Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-06
Base Ball Notes.

| The Senators will close their western sea-
| son tomorrow in Chicago
| In the Senator's demoraiiza ton the work
| of Coughlin and Carey stands out like a
| white mark blackboard.
| Boston will be ''at home" to the Senators
! next Tuesday, and perhaps another victory
! will come Wash!ngton's way.
| From present appearances the National
| League is routed at every turn. 1t is uues-
| tionable whether the old organization will
! get any players from the American League
| who are wanted by the younger crowd.
| This situation was brought about through
| the McGraw deal in Baltimore.
| That Cleveland aggregation is travelling at
| tremendous clip just now, and the four
| teams in the first column will have to look
| sharp or there will be new contender
| among them. The championship is not an
| impossbility for the Blues.
To one who can read between the lines 1t
! looks as though the city of Detroit will be
| out of the American League next season
| 100 many liberties are being taken with
| the fans OF that city. and, as new stands
will have to be built, Mr.. Angus will prob
| ably erect them in Pittsburg.
1t will pay the magnates to watch several
of the players on the independent teams in
| the interior Of Pennsylvania. Plank Win
| tiers and Pittinger~ came from there and
| now there is new twrler by the name
! or SWope attracting attention al York Pa
Cleveland's challenge to Cincinnati for
| the championship of Ohio will hardly be
| accepted by the latter. The Blues at pres
| ent are about the strongest team in the
country and would make sorry shoWing
| Of the Reds.
Pitcher Charlie Shields, lately with the
| Orioles and released by Baltimore won his
| game Yesterday in the box for ST. Louis
| against Boston.
! Doom muffed a fly ball yesterday, and it
| lost the game for the Philies The Young
| catcher said afterward that 1t was the first
foul fly he had missed In two years-Phila-
delphia Press.
That remarkable Cleveland aggregation
mas Won twenty out of the last twenty-one
games played. The Orioles contributed
tnree this week, and the Athletics were yes
terday's victims.
Ex-senator Pop" Foster leads the East
ern League in home runs with eleven
A better idea than admitting women free
| on certain days in the week is the plan re-
! sorted to In the west several times of hay
ing special days for school children.
Ned Hanlon of the Brooklyn club has no.
tihed Catcher Louis Ritter to report to him
on Monday. Ritter Is considered the best
catcher in the New York State League
Hickman. once with New York, has been
hammering the ball out of shape for the
Clevelands this week. In five games he has
| made twelve hits for a total Of twenty
bases.
Another report of the location Of the
American League grounds in New York
has 1t that they will be about two minutes
ride beyond the Polo grounds. The main
American League get in somewhere.-New
York Sun.
The St Louis Nationals took two games
contest the Cardinals tied the score I'm the
ninth inning on an error and good hitting
and won out IN the tenth by hard batting
They won the second game by good stick
work.
Manager Shettsine has good cause now
to lament the hard luck which seems to be
following his team. With Wolverton laid
up for week, Jennings suffering from
Charley horse and nearly every player
Of the .infield crippled, the team is in bad
shape. This will give Manager Shettsline
rial
In a double-header at Boston yesterday
Boston and Pttsburg broke even. Willis
was batted hard in the first game and Pitts
burg won handily. The second contest was
a burlesaue. Both Pittsburg and Boston
put In pitchers from minor league. Cush-
man. who twirled for Pittsburg gave nine
passes and was touched up for seven hits in
the first two innings. Capt. Clarke then
sent Wagner in to pitch, and, while he kept
hits and scoring down. the lack of runs
ton had Klobedanz of Worcester, once the
champion Bostons' crack left-hander who
did much to beat Baltimore in 1897 and
1898.
Catcher Bowerman, once an Oriole now
| with New York. thinks the Reds outfeld.
as 1t Is now made up, is the greatest in
America: Take Kelley, Seymour and
Crawford individually or collectively, and
you cannot find three men who will COM
pare with them" says he. They all are
great in all departments of the mechanical
ground-covering-and collectively they
make up as strong an outfield as any team
ever had" Bowerman must have forgot
ten the 0riole outfield he used to play with
Kelley. Keeler and Brodie.
The Milwaukee American Association
team has transferred all its home games
to other cities OF the circuit. Hugh Duff
fy's Western League team has the call