Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-16
against the Baltimores. It was .

day against the Baltimores. 1t was
home-run swips to the center field fence
Outhelder Winters is still among tne
missing and there IL no telling when ne
will report. Manager Donovan says he Is
liable to drop in at the park any morning.
Hereafter Ladies' day" will be regular
affairs at American League on auesoays
and Fridays. NO tickets are necessary
but all are welcome.
Jack Townsend IL on the ragged edge just
at present, as he knows the local manage
mont has been trying to trade MIN. BeIore s
he is let out Manager Donovan win give
him q thorough trying out. Townsend
would have liked to have returned TO the
Phillies.
Manager Donovan is out with the boys
every morning and Is fast rounding into
shape Lew Drill is slamning the ball SO
hard that the manager says he Is In no
hurry to supplant the Georgetown boy.
The offlcials of the Sunday School League
should take drastic measures with the play
ers who have been nagging the umpires:.
Here is a nice little item for the knock
ers" to put in their pipes and smoke The
Washington club to date has made more
money this spring than ever before since II
has been in the American League.
Eugene Cochran and Charles Jacobsen,
two of the local stockholders. have been
League games from President Ban Johnson
Cleveland is down to sixteen men. So
Is Boston.
Every game in the American League yes
Jones Of the Chicago Americans made his
first error of the season on Wednesday. 1t
was in his twenty-second game
Big John Anderson Is the best sticker the
New Yorks have at present and he Is GER
tafnly walloping the ball at critical points
in the game.-Evening World
A batted ball hurt Jack Powelfs left hand
yesterday and Thoney hurt his ankle run
ming to first Griffith has had SO many men
hurt that he turns pale at any succeeding
mishap. be 1t ever SO slight.
The Bostons can be beaten. Other teams
that stick to the task as long as the New
Yorks and with the same amount Of per-
sistency, will find such to be the case. If
It comes to a real up and down issue there
Is faith in the Griffith brand OF strategy.
and look out that he doesn't hold his own
him-New York Telegram.
Michael Lynch, the Brown University
pitcher who has been sought after by near
" all the clubs In the National and Ameri-
can Leagues, has accepted the of1er OF
President Barney Dreyfuss and signed with
the Pittsburg club. Lynch will join the
Pirates when the college term ends. Ow-
ing to a difference with the faculty as to
Brown this season. Lynch, with nearly all
of the members of last years team. has
been playing professional ball on an tnde-
pendent nine this season.
play that created good deal of dis
cussion arose In the f1fth inning yesterday
Flick sent up pop ny that fell In fair
ground about half way between the plate
and first base. Flick got second on the
scratch two-bagger. Those who were
watching the ball and not the runner de-
clared that the ball rolled beyond the foul
line and was picked up by CAMEL in foul
territory If this were the case and no.
body touched the ball before 1t reached
foul ground the hit was a foul. Flick should
have been recalled. The course taken by
the ball after 1t struck ground was gem
orally overlooked, the sdumbness" of the
play on New Yorks part in failing to catch
the ball attracting most attention. Harry
Howell of the st. Louis team. who was at
the game, said the ball was picked up on
foul ground. but possibly it struck CAMEL
before 1t rolled out Bob Emslie had such
a hit to decide last year. a fly ball twisting
Into foul territory after II fell He declared
II a foul. and the players momentariiy did
not know what to make OF the decision
New York Sun.