Evening star., 1901-08-10
VIII join comiskey's men on their next

trip east
Magnates Somers. Killilea, Gross and Co.
miskey Of the American League were In
conference with President Ban johnson at
Chicago Wednesday. Nothing was given out
regarding the object of the meeting. Som
ers and killilea left the city last night.
Pitcher Michael Muilin of the Waverly
state League base ball team leaped from
fourth story window In the Lewis House
IN Binghamton early Wednesday morning
whHe Playing an imaginary game in his
sleep. He will recover.
Woods won two games for Brockton at
Toronto Wednesday. In the first he held
toronto down to one run and five hits and
his homer in the eighth scored the winning
Ffanmiller, as the latter had broken his
finger by sliding into third, and in the thir-
teenth inning again knocked the ball over
the fence with man on base.
Unlike the giants the Brooklyn players
do not lose their nerve in adversely. They
are fighters and the present slide cannot
last long.
Umpire Jevne Of the Western League is
having quite time lodging the enter
prising undertakers. In Denver the other
day he was mobbed by the crowd, and just
as If this was not bad enough he fell out
of third-story window at Chicago and
fractured his skull. He still hopes to vote
at the fall elections, although he is sched-
uled to butt into locomotive, collide with
an automobile and break off the tenders of
few trolley cars before the season closes
played contemporaneously in the two
leagues show an averape of / hour and %
minutes for the National League and an
average of 1 hour and Al minutes for the
American
Phil Auten is said to be president, Capt
Kerr, vice president, and Frank Balliett.
secretary. of the new Pittsburg American
League club. All were prominent in the
National League before the advent of Drey-
fuss in Pittsburg.
w. Kelsey Schoepf, the traction magnate
and part owner Of the Pittsburg club yes
terday denied the report from Cincinnati
that he wanted 20 buy the Cincinnati club.
He declared he never thought of it, and
has not seen Brush or Lloyd in a month.
He was at Cincinnati Sunday as he al
ways Is, but saw no one regarding base
ball deal-Pittsburg Press.
Mullaney of Lewiston, for hitting, run
ming and general all-around work. is the
pest man In the Outfeld of the New Eng
land League, says the Lewiston Journal.
He mas dropped but two balls this season,
octh after hard runs. His catches Of diff
1erent balls have been phenomenal. His
batting average is upward of $50. He
would make a hitter in any sort Of COM
pany.
Third Baseman Lave Cross is undoubted-
ly the hardest worker on the Athletic
team. When he starts for a ball he goes
after 1t as though his feed depended on it;
1t is the same at bat, the same on bases.
the same In all ne plays. He is hard and
quet the Athletics would be if all the men,
bers of the team were like him.
jack Harper continues being the
leagues leading pitcher. Saturdays vic
tcry over the Remnants was his twentieth
o. the season. Harper's best performance
was In the early part Of June, when he
won five games in row. He is again out
to surpass Christie Matthewson's brilliant
record, and has earned brackets the last
three times he has been employed on the
firing line
1t has been definitely decided that Frank
Murphy, che Fordham College boy, now
playing left field for Boston, is the property
of the Cincinnati club, but for some rea-
son or other President Brush has not COM
municated to the young man or the Boston
club that his presence is desirable in Gin
C1nnatt, and President SOden intends to con-
tinue to avail himself of his services until
he is asked to let him go, when he will
surrender him. Murphy is the second man
Cincinnati has pulled away from Boston
this season. Dobbs was all but Boston
Ian when Cincinnati yanked him back
again, and now that Murphy is discovered
to be a good man he is to be restored to
Cincinnati some time.
The Senators will be glad when the Ath-
leticS quit the town.
Mike Grady should have been encouraged
yesterday instead of jeered. He is covered
with wounds, and should not have play ed
Waldron had the crowd with him yester-
day, his hitting being hard and timely
d
good man when he allowed Waldron to
slip away.
Another double-header is scheduled for
today and Lee and Gear will be led out to
can stop the Athletics at the gait they are
going at present.
Bill Coughlin remarked after the game
that he thought he had lost a hand after
trying to stop the drive Lajoie sent his way
Billy Clingman was treated the same way.
the ball coming SO swift. as to tear the
shortstop's hands apart
If the Senators can continue their pres
ent gait they will win many game from
the western teams. Compared with the
Athletics their playing doesn't look strong
but there is no club in the land playing
better ball than the Quakers just now.
The Senators are very indignant over the
spiking of Grady and Clingman by McGin-
nifty in Baltimore during the last visit.
They all claim that the spiking was inten-
tional Gradys injury came near putting
Clingman said he was afraid of blood
poisoning for time
Sam DUNCAN is going to become citizen
of Washington. He has purchased a cigar
and news stand, and will try to gather in
the ducats during the winter as he does fly
balls in summer.
Jimmy Casey found Roy Patterson very
much to his liking yesterday at Detroit,
feat for such little fellow. Clarke Grif-
fifth had another run-in with the umpire
and had to leave the grounds.
Messrs Comiskey and Griffith can lift
their eyes from the Boston scores in the
future and turn them toward the Athletics
Connie Mack and his followers. are the
band Chicago will have to defeat to win
the pennant, and as the late o. p. Caylor
would say, "stick pin here"
Jack Dunn, who is playing third base for
Baltimore, was badly injured yesterday in
the second Boston game. While at the bat
a foul tip struck him in the face, break
ing his nose, and he was taken to the hos
pital.