Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-22

ATT. Third base. 1890. Robinson
Handeboe. Second base. Green
Boucher. .........F First base. N. Wilkinson
OBrien. 10000. Shortstop ........... Bird
GLADDEN.. .........Left field. :. j. Wilkinson
Dougherty. Center field. -. Crawford
Warren. Right field. Jackson
Hughes. ......... Catcher ........ Coleman
Stanley .......... Pitcher .......... Henson
Waller. Pitcher .......... Long
The game will be called at 4:30 and both
sides have promised to hurry to and from
their positions so as to make the contest a
fast one.
Base Ball Notes.
Johnny McGraw is still out of the game
through Illness.
The smallest crowd of the season wit
messed yesterdays game at Philadelphia.
The next batting averages should be in
teresting. as Jesse Burkett is crawling UP
toward the top. Yesterday he had three hits
to his credit one of which was a homer,
and won the game for ST. Louis.
Tebeau kept Pat Donovan out of the
game the best part of the season. giving
billiard the preference. Yesterday billiard
was released and Donovan played right field
and batted out three nice singles.
The Phfllies made six hits off Of Hawley
yesterday, and three of them were made by
Delehanty. 1t Is an interesting surmiSe to
wonder what the Quakers would do without
the mighty Del
Jake Gettman was mixed up In the bat
ting rally at Buffalo which came of in
the ninth inning. The score was to 1 in
favor Of Detroit, and then Jake and his
companions hammered two runs across the
plate and won the game.
Maurice Wolf, who pitched so wei for
the government printing office team Of this
city early in the season. is now with the
Binghamtons Of the New York State
League. He has done so well that an en-
gagement for next season at an advance in
salary has been offered him. VOLTS record
al of cyoy mao
played. In the first game Wolf pitched he
held the opponents down to two hits, one
of which was made in the ninth inning
after two hands were out. In his second
game Utica secured two hits and in the
third Albany batted out but three. Pretty
good start for the boy. wasn't 1t?
Siagle is the only Philadelphia player who
has played In every game.
Bert Myers leads the Hartford Eastern
League team in batting
There is a German well! WelIr' man in
Milwaukee. too, and his principal slogan
is Now, shust hit der ball we're dey amt"
Mercer was tfckled to death Monday
when he beat the Pirates. ALI hands In the
league Hike to wallop the Pirates these
days.
Joe Kelley of the Brooklyn team NOT
only predicts that hts team will win the
pennant this year. but that the bunting
Of 1901 will also fall to Brooklyn's lot. In
giving this opinion he states that the
pitchers are young and strong and are
this.
selbach fooled Williams In the fourth
inning of Mondays game by making
bluff at bunting and when the Pfttsburg
third baseman ran up the New York left
fielder chopped the ball to short left.
One of the largest bets ever placed on a
base ball game was made in Pittsburg last
Friday, when two Fittsburg sports, John
Newell and Shed Gulliam. put up $500
on the last Brooklyn Pittsburg game. New
ell bet Gillian 81. 400 to $1,000 that Pitts
burg would win. and win they did.
That American League ball is more pop
ular in Chicago than the National League
article is demonstrated by the attendance
in that city. Sunday $500 people saw the
Chfcago-New York game, while 10000 per-
sons paid admission to Comiskey's park.
Again Bill Clarke has resumed first place
in the stick-work table of the Boston team,
being a couple of points ahead Of Hamil-
ton Although Sullivan has been doing
most of the backstopping Of late. when
line them out in the fashion he has MAIN
tanned since the season began.
Hoffer of the Cievelands made the rec
ord of the season for giving bases on balls
no less than twelve of the opposing bats
men. Previous to this, Seymour, with
New York at the time, held the record Of
the year, with eleven.
The National League clubs do not take
kindly to the challenge Of the American
League teams to play a series of post
season games. Cleveland has sent an in
vitation to Cincinnati and Milwaukee to
Chicago but SO far NO responses have been
received. If any such proposition goes
through the logical contestants would be
the two Chicago teams managed by Loft
tus and Comiskey.
First Baseman Anderson Of the Wilwau-
KEGS. who Is an ex-senator. was presented
with a large bunch of carnations when
he went to bat in the second inning at
Chicago Sunday. He promptly knocked out
a single, but the full effect Of the present
did not seem to reach him until the lucky
seventh, when his three-bagger won the
first game.
The Phillies left home just eighteen days
ago with fairly good hold on second
place. and it was hoped that on their re-
turn they would be stfll closer on to the
heels of the leading champions. The
story of their western trip Is not so pleas
ing, however. as, instead of coming back
to their fold in second place, they arc
c1utching the last straw to hold on to third
Press.
There is a general belief that things are
shaping for return to a ten or twelve
club league next season. Detroit and some
of the other cities that want to get in
are asitating the thing, but there is likely
to be decided objection right in this city
to such move: 1t seems to be a game
of wait here and some of the ball magnates
in the east can wait like patience on a
monument.-New York Press.
Phenomenal is a much abused word It
appears SO OFTEN IN the description OF Or
binary plays that it means little. Patsy
Donovan gave a chance for the employ
ment Of that word in it's full significance
on Thursday, when, running at the height
of his speed, he telescoped that left arm
of his. while his body was bent, and caught
low liner from Hugh Jennings bat 1t
did not appear that he had chance to
make the CATCH and it seemed foolish to
attempt 1t. Not one fielder in a thousand
would have tried it, for there would have
been no kick coming had the ball been
played on the bound. 1t surely would have
been the safer way. for had Donovan miss
ed Jennings would have taken three bases
on 1t. But the ex-Pirate had the ball. the
distance and himself sized up right and he
pulled off what was by all odds the most
sensational catch ever made at ST. Louis
League Participating News.