Evening star., 1900-09-26
Base Ball Notes.

Inc race Is becoming closer ana closer.
Brooklyn appears to be unable to land a
game.
Does any one envy Tim Hursts job Of
umpiring in Brooklyn?
Cincinnati has been Pittsburgs Jonah"
all season and may throw them down to-
day.
Brooklyn will have to play several games
with Boston and Philadelphia before the
season closes while the Pirates are bat
tling with Cincinnati and Chicago.
Brooklyn will be only one point ahead of
Pittsburg tonight If the champions lose and
the Pirates win, the figures being .5S4 and
.5S3.
Had the Pirates been hitting the ball in
Mondays game that error made by Ely
would not have amounted to a row of pins.
On the recent eastern trip of the Chicagos
Mccormick and Childs batted at 200 and
Jimmy Ryan at 1876. No wonder the Or
phans won so few games.
All the Giants wish Gleason luck at pony
guessing, for they would like to see him
win $4,000 in four weeks, as Broadway
Alec Smith has done since he quit base ball.
President Brush says that there Is no
truth in the report that Pat Tebeau will be
manager of the Reds next season. The
denial was unnecessary, as no one as yet
has accused Mr.. Brush Of being feeble
minded.
There is no doubt that Buck Freeman
is warm favorite. Buck always does
his level best at bat, on the bases and in
the field, and the patrons are quick to ap-
preciate that sort of thing.-Boston Herald.
Modest Claude Ritchey refused to take
part In the big parade that was organized
to welcome the Pittsburgs home last week.
He also declined to take part in any of the
other festivities, including a swell break
fast and banquet in the evening Claude's
desire for public recognition extends no far
ther than the diamond and the club treas
ury.
The following are the leading run get
,f ~ laau nd f1a 80
scored up to and including Saturday, Sep
tember %: Thomas. III; Slagle. 104; Wag-
ner, 1O3; Van Haltren. 50; Barrett, "a; La
toie 81; Flick. 81; Hamilton 90; Jones.
Brooklyn 80.
The influx of new players has been of
tremendous benefit to the New York team.
Gleason has been put out of the game, as
he should have been months ago. and his
place has been taken by a first-class ener-
getic player from a minor league. Murphy,
the man In question. has put up a good
game from the first day he was put on
second base.
League ever has been witnessed than the
struggle now on between the eight clubs
composing the organization. Interest is
confined not alone to the fight between
Brooklyn and Pittsburg for first place, but
between New York and Cincinnati to es-
cape the last place.
Jiggs Donohue. Pittsburgs new catcher.
played 118 games and has a batting per-
scored 90 runs. He made 81 two-baggers.
Is three-baggers and home runs, a total
OF 219 bases. He stole 81 bases and went
to first on balls 65 times. He caught in 1OS
games and played center field In 10.
There are only two players In the league
besides Lajoie and Flick who have batted
safely In twenty consecutive games. Keeler
of Brooklyn and Hickman of New York.
LajOie batted safely In twenty-five consecu-
tive games and Flick In twenty-one. Della
hanty almost reached the mark, having
batted safely in nineteen and seventeen
games, respectively.
leaving the park that the luck of the game
Sunday was with the Pirates. 1t may have
been, but certain 1t was that Clarke's
champions" played bang-up ball from the
very outset. and turned every play conceiv-
able. The fielders' backing up of one an
other was a revelation.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Ned Hanlon yesterday acknow edged that
he felt alarm as to the outcome Of the pen
nant race. He intimated that the cham
pions might lose 1t unless they braced up
considerably. The team isn't playing
The men have struck a weak hitting spell
and are not fielding up to the mark"
It's almost time that Dahlen and the rest
Of those fresh ball players who make it
practice to kick against umpires ceased
their mean tactics for as umpires try to
render decisions as fair as they can and to
the best of their ability, it's not right for
the players to make their lives all the more
miserable by nonsensical kicking.
Mute Taylor. who pitched for the Giants
the other day, sent in a ball that cut the
plate, and Umpire Snyder. with a wave Of
his hand at Taylor (Which meant 1t was
bal). so angered the mute that he let out
a yell that almost resulted In Taylor getting
back his speech. A few more rulings like
that, and 1t would have been dollars to
donghnuts that Taylor would be able to
talk after the game.
Base ball has never seen Jimmy Bar
retts equal as a thrOwer," says Manager
Allen. There never has been an outflelder
in his class when 1t comes to making quick
and accurate throws to the infield. Sunday
Barrett made three throws to the plate
Twice he held men on third. and when King
attempted to score on a hit In the seventh
inning he threw him out without any appar-
ent effort"
Charles Luber of the Cincinn ati Times
Star. who has accompanied the club Of that
city on all its trips, says: without dispar-
aging the ability Of either Sam Crawford
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