Evening star., 1900-10-11
Phila delphia
Boston. .
Base Ball Notes.

All sorts of stories will crop up this
winter about Washington's base ball pros
poets for next season. but it will either be
in the new league or the National
President Young is quite seriously i'll at
his home at Mount Pleasant Uncle Nick"
Is troubled with intermittent fever and for
a man of his age the is serious
Several of the best base ball playcrs of
the Carlisle Indian College will be found on
the foot ball team next Saturday, the red
skins taking kindly to both sports
Amos Rusie and Heyler Westervelt are
down on New York's reserve list
st. Louis has Mike Griffin down though
he is now brewer and will never play ball
again.
Tom LOTUS will have charge of the Chi
cago team again next season. He is the
most universally popular manager the Chi
Cages have had since the palmy days of
Anson.
Bill Lange and Walter Thornton. both of
whom have retired from the game, are
claimed by Chicago. That club will claim
them until both are old enough to have
grandchildren.
Jay Hughes. the king of all pitchers in
1895, and who has been member of the
Sacramento team since leaving Hanlon. is
uD against it for keeps. His last five games
have resulted in defeats
Elmer Smith happens to be on the reserve
list Of both the Cincinnati and New York
clubs. 1t is cinch that Cincinnati does not
want him. but his name was put down as
a matter of precauton.
The members of the Chicago team have
been called upon to pay another assessment
to the Players Protective Association.
Pitcher Jack Taylor alone refused to re-
spend. He says he is through paying dues
BY winning both games Sunday the Pitts
burg club took the series from st. Louis.
They have now won the series from every
club except Cincinnati and Chicago.
Once Doyle's base running and base steal
ing were drawing card, but since Hanlon
sprung that man Sheckard the public
Doye's light is dimmed Sheckard has done
the greatest work in the league the last
few weeks.
President Hart claims that as no agree
ment between Hartsel and the Cincinnati
club was promulgated previous to his sign
ing conditional contract with Chicago.
his contract with Cincinnati for the rest of
this season is void. He is confident thai all
protested games will be thrown out
Third Baseman Schaub of Toronto has
wop suit of clothes for leading the Tor
onto team in batting on the home ground,
his figures being .3S2. Hans Wagner's
brother AL won the suit last year, with an
average of .359. Casey landed the outfit in
lSeA; and Freeman in 1887 and 1873
Not often is such a gap closed in one day
Sunday morning st. Louis was fifteen
points ahead of Cincinnati, while before
night as a result of the Cardinals double
defeat and the Reds double victory the
two teams were tied.
Dick Brown, who appears on the reserve
list of the Cincinnati club. is pitcher nick
named Stub" who was purchased from
ths. Baltimore club in 1897. He was farmed
to Indianapolis, but jumped that team and
has not been heard Of since. Every year
the Cincinnati club has reserved him.
though 1t could not use him If 1t had the
opportunity.
Unless the Reds have all the games
thrown out in which Hartzell played there
is now no chance for New York to beat
them out in the race. Many wagers were
made on this proposition. Those who had
no faith in the team bet that no one could
pick a club the Reds would beat out and
naturally everybody picked New York UE-
less the league throws out the HartZel
games the men who bet that the Reds
would not beat out New York have lost
but not until after the league meeting will
those bets be paid
Hartzell and Geier. the two American
League players. who are now with Cincin-
natl. made their presence felt in the game
with Chicago yesterday. They did more
than any other two men on the Cincinnati
team to bring defeat to the locals. They