The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-06-18

THE EVENING TIN
innings; Cleveland at Philadelphia, II
innings; Washington at Chicago, 10 in
nings.
Gentlemen" said Andy Freedman re-
Gently to his players, you are bunch
Of dubs. You are Holsters net You
don't know the difference between
base hit and a high ball. You are
lot Of cutters. Now get into the game
and play as everyone knows you are
capable OF playing. Gentlemen, thank
you for your kind attention.
Ed Mexican. formerly shortstop of the
| Cleveland Club. is making a marked
success as manager of the Rochester
Eastern League team
The Boston National League Club is.
trying to secure Pitcher McPartliR from
Rochester
Strange as it may seem Hulswitt, the
PhiIIies' brilliant shortstop, has batted
better in the National League than in
the western League last year.
Jimmy Ryan. who is what is known as
quiet kidder" among people who
use slang and know baseball had some
fun with a travelling man on a train
between Boston and Chicago, when ne
was ChiCaFo's star outfieldeT-
There boarded the train somewhere
along the line one of the most obnoxious
/ Of all .'butters-in"
He was a travelling man. He recog-
nized the players because some one
! told him the team was on the train, in
quired of the porter where Ryan was,
and then proceeded to recognize" him.
He was enthusiastic over baseball,
and he knew the names of lot of play
eTs because he had read them in news
PAPER
He inquired if John r. Gentry still
| played on the Philadelphia team, TO
| show his knowledge, and Ryan saw he
/ had come along" and started TO
work
= amt much on baseball now" the
/ butteT-in confessed. but in the old days
/ l used to be there every day. By the
way, what has become of my old chum,
| Peekaboo Veach2'
Didn't you hear about Peekaboo?"
| asked Ryan. Why, he got enormously
rich He had pretty tough luck for q
| time after he got out of the business.
and was digging wells up in West Vir-
ginia. when one day he struck oil. and
| is now a Standard Oil director
/ S that so?" inquired the man, land
/ what has become of my friend Tom
Ramsey
oh. responded Ryan, Tom joined
| the Salvation Army and is preaching
/ up in St Paul.
And the best chum I ever had. dear
old Al Spalding- What has become OF
| him -
Ryan never batted an eye. Hes
| driving the Red Line express in Chi
cago." he said--St- Louis Star.
Bill Dahlen leads the Brooklyns in
stolen bases and long hits. He has ex-
aCtly q dozen steals to his credit. and
has made eleven two-baggers. two
| triples and a home run since the sea-
son began.
Buffalo. Toronto. Providence and wor-
( cester are making a hot race for the
Eastern League pennant They are
closely punched at the top.
Col Barney Dreyfuss is always game
IL not always correct" comments Tim
Murnane. He comes out with state
ment that if his Pittsburg team wins the
championship he is willing 10 stack il
against the winner of the American
7
good match, but Barney is liberal and
offers TO allow the American team to
pick up outsiders TO make the team good
and strong, and then Barney will wager
s., 600 that his team wins.
What a crowd a series of games of
this kind would draw in the fall Mr..
Dreyfuss is too liberal, however, as the
winner Of the American League would
need no outsiders to hold its OWE with
Pittsburg. Imagine the Chicago club
winning the American League champion
ship and then adding such men as Col
Inns. Lajoie. Flick. DeIehenty and 'Cy'
Young. The burgers would find ball
playing a different pastime from play
ing with the weak teams of the Ma
tionaI League and soon realize that
Pittsburg has not over four real star
ball players
Take Clarke. Wagner. Richie. and
two pitchers out Of the bunch, and
Dreyfuss' team would look weaker than
the weakest Of the National League
clubs. while with the men named above
Chicago would have star aggregation
the like OF which never was known be
/ fore In baseball With Charley Comis-
key handling the Chicago team under
| the above conditions the betting would
be two TO one on the Americans, and
I would like a little of the betting at
those rates.
Il have never considered the Pitts
burg club really strong ball team Not
until the American League weakened
the National could the Pittsburg club
land at the top. and the work Of the
last two years has been against an arti-
Gle of ball - per cent slower than was
noticed in the league for several sea
sons before the break came when the
Americans got to the East"