Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-04
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Friday.
Henry Schmidt was given a warm well
come by the New Yorks on the occasion
of his National League debut. George
Browne, the first man to face the Califor-
MAN, raped out four-bagger. and George
Van Haltren, second batter up, tore off a
triple.
The pitchers were generous to Deacon
games of the season, each man getting
three passes to first over the four-ball
route.
Cincinnati is not the only team to boast
an outfield made up of former pitchers for
the Boston Americans suburbanites-Stah
Freeman and Dougherty-have all seen
service on the rubber.
Fred Clarke emerged from the Cincinnati
series with nice record. The Pirate s
leader swatted the Reds pitchers for seven
hits and a percentage of .53S, scored Ave
runs, stole four bases and accepted all of
ten chances.
birthday on Friday. April II. and told a
Chicago Tribune reporter that his favorite
extravaganza was spending money on his
family and in educating and dressing his
children.
The United States having freed Cuba, the
Spaldings are doing their best to make the
inhabitants of that island slaves to base
ball. their latest action being to present
to the Cuban League a handsome cup to
become the property Of the club winning
the championship.
One more ball player Of national reputa-
tion has proven that success in base ball
Is rather help than a hindrance to sue
cess in other walks of life. Tom Nichol-
son. known the country over as second
baseman "Parson' Nicholson, has lust
been elected mayor of Bellaire. Ohio.
Jack Morse of the Boston Herald during
the OF season discovered that George Win
ter had no IS on his name and served no
tice to the base ball writers to properly
print his cognomen. Since then Jake must
have forgotten about the matter. for In
nearly ever issue of the Herald the pitcher
or Winters. the Gettysburg boy, Is a rat
ting good pitcher.
Captain" Phyle and Sammy DUNCAN
were holding tanning bee in Cap 8" room
last night in which the subject of managers
was discussed. Now, DUNCAN is not much
of talker. He Is fellow who Will ait
and listen and seldom take a part in the
tongue shopping. But when Phyle talked
about some Of the managers under whom
he had played. Sam could hold out no
longer. Talk about your real white base
ball men. there is none who can come close
to Fred Postal" said the good-natured
fielder. "When I was in Washington. Pos
tai and friends of 'Bo' Needham-and a
better fellow never hved-gave a banquet
spread and cost trife over 500. During
the course of the dinner Postal wagered
that the Detroit team would win the OPEN
Ing series from Washington. Well. Detroit
came TO washington ana we beat them
the first two games. Two more games
were to have been played. but they were
dropped because of rain. Did Postal back
out of his bet? No, he told the lads that
there was no time for a banquet. and after
thinking moment he told all the boys
to go to a furnishing store and buy s.
worth Of merchandise and charge 1t to
him. That's what call white to the core.
How many others are there who would
have done likewise? A better fellow than
Fred Postal IS hard to f1nd."-Milwaukee
News,