Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-17

| Two more players, one of whom Is pitcher.
| with many double-headers looming up he
| will need all the twirlers he can get his
| hands on.
! Little Jack Farrell was the only Senator
who failed to get hit yesterday. Jack
! was hve times at the bat and is not cred
| tied with sacrifice base on balls. In
the field Farrell was all right.
| The rest up did Wyatt Lee a great deal
| or good. and if pitched about twice week
| he can be depended upon to do good work.
| Pop Foster certainly made good yes
| terday. and his release notice has been re-
| called.
| work yesterday. Three hits in the first
game and two in the second was his record
against the Orioles.
| The Brooklyn Base Ball Club has given
| Pitcher Jimmy McJames his ten days no
| tice of release.
Pitcher Christy Matthewson of the New
! Yorks was invtncible Monday at st. Louis.
| and let st. Louis down without hit
or run. But FIVE St. Louis men reached
| first base four bases balls
| and one on an error by Van Haltren. New
| York landed on Sudhoff at will in the first
| two innings.
| Hartman, who covered third base for
| New York during the Joyce regime, is not
| likely to play third for Comskey's Chi
| cago Americans any more this season. He
| has not been released outright. but II
| seems he and Comiskey have had a differ
! ence. Hartman. 1t is said. was dissatisfied
| with his pay. He was one of the teams
I best hitterS. Burke of Milwaukee has been
| signed in his stead.
| Pitcher Merle Adkins, who won the west
| ern college championship for the Belot
College base ball team this spring by his
| grand pitching. will go to Milwaukee and
| place himself under Hugh Duffy's manage
ment- He has done better work this spring
than any other college pitcher in the west.
| and Manager Duffy feels confident that he
| will make good in the American League.
| First Baseman Dick Cooley and Out
| fielder Lynch have been released by SYRIA
| cuse. Frank McManus catcher. refused to
| accompany the team to Montreal. and it
| leaked out that he had jumped his con-
tract and signed with the American
League.
| Pitcher Wiltse late of Pittsburg who is
at his home in Syracuse, has accepted the
| terms of the Philadelphia American
| League team.
According to a bulletin issued by Presi-
| dent Hickey of the Western League.
| ''Jiggs' Donahue has been suspended by
| the Minneapolis club for jumping his con-
tract. The allegation of President Beall of
| the Minneapolis club that Donahue signed
a contract with him for the season of 1901
has no foundation. according to the state
| ments made by the player and Manager
! Duffy and how the Western League
| expect to secure jurisdiction over the play
| er and the American League is beyond
conjecture.
Jimmy Burke has been passed up by
! Milwaukee and will finish out the season
! on third for the White Stockings. His de-
| but last week with Comiskey was a
| glittering success. The departure of Burke
from Beerville is due to the fact that
| the occupants of the ''bleachers' have
! been making life unbearable to him.
| and his general play has been poor Duffy
| has also transferred Waldron to Washing
ton How he hopes to get his team out of
| the eighth hole is hard to fathom. as Burke
and Waldron appeared to be two of his
| best players--St Louis Republic
/ Ed Grille writes in the Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune: "If the war continues the
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| ands of dollars to corner the talent in 1902
| The Chicago and Boston clubs will take
the initiative But what If they succeed
| for a season? The next year their ranks
will be depleted. and in time all the clubs
| will be bankrupt. The American League
will demand an equal division of the big
cities. and will not consent to retire from
| Philadelphia or Chicago u1dec any cir
cumstances, and, 1t may be. will insist on
| retaining club in Boston"
| Players and patrons are not satisfied
with honest umpiring They want the best
Of decisions and charge the umpire, who
| gives each play on its merits. with unfair
| ness and incompetency. This was illus
| trated in the game at League Park on
Tuesday. the day after O'Day was mobbed,
when Schriver and Mcclure off1ciated. ST.
! Louis players kicked on decisions made by
Schriver and Brooklyn players took ex-
| ception to rulings by Mcclure. The John
| son plan is the best. His motto is, the
| umpire, right wrong.-Sportine News
| 1t was believed that the National League
| would have nothing to do with PLAYERS re-
leased by the American League. Hanlon
! COPIED that Idea, however, the other day
when he made an effort to land Jimmy
Casey on the strength of report that the
| third baseman had been released by De-
| troit. He tried to reach Jimmy by long
! distance telephone, but, failing, wired the
| player at Milwaukee. Casey telegraphed
back that the story Of his release was a
a breach Of faith. as the National League
magnates have agreed to turn down only
| contract Jumpers. Casey Is not one of
them. as he was sold to Detroit before the
American League broke away. Pitcher
Piatt. recently released by the Athletics.
I jumped Philadelphia and Is now out In the
| cold world.-Brooklyn Eagle.
l was rather amused to read in a St
| Louis paper few days ago where Jesse
| Burket saw one game In the American
| League and pronounced II Eastern League
ball, and that Hank O'Day agreed with
| him. Now this question is up to the people
| who have witnessed the games by all the
teams of both leagues. If am any Judge
| of ball playing. want to go on record as
| saying that the best ball by all odds that
| have seen this season has been played
| by the Boston American League team. You
can we'll imagine Cy Young. at his best,
! with Collins and Stahl surrounded by the
| speediest kind of youngsters, all playing
the best kind of ball. l am honest when I
| say that 1 fully believe the Boston Ameri-
| can team is considerable stronger than the
| st. Louis team In every department of the
game.-Tim Murnane in Boston Globe.
| In Chess Circles.
| The seventh game in the match between
Captain OFarren and Mr.. w. A. Gwyer
| for the chess championship of the District
| was played last week. Although end
| ing in a draw. it vas one of the best con-
| teste ed and most exciting of the SERIES
| neither being able TO put up any combina-
! tion which the other did not succeed In
ferreting out and providing for. The score
| stands: O'Ferran. 3; Gwyer. 2; drawn. 2
| The Mississippi State Association Is an
nounced to commence its meeting July 16
IN finely written paper of high-grade
! prose- interspersed with poetic flights.
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