Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-10

ton boy and clever twirler, is in a quandary
as to where he will play next season. Co.
lumbus,' Toronto Binghamton and Brook
lyn all want him.
To get the best work out of ball player
he must be hooked" up right, that is To-
Gated where he likes to play. Setback al
ways played sensational ball in Washing
ton, and he will more than likely repeat his
experience the coming season.
Third Baser:1iin Bill Coughlin writes TO
The Star that he is having splendid time
in California with the tourists and incloses
newspaper clippings that say the popular
Scranton boy is the best In the aggregation
from the east.
Zeke Wrigley, the ex-senator, has become
very popular in Worcester, Where he has
been playing for three years, and next
season will act as manager.
First Baseman George Carey Is running
a big grocery store at East Liverpool, Ohio,
and reports being in splendid health
for hunting and follows his dog from early
in the morning until after dark.
Many Of the Eastern League magnates
are trying to secure the signature OF
Thomas. the clever Sacramento pitcher, to
a contract. Thomas says that he would
like to play in the east.
Hughey Jennings. who has played first
base and captained the Philies for the last
two years. will not be retained this year.
The management Of the Phillies Is disap-
pointed in Jennings because he did not help
the team in the way expected of him. Jen-
nings Is now coaching the Cornell nine.
He has not announced his plans for the
summer.
Billy Mailman is rising in the thespian
world. He is now featured with Barney
Gilmore in kidnapped in New York" and
figures on the wallis in gorgeous poster.
ION the stage 1t is to laugh" and ION ball
field Play ball !" are the Inscriptions over
his portraiture in all colors of the rainbow.
In the event of the st. Paul club being
transferred to Chicago Miller Higgins, Sec
ond baseman of st. Paul, will leave the
American Association and sign with the
Cincinnati club Of the National League.
Billy Hart, who managed Peoria last sea-
son, has signed to pitch for Peoria next sea-
son under Bill Wilson's management.
The Cincinnati scrfbes now look upon
President Garry Hermann of the Clncin-
natl club as the real leader of the Ma
tional League. Just Wait! In this old
organization, where each magnate consid-
ers himself genius. individual leaders
never last longer than is necessary to
achieve any definite purpose in hand.
Those who are on the inside of base ball
matters are not slow in declaring that the
directors Of the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company Of New York have not kept the
American League out of New York. john
son must have known that Andrew Freed
man. the former president OF the New York
Nationals. was member of the board, and
that nothing favorable to the American
League could be passed through it. The
chances are that Johnson has yet another
site in the metropolis, and that he viii ap-
pear in Gotham with championship team
true to his promise.
Every lover of the game ardently desires
peace with honor to both major leagues
But-better existing conditions than peace
purchased at the price of consolidation and
consequent grinding one]eague monopoly.
Under that system all the abuses of the in
tolerable twelve-club era would re-assert
themselves with redoubled force, and with
q year or two Of apparent success nobody
| cOnld hand tha On0nOnOliStfc gpataS
q ripe peach. That's base ball human
nature and monopoly misunderstanding
Life.
President Pulliam of the National League
is quoted as saying that If the war Were
ended the franchises of all the clubs would
increase in value. He takes the stand that
capitalists will not invest their money as
long as the cut-throat methods are pur-
sued. In his first proposition Mr.. Pullfam
is entirely right: in his second only partial
ly so. as witness the heavy investment in
the New York club and the frantic effort
of the Pedder Pittsburg syndicate to butt
in" regardless Of cost.
General Sporting News.
A cablegram from Berlin says that Ger
man athletes want the Olympian games
held at st. Louis instead Of Chicago.
Mr. H. s. Sidney recently fell while rid
ing in a hurdle race in England and met
with al. instantaneous death. The deceased
horses.
''Philadelphia jack O'Brien and Young
Peter Jackson have been matched to box
six rounds before the Ariel Athletic Club
OF Philadelphia on January b.
Announcement was made yesterday that
Princeton's seventh annual interscholastic
track games will be held at Princeton, n.
j., on May 2. The games will consist OF
the regular thirteen events and a mile relay
race.
1t is probable that Yale University will
not send representatives to Cambridge to
the conference to be held there today to
discuss eligibility requirements for ath-
letes Of eastern colleges. Yale has held
that each institution should be left to for
mulate Its own amateur eligibility require
merts.
A Glasgow dispatch says that the Amerl-
can made spars intended for the Shamrock
III have arrived there. Are these the light
spars of the Shamrock III sent over by the
steamer Cyrnric? The same dispatch gives
the length Of the challenger's mast. in
Guiding the topmast, as eighty-two feet.
The public had been led to believe that
O'Brien and Weinig fought under winner
take-au agreement. but such was not the
case They split 80 per cent of the gross
receipts. 70 per cent to the winner and 30
per cent to the loser; so If there was - 322
SSO3 10 and Weinig $s5S.30. O'Brien also
won side bet of 81, 100.
The metropolitan Jockey Club yesterday
filed with the county clerk of Queens coun-
ty certificate to the effect that an In
crease in the capita. stock of Sl59.019 has
been voted. The capital stock l. increased
from 500 600 to $5sn.e00, consisting of ) 81,
shares OF par value of 800 each. The