Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-22
Base Ball Notes.

Orth and Hughes will probably do the
twirling today.
The New Yorks look formidable as the
regular men are coming back into the
game. Fultz Joined the team yesterday
and Elberfeld may go In before the week
Is out.
Charley Moran's two-baser was nice
line drive to the right-field fence. His
errors were of the easy sort. and the best
of players make them sometimes.
When Elberfeld and Conroy Join the
New Yorks what will become of Osteen
Anderson. Thoney and Collins? This entire
quartet could be used with advantage
right here in Washington on account of
each man being a hitter.
Manager Griffith wanted to crafty the
desires of several hundred admirers of
Ortiz Collins and play him yesterday. but
he Is 50 anxious to win games that he
couldn't take the small chance on the
youngster. Collins may yet play before
the week is out.
Pitcher Mason who was farmed out to
Baltimore by Washington. was a happy
boy last night. President Johnson tele-
graphed him yesterday afternoon that he
had been turned back to Schenectady and
that Baltimore would do business with that
organization. Manager Jennings thinks a
great deal of Mason and will put up a stiff
price to secure him.
The Athletics and Senators will play in
Philadelphia next Saturday the game
scheduled to be played here. The game
scheduled for Philadelphia, July I, will be
played in this city instead.
Jack Doyle has begun to hit the ball.
He has made five safeties this week.
Seybold has not made error this sea-
son. He Is the only member of the Ath-
letics to hold this record in his regular
position
Yesterdays shut-outs swelled the total in
the National League to forty-three and in
the American League to thirty-eight.
CheSDrO Is eAther the best pitcher In the
country or close thereabo He has won
fifteen games this season and lost three.
Only Philadelphia and Cleveland have
beaten him. and he has trimmed them all.
The hits off him average 1918 a game.
The old-timers wear best in base ball.
For instance. kid" Gleason is the only
member of the PhllieS who has played in
every game contested by his team this sea-
son. With Davis on the hospital list. Lave
Cross Is the only member of the Athletics
who has not had to take a rest this year.
Keller. Conroy twice. Fultz. Elberfeld
end Unglaub. that is the list of disabled
men that Griffith has had to contend with
this season. Yet the New York Ameri
cans are second. and no team in the coun-
try Is playing better ball.
Foot ball scrimmages are responsible for
enc base ball wreck. Davy Fultz has
reached the sere and yellow long before his
time. simply because he worshiped at
pigskin shrine on the northumberland
Enquirer. Fultz hurt his leg in spring prac-
tice year ago on the diamond not on the
gridiron.
A funny mistake occurred In the game
last Monday in Elmra between the Boston
Americans and the Father Mathew Temper
ance Society team. The Boston Globe tells
of 1t as follows: AT the beginning of the
ninth Collins inquired what the score was
and was told to in his favor. The game
continued until the eleventh.. with the
champions trying their best but being I'M
able to score. In the last of the eleventh
double by Rutherford and a single by
n oil o h~0, to-
emily won the game. Later 1t was discov-
cred that Boston had made four runs in
the fourth, instead of three credited by the
scorer who gave Collins the information as
to how the game stood. and that in reality
the game should have ended at the close of
the ninth with the to score in favor of
Boston. The umpire decided that Father
Mathew had won fairly as both teams had
willingly played the eleven innings.
Collins of the Boston team made the ex-
change of Outf1elder Daugherty and when
asked In Philadelphia yesterday what he
thought Of the remarks attributed to Henry
Pullfam, president of the National League,
he said:
I'VE know our business better than Mr..
Pulliam does. and we don't have to ask
his permission to make any changes We
thought we could strengthen our team and
acted accordingly and future results will
have to speak for themselves. How does
Mr.. Pulliam know whether Dougherty is a
more valuable man than ONeil? And, fur
thermore, our past trades have always re-
suited to our benefit, therefore, we deny
any one the right to criticise our actions.
We gave Boston the worlds champion
ship team last year. and shall do the same
this season. If possible"
Manager Clark Griffith was In almost boy
fsh glee over the work of his cohorts in the
west. and he sees nothing but success
ahead. well, we plucked few nice feath-
ers in the west. Yes we have many reasons
to be proud of winning 90 per cent of all the
games played on such hard trip" con-
ttnued Griffith, land we are going to make
the Senators wish we were in another
league by winning all four games here I'M
less some extraordinary hard luck should
strike us. 1t ought to be evident to every
body by this time that we shall not leave
single stone unturned to capture the pen
nant in the greatest base ball league ever
organized s1
"Dougherty should be a wonderful help
to u.s.. and we will soon have another mar
vel added to our pitching staff in the per-
son OF GARRISON, the greatest pitching phe-
nom that the colleges have ever produced.
Clarkson Is also one of the heaviest hitters
ever graduated from a college team, and
will prove a most valuable man in a pinch
Osteen and Collins have been a great help
to US in our emergencies. But wait until
We get our regular team in shape, and we
Will open the eyes Of few people who
have overlooked u.s.
Fatal Encounter Between Gamblers.
A dispatch from Marion Ill last