find the
name of Ritchey In the moneyed class OF
Pennsylvania.
IF I were manager of the New York
club would have team of players worthy
of the greatest city in America" writes
fan to the New York World. There would
be no strikers or knockers, no matter how
great were their regulations. If l had any
thing to say in regard to amending the
rules the first thing l would advocate would
be to call a man out if he fouled four balls:
two fouls l would call strike. 1 am an
amateur pitcher myself. and have suffered
from successive fouling off good ones. 1
would also call ball foul unless it settled
full three feet inside the foul line. Also l
would have 1t unnecessary for a catcher
to touch runner for home. Just let the
ball beat the man.
At the last annual meeting of the National
League J. Earle Wagner declared that he
favored the disruption of the twelve-cub
league and the division of the largest cities
Of the country into two e:ght-club circuits
and predicted that would be done before
1901 Il do not know said he, what my
partners intend to do about reducing the
circuit. but think 1t will be accomplished.
That means the retirement of my brother
and myself from base ball. But am COM
ing back into the game and next time 1t
will be as the owner of club in Philadel-
phia, belonging to a league operated IN
harmony with the national" This forecast
will come true IL the report that he is be-
hind the club which will represent the
American League in the Quaker city is ac-
curate. When taken to task for selling so
many stars Of his team, Wagner said that
he was obliged to do 1t. as Washington was
too small city to pay the salaries of an
all-star team. and he declared the only
mistake he made was in parting with Patsy
Donovan. 1T will be different when own
a club In Philadelphia. I'll play for the
patronage and to get II will buy base ball
talent. Sporting News,
Victory for Y. NJ. C. 4.
The second teams of the Eastern High
School and the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION played hotly contested game OF
foot ball Saturday on the gridlron at Van
Ness Park. The features Ut the game were
tho pnnting and line suaashiHx OF Clarke
full back, and the end runs Of Snow and