Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-13

Senators when his work at the Naval
Academy is ended.
Elberfeld of the New Yorks was spiked
yesterday by Lajoie and will be ont of the
game for at least two weeks.
Fltcher Wilson has not been suspended
ana viii pitch again just as soon as his
shoulder ceases aching.
Ban Johnson has gone to Excelsior
Springs, Mo, for a complete rest
The Chicago Americans have released
Outheider Charles Jones. He was offered
to about every club in the two major
leagues and no one wanted him. He could
not hit.
Devlin has made fifteen hits in his last
nine games. He has hit safely in nine con-
secutive games. In his last thirteen games
he failed to hit in but one
Grandy, once a New Yorker, has a bat
ting average of .43S for the st. Louis
Cardinals; Zearfoss, once New Yorker
an average of 500 for the same team, and
Howell, once New Yorker, an average
or 400 with the st. Louis Browns
Bateman. the Texan let out by Comis-
key, Is hit at Milwaukee. Four hits, in
Guiding a homer and a double, in his
Slagle's arm was SO badly injured that he
Will be out Of the game for week prob
ably. DR.. Harley Parker, who attended
him, said that the spike cut deep in the
flesh and two nerves were severed. Wicker
will play the right garden until Slagle Is
In the game again.
Griffith will have to sign utility man
LII CdCu poSillOu dt the rate MS hospital
list Is growing. However, Conroy was in
uniform yesterday and may be able to re-
sumo play shortly. Thoney is active at
third, but he Is not a Conroy.
w. s. Gladfelter, the star first baseman
of the Pennsylvania nine this year. may
be able to get into the game this week to
play against Harvard. Gladfelter last year
played great game at first and was also
with a timely double. He however de-
voted so much of his time to base ball
that he had to repeat his year In the
university His examinations will be over
this week and he will then be eligible
ODonnell has been weak spot on Penn's
team and the presence of Gladfelter will
do much to strengthen the nine.
Frank Dillon, by the way, is rather a
mystery, says the Brooklyn Eagle. On the
field he is like any other ball player,
young, active and full Of ginger. Off the
field, in his street clothes. around the
hotel he looks like anything but an ath-
lete. Prematurely gray the Brooklyn cap
tain would pose as actor of the Henry
Irving type, advanced in years, but yet
with the springy step and clear eye of
youth. With his pipe in his mouth-he
smokes briar almost invariably and in
veterately-he might be taken for an Eng
lish tourist seeing the country, doncher
know, and taking notes for the customary
book. Not that he apes any of the airs
and graces of an Englishman. Far from It,
He is the most approachable of Americans
He connot help, however, the effect Of those
gray hairs or the deductions of observant
persons. He Is as young as his years. which
are in the neighborhood of thirty, al
though one would guess any number be-
yond that figure. Dillon. by the way. is a
cousin of Manager Clark Griffith Of the
New York Americans. and not his nephew,
day.
1t was surprise generally when Doug
lass quit the Phillies. 1t seems that he let
suited In scoring five runs. Douglas got
roasting for this in one Of the papers,
packed up his buds and vamoosed. He has
position in a banking house in Wells
Vile, Pa, and is undoubtedly out Of the
game for good
Henry Chadwick says that IL he were a
betting man he would go into the market
and offer odds on the success Of Dreyfuss'
Pirates. Surely the Dreyfuss bunch have
not opened as IL the pennant would be
theirs, but much is liable to happen be-
twixt the present time and October, and
the season is a long one this year.
Nichols does not dread the road. at have
a lot Of game players" said he, land we
will win on any grounds The hitting
ability is so well distributed that a rally
is apt to begin at the bottom Of the batting
list. We are gradually getting to under
stand and cooperate with each other In
batting and fielding and by the time we go
east for the first time we will have team
work down fine" He dropped four in a
"A pitcher does not need to be an iron
moulder or Vulcan to pitch winning
games" said Dunleavy recently. There
are great many pitchers in the two
leagues who win the majority of their vic
tories by the use Of slow ball. placing 1t
where the batter finds 1t difficult to locate
for a safety Control is the principal thing,
and very speedy pitcher usually lacks
control. and especially In critical places
A change of pace not only fools the bats
man, but 1t relieves a pitchers arm It Is
a decided disadvantage to rely upon one
style at all times"
Fred Pfeffer was a star at the game of
touching base runners, says Umpire O'Day.
He had absolutely no superior. Take the
play when there Is a man on third and
one on first. The latter starts to steal.
have seen Pfeffer run backward, watch
ing his man on third all the time, all the
way to second base--had he been playing
In close-and catch the ball and put Ii on
the man trying to steal So fast was he
he could run backward almost as fast as
he could forward-that the man on third
didn't dare to try to score on the play i
think that Pfeffer was the best second
baseman the game ever saw. There wasn't
a trick he couldn't turn-one has never yet
been invented that he didn't pull off years
ago.