Evening star., 1901-07-20

wins. He gets away with game after game,
just because he puts them right over and
never gets wild. Yesterdays defeat was
the first for a month.
Norman Elberfeld of Detroit Is having a
pretty good year. Always valuable man
for his ground-covering ability and his
fighting pluck. he is now batting spiendidly.
Billy HaIlman Of the Phillies fields second
base better than in the days of his youth,
but his batting is very feeble. Time was
when William was great slugger, but that
was long ago.
Jack" Hayden, recently released by the
Athletics. and who tired OF his contract
with Toronto, has returned to the Atlantic
City IN. j. team.
In the league thirty men have batting
averages of 800 or over, while the same
number in the American League touch that
figure. Larry Lajoie heading the country.
with .420. followed by Jessie Burkett, with
391
Sam Crane says all the league umpires
are afraid of St. Louis They have nightly
visions of Jesse Burkett leading piratical
mobs of fans in mad, bloodthirsty rush
on the umpire. "Umpires are side-stepping
that town." says Crane. They feel they
are taking their lives in their hands.
President Johnson said while in Boston
that there was no chance whatever to get
that city out of the American League. 1t
might be well for the New York writer's to
change that tune about Mr.. Somers selling
out in Boston and taking Philadelphia. The
fact Is Mr.. Somers could not sell out Bos-
ton If he cared to- as President Johnson
has full control of the club.
Robert Mckinney, the crack short stop
of the McSherrystown. Pa. team. left that
place yesterday morning to join Connie
Macks Philadelphia Athletic team in Chi
cago. Mckinney Is the best ball player
ever developed in that section of the coun-
try, and for the last four seasons he has
been the star of the McSherrystown team.
President Somers of the Boston American
League was also after Mckinney:
1t Is probable that "Chummy" Grey, who
pitched for the Buffalo club last season.
will join the Baltimore team. He has been
pitching good ball for the Bisons. but his
support such that he gave up in dis
gust. He has drawn his release. and will
try to get into faster company, as John
McGraw has already made him an offer.
While Pittsburg has a reasonably good
lead for first place, interest in the race
has by no means been lost. it may be
easily overcome by a slump in general play
or accident to it's best players. On the
other hand any one of the clubs in the
first division may play as good ball as
Pittsburg. and by a continued winning
streak overcome the leaders. Philadelphia,
St. Louis and Brooklyn seem to be in their
best form OF the present season. and It
would occasion no surprise to see any one
of the three wrest first place from the
present holders.
Ex-senator Jack Barry, the Phllies'
utility man. has made a novel record on
the clubs present trip. On three different
occasions he has been put in to bat in a
close game In the final inning. and on each
occasion he has made hit and scored the
necessary run. Barry Is much too good a
ball player to be out of a regular position
long. He will be breaking in as regular
with the Phillies ere long.
Ex-senator Frank McManus, who. 1t was
stated, had jumped to the National
League, is still in Syracuse, N. Y. but is
not waiting for advance money. McManus
says he will stay there for a few days, get
ting himself into better condition, although
he Is ready to play ball right now. Nc
Manus says he has no intention of going
to the National League. asrWashington has
first claim him.
The brotherhood jack pot took away Van
Haltren, Daily and Farrell: the American
keeping still and took away Griffin. Gala
han, Mccarthy. Bradley and Mertes
thereby running the team for this season.
when, for the first time since the brother
hood, 1t looked to be a coming aggrega-
tion.-Chicago Tribune. To keep history
right, 1t might be well to say that Tom
Daily was a member OF the Washington
club when the brotherhood war broke out.
Beside the players mentioned the names Of
PETER, Williamson and Hugh Duffy might
be added.
1t was supposed by a few of the National
League magnates that the prestige OF the
old organization would carry 1t along and
attract the people to the gates, even II
the team was not q winner. Just how fool
ish this idea was has been demonstrated.
The American League magnates saw that
they had Just one chance. This was to
put winning teams in the three cities where
they had to fight the old league. This they
have done with the exception of in Phila-
delphia, where Connie Mack Is having any
thing but the best Of luck.-Chicago Chron-
tcle