Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-04
Base Rail- Notes.

The western clubs made clean sweep
yesterday, all three games being defeats for
the eastern representatives.
Some kind person should put the brakes
on the Philies' "tobog." The way the
Quakers are going down the fiume Is a
caution.
Mercer tried once more to play shortstop
for the New Yorks, but his three errors
yesterday brought about the giants down.
fall
Pittsburg has been playing exceptionally
fine ball of late and with Manager Clarke
and the twirlers in good shape the Pirates
will just about shove the Phillies out Of
second place before the western series ends.
Should the western end of the National
League continue Its present rapid order Of
unusually close. New York, of course. is
out of it. but prolonged squirt by any
one of the other seven clubs will send it or
keep it up at the head Of the procession.
Chick Stahl of the BoStonS Is an inven-
tor. He is the patentee Of a combination
washtub stand and ironing board. which he
has put on the market Chick is engaging
agents in every city he visits, and is doing
Ketcham played middle field for Connie
Macks Milwaukee team Monday and had
three hits out of four times at bat Ketcham
also won Saturdays game for Mack. and
II records count for anything Col. Drey-
fuss has unearthed another winner.
Amy team that goes to Cincinnati and
expects to have an easy time OF 1t is going
to be badly fooled" remarked Manager Sc
lee. THE Reds have played the best ball
against us that have ever known them to
put up. They are playing the game for all
there is in 1t. 1t is a fast hustling team.
Members of the Boston team think that
there are too many managers connected
with the St. Louis team ever to make it a
success. With Tebeau, McGraW and Dom
ovan" said Beaneater. the team has
three men who have handled managerial
| reins. and each had different way of
handling them. each thinking that his way
was the right one
tainly has pitched some grand ball Of late.
There seems to be one team In the league
which he fails to fool on his own grounds,
and that team is the Cincinnatis. Allen s
men have driven Griffith to the bench on
| two occasions. In the last two weeks he
has recorded two grand victories. He beat
| Pittsburg in fourteen-inning game by a
| score of to 0, and won by the same score
| from Brooklyn in nine innings.
| Counting all college games played as
! well as the quality Of the games Prince
| ton has fairly won first place In the col
| lege base ball world for the season of 1900
The Tigers won 10 Of the % games played
! beating Georgetown twice, Yale twice. Cor
nell twice, Harvard, Holy Cross. Brown,
Fordham. I.ehigh. columbia, Lafayette
Manhattan and Virginia once each. besides
taking numerous other. college teams into
camp. Georgetown. withitwenty victories
out Of twenty-four games including one
| OFdW' ranks SecOn1d TO .1liNCetoH, WIllie
Harvard. Yale Holy Cross and Pennsylva-
mia follow. all with Good records, but none
quite as creditable al Princeton. Pennsyl.
vana Of all the big college teams alone
escaped shut-out. d -
1t appears to matter little what you do In
base ball. so long as you get away with It
Proper plays are sometimes Kissed wher
they fail to bring about the desired result
while stupid plays are applauded and the
| players who make them lgiven credit fol
head work. The Spectators only look fol
results in base ball.lt For instance, in the
ninth inning of Monday sdgame at Cincin
natl Jake Beckley might have caused dis
aster and effectively checked the Reds
rally had Catcher Sullivan been wide awake
| With Barrett and CprcorRn on second ant
first respectively. NICHOLS had three ball.
on Beckley, when he cut the plate with
straight one. Before the ball reached tn,
plate Jake. threw down his bat and started
for first as If he had gained base on balls
Barrett and Corcoran, seeing him start fo
| first, naturally began to advance to thre
and second respectively Terry called it ;
strike and Sullivan. instead of making a.