Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-16

| pied teams from the west, but for the next
| five of the Bisons' eight runs.
| real thing clubs.
Joe Delehanty a brother of the Phia-
| dciphia first baseman, who has been play
| Ing with Allentown, Pa, this season, is
slated to take Algie McBrides place on the
Cincinnati payroll. Aleck Smith is another
player who may shortly join the Reds.
The Philadelphia management denies that
II wants on ever contemplated the signing
Of King Dickson to play third base
Mike Donlin of the st. Louis team has
been attracting the attention of the east
err critics by his batting and his work in
the Cutfield. Tebeau seems to have a sure
enough star in the noisy man from Califor-
mia.
Pat Tebeau told Colonel Pulliam that on
Saturday at the Polo grounds st. Louis re-
ceived nearly twice as much money as
Plttsburg got at Brooklyn.
LaJoie has taken the splints off his arm
and is now presentable to sit in the grand
stand. He will not get into the game be-
fore the Phillies leave for the series at
Boston and during the interim he is paying
| the penalty Of his rowdyism by not draw
Ing his salary.
Charles Frisbee. over whom the New
York and Cleveland clubs have had a long
dispute has finally been awarded to the
Cley Gland club by the board Of arbitration.
This will give Andy Freedman another
chance for kick.
Tebeau says that with Wallace back in
the game the St. Louis team will not Iosa
one game in ten. All pennant bets may
now be declared off. for St. Louis will win
In a walk-as the old Cleveland team under
Tebeau did in the years gone by.
The Brooklyn club may have no idea Of
going to Washington, but that does not
alter the fact that it would roll in riches
IL the team were transferred to that city.
Washington is aching for a team of the
Brooklyn stripe and stranger things than
such transfer have happened-Pittsburg
Press.
According to Philadelphia statistician.
Harry Steinfeldt has accepted more chances
chances to a game than any second base
man in the business, including La oie This
does not look if the Texan was the slow,
non-ground-covering fielder that some peo-
pie say he is
In 146 games last year Joe Quinn had a
fielding average of 800 This was two
points higher than McPhee. Only Reitz
and Demontrevile led Quinn in fielding.
He led such infielders as Link Lowe, La
joie, Ritchey. Padden and DAILY A man
who can field like that and tie such play
ers as Lave Cross in hitting certainly is
far from the has-been class. He would
be a most valuable utility infielder for any
of the high-class teams.
Several weeks ago there was no expecta-
ton that the Bostons would be- in the posi-
ton they are today, even among their ar
dent admirers, though many believed that
1t was only a question of time when they
would hold up their end. To have won
fourteen out Of the last eighteen games,
after losing seventeen out OF twenty-five.
was a wonderful reversal of form. The
Bostons have actually put themselves in
the race in two weeks time, and are
now almost within striking distance Of tho
leaders. Two weeks ago they were the butt
of the press in every league city, and now
their great squirt Is the talk of the base
ball world