Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-20
Base Ball Notes.

dispatch from Annapolis says: "Har-
wards base ball nine will practice for a
week next spring on the Naval Academy
grounds. 1t is possible that complications
may arise on account Of the presence on
the Harvard team of Mathews. the colored
player"
Finley Peter Dunno (Mr. Dooley) won his
first spurs while base ball reporter. Now
adays base ball is such funny thing that
to be a humorist one has but to tell the
facts.-Chicago Record-Herald
Jesse Burkett has signed with the ST.
returned to Manager McGraw of the New
York Nationals check for $1,000 which he
recently received as an inducement to sign
with Brush'S club.
year. President Hickey of the American
Association is anxious to transfer the St.
Paul club to Chicago This will be decided
in a day or two when Hickey, President
Lennon Of the st. Paul cub and Robert E.
Burke of Chicago will meet in st. Paul to
fix up the deal.
Michael Joyce O'Neill, premier pitcher of
last years Cardinals is being boosted to
succeed Patsy Donovan as leader of the St.
Louis National League club. Since Charley
Nichols, Jimmie Manning and Walter Will
mot have gracefully declined to succeed
Patsy Donovan the friends of O'Neill have
gone to the front and a monster petition is
awaiting the return from New York of
Frank De Haas Robson.
Frank Roth, the Chicago boy who was
signed to catch for the Philadelphia Ma
tional League team for next year, will this
winter put in his time playing indoor ball,
but he will be unable to get into the game
for at least two weeks on account of a bad
foot, which he injured at the close of the
base ball season. Roth played last year in
the Western League and made good. He
is considered a conner in the national game.
There are three cities that I have al
way favored for our league" says Mr..
Lea hey
are New York Boston and Pittsburg. We
are now in Boston and when the bell taps
for the opening of next season we will be
in New York and Pittsburg, and this will
give us an ideal circuit
j. Bentley Seymour and Miss Agnes
Saches were married in the mayors Office,
Cincinnati by Mayor Fleischmann Thurs
day morning. The groom is a popular
member of the Cincinnati base ball club
and the bride popular Walnut Hill girl.
The bride was given away by Vice Mayor
Christie and Mike Donlin attended the
groom.
President James A. Hart of the Chicago
Colts contemplateS an elaborate training
trip for his team instead of the usual two
weeks practice against the University of
Illinois at Champaign 1t is nothing less
than period of preliminary training at
Los Angeles followed by series of games
at San Francisco. Denver, Omaha and Kan
sas City. This program he would make an
annual feature.
One of the most touching incidents of Ban
Johnson's recent midnight supper at the
Criterion Hotel in New York the toasts
to the memory of Harry Weldon, o. P.
Caylor, Joe Campbell and. Bill Knorr, four
of the old-time base ball writers who have
scored their last home runs in eternity.
Hank O'Day, the National League UNI
pire, may handle the Indicator for the
American League next season. Charles CO.
miskey thinks O'Day one of the best men in
his line. Comiskey recently took up the
matter with President Johnson of making
O'Day an offer and the latter authorized
him to make a strong effort to land his
man.
Some players were loyal. Take Connie
Macks Athletic team, for instance. There
was not member who was not approached
with a f1attering offer to jump his con-
tract, and some of the agents wanted them
to jump right in midseason, but they were
good men and true.
Billy Lush of the Boston Nationals has
had an offer from Tom LOTUS of the
Washington club Lush claims he was
offered provisional contract by the Boston
club at the close of last season, with extra
money IL he reached certain figures in bat
ting. Lush did not like this kind Of a
contract and held eff. He has written to
Director Billings about the Washington
offer, and the Boston director in reply has
asked him to wait until after the league
meetiug-Boston Globe.