Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-24
Coming Players.
Base Ball Notes.

The fast Cleveland Spiders are due here
Monday.
Rain prevented the Washington Mlwau-
kee game yesterday and double-header
is being played today.
Maybe Ban Johnsons action has not been
effective and speedy. All the fans are
watching for his edict McGinnity.
The Athletics now tied for fourth
place with the Detroits, and as they play
the Wolverines double header today Con-
ME Mack's men have good chance for the
first division.
Clarke Griffith had a finger broken in
yesterdays game at Baltimore and will
of weeks. With Callahan missing and Ka-
toll disciplined the road in front of the
White SOx looks rugged
Manager Manning has had the Senators
out practicing in the morning for over
week and good results have followed.
Morning practice is something unusual this
time of the year, but the players We re get
ting fat and needed the exercise
Clark Griffith must have his mind made
up to jump the American League next
season by the way he is roasting Johnson.
Should Harry Wolverton's injury keep him
out of the game any length Of time the
Phillies' chances will surely be weakened
Billy Keller says: Il think the Philadel-
phia nine a better all-around organization
than Pittsburg, and If we are to win the
pennant It's Philadelphia we will have to
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pitchers box, but l look to sec some of
Clarke's star twirlers slump in III ir work"
John Meagher, who owns the saloon op-
posite the American League Ball Park in
Philadelphia, has offered a prize Of IS to
any player who breaks one of his windows
by batted ball over the fence. Seybold
came within ace of earning the five on
Saturday, as the ball he put over the wall
rolled up on Meaghers awning.
Young McNeill pitched a winning game
for Cleveland against the mighty Athletics
last Wednesday, and did not let Lajoie
make even a single. He looks goods for
long stay in fast company.
In some quarters 1t is thought that Com
iskey's recent statement that he had his
team complete means that he had National
League stars for next season, as we'll as
his present players, and from reports 1t
seems that Keller and Mcclure are the
principal men he thinks he will secure
Ban Johnson should and certainly will pay
no attention to the threats of McGinnity,
McGraw and Griffith. 1t is his duty to sus-
pend-yes, expel-all such rowdy players
who spike strike and spit in the faces of
umpires and otherwise injure the sport by
their disgraceful actions the ball field
If the National League wants to take these
players into it's fold the American League
should interpose no objection, but say:
you are welcome to have them."-Phila-
delphia North American.
The Chicago players nave novel way of
getting good work out Of Reub Waddel.
The night before the game takes place one
Of the bunch rushes to the hotel, seemingly
all out Of breath and makes bee line for
the billiard or writing room, where Reub
and some of the team are lounging, and
says: .They are betting up town 100 to 40
that Reub loses tomorrow Reub then
chips in and declares he'll pitch his arm
off, and goes to bed early, dreaming Of 100
The Pittsburg Base BAN Club. which now
leads in the National. League race has
signed all of it's players for next season.
The first official announcement of this fact
was made at Pfttsburg yesterday after
noon by President Barney Dreyfuss in an
swer to the Philadelphia claim that Beau
mont, Lever and Wagner have been cap
tured by the American League for next
year President Dreyfuss substantiated his
statement by exhibiting the signed con-
tracts of the players and in addition show
ing personal agreement with each man
for next year.
LET Ban Johnson try the blacklisting
game and see how quick he'll hunt a new
Job" said Manager Griffith of the White
Stockings yesterday In Baltimore "If all
the players in the league refused to play
another game until those men were rein
stated, and 1t came on Saturday and Sum
day in the west, how long would the mag
mates stand for 1t? They care more for
do for Ban Johnson" McGraw and Robin
son were as strong In their statements
against Johnson's blacklist policy as Grif-
fifth, and Endorsed every word Of the Chi
cago manager
Aside from the indirect methods used to
try to get Mertes away from the White
Stockings, most of Comiskey's players have
been let alone by the agents of the Nation
al There is one exception to this, how
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