Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-16
Base Ball Notes.

Senators-"After you, my dear Orioles"
Del" certainly batted in hard luck YES
| terday.
Next game at home comes off Monday.
and again Baltimore will be the guest
AL Orth and Hughes will lead the forces
today, and battle royal should result.
Pop Foster is still travelling Worcester
turned him over to Jersey City.
Jump, Jump, jump" was the cry of the
Chicago bleachers while Acrobat Sheckard
was at the bat during the BROOKLYN Chi
| cago series.
| Sleep is all right in it's way but a player
should not slumber on third and get caught
off as Seymour did in the second inning,
when Drill threw him out to Wolverton
| Tom DAILY. Fielder Jones and John Ander-
son, former Brooklynites, and George Da-
ers. watched the Chicagos beat the Brook
| lyns yesterday in Chicago. The American
Leaguers had an off day
Baltimore plays Washington in Baltimore
today. The game will be called at 4:3O
This and each succeeding Friday will be
ladies' day. when ladies will be admitte
| free.
Runs win games. Pittsburg plays for
runs, and has scored nearly three times a
many TALES to date as it's rivals
Coughlin should sell his feet to a medical
student and get a couple Of pegs. Perhaps
then he would not fall down every minute
or so.
Fred Tenney and Fred Clark had a fist
| fight on the field yesterday in Pittsburg
ouIlHB the F1ttSDurS-bOSt0n game. Umpire
ODay stopped the scrap and put both men
out of the game.
In the fifth inning Ely chopped bunch of
liquid fire to McGinnity that was bent on
destruction. McGinnity cooled the bunch
enough to sidetrack it to Gilbert The short
stop extinguished it entirely and caught
Ely at first. 1t was great play, and de-
servedly received applause.
In order to reduce his staff of pitchers
Manager Selee of the Chicago National
League team yesterday released Nal Eason.
The latter was Immediately signed by the
Chicago American League club.
The urgent need of somebody in authority
calling out who is to take fly that is open
to more than one player was shown in the
first inning. foul went up that was easy
for either Drill Wolverton, and both
went for it. When they arrived each bowed
to the other and the ball fell between them
Manager Shettsline kept the wires hot
yesterday trying to induce Elmer Flick to
renew his allegiance to Col. Rogers, and
has every hope that he will return to the
Quaker fold without any appeal to the
courts.
The folly Of taking 1t for granted that
you are out because you pop up fly was
Illustrated in the sixth inning Bresnahan
sent Wolverton a nice, prepaid present and
simply logged toward first. Woiverton got
the sun in his eyes, dropped the ball and
Roger got to first only, when two bases
would have been dead sure if he had run.
Jack O'Connor leads the Pirates in stick
| work with .446 credit. Fred Clarke, Kitty
Bransf1eld and Claude Richey are the only
Smoketown regulars below the 300 mark
In the sixth inning, with one out and
Keister on third base, Delehanty knocked
a liner to Gilbert. 1t appeared to be going
fast enough to plow straight through the
| shortstop and then bore a hole in the fence,
but Gilbert got 1t all right. Keister was
doubled on the catch.
For talking back to Umpire Johnstons at