The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-06-21

-Four outdelders. HiIdebrand, now re
leased by Brooklyn, A Williams. Chi
cago. Hans Wagner, and Clarke, of New
York. have fielding percentages OF 1000.
Wagner is the real leader, as he has &C
cepted II chances without skip, Hide
brana being second with thirty chances
Creminger leads the league in extra
hitting, with nine doubles, eight triples.
and homer in forty games, a total Of
twenty-eight extra bases. Tommy
Leach. the Pirates third baseman, comes
next, with twenty-scven extra bases,
Smoot, Of st. Louis, and Jake Beck
ley lead in home runs, with three each.
Brush is not for peace, Soden is
dead against peace, Freedman is not for
peace, Brooklyn is not for peace, Rogers
lis against peace, Dreyfuss is for war,
Robson VIII never strike his coIors IN
honest surrender, AID jim Hart would
only stand for peace with assurance o.
a long term and a big guarantee.
Colonel Barney Dreyfuss IS always
game II not always correct. He comes
out with a statement that II his Pitts
burg team wins the championship he IS
willing TO stack IL against the winner Of
the American League championship
This would be q good match, but Barney
is liberal and offers to allow the Ameri-
can team 10 pick up outsiders to make
/ the team good and strong, and then
I Barney will wager S. 600 that his team
/ wins
I What a crowd series Of games OF
T this kind would draw in the fail. Mr.
/ DTeyfuss is too liberal, however, as the
winner Of the American League would
/ need no outsiders to hold rs own with
/ Pfttsburg. Imagine the Chicago club
winning the American League champion
ship and then adding such men IS Col
/ Inns. Lajoie. Flick. Delehanty, and "Cy'
/ Young The -'buTghers" would find ball
playing a different pastime from playing
with the weak teams of the Ne sIo 7al
/ League and soon realize tha> Pi'tsburS
! has not over four real star bal layers
! Take Clarke, Wagner, RiJchlo. and
[ two pitchers out OF the bunch and
/ Drevfl-ss' team would look weaker than
I the weakest OF the National League
Iclubs. while with the men named above
/ Chicago would have a star agSTega-
/ ton the like of which never was known
! before. IN baseball With Charles Com
( lEEeT handling TIC 1ilitds5O u II 'AAANANA
+ the above conditions the betting would
I be > 10 ! on the Americans, and would
like q little Of the betting at those
rates
/ have never considered the Pitts
/ burg club u really strong ball team Not
until the American League weakened
/ the National could the Pittsburg club
/ land al the top. and the work OF the
/ last two years has been against an ar
ticIe OF bail Is per cent slower than
was noticed in the league for several
I seasons before the break came when the
/ Americans got into the East.
/ The friends of the National and AmeTi-
can leagues viii have their own feelings
about the playing ability Of the offer
ent clubs. Those who witness the games
Of but one organization have no chance
/ to size up the difference in play-IlI1
/ MU-nane, in Chicago Record-Herald-
/ The st Louis Star" says that Bal
timore looms UP as the weakest team
/ which has come along this season. IN
the old days OF the National this year S
flock Of Birds would be q sure whtpper-
In The team is frightfully UneVcnly
balanced. there being a weak member
in each field, while there IS certainly q
dearth of efficient pitchers.
Howell and CToniu are but passing
fair at best; Iron Man" McGinnity
isn't nearly as effective az when he
Was working for HanIon, and 1t remains