Evening star., 1902-09-13

Manager Connie Mack of the Athletic Base
bail Club.
Strang. the Chicago American League
third baseman, has made fifty errors this
season, Wnlch Is pretty near the record
for erratic work.-Boston Globe 1t is evil
dent Strang will be in the old league next
year.
Young's performance yesterday of strik-
ing out Fultz and Waddell and retiring
Schreck on a foul, when a hit by any of
the three would have saved the game is
one of the pitching feats of the season
The three men are, with Murphy, perhaps,
the most reliable pinch hItters on the
team.
Manager Hanlon says it would not sur
prise him if the Brooklyn club lost pitcher
Frank kitson. However, he does not fear
losing Bill Donovan. who has accepted the
terms and, in Hanlons opinion is as good
as signed.
- Billy Reidy, or Ginger" as the Brown
Legs call the clever pitcher has signed
| to continue his membership with the tribe
OF McAieer. He drew his coin in full dur
ing the two months he was unable to do
any work for Mr.. McAleer and the instant
Gen. Jeems asked him to do business for
1908 he swung in line.
Two games were to have been played in
Cleveland yesterday with St Louis, but
rain prevented the "double-header." Presi-
dent Ebbitts of the Brooklyn National
League Club, was in Cleveland yesterday
and talked with Pitcher Joss. ShortStop
Gochnauer and Third Baseman Bradley, rel
ative to joining the Brooklyn team. Brad
ley states that he was offered $4,000 to
sign two years contract. The men did
not accept the offers, however, and state
| that they will remain with Cleveland.
There Is deal on between Detroit and
st. Louis American clubs by which 1t is
probable that the services of Jesse Burkett
will be transferred to Detroit in 1903. Bur
kett is sore because he has been roasted
by ST. Louis fans, the treatment, he be-
leves, having affected his work. The Detroit
club Will get him if he DerSiStS n his
ent determination to quit st. Louis Meth
er club will talk of the deal, but Angus
and Hedges had long consultation on the
matter.
Posterity is to be accorded a rare privi-
lege. Coming generations will not have
occasion to lament that they were not on
earth during the halcyon era when George
Edward Waddell was the incandescent CEN
ter of the baseball armament. Thanks to
the genius of the inventor of the famous
clneograph, the baseball fan of the twenty
hrst century may sit at ease and applaud
the mighty ''Rube'' as he winds sinuous
curves around the necks of bewildered bats
men. On Wednesday afternoon the pitch
ing wizard was in the focus of a life mo-
ton picture camera delivering insOlvable
problems to Center Fielder Howell of the
baltimore club. A number of remarkable
life motion pictures were secured, in which
the salient points of the glorious game are
yividly eproduced.-Philadelphi Press
Shortly after the close of last season, and
up to late in the spring, the owners of the
Detroit club of the American league were
strong in their claims that they would have
Billy keeler of the Brooklyns on their team
tor next season. They had offered the little
fellow no less than 5000 to play with the
Tigers this year, and were certain that this
golden bait would land him. However in
the end he signed with Brooklyn for less
money than Detroit offered him. Recently
the Detroit club opened negotiations with
him again and increased its offer of last
year TO $500 for the st ason, with the un-
derstanding that Keeler was to take charge
of the Detroit team and build it up to a
championship aggregation. no matter how
much it cost to do it. keeler, as on the
previous occasion, has taken the offer un-
der advisement, and probably will give his
answer in the spring.