Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-17

tional League will find this out unless
warm spell sets in.
Billy Keister won't be in today's game.
| His sister gets married this evening and
Manager LOTUS gave him permission to
remain over in Baltimore.
The Georgetown manager and Mr.. Lotus
have finally gotten together and the blue
| and grey and Senators will cross bats again
next Monday. Friends of the Senators
| think they can do better than last Saturday
and the Georgetown following are confident
the students can repeat the dose.
| Catcher Clarke is taking big chances in
keeping out of the game with that youngs-
ter Drill taking his place. When Clarke re-
ports he may have to act as substitute
catcher as the ex-Georgetowner is coming
| very fast. All he wants to clinch his hold
| is to get the ball into safe territory when
he goes to the bat.
If Brush would pay more attention to his
team and less to base ball politics. the fans
| of Cincinnati would be better pleased.
Claude Elliott of Milwaukee. is big fell
| low built on the order of RUDE Waddell.
and has speed enough to carry him through
any company.
After all the Pittsburgs will start the
| season with Wagner at short and Beaumont
| in middle field. Conroy's work has been
| satisfactory, but Clarke changed his mind.
Addie Joss, the ball pitcher, who jumped
Toledo contract and signed with the
Cleveland team, has been indicted for re-
| ceiving money under false pretenses. He
received $50 advance money from Manager
| Strobei of the Toledo team.
Or ourke of the Connecticut League of his
| intention to ask the courts to enjoin the
| Boston American League Club from using
Fielder Pat Dougherty, who last year led
the Connecticut League.
Manager Connie Mack has signed Doolin,
the fast-going shortstop of the Villanova
College team, and he will join the Athletics
| at the close OF the college term. He will be
used utility man by Manager Mack.
A Columbus, Ohio, legislator wants the
management of base ball parks to provide
shelter for the "bleacher contingent" He
| says nothing about score cards and peanuts
They are beginning TO kick about the
| umpiring al Cincinnati. Why not call upon
| Bud Lally? He and Red Bittman were the
| ia ction at Yorktown.
The gate receipt fight will be in Phila-
| delphia. Boston, ST. Louis and Chicago. The
National League has no opposition in New
York, Brooklyn, Cincinnati or Pittsburg,
| and the American League has everything
| to itself in Baltimore, Washington, Cleye-
land and Detroit
The Giants will be well coached when they
| are on bases this year II Jacksons lungs
| hold out, says New York exchange. The
| ex-Baltimorean is truly a wonder at the
| game, and no one can blame pitcher in
becoming ratified to hear him. Unfortu-
| nately for New York. Jackson's lungs are
stronger than his heart and nerve.
Harry Blake. the fast little fellow. takes
Barclays place at Rochester. He is good,
| but "Deerfoot'' is the preferable.
Heidrck, Beaumont and the rest of the
| sprinters look like ice wagons compared to
| the fleet college boy. His speeding is the
| chief feature.-St. Louis Star.
That young man Turner, who plays third
base for Columbus, will be one of the stars
of the game one of these days. He is
| scarcely Of age now, yet there is not a
man on the team who made a better show
| ing than he in the two games Columbus
| played the Reds.-Cincinnati Tribune.
| When Jimmy Gardner arrived from Pitts
| burg, Chicago National players crowded
| around him to SIX how he felt after his
| stay in the hospital. Il feel fine said
Gardner, only 1 haven't been in the hos
pital. 1t was another Jimmy Gardner who
| bounced out of a buggy on his head and
not your uncle with the slow curve ball"
Though they will be 10th to admit it. the
| magnates of the National League must
| eventually profit by the success of the
| American League. The game never en-
| 1oyed so great popularity as it did in the
| the American Association. though working
| in harmony under the national agreement,
We're bitter rivals in their efforts to secure
Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
In looking over the clubs the Athletics,
| Chicago, Boston. Washington, Baltimore
and St. Louis all seem to have an equal
chance for the flag. while Detroit and
| Cleveland may loom up in the "a ce as dark
| follows: Athletics in Baltimore, Detroit in
| Chicago, Cleveland in st. Louis and Bos-
| ton in Observation-Disclosures Times.
! Germany" Hartman is the comedian of
| the Cardinal outfit, and he did some stunts
| along the side line which would have made
| Arlie Latham feel shaky for his reputation.
| He played that time-worn trick of holding
| the ball under his arm until Porter a
youngster. who was being given a trial.
| took lead off third toward home, and
| laughed in a manner which set the root
| erS' to laughing also when the trick came
| near working.
There's only man in base ball I'm
| afraid of and that is Lajoie,' said Virgil
| Garvin, the White Stocking pitcher.
| pitchers fear him but there's one ball he
cannot hit and that's low, slow ball, near
| the plate. But I'd rather have Lajoie at the
| plate in a tight pinch than McGraw. Lajoie
| is a great striker, but the fielders have
| chance with him, and when he's hit he's
| shot his bolt. Not so Muggsy McGraw; he
can pound them out or drop the neatest
| bunt either side the pitcher and turn the
| cleverest tricks known to the science of the
| game''