Evening star., 1901-09-16
Base Ball Notes

Commencing Wednesday. Washington will
be at home for the rest of the season.
Manager Duffy and his Brewers will be
here Wednesday and several new faces will
be seen among the visitc-'
Mercer had another - day Saturday
and the Bostons evidently took liking to
his style Of delivery.
The Senators are all holding out for more
money next season. For team that has
hard work keeping out of last place this
looks like great piece of nerve.
Billy Lauder the ex-Phiadelphia player
favor to Connie Mack. Fred Ely was sick
and Cross is still out of the game on ac-
count of bad hand. Lauder played in his
Manager Manning has a big surprise in
store for his Washington patrons when he
gives out the names of the players secured
for next season. 1t is more than probable
that only about four Of the present team
will be retained. Mr.. Manning Is after hit
ters
Washington and Boston play double
header today. and with Young out Of the
way the Beaneaters may have to hustle to
land game, the Senators have hereto
fore played their best against Jimmy Col
Inns and his companions.
The Phillies and Brooklyn play off the
postponed game Of Saturday today, and
the result will determine which team will
go west In second place.
The umpires who are assigned to duty at
Pittsburg from now on had better take out
accident policies and leave directions
where to ship their remains.
Shugarts reinstatement was no doubt
caused by the adverse criticism of the
press and public when the player was left
out at the time Johnson weakened in the
McGinnity and Katoll cases.
Washington has scored but one run In
the last two games In which they have
faced Cy Young. He has held them down
to three hits on each occasion.
For a new organization the American
League has certainly made things hum
this season, and If it accomplishes all it
says 1t will next season some great
changes can be looked for.
A special dispatch from Milwaukee Sat
urday morning states that Manager Hugh
Duffy Of the Milwaukee club has practi-
cally signed Burkett Wallace and Powell
of st. Louis and De Montreville Of Boston
for the Brewers next season.
When the records are made UP for the
present season 1t will be found that Mala
chi Kittredge of the Bostons was one of
the leading backstops in the National
League this year. Last year he was turn
ed down as not being good enough for the
big league
ney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgs. but we
haven't ordered the pole. OF course, there
is a possibility that we may be beaten, but
1t Is SO remote as to scarcely be worth
considering. To beat us either Philadelphia
or Brooklyn would have to win all their
games while We were losing practically all
of ours. II we win ten Of the twenty four
games yet to be played the coveted flag will
fly over this city for the first time in the
history of the game"
If the Pittsburgs win the championship
this season it will be the first year since
1856 that a player-manager has achieved
that distinction In the National League.
Adrian c. Anson, the "noblest Roman of
them ALL, was the last player-manager
to win pennant in the league. That was
back in the days when the Chicago White
Stockings were an all-conquering band and
when Willie Keeler, "Hansy'' Wagner, Joe
Kelley, Johnny McGraw, Clarkey Griffith.
"Nappy" Lajoie, Little Danny Green,
Christy Mathewson, Rhody Wallace and
other present-day stars were awaiting
with dread the sound of the morning bell
summoning them to school After Anson
came Watkins, manager Of the Detroits:
then Jim Mutrie, with his Giants; then
McGunnigle with the Brooklyns, in 1890,
and since then Selee and Hanlon. 1t looks,
too, with Boston and Chicago fighting for
the American League pennant. that
player manager would do the trick in that
organization