Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-01

from Detroit to New York to the open
ing game and headed quite a large group
of Washington stockholders.
Six runs is not a formidable score, and
little continuous work with the stick by
the Senators would have made big diff
ference. Chesbro was at his best, and
held the sluggers safe all the way.
The Athletics appear to be breaking up
all form calculations by winning eontinu-
ously. Manager Mack certainly has rab-
bits foot, If he hasn't the players.
Cooley is again delivering the goods this
year, especially with the bat Now where
are those Philadelphia croakers who have
for five years or more been spouting de-
risively. What good is Cooley"
at third base for Pfttsburg in 1901, is now
with the Columbus club. In game against
Indianapolis on Sunday he made two home
runs and won for his team-2 to 1.
The Pirates miss OConnor. If Rhowdy-
BOWS had locke behind the bat they would
be as formidable as ever Brains, more
than anything else, make championship
teams O'Connor is heavily invested with
gray matter. Barring the late King
Kelly and Charley Bennett, no big mitt''
man ever travelled at the head of his class.
He's good, tricky and fast; knows the game
from A to z, and for inside work ranks
in a class by himself.
Ex-senator Jack Farrell is playing with a
very lame shoulder. That was the reason
he didn't slide over the pan when trying to
beat WagnerS throw to the plate in the
third Johnny began the game by tapping
Doheny's first pellet to left for a base.
Beaumont also got in the way of an incip-
lent double from his ash in the fifth. The
pride of Kansas City played nattily at
second. He had six chances, five being
FOUNDERS, and he didn't make anything that
looked like a bobble He smothered the hot
taps Wagner and Bransfield whizzed his
way in the ninth, the two chances that
brought the battle to closest. Louis Re-
public.
The majority of the base ball dope"
books In grievous error concerning
Roaring BilP' Kennedy. declares the St
Louis Star. They have that pitching
antique dead. The year 16 b. c. has been
generally decided upon by "dopesters' as
the period that "Grandpop'' had his demise
However, Secretary Charles Locke of the
Champs declares that the Kennedy who was
on the firing line for his braves Monday is
the seff-same Kennedy of days long ago.
who had been credited with having ceased
to exist. For an aged and infirm piece of
bric,a-brac Roaring BIZ put up a
grand show on the slab. He let the Babes
down with four safeties, and one of them
was mere scratch.
Setback is the only weak sister at pres
ent, and he has had hard luck in batting,
getting hard drives but right into the
hands of the opposing f1elders
Old Probabilities has certainly been
training with the American League this
spring. Better weather could not be de-
sired for New York's opening.
The splendid drive OF Clarke's I'm the Sec
ond inning of Wednesdays game was the
first over-the-fence home run Of the season.
Dougherty said the further the ball went
the higher it seemed to go and was rising
when it passed over his head
The Pittsburg papers are calling attention
to every error made by either Conroy or
OConnor. 1t is to be hoped that they Will
be square enough to notice these clever
players when once they get going good.
Buck Freeman is certainly batting in
fine form this spring and will assuredly be
in the first flight of stickers II he continues
his present smuggling throughout the season.
Johnny OBrien Is one OF the best minor
leaGuers In the business. but falls short of
being major league timber. Jack has
hard proposition In trying to fill Chick"
Stahls Shoes
Garrison of Harvard says Walter Car
ter, the old Yale twirler, "can pitch rings
aroHnd Mafthewsou.r
Bender. the Philadelphia pitcher, who
moved the New York Americans down