Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-23
Base Ball Notes,

The Senators will try to take another
ball from the Browns this afternoon. Pat
ten Carrick will probably pitch.
Pitcher Reidy has been lucky in Washing
ton. Last season he almost duplicated yes
terday's good twiriing
Let them come, fast or slow, they all look
alike to Delehanty. and the same can al
most be said of Billy Kester.
Fred Ely is laboring under the disad-
vantages of a badly sprained thumb, and
under the circumstances is doing a well as
can be expected.
Dick Padden made daring try to steal
home in the third inning. while Lee was
getting ready to pitch. but a mighty shout
from the multitude woke up Wyatt to he
situation and the ex-senator was run down.
Woverton's catch of Sugden's line fly in
the sixth inning was pretty, and the doub-
ling up of Mccormick was greeted with
cheers
In five Of the nine innings, the Senators
went out in regular rotation, not a batter
reaching first.
Every man on the st. Louis team got
hit yesterday off Lee, and Jesse Burkett
was a happy boy with two singles and
double.
Chicago is now leading the procession and
the champions Will be a hard proposition
from this time on. Detroit is bound to
come back. and the Bostons, st. Louis and
Athletics will have to fight it out.
George Davis is still lining out the extra
base wallops. The New York club lost one
OF the greatest pinch hitters when Davis
left it.
Pitcher Henry Thielman, recently released
by New York, joined the Cincinnati club
yesterday
Poor old Van, The New Yorks will miss
him and his stick and his cry of Look out:
I've got it, many time before the 9TH of
October.
In all my base ball career L have never
been put out of the game by an umpire or
sent to the BENCH" remarked Eugene De-
Montreville. when last in Chicago. A no
table record these days.
The rumor that Hilebrand Princeton's
former star pitcher, will play professional
ball this year is once more in operation.
Nothing in it, said Hillebrand the other
day.
The New Yorks have been shut out three
times on their present trip. The Pitts
burgs. who applied the third coat of calso-
mine, are the only National League team
not whitewashed this year.
Jimmy Slagle has been improving more
than any other man on the Chicago team
in his batting of late. His three hits Sum
day improved his percentage thirty-five
netches.
Harry OHagan will have to hurry ND or
else his reputation a batter will not
stand the strain. His eye is long time
getting right this season.
There were 1923 paid admissions in
Cleveland Saturday, and still the old cry
Is made that base ball is dead that
city. This Is a remarkable crowd when
1t is realized that the team had won but
President Ban Johnson returned to Chi
cago from Milwaukee yesterday, and last
night left for a two weeks trip over the
eastern half of the American League cir
cult. he Will first stop at Philadelphia,
where it is supposed that he will consult
with President Shibe regarding any fur
Their court proceedings which the American
League may employ in its legal fight with
the National players
The Cleveland team is badly crippled
Mccarthy, the brainest man on the team.
is in bed in Cleveland with a badly
wrenched leg: Harvey, the regular right
fielder, is at West Baden. Ind, under treat
ment; Gochnaur, the sensational young
shortstop, is sick at his home in Altoona
Ill. Besides this, Taylor has jumped, Flick
dare not step on Pennsylvania soil and
Wright left Philadelphia yesterday for this
city to avoid the possibility of legal pro-
ceedings. Schreckongost has been re-
leased, and the team is without a regular
flrSt baSeman.
Manager Connie Mack signed Shrecken-
COST. late of the Cleveland, sterday and
Will try him behind the bat. Shreckengost
was released by Cleveland. He played good
ball for the Spiders last year, and was only
recently released by Manager Armour be-
cause he was not quite hot enough for
first base the position he was then playing
and he had no other place to put him. He
will report to Manager Mack today.
Manager Clingman has closed with Louis
Runkel, formerly the star player of the
Wisconsin University nine. and who has
OeSu III " dSul1lStON LOT some time past,
pitching for the Columbian boys Runkel
was one of the best pitchers Wisconsin ever
had and he also played the infield cover
ing short and second base. His strong
point was his batting and this is what Man
ager Clingman wants most of all. Rurkel
has signed with the Brewers and will re-
port next Monday.
THE trouble with Pitcher Mathewson is
not that he is not trying to win all of his
games, but it is because his arm is going
wrong" said Umpire Hank O'Day in Chi
cago recently. "Matty has been throwing
that drop curve much that his arm cam
not help but give out. 1 told him that last
season. but he does not seem to heed any
warning The drop ball is the hardest a
pitcher can throw. IS 1t uses every joint
in tie arm and pulls opposite from the
joint. 1t is great ball to mix with 9TH
ers, but il man keeps throwing it all the
time 1t is only a matter of short time I'M
til the arm will give out entirely. Mathew
sons arm at the close of last season was
very bad from just that reason and he has
started throwing the dropcurv e again this
YEAR"