Evening star., 1901-07-05
Base Ball Notes.

The Senators are in Boston today
The afternoon Athletic Washington game
was the only one prevented in the two
major leagues.
st. Louis had the banner crowds yester-
day. 1900 in the morning and 10000 In the
afternoon.
The Philadelphia papers say that Foster
lost yesterdays game by dropping the fly
In the first inning.
Jimmy Slagle has been given his release
by the Philadelphia club and he will prob
ably drift back into the minor leagues
The first six clubs in the National League
are punched together in wonderful style.
the Pittsburg leading off with .5S3, while
Brooklyn is sixth with 800
Gene De Montreyllle did pretty well at
Cincinnati yesterday in the second game.
He had home run. double and two sin
giles and made bat one error on the seven
teen chances in both games
veteran Joe Quinn's work at second base
has been unusually fine Of late, but he Is
not hitting up to the high mark at which
he started of the season.
Cupid" Childs has evidently regained his
second wind since Manager Lotus has de-
cided to play Jack Doyle at Chicago's sec
ond corner. Yesterday Cupid" had five
hits and eleven accepted chances in the two
games
President Ebbetts OF the Brooklyn club
says. Brooklyn Is plenty good enough for
u.s. There will be no shift" Frank Ban
croft says Brooklyn Is no good. and there
you are.
Charley Snyder is again a National
League umpire. Snyder Is a good umpire.
His work In college games this summer was
all that could be desired.-Boston Globe.
The Chicago papers incline to the belief
that McGraw will be the man to fear. It's
up to Collins to show them a thing or two.
'Buck' Freeman Is getting the work at
first down finer and finer. Patsy Donovan
predicted that Buck" would make one of
the best in the country when he had got
seasoned to the position. and Patsy Is rare
ly wrong in his estimate Of a man. TAX
ing his hitting and fielding into considera-
tion. there are few in Freeman's class to-
day.
Sam Strang. who until a few days ago
played second base for the New York team
has been signed by Manager McPhee to fill
Harry Steinfeldt's place while the latter is
sick McPhee yesterday wired Strang to
join the team at once
Bill Everitt, released by Jimmy Manning
from the Washington club, has accepted an
club in the Western League and will join
it Thursday. taking active charge of it i'm
Observation-Disclosures Evening Wisconsin,
President James A. Hart Of the Orphans
and President Ban Johnson of the Ameri-
can League sat in the same box and chat
ted about the game. Mr.. Johnson politely
refrained from any comment about the
Orphans and Mr.. Hart ventured no opin-
ions on Haskelrs umpiring.-Chicago Her
aid.
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph: John
AleXcHOeT MCTHee mas COII1e 10 lu6 COLI
clusion that the squad he is managing will
not do. manager cannot sit on the bench
with bucket of brains and a syringe and
improve upon the plans and specifications
of nature. Cincinnati has too many me-
chanics who are pitted against brainier
men"
In the eleventh inning Of Wednesdays 8
game the Cleveland players came up to do
or die. Beck. who had been unable to make
hit all day. hit the first ball pitched to
deep left, near the foul line. Mcfarland
after hard run caught the ball by leaping
in the air. LaChance tried the same place,
and Mcfarland made another phenomenal
catch. 1t Is no wonder that Bradley, the
next man up, struck out.
Adgey Weyhfng. the star pitcher of VIII
mot's Grand Rapids club. has jumped the
team and returned to Louisville. He was
dissatisfied with Grand Rapids and Wilmot
could not meet his demands for an increase
He had hardly reached Louisville before he
found telegram from Manager McAleer
OF the Cleveland American League club. Of
fering him 500 month to join his team
He win accept the offer.
Stanley Robson ventured the opinion yes
terday afternoon that Fred Clarke, the
buriy leader of the PiHsburg Pirates. is re-
sponsible for Jack" Harper's present weak
condition.
when we were at Pfttsburg on the first
trip we annexed two Of the three games
The Pirates were dead sore after their sec
ond throw down. given by Harper in the
concluding contest, and after the game was
over Clarke crossed the field. and after a
brief chat with the boy gave him a hard
punch In the side. It was anything but a
playful dig. and Burkett and several OF the
other players wanted to go after Clarke
But Harper said nothing doing and called
Burkett on Coming over to st. Louis in
the train that night Harper complained OF
sore side. and 1t has panied him more
or less ever since. am confident that
Harper's ailment was originally caused by
Clarke's poke. as Jack is put up on fran
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The most disastrous fre in the history Of