Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-30
Base Ball Notes.

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| Next game July 10, when Baltimore will
| be here.
| Jack Doyle has been secured by Manager
LOTUS, and will play right field.
| Clarke was out of Saturdays game, Drill
| taking his place and doing WELL his triple
| being most timely.
| Second Baseman Castro made a remark
able one-handed catch off of Wolverton in
| the fifth. The ball was going over his head
| on line when he threw up his left hand
and the ball stuck.
THE only Del tripIed in the third, but
he died there, as Keister failed to bring
| him home.
| Keister wasn't in a hard-hitting humor
| Saturday, being content with one single.
| Billy has hung up six home runs since his
| return from the west.
| Jack Doyle is undoubtedly one of the best
ball players in the country but so far has
proved a poor mixer" A majority of the
present Washington team are great friends
| Of Jack, and for this reason his berth
| should be a pleasant one.
| Detroit very kindly dropped a game to
| the Chicagos yesterday and as a result the
| Senators are now heading the second col
| umn. Rain knocked out the games in ST.
| Louis and Chicago Saturday, and also in
| the former city yesterday.
The Senators leave for Boston this even
ing, where they open a series of three
| games tomorrow, Deiehanty, Wolverton,
| Orth and Townsend will probably disguise
themselves going through the Quaker city
| this evening.
| The American League cannot be in a
very bad financial condition, as the Ma
| tional League organs would have one be-
| iieve, if they can afford to bid against each
| other for the stars of the Pit tsburg club.
| Salaries are high, but the people are turn
| ing out in great numbers to see the games
| this season.
Cy Voorhees,, released by Philadelphia,
| will finish the IA a member OF the
Columbus twirling staff.
Broadway Alec" Smith may shake the
| ponies and don the mitt and mask again.
| He has received an offer from the Newark
| club. Manager Burnham Is also after
| Pitcher "Laf Winham.
Several wagers have been recorded in
| Cincinnati to the effect that Harry Bay
| will have a better batting average at the
end Of the season than any man on the
| Cincinnati team.
1t is predicted that the Western League
| will quit about $4,000 loser on the season.
| The American Association, the Westerns
rival. will not do quite so badly, the good
| attendance in Louisville, Columbus, st.
| Paul and Toledo having the effect of keep
| ing down the losses.
| The Montreal club has braced up wonder
| fully since it secured Catcher Fuller Of
the Brooklyns. Fuller caught every game
since he joined the Eastern Leaguers and
| his batting has been valuable acuuisf-
ton. The Canucks have worked out Of last
| place.
| O"yeT OF the DetrOft American
League team declares that Pitcher Winnie
! Mercer has turned down the Los Angeles
offer and will stay with the Tigers A rep
resentatiye OF the Los Angeles club visited
| Mercer Friday in Chicago and it is thought
Mercer got him to hold the western offer
open till the close Of this season.
! Here Is a team that Umpire Joe Cantil-
lon thinks can try the patience of Barney
| Dreyfuss' gang next fall: Sullivan, catcher;
| Mercer and Bernhard, pitchers Davis La
5ofe, Bradley and Wallace, inf1eld; Picker
| Ing. Barrett and Holmes outheld
PRESIDENT Dreyfuss of the Pittsburg club
| denies the report that he has Increased
| the salaries of O'Connor and Wagner In
| order to keep them from jumping to the
American. He has two-year agreements
| with these players and will raise no sala-
rtes nor change them in any way until
| these contracts expire
Mr.. Phelan of Chicago says: "All the
players in the White. sox and Oriole teams
had money on the Derby. Harry Howell
| picked Lord Quex, because his uncle was
| once kicked by an earl; Jimmy Williams had
SO on Arsenal, because he once fell over
| cannon In the dark, and Virgil Garvn fol-
lowed the same horse-he heard that
OConnor was to ride and thought it was
| the Pittsburg catcher"
Pittsburg drew $4,000 to three exhibition
games on the last trip-6.4O0 in Newark
$500 in Wilmington and 800 in Worcester
AS these figures more than double the
! average attendance of the games played in
| the east with league teams, President Drey-
fuss is anxious for a few more open dates
The Louisville Courier-Journal says:
plans for increasing the circuit of the
| National Base Ball League to twelve clubs
are under way, and it is said on good au-
thority that Louisville will be one of the
clubs in the circuit. During the last week
President James A. Hart Of the Chicago
team and Secretary Harry Pulliam and
Manager Clarkesof the Pittsburg team
were in town. and. though they stated at
the time that they were not here on bust
ness, recent DEVELOPMENTS have tended to
show that they were looking over the
ground with view to placing a team
When a Philadelphia court decided that
the contracts of IaJoie and Bernhard with
the Philadelphia Club were valid and en-
Joined these players from playing with any
| other club than the one mentioned the
/ hopes of the National League magnates
| ran high, and not without reason either
| for it looked for time that the decision
| might be the source of doing the American
| League. The American, however refused
to abide by the dfcisfon and kept on fight
Ing, with the result. that the decision In the
case of Catcher Mcguire, handed down yes
terday by the United states court, gives it
a secure hold on all nits players so far as
legal interference is concerned
When the United States court declares
| that the ball players contract is void be-
| cause 1t lacks mutually that virtually set
| ties the question. There is no longer any
| thing for the National League to fight for
The highest tribunal in this country has
| decided against the National League con-.
| tract. This means that it Is useless TO
| make any further effort by legal proceed
| fngs to regain the players who jumped to
| the American League.-Cincinnati Com
| mercial Tribune.