Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-31

the fans. His hitting of late has been par
excellence.
The attendance at Detroit this season has
been the largest in years. Up To date the
| attendance has averaged over 5000 persons
to a game. which is the best showing in
either league, barring New York
Harry O'Hagans batting has laid him off.
Williams played first base Monday for Chi
cago. He scored three hits.
Neither jackson nor Clark. OF whom
much was expected, has set the base ball
world afire- New Gork's outfield as at
present constituted is one of the weakest
in the league.
Charley Comiskey is now the possessor of
so many hats that he says he will either
have TO stay outdoors all the time or wear
them to bed. He secured the top-pirces on
bets made that the White Sox would go
| east at the top of the column.
Jouett Meekin, the old National League
| pitcher. has returned 10 the diamond and
| has gone TO Memphis. where he will join
the Little Rock club, in the Southern
| League.
Jake Beclley turned that moss-covered
trick on Harry Dolan in Cincinnati old
Eagle Eye hid the ball in his glove and
| threw Cozy out when he wandered off Sec
ond base.
Ebbetts says it's only a waste Of valuable
time to monkey with court for possession
of player. Just go out, hang up the price
watch the player take the hurdle and the
business is done. according to Charley. And
yet the club has just sued Mcclure.
1t is close race indeed when club can
remain idle a day and jump from third
place to tie for th' top OF the ladder. The
Athletics We're prevented from performing
yesterday afternoon, but St. Louis and
Chicago lost their games and Boston won
there was general shifting of the leading
clubs.
McGraw accuses Harley of acting will
fully when he was spiked. There had been
some feeling between the men during the
series. several kidding" matches had been
started and Mac" says Harley was try
n oct fEr,.. II.
Harley jumped into the air, and the posi-
ton of the cut would seem to sustain this
claim.
1t was day yesterday for the home
clubs. None of the visiting teams made
good. At Washington. Cleveland lost; at
Baltimore the hefty work OF Iron Man Nc
| Ginnity cut off the hopes Of the Chicago
men. and at Boston St. Louis .yas unable
to prevent the Hubites fro n rallyinr 3nd
batting out a victory. All the teams today
will meet each other as they lid yesterday.
and some more changes ih the standing
may be expected.
When the Superbas dropped to last place
the other day. Manager Hanlon was imme-
diateIy deluged with letters from home adj
vising him not to bring his band of insists
back to Brooklyn under pain OF playing to
empty benches. One Disguised fan went so
far as to call the unfortunate tail-enders a
bunch of cows that ought to be handed
over to the beef trust instead of being al
lowed to play the good old national game.
There is a good deal of the real Mark
Tapley spirit in the makeup of Connie
Mack" remarked a base ball man. Had
not the learned gentleman gone into the
enjoinng business and deprived him of the
services of the unique Lajoie, Bernhard and
Fraser and FASTENED the retirement of
Flick to Cleveland the Athletics would
have gone about their business winning
games, and it would have been accepted as
matter of course by the faithful But there
would have been no opportunity for Con-
ME to have come out strong. Deprived of
the services of the enioined ones. however.
he was up against a proposition calculated
to test his cheerfulnesS under adverse cir
cumstances. How well he has succeeded in
going along is familiar to every follower OF
the game. He has not so formidable a
combina ton as he started out with. but
every man in the outfit is playing for all he
is worth-for the club not individual record
with the hope of making up a part of
the loss sustained by the enforced retire
ment of the peerless Laioie from the team