Evening star., 1902-04-18
Base Ball Notes.

First Baseman Carey demonstrated his
value yesterday.
Drill gets the ball away from him very
quick on a throw to second.
Newark plays it's last game of the series
with Washington today and Columbian
College boys face the Senators tomorrow.
1t will take some time for Coughlin to
master the second base position. At pres
ent he is slow starting for the sack and his
errors yesterday resulted from this cause.
Jimmy Ryan has evidently rounded into
the best shape of the entire Senatorial out
fit. He already has that snappy. getaway
action and displays ginger at all times.
Delehanty, Wolverton and Ely still COM
plain of soreness, but manage to play
splendid ball nevertheless.
The National Leagues opening yester-
day was 'corker" and conclusively dem
onstrated that the people want base ball no
matter how hard the magnates try to Kill
it off
Little Jack Farrell played the best ball
for st. Louis yesterday against Pittsburg,
getting two hits and fielding eight chances
without error.
Ex-senator Bill Donovan seems to have
had plenty of his oldtime speed yesterday,
holding the Bostons down to three hits,
while the Brooklyns touched Victor Willis
up for seven bingleS
There is a Coughlin playing right field
for the Chicago National League team, but
he is no relation to the Senatorial second
baseman.
Catcher Bill Clarke will probably reach
Washington next Monday and go in against
the Georgetowns. Clarke's contract with
Annapolis expires Saturday night, and he
will be free to give all his attention there
after to the Washington club.
Catcher Donohue is still at West Baden
Springs and will probably start east the
early part of next week. Donohue came
close to an attack of typhoid fever and it
will take some time for him to regain his
full strength.
Pitcher Cuppy will pitch and captain a
I'LL, Ind &c
.Comiskey declares that the American
League will have clubs in New York and
PittSburg next year.
Pittsburg will let one of it's pitchers go.
The choice lies between DohCny, Merritt
and Poole. Cincinnati probably could use
one of the two last named
Manager Shettsline of the Phillies has
given Utility Outfielder Duffy the usual ten
days notice of release.
Mike Donlin, whose domestic troubles
have recently upset his prospects on the
Baltimore team, may, after his release, go
to Philadelphia, where he may be given a
chance by Manager Shettsline as a SUBJ
stitute outfielder on the Phillies team.
Dan Brouthers will not play with New
London after all. Brouthers did not like
the terms under which he was asked to
sign. He was to bat 300 or over or not
draw any salary for the month.
Pitcher Mullin, who signed with Brook
lyn, Detroit and Fort Wayne for the COM
ing season, has been notified that unless he
reports to the latter team he will be pros
ecuted in the court. Mullin is with Detroit
at present
popularity of the national game is shown
by the report from base ball factories, all
of which declare that the demand for the
horsehides is greater than in former years.
Third Baseman Robinson, who jumped
the Kansas City American Association
team to go with the Philadelphia Athletics
and then jumped back again, has turned
another somersault which has landed him
with the Kansas City Western League
team Two other players. Messitt and
ketcham, also went with him.
Sam Lever of the Pirates, who last sea-
son was rated at the closest and most care
less man on the team, has changed COM
pletely. He has become follower of the
races, spends his money like drunken
sailor, and has even taken to wearing red
neckties. 1t is predicted that he will array
himself in a silk hat and Prince Albert coat
before the season Is much older.
When man will sit on the marble-cold
bleachers throughout nine innings at this
time of the year, with the wind SO high
that it blows the love letters and tailor
bills out of his pocket, he wants to see base
ball, and wants to see it bad. At least.
that is the way the word painter of the
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph pictures
the yearning of the Quaker fans for dia-
mond action.
The feature of the game at St Louis on
Tuesday was the all-around work of ex-
Senator Fox for Indianapolis. He. hit in
tip-top fashion, and had four putouts and
nine assists TO mis- credit without a single
misplay. He gave n great exhibition on
the bases also, and kept the st. Louis play
ers guessing as to what he would do in the
line of stealing. He bunted twice and beat
out the ball both times.
Never before was there so much of the
uncertainty which means the life of sport
as exists this year. Not only are there
two pennant races to be decided, both of
which look interesting, but much more de-
pends upon the next six months. The fate
of more than one league, especially among
the minors, is to be decided, and the two
big leagues will pass through a crucial
period, unless some unforeseen agent acts
as arbitrator to bring them together.
The pitchers of the National League who
welcomed the innovation in the base ball
rules this year regards the calling of a
foul a strike are likely TO find a handicap
put on them as a result of that change The
scheme now is to have batsman
take his base on three balls, while
three strikes, as at present, will constitute
a strike-out. The three-ball- l-three-strike
idea has been agitated among the National
League magnates. and it would probably
have been tried as an experiment this sea-
son but for the row among the magnates
last winter. 1t is said on good authority
that III this change is not tried this seq