Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-17

played and four victories to the credit of
the Senators. There is yet a good chance
of the Washington team breaking even on
the trip.
There is a disposition over in Baltimore
to severely crticiSe Manager McGraw for
not joining the Orioles in the west. on
Saturday he was we'll enough to set over
to New York to witness the Suburban.
There is a report current in Baltimore
that McGraw is after left fielder 10 re-
place Setback. The ex-senator must have
heard the news from home. as he had three
singles and a double Sunday in st. Louis.
AL. Orth hit in St. Louis like he did last
year with the Phillies. If Orth could have
hit the ball at several stated times at
American League Park in this city the SEN
atorS would now be in the first division.
The Senators wind up the season liz the
west next Sunday with Cleveland, then
start home, meeting Boston in this city the
Tuesday following.
The concealed ball trick is undergoing a
revival in the Southern League. Only the
other day New Orleans succeeded in work
ing the trick three times in one game
Detroit Free Press.
1t is limited that things are due to happen
in the camp of the Orioles The official Ak
has been ground and sharpened and unless
two or three men take big brace they will
be minus their official blocks.-Baltimore
Herald.
Ned Hanlon is quoted as having said
tween the major leagues until the American
had returned the players it took from the
National. Sad are the prospects, for no
American magnate is sitting up nights try
ing to figure out how he can return those
players
If there is any one batting i'm hard luck
on the Cleveland team it is Elmer Flick
His hits are hard ones, but they usually go
direct to fielder. He expects to break the
hoodoo soon, and then watch the Bedford
boy travel up in the batting averages.
Another rain storm, another postponed
game and another corner left untitled in the
exchequer of the White Stockings Accord
ing to the calculations of Connie Mack and
Charley Comiskey there We're no fewer than
1900 persons disappointed in Chicago Sun
day because there was no base ball game
Manager Clark tried to cover the ridcule
attached to the catching of Beaumont nap
ping at first in the seventh by calling O'Day
down for not declaring a balk. on Newton.
Il had the desired effect, as the crowd stop
ped Jeering Beaumont Immediately. and
howled at the Pirate captain. Beaumont's
performance was ludicrous in the extreme.
He dropped on all tours about two feet off
the base and seemed to be stuck there like
an insect on a piece of fly paper. Nc
Creery's task was easy.-Brooklyn Eagle
Special legislation compelling the Sena-
tors to use ping-pong racquetS instead of
bats is about the only chance Manager Nc
Aleer has to hold down that brigade of
leather publishers from Washington, D. c.
Frank Donahue was the lamb that was led
forth to the slaughter yesterday, and the
disciples of Lotus certainly did a good job.
Good fielding awaited nothing in the face of
such murderous hitting, as the Senators
put a few where no fielder could ever get
them without a Santos-Dumont machine
St. Louis Republic.
The American League attendance up to
June 1 exceeded the record of last season to
that date nearly $4,000. Interest increases
and as the clubs change positions there
will be better patronage Conditions are
not phao nv in iii t- Of ~
AS long as the sectional trips swings the
team from one division to the other the
club which have pennant prospects will be
moneymakers. The Baltimore and Wash
ingtOn teams have valuable players on the
disabled list and will. for time, lose per-
centage points and position. but the return
OF the regular men to duty will enable them
to advance when they reach home. The
Athletics and Bostons will remain within
striking distance of the leaders. 1t is not
likely that Chicago will make such strides
that 1t will be able to retain the lead on
it's next eastern trip. St. Louis should be
as good as second within the next week and
Cleveland will abandon last place. Detroit
will also improve its position The uncer-
tainty which gives charm to the game i'm
parts interest to the American League race.
Sporting News.
The experts who comment on college
base ball for the weekly magazines and the
scribes who cover the diamond for the
New York papers were nearly doubled up
with surprise when Yale took the second
game from Princeton at the Polo grounds
Saturday. But Washington fans expected
nothing else; Yale took one OF the two
games played here with Georgetown i'm
good style and lost the second by only one
score. Princeton was twice badly beaten
The Yale players had total of five errors
for their two games against for the
Princeton men. The fans were most i'm
pressed, however. by the difference in the
team work Of the two visiting teams. the
Yale men presenting an exhibition of all
round. up-to-date playing together which
ELECTED the outspoken admiration of half
>dozen professionals in the stand at the