Evening star., 1901-04-16

| sharps The Tigers have not lost a game
| ard have beaten the Philadelphia National
| League team Yales victory over the
New Yorks on Wednesday and the close
| game played by the Blues against the
| Philadelphia American League team on
| Thursday can be taken proof that the
| New Haven varsity is stronger than any
/ body believed 1t would be. Georgetown
| has beaten Yale and Pennsylvania. chiefly
| because of effective pitching. The Wash
| ington collegians have. weli-balanced
! team and are well advanced in stick work.
! AS Harvard will not play Princeton, there
will be no chance to compare, the respec-
! tive strength of these old rivals. Harvard
| and Yale, however. should provide hot
| sport, as well as Princeton and Yale
| Philadelphia Times.
| base Ball Notes.
| Georgetown plays Philadelphia American
| League team in the Quaker city this af-
| ternoon.
Tomorrow Cornell will cross bats with
| the blue and gray on the Georgetown cam
| pus Huhgey Jennings is with the collie
| gians.
| With the reporting of Catcher Clarke
| and Second Baseman Quinn the entire
| Washington team is in practice at the Sol
dierS' Home at Hampton.
The opening games of the Virginia and
Carolina League were played yesterday be-
| fore large crowds. Newport News defeat
| ed Portsmouth. to 2; Richmond and VIII
| mington played thirteen innings to tie,
to 4, and Norfolk beat Raleigh, to 2.
Yesterdays rain han,pered the workmen
| at the new American Park, but this morn
| ing they We're all working like beavers on
the front and roof of the grand stand. Su-
| perintendent Darby says it can be COM
| pleted inside of three days.
Manager Manning says he is going to
| give the Washington people a chance to see
| the senatorial outfit before the season
| opens. Should the American Park not be
| finished by Saturday the Georgetown
Washington game will be played on the
local college campus, but every effort will
| be made to complete the new park.
| McGraw has the Baltimore cranks
| worked up to pitch of enthusiasm never
known before in the monumental city.
| Unglaub, last year in the Connecticut
League, will be behind the bat for Worces-
| ter this year He is probably the youngest
| player in the Eastern League. as he is not
yet twenty years old.
| In Chicago they have arranged the
| "American League Limited, a train which
will carry passengers to the ball grounds
| I'm ten minutes from the heart of the busi-
| ness section of the city.
| The first fatal accident of the base ball
| season occurred at Philadelphia Saturday
| when Herman Fox. eleven years old, was
struck on the head with a bat He died
| Saturday night. The bat slipped from the
| hands of batter and caused the accident
! Ex-senator Mike Powers has made de-
| cided hit in Philadelphia and is one Of the
most talked-of players in Mack's American
League team. He has posed for all of the
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| peared in a variety of positions.
| George Cuppy is in the south with the
Boston American League team. The great
er part of his efforts have been directed
| toward cutting out some of his delibera-
| tions in delivery.
| Pitcher Pond, who quit the national game
! to volunteer his services a physician
| and surgeon at the beginning Of the Span
| ish-American war, sailed Saturday from
! San Francisco for the Philippines, full
| fedged surgeon, with the rank Of major.
| Nobody can teach a man how to bat.'
! Hanlon has often said, unless he is born
| with natural ability to hit the ball. Give
| me man who is. not afraid to stand up
to the plate and take a crack at any kind
/ of pitching and I'll undertake to improve
! his stickwork 100 per cent in a season."
| man should never prophesy unless he
| knows. One league gentleman declared
| that the American League would never ex-
pand. 1t expanded. Then he said 1t
wouldn't play game 1t has played sew
eral. Then he declared that If 1t did open
the season it wouldn't last half way
| through it. AS a tipster this particular
| prophet is sadly out Of line
| Players who are training in the south
| now are of the opinion that the men who
! jumped contracts have done a great in
| jury to the rest of the players. They feel
! that the National League will make them
| suffer for it in the end, and that salaries
| will take big decline. They argue that
| even should the National and American
| Leagues reach an agreement the latter Or
| ganization will not touch the men who
| jumped contracts, and as a result the Ma
| tional will cut them to suit themselves.
Have you noticed says Charlie Comis-
| key, "hoW the men who were farmed to
American League clubs by the National
| League clubs last year all went when the
| time came to declare themselves? All Of
| them. especially Casey and Brodie. kicked
| awfully against being sent to the American
| League last year Yet, after playing along
| side our men for season, they liked the
company so well that they have all pre-
| ferred it to the society Of their 1899 en-
| ployers. All of these men were wanted
| back by their former clubs, and they delib-
| erately turned around and said to the
American League. which they had once
dislike, We like you fellows too well to
| quit. Wen stick These farmed-out play
ers were Brodie. Schreckengost, McKenna,
Hemphill, Casey, Yeager, Holmes, Sparks
Anderson, Crisham, Fultz and Ketcham-a
| list of good ball players"
Sensation at Memphis.
In the Memphis Stakes, at Ave furlongs.
at Memphis, Tenn, yesterday only four
started. Eddie Busch. from the Schorr sta
BILE, was added at the last moment.
Schorr's crack colt. Charles w. Meyer. for
which an offer Of $4,000 was made recent
| ly, seemed to have an easy thing for the
stake, but about o clock he was scratched
and rumor spread that he had been poi
soned. Veterinarians said he had blood
poisoning. His head was badly swollen.
The opinion is that the colt had been bit
ten by spider.
The bettors would accept nothing but
Abe Frank. Hanover-imported Cheese
straw colt. at 1 to g. Autumn Leaves led
into the stretch, when Abe Frank made
his run and Won The stake was worth So
600 to the winner.
The Capital Yacht Club.
The members of the Capital Yacht Club
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