Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-12
Base Ball Notes.


AL Orth will probably try to do the
honors today In st. Louis.
The heavy-hitting Senators are banging
the ball hard, but fail to land it in safe
territory.
rubber about twice a week, win or lose,
and then Manager Lotus would round up
a winning twirler in the Delaware boy.
Billy Clingman played his first game
with Cleveland yesterday and, of course.
did WELL He is filling Bradley's shoes at
third during the latter's suspension.
One sentence says Delehanty is not hit
ting at all and the next tells how he nearly
sent the ball through the third and first
basemen. He is hitting hard, but UNI
luckily.
Tim Murnane, the Boston scribe, takes
a heavy fall out of De Mont in his syndi-
cate letter last week, with the Washing
ton boy in bed with almost broken leg
Murnane was once ball player, too.
Maurice Wolfe, the Washington boy, has
been sold to Detroit by the Columbus club
Wolfe is the only player of six sent into
the New York State League by the writer
four years ago. He stuck everlastingly to
it, got command of his curves and is now
so good that Hanlon was also trying to
buy him from Columbus
In the American League the outf1elders
used to play far out for "Slamdow'
Mertes that they could be seen only
through field glasses. The National League
outfielders have yet to go far enough for
the slugger.
Player Beck. who has played with Cleve-
land, Detroit and Cincinnati, has jumped
his Shreveport club contract to play in
the outlaw Pacific Coast League.
Twenty-one hits by a National League
team one day and twenty-five by an Amer
lean League team the next! 1t is dreadful
the way the foul-strike rule is handicap
ping the batterS.
The hgh-salaried ball players in Amer
lea are those who can make good with
the stick. Occasionally some star pitcher
commands a big salary. but ninety mine
times out of hundred it's the batters
| the managers are after Give a manager
a good-hitting team and he will do the
rest. You can teach them to field plenty
good enough, but hitters are born and
| cannot be made.-Denver Post.
President Hermann of the Cincinnati
club has given Manager Kelley carte
| blanche to strengthen his team, regardless
of cost. Alas! could mere money produce
immediate results both the Cincinnati and
Philadelphia clubs-and, for that matter.
all other major league clubs-would in
stantly have winning teams. Such teams
are not so much the product of money as
! of judgment. time and luck.-Sporting Life.
Every major league manager has his
eye on the minor leagues. and the COM
petition for young players will be lfvelier
this fall than ever before in the game s
history. The strong clubs will be made
stronger if possible, and the weak ones
will add all the promising players they
can find" There will be many ex-
changes between the American and Ma
tional League clubs, but few sales. The
minor leagues will provide sufficient re-
cruits to replace the veterans who are on
the decline, and the latter will drop back
into slower company. Minor league ball
Is of a higher grade than in former years,
because there are one or more old-timers
on almost every team to teach the fine
points to their less experienced team
mates.