Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-11

but the Chester boy can't be hooked up
wrong
Manager Donovan is getting into his true
FORM his catch of yesterday being on the
order served up by him for the past ten
years
Jacobsen is good beginner at any rate
Nine full innings in the major league is a
severe test on a youngster. as he doesn't
veteran.
Umpire Tom Brown left Washington
Thursday night for Seattle where he will
take his first stand arbitrator in the Pa
einc League. His engagement will run up
10 the lst OF December. Brown is a first
class umpire and should have permanent
perth In either the American or National
leagues.
Inc St Louis Star says that Lew Drill in
1ured Bobby Wallace on purpose How
foolish.
Jake Stahl got a double and a single YES
terday and his batting eye has been look
Ing more sharply of late.
Stanley is the first man in the batting or
der of the New Orleans club
Holmes is playing good game for Chi
cago. In the forty-four games played by
him he has made 81 hits.
Lave Cross is playing a fast game at
third again this year. In the forty-one
games played by him he has missed only
ten games without getting In at least one
hit.
Lawrence has a cracker general PLAYER
In o Hara, a former Georgetown player
He is equally at home in the out and in
fields and L look for him to make a big
league at no distant day.-Boston Herald
Two major leagues mean more ball
players employed. and a more widespread
interest in the game throughout the coun-
try. The present prosperity and big pa
tronage Of the national game is partly due
therefore to the coming into the field OF
the American League and its able head.
Ban Johnson.-N. Y. Sun
There is no greater road attraction to-
Il ban ii a,,l taar 10 t. It.a
partly to Lajoie's personality, but more
largely to its great batting ability. which
always holds out to patrons the promise
of action. AS a matter of fact there was
never yet noted batting team that was
not a card the road. Regardless of
what foul-strike rule proponents may say.
the public likes batting above any other
feature of base ball
What the foul-strike rule has done to the
batsmen of the major league is shown more
eloquently and convincingly by cold figures
than by columns of arguments. The offlctal
record of the National League shows that
in 1900 the year before the foul-strlke rule
was adopted. forty batSmen Tassed the
300 mark. In 1902, the American League 8
last year under the old order, thirty-two or
its batsmen hit over 800 Compare the bat
ting records of the two major leagues since
those dates and note the melancholy 100 per
cent shrinkage.
Shop talk is somthing of which the aver
age professional ball player, In his long
trims around the circuit. is in constant and
almost fearful dread. Even among them
selves, on sleeping cars or in hotel corrt-
doris the PLAYERS do not indulge in post
mortems on games that are gone, except
in extremely aggravatng cases. When.
therefore the subject is introduced by out
siders 1t is easy to imagine how unlnvit-
ing 1t may become. But persisNng fans
must be treated with as least a show OF
courtesy and so 1t is that from one to four
hours of the day the players who are the
best known to the patrons OF the sport
must listen to and answer all sorts or UNI
heard-of questions. keep their composure:
abandon their newspapers, and. worst or
all play the hyprocrite by making their
tnrmentors think they are interested In
what they say.