Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
Base Ball Notes.

/ bdSS Dali N0tSS.
Small wonder the Boston people think the
! Senators can play ball.
They have some peculiar scorers over In
Boston. The detailed game yesterday tells
of two wild throws by Coughiin and in the
| score Ely Is given the only error.
Case Patten was like the little girl with
a curl yesterday. He got started all right
and then there was nothing to it.
Comparisons are odious, but 1t might be
well to notice the fact that while 1000 per-
! sons were witnessing the Boston-W ashing
| ton game there were exactly 200 spectators
! at the Boston-Chicago game.
If the Athletics land the pennant the
| Philadelphia fans should be thankful to
the Senators for the great help given Con-
| ME Mack's band. Washington has thrown
down Boston several times and then has
| gone to Philadelphia in dismantled condi-
| ton and allowed the Athletics a Walkover.
| 1t would be only retribution if the Athletics
We're trimmed three straight in this city
when the wmd-up comes.
The salary list of the Pttsburgs this year
is $4,000 and next year Dreyfuss expects
| it will amount to $4,000.
Pitcher Chesbro of Pittsburg Is said to
| have asked for only SIT, 500 for the next
| two years to resign with his club. He did
| not get 1t. "If you can get that much"
Dreyfuss told him, Ego get it"
For the part which he took in the fight
during the game in Philadelphia on Mon
day Hulswitt has been suspended by John
T. Brush. Maloney with whom he had the
fight, will not be punished.
The PittSburgs won the seasons series
from New York, 13 games to 6; Brooklyn
won from St. Louis, 10 to 8; Boston from
Chicago, II to g. and Cincinnati from Phila-
delpha 13 to 7. r
Ex-senator Jimmy Slagle has succeeded
Lefty Davis as the National Leagues
best base runner. In eighty-nine games the
midget annexed thirty-four bases.
McGraw said he had the best run-getter
in he American r0rralp6
and there was general impression that
Mertes Is the man he means. Perhaps so,
but Dave Fultz comes near being the best
run-getter in the American. OF such men
as Fultz are winning teams made.
Rain played havoc with the games sched-
uled in both leagues yesterday, only one
contest taking place in each league, and
both were played at Boston, where the
American League team was beaten by
Washington and the National League club
defeated Chicago.
The Cinc,nnatis lead the National League
In team batting, with the other teams COM
ing in the following order: Pittsburg st.
Louis, Brooklyn Chicago, Boston, Phila-
delphia and New York. In base running
Chicago leads, with Pittsburg second, New
York third, Brooklyn fourth, St. Louis fifth.
Boston sixth, Cincinnati seventh and Phila-
! delphia eighth.
| The best evidence that American League
! players are not going to flock back to the
old league in the droves that was expected
| Is Dreyfus' search of minor leagues for
material. He has two men now, Cushman
and Sebring, and another will join his
| team. His name is Mclaughlin and his
| position that of pitcher.
Connie Mack evidently has secured
! good pitcher in Henry Schmidt, formerly of
| the Oakland (CaI.) club. While on the coast
| seven games. Many of these Were shut
outs. An average Of less than five hits per
| game was made off his delivery.
The Brooklyn team at present is in
Grin n1a2
| Tom McCreery and Bill Dahlen are on the
| hospital list. The latter may be able to
| play today, but Keller and McCreery are
| liable to be out of the game for several
days. McCreery has a very sore foot, while
| keeler is lame, owing to strained tendon
| in his left leg. Ahearn, too, is in no con-
ditlon to catch, and young Latimer has
| been worked in the last few games.
The Boston National League club and two
American League clubs had agents in MI
! waukee yesterday trying to sign Pitcher
| Nick Altrock of the Milwaukee association
team to a contract for next season. Nick
refused to sign under $1,000, and Is holding
| off.
The Athletics are seventeen points N the
! lead of st. Louis, and the latter team was
| prevented from the chance of gaining on
Mack's men by rain. so that the weather
| man was really friendly and no respector
| OF persons. Bostons defeat by Washing
| ton, however, helps the Athletics, for this
team is considered to have the best chance
Of beating them out in the race. If they are
beaten out. The postponed games OF yester-
day Will probably cause double-headers to
be played in many cities by teams of both
leagues today.
The Boston triumvirate and Manager
Buckenberger have been working with
might and main to- get together their team
for 1903 with Considerable success. 1t was
announced yesterday that Abbatichio of the
Nashviles had been secured to play second
base; that Dexter had been signed for 1903;
that Virgil Garvin released by Comiskey,
had accent ed Moran had also
signed. Director Conant says that he has
no doubt that Willis will sign by the end
OF the season The only hold-outs are De-
mont. who has Undoubtedly signed with
Washington, although he denies it, and
Herman Long, who has been unable to get
the same terms that he got last season.
George Browne. the Washington boy, won
Browne, whom Philadelphia released and
who Is the man whom the sun gods worship,
ana to whom they sing inspiring battle
Body" With Dunn on second Geo. Browne
catapulted a liner, Sizing hot, for three
bases, and scored on Bresnahan's bunt later.
Other things that George Browne did were
to make two hits and steal three bases in
the second game. He is not polished field
er, but he bumped into the bleachers. just
the same, and pulled down two-base hit.
George Browne Is a coming youngster, not
| a departing veteran. That's the reason
Philadelphia thrust him upon the world.
-Pittsburg Press,
Sam Crane in the New York Journal says:
'McGraw is having much more trouble in
signing the players he wants than he an
tlcipated when he assumed charge Of the
Giants. He imagined that all he had to do
was to produce the coin that was promised
him and that the American League stars
would tumble all over themselves to land
on the New York clubs band wagon.
But not only has the hustling manager
been disappointed tn the new men he de-
sires. but he is having bother, and lots of
II, In his own camp. MathewSon and Lau-
der are the ones on the fence, with Bow
erman suspected of being already victim
OF the wiles of American League agents
Sam Crawford.s position with the Gin