The Washington times., 1902-02-02
BASEBALL HITS AND RUNS.

| Lefty" Davis has been i'll with pneu-
rlonia. Alfonso always was delicate
/ plant, much addicted to falling sick on
/ slight provocation.
! Jack Powell remarks that one of the
/ reasons he jumped to McAIeer was be-
cause there would be no Heilbronner in
/ the American camp.
/ Pitcher Win Mercer, of last years
/ Washington team. is reported to have
| signed with the Detroit Americans.
| Joe Quinn is now talked of as success
sor to AL. Buckenberger at Rochester, who
] left the Eastern League TO become man
| ager OF the Boston National League team.
Umpire Joe Cantillon wants the Ameri-
| can League to adopt the double umpire
system. 1t would be a great thing for
| the league, he says, and it would be, too.
rumor has II that Fort Wayne
woman made an attempt to shoot Chick"
| Stahl and the latter ran away. 4 pistol
! ball is about the only kind that Stahi,
| the crack Boston fielder, ever lodged, but
this is where he needed to.
/ Charley Farrell. catcher for the Brook
! lyns. when in Worcester, Mass, recently
! said that he had signed for another sea
| son and expected to leave for Brooklyn
about the middle of March. He looked in
| better condition than he has for several
! seasons.
While John T. Brush may have been a
| little hasty in his determination to stick
| to Andy Freedman in the National League
| fight. he has proven that he possesses
heart full of charity. When Brush heard
OF the sad straits Of Billy Sharsig his
reply was accompanied by a substantial
| evidence of his sympathy
sition with the Worcester Consolidated
Street Railway Company at salary of SIS
a week and says he prefers to work at
this throughout the year rather than UNI
pire in any league at 5000 a month for
five or six months of year.
Krug. hailed as the best second base
man in the California League. has ac-
cepted the terms offered him 10y Man
ager Shettsline, of the Philadelphia Ma
tional League Club, and will accompany
Pitcher Iberg when the latter starts for
the East to report for duty on March l.
The Washington and jefferson College
baseball team may be coached by Fred.
Clarke, the Pirate captain, during the
next month. Manager Stevenson. of the
college, opened communication with Pres
ident Dreyfuss and secured his consent,
and Clarke has written that he is willing
to show them how to play ball.
None of the New York papers seem
to be turning double somersaults over
the announcement that eX-Oriole Jack
son has become a giant. This Is what
the World says: Manager Horace Fo-
gel, of the New York Club. has signed
Outfielder James Jackson. Jackson last
season played with the Baltimore Amer
lean League Club, and was released by
Manager McGraw when he signed Al
Selbach."
''As TO throwing TO unoccupied bases by
the pitcher for alleged practice" says
Chadwick in the Baltimore News" that
is a habit utterly at war with their
charge of being 'oyerworked in their po-
sitions, a plea set forth by pitchers who
desire to shirk their appointed work in
the box as much as possible"
In regard to the strike rule preventing
intentional foul hitting that is a palpa-
bic mistake. II does nothing of the kind
The fact is. it only adds to the Injustice
of the foul-ball rule itself which pun
ishes a batsman for making a nit. which
In nine cases out of ten is an accidental
hit. Another fault of the strike rule is
that ii does not properly discriminate
between what may be Intentionally hit
fouls, and those which are surely acct
dental. For instance, no batsman of
judgment purposely hits balls foul when
runners are on bases, and yet last season
more foul strikes were called when the
bg ses were occupied than when they we're
not.