Evening star., 1904-03-24
Base Ball Notes.

Charley Somers says that Cleveland is all
right and he knows of no better city in
base ball, with the exception of New York
Joe Bean Of the Boston Nationals has
been working with the New York Ameri-
cans in Atlanta.
Dick Cooley has bowed to the inevitable
and signed contract with the Boston Ma
tionals at a slightly reduced salary.
Accidents in practice have already oc-
CURED. Parent hurt his knee. KeeIer also
twisted that member and Conroy got a bad
knock on the thumb
Barney Dreyfuss Of the champion Pitts
burgs is at Holyoke. Mass, trying to
gather in Mike Lynch the famous Brown
University pitcher. Lynch recently stated
that he never would play professional base
ball. but this discouraged Dreyfuss not In
the least.
Hans Wagner, champion batter of the
National League, has refused to permit his
picture to appear in President Pulliam's $
Hall Of Fame" asserting that he was re-
sponsible for the loss of the championship
series to the Boston American League club.
Says H. G. Merrill, Wilkesbarre corre-
spondent of the Sporting News: Some
time next season when things have adjust
ed themselves and the National League
teams are working with good effect just
recall my observation that Joe Kelley has
made a big mistake in passing Jake BeckIey
up to the st. Louis team. Kelley has taken
too large stunt for himself in essaying to
play the bag"
In the Southern League Powell Of At
lanta and Fisher of Nashville own their
teams. while the other managers are backed
by men with ample capital to carry through
any undertaklng in which they engage.
Outside of Shreveport every town in the
league made money last year. and It is
doubtful IL Shreveport lost much This
year the south is. if anything in a more
prosperous condition than 1t was last year
Last year the total attendance was over
100000 the fourth largest in the country,
and this year these figures are sure to be
exceeded
'The National League. still chaflng un-
DER loss or absolute dominance through lack
of cohesion, Is disposed to view every move
of its energetic young rival with suspicion.
and to see in Its every act an expression of
aggression and arrogance" says Editor
Richter in the Sporting Life. 'aThe Ameri-
can League, on the other hand, regards the
senior league as still anita gonistic to the
duai-league principle. still scheming for
consolidation and as seeking to retrieve by
legislative diplomacy the defeats of omen
war. In short. each side detests the policy
suspects the motives and resents the meth
DDS OF the other. Hence a break Is at all
times possible"
The new pitchers of the Chicago Amer,.
cans are Walsh, fram the Newark club OF
the eastern League, for whom Manager
Burnham made a. hot fight before the ma
.ionai commission; Dougherty. Chicago
product. who was q success in the Atlanta
ciuD last season, and Stricklett, who comes
from the northwest Patterson and Fla her
ty are more or less doubtful auantities
Patterson's work toward the end Of last
season was far below his old standard huf
he was sick a part OF the time, and conse
quently not In perfect condition MANAGER
Grinith Is authority fos athe prediction that
fatterson's arm has been weakened by a
too constant use of the drop ball. while
Comiskey and Callahan differ with him.
WIN Rankin. the veteran New York critic
thinks the Boston, Americans have nothing
to fear from Newi York this year. He saws:
so the New orksAmertcan team has hean
made up and launched After reading n
over several times and viewing 1t from all
has anything to fear from It, UndouhtedJv
McGraw will lose no sleep over It, While /
nave never posed as a 1propilet and hona +
Will never indulge in such fallaeies I can
not for the life of me see anything like a
pennant winner or even q place finish for
tne Highiancers. This is no tip, and If
any one is foolish enough to play it he has
only himself to blame, but it Is the con
ctuSlon reached after looking the na rn.as
over. There Is a good, extra good-yes ex-
ceiient-outneid. fair infieid, strong in
one or TWO points, some good pitchers and
behind the bat. outside war yeterar-
whether the late civil war. the one of 1Sl2
or the revolutionary deponent will not At
tempt to decide-there is nothing of class
quality" =
If Ned Hanion gets Castro. the coast H.
fielder, he will land star Of the first mag
nitude The Chicago Tribune man, COM
menffng on his work for Portland against
the Cubs IN Wednesdays game. says: Cas-
tro, the man Hanlon Is after for his Baifi-
more team and whom the Pacific Coast
League agreed to give up to the east at
the recent peacefconference, played shors-
stop for Portland. He was the star of the
game. His single In the tenth, brought in
the winning run Besides that he has fo
n pftsYo <s, <xxI~ ~4r r~-y.