Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03
Base Ball Notes.

Base Ball Notes.
The Senator's victory was great one for
a patched up team.
| Base ball is mighty uncertain, and on
| form the Athletics should have won yes
| terday's game hands down.
| Willie Carrick and Wyatt Lee deserve
| lots of credit for their good playing and
batting. a.
Delehanty, wolvertbp and Orth will take
in the Metropolitan handicap at Morris
Park today, their lay-off being sort Of
picnic
Catcher Drills work yesterday caught
the spectators of the Quaker city. and he
was given great send off. All the pa
pers praise his work.
The Senators meet the Athletics again
| today and Carrick will probably go on the
rubber. With Patten in the outf1efd it is
to be hoped that his yearly home run will
come to the front at an opportune time
today.
Col. Rogers was all ready with the legal
papers to tie up Dell" Wolverton, Orth
| and Townsend yesterday, but Foxy Lof-
tus thought it better to present the Ath-
letfcs with a couple of games than to lose
his stars, and instead got victory.
Dummy Taylor is an artist at arguing
with the umpire in sign language. His
kicks to UmpirS Johnstone were one of
the features Of e gans-chicago Record
Herald. s re
to Cleveland las seasois by comiskey' He
Monday he figusfd IN 18th of Cleveland 5
scores and fou4 Piatts for two hits, one
The question to wiere Hugh Jennings
will play this se$son WIZ settled yesterday,
as the famous aayer a4ixed his signature
to PhiladelphN contrsct, and will report
to Manager she4siine in or about June 1,
as soon as his dities Win the Cornell team
are finished. Manager sIShettsline has also
signed Pitcher Magee tasfiH in on the Phil
lies twirling STAFF.
College players this year are breaking
into the professional game in greater num-
bers than ever before-thanks to the great
demand for good men,. due to the American
Leagues expansion There Is hardly . a
first-class club in the country today which
has not one or more ex-collegians on the
pay roll.
When asked as to the exact attendance on
the opening dates here, Muckenfuss at first
declined to give the information, but when
told by the court to answer the question:
did so. His testimony showed that there
We're 500 persons present at the first game,
=. 400 at the one Friday, ZOO on Satur-
day, and $500 on Sunday.-St. Louis Re-
public. This attendance was telegraphed
east as 1900. At padding the National
League is not a bit shy.
Manager Connie Mack of the Athletic
Base Ball Club has signed Pitcher Hastings
and Infielder Gleason of the Boston Ameri-
can League team. Hastings pitched for
Milwaukee last year and had an average of
375
Ernest J. Larrigan, the well-known sta
tisticA fiend. has figured it out that the
stars Of the National League of 1901 have
been replaced by 81 minor leaguers. 8 col
legians and 9 amateurs. Replaced, yes, as
to numbers, but hardly as to ability, al
though some OF the youngsters are showing
up .finely.-Sporting Life.
While talking Of base bali to a friend
Uyhn Fnr
played second base with the American AS
ISOLATION, dropped dead yesterday in Phila-
delphia. Greenwood was forty-four years
old, and played with the Atlantic City Club
in 1882 with the Merritts, in Camden, the
two following years, and with the Athletics
in 1856.
The newspapers which proclaimed that
the Pennsylvania supreme court decision
touched upon or legalized the Indefinite re-
serve rule were sadly in error. The only
thing they passed upon and legalIzed was
the definite option clause and the ten-day
release clause In the National League con-
tract.-Sporting Life.
Brudder "Bill' Gleason attended St.
Louis game. Before the game he and
KID Gleason. one Of the old Brownies,
had chat. They played together in the
long ago. The kid" was a real kid
then. and though it has been many sum
mers now since "Brudder Bill'' wore the
spangies, his irrepresstble namesake con-
tinues playing as well as ever. MY whip
is still sound.' says Gleason. land as long
as it stays with me I'll stick to the game"
St Louis Republic.
Glade of the Chicago National League is
a peculiar chap from all accounts. When
he left the ball park last week he made it
point to forget to tell his eliminates that
he was going out OF town. Glade halls
from the wilds of Nebraska, and his father
not only owns a fat bank account, but Is
opposed to his son taking up base ball as a
profession. The chances are that the boy
has returned home to stay.
Hefdrfck the fyoFoo
witness Of the bunch. He gave his testf-
mony In an easy-going manner and told of
the transactions which induced him to sign
with the American League. Questioning
the American league for three years at a
salary Of $3,50 per year. He said he re-
ceived notice that he had been reserved by
the St. Louis club for this year. Heidrfck's
evidence concluded the examination of wit
nesses.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Lawyer Horace Mcclure of Rochester oh
tanned a temporary intdnctions from Judge
Sutherland IN county court yesterday af-
ternoon, restraining Zoe Bean, shortstop
| for the New York team, from playing any
longer with that team, The injunction pa
| corralled anywhere in sthe metropolis. In
getting the injunction Lawyer Mcclure as
| serted that Bean played with Rochester In
1901 and signed for 1902 at $500 month,
but broke this, contract to sign one with
Freedman. / 4a- "
| While secrecy has been observed in get
| ting the Injunction, 1t has been understood
| all along that some such move was contem-
| plated. 1t has been intimated that Freed
man is adverse to having any litigation
| over the star shortstop and would prefer
to settle the matter out of court or even
| order Bean back to Rochester
Business Boys Too Good for Westerns.
The Business High School team had
| another victory credited to 1t yesterday by
defeating the Western High School lads BY
the score of q to l. Only seven innings
could be played on account Of darkness the
continuous run making of the business boys
| taking up almost all the time allotted to
the game. After the first inning the West
erners never had chance, as the Business
| team piled up twelve runs before the third
man had been retired. On the other hand,
Pickford could not be hit by the Western
| batters and blanks went up for six out of
| the seven innings played.