Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-18
Base Ball Notes.

ne senators ana 11SerS Tor the last time
| today.
Jack Townsend or Billy Carrick will do
| the pitching.
On to Cleveland tomorrow. and the tail
enders look hard just now.
If the Senators would have hit Mercer
yesterday, Lee-but what's the use of If
ing
Wolverton, Orth and Lee were the only
Senators in the base hit column yesterday
Mercer must have kept the ball very close
| to the mighty DEL
/ George Carey didn't get a hit YESTERDAY
but he accepted thirteen chances without
an error. and has yet to make his first mis-
play of the season.
| Wyatt Lee must have done some fielding
around the pitchers rubber. Six assists
and one put-out looks pretty big for one
| days work of pitcher.
| Lajoie was overcome by the heat at Can
| ton last Sunday. and the Clevelands went
| to Boston without him. Larrys absence
didn't hurt the team a bit, as the Bostons
| were defeated in both games.
| Harry OHagan, the Washington boy who
opened the season with Chicago and then
| shifted to New York, is now with CIeye-
land. playing first base Harry belongs on
the initial corner.
| Blewitt pitched his first game for New
York Yesterday in Boston, and was hit
| hard 1t looks as though Bob made the
mistake of signing with poor club when
| he could have tied up with Baltimore or
| the Athletics.
II is 10 De hoped that ComiSkey Will see
| his way clear to let out Mcfarland If he
| let's go of katoll or Garvin, Baltimore will
| gobble him up. What We want is am ar
| good outfielder like the Chicago southpaw
Manager McGraw went after sheckard in
Brooklyn last Monday, trying to recover
| the $1,000 advance money, but the latter
| refused to disgorge. McGraw now threat
| ems to use the courts.
Atlanta, Ga, Is wild over the game
Three games with New Orleans drew close
to 5000 people.
Lajoe has already drawn his seasons
salary, easy, in clear extra admissions
What gold mine he will be to the Ameri-
can!
Fred Pfeffer is batting 400 at Decatur
He will be bounding back into the fast
| company If he doesn't watch out
Horace Fogel, tried to get Hart and Tur-
ner. the star sluggers of the Columbus
team, but failed. They would help New
York materially.
Philadelphia has fired Voorhees, and Ma
gee. Magee has not done much, but Voor-
hees had won three games out of five one
of his victories being a clever shutout.
Gochnauer and Lajoie have already de-
veloped the doubte-play habit, and the way
they relay the ball around is a caution.
Buffalo must be making money In heaps
The attendance for the afternoon of May 80
was given out as 1900. Yet the franchise
went fairly begging after Jim Franklin
died. George Stallings deserves lots of
credit for the state of things.
When Flick came to bat IN the first IN
ming of Sundays game Lajoie and Bern
hard were also summoned to the plate and
each of the trio was presented with hand
some gold-handled umbrella by their eX-
teammates of the Athletics.
Manager Ed. Mexican. so many years IA
nous as shortstop of the C1eveIands has
made marked success as manager of the
Rochester club. His batting powers have
been unimpaired by long absence from the
diamond, and he is putting up strong
game at first.
League between Texarkana and Corsicana
at Ennis the final score was 81 to in favor
Of Corsicana. Clark Corsicana's catcher.
broke a worlds batting record by making
eighteen bases out CT eight times at bat
Cleveland Is base bali crazy, wrote a staff
correspondent of the Baltimore Herald to
his paper. The addition Of Lajoie and
Bernhard has set the town afire. and now
nothing Is talked about except base ball
The big Frenchman is the hero of the town.
and everywhere he goes he Is surrounded
by an admirtng crowd. From a business
standpoint the acquisition Of Lajoie was a
wonder stroke on the part of the Clevelan nd
management, and only goes to prove that
II you have the attractions you can get the
patronage.
American League race the greatest in the
history of base ball. In speaking of 1t he
says: 81 have already witnessed the play
ing Of six OF the American clubs and have
only Detroit ana Cleveland TO see. FROM
what have observed 1 should pick Chica-
go as the winner. with Boston second, St.
Louis third. Baltimore fourth, Athletics
fifth and Washington sixth. The champion
Chicago team Is made up of lot Of men
who VIII play ball to a finish. and they are
likely to hold their own on the road. Grit
fifth makes a fine leader, and. with such
brainy fellows as Callahan, Jones, DAILY
Davis, and then with Comiskey for con-
sultation, this will be a tough crowd to
beat. Jimmy Collins has a strong straight
away team. but not the INSIDE players es-
sential to winning a great race. The Chi
cago team u.s. good deal like Pittsburg,
and, am inclined to think, a bit stronger
than the league leaders say this judging
from what I saw last season. and I doubt
II the burgers are stronger this season than