Evening star., 1901-05-27
Base Ball Notes.

Rain prevented the Detroit-W ashington
game yesterday.
Carrick and Yeager will probably be the
opposing pitchers in Detroit today.
President Postal is reported to have Won
several handsome bets as a result of Sat
urday's lucky victory
The eastern teams are not having the
smooth shedding in the west that was eX
pected, and Washington is now in third
place a result of BaltimoreS defeats at
Milwaukee and Chicago.
Suggested changes in the Washington
team come with poor grace while the SEN
atorS are occupying third place. If the
team Is batting and fielding poorly and
still manages to hold good position what
may be expected of the players when the
weather warns up and better ball is forth
coming? Individual stars are not winners,
and harmony is everything.
Cleveland didn't play yesterday, but Con-
ME MackS Athletics did, and as a result
the latter Is now carrying the banner for
the last position in the American League
championship race.
Ban Johnson gave it out Friday night
that the fourteen-men rule OF the American
League has been altered to permit the teams
to carry fifteen. This decision pleases Co.
miskey, whose team numberd Just fifteen,
including the disabled Callahan. Baltimore
has sixteen men, and will let out Jerry
Nops or Freddie Schmidt. Boston has six
teen, and will turn loose young Mitchell.
Cleveland Is down to the fifteen limit. and
Will not free any one unless the chance Is
offered to get a better man in exchange.
Detroit has only fifteen, six of them pitch
ers. Milwaukee has no less than seventeen,
and must chase Connor or Maloney, the
change catchers, and one pitcher, or Friel,
the utility man. Connor and F'rfe1 will
probably get the toss. Philadelphia has
fifteen men, and can keep them all. Wash
ington is carrying but fourteen players, and
can take on another If the management de-
sires. ,.--t
The record Of stxtao,, Str;keouts nada nv
Noodles Hahn at Boston last "Wednesday
has been beaten only once in the history of
the National League. This was done by
Charles Sweeney of the Providence team,
who in 1884 struck out nineteen Boston
batsmen. Hahn's records has been equaled
twice in the National League. In 1856 John
Clarkson, pitching for the Chicagos. struck
out sixteen Kansas City men. and in the
same year Frank Gilmore Of the Washing
ton team made sixteen st. Louis nlaroons
fan the air. In the4American Association
Hahn.s record has only once been beaten.
In 1887 Tom Ramsey, pitching for Louis
vile, struck out seventeen batters. A few
weeks later, in the same year, he struck
out sixteen st. Louis Browns. From that
day until yesterday the greatest strikeout
record was made by Tim Keefe Of the New
York team. who in 1888 struck out fourteen
Boston batters. The next best record was
thirteen. made by Keefe in 1885, and by
Ramsey in striking out seventeen men in
1887 is about the best record in major
league base ball. In that year it took four
strikes to put out batter
Jones Of the Chicago club leads the
American League in runs made with
twenty -eight to his credit: r.ajoie Is see
ond, with one less; Williams has crossed
the home plate twenty-five times. while Ca
sey has made tallies for Detroit twenty
four times Jones leads the league with
twelve stolen bases and Anderson of Mil
waukee is second. Mertes' fielding average
before going to second base was 1900 Now
It Is 1867. He has made only four errors
out of 121 chances. Elherfeld leads the
league in errors. having twenry-three