Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-29
Base Ball Notes.

81 LOUIS starts series OF -FOUR games
with the Senators today.
First Baseman Stahl has wired Manager
Donovan that he will report for duty to-
morrow.
AS the Browns have postponed game
with the Senators, they will probably play
a double header tomorrow, the first game
starting at o'clock.
The Cleveland aggregation apparently
worked better with Stovall at second than
when the Great Lajoie has charge
Tomorrow being ladies' day" and a
double header being on the program, a big
crowd will be on hand to welcome home
Sir Jacob Stahl.
The st. Louis team reached Washington
yesterday and is quartered at the Riggs.
Everybody on the team was clipper over
the double victory at New York Saturday.
but it takes the Senators to make the
Browns crawl.
Jacobsen or Wolfe will probably do the
pitching today for the locals. while the
speedy Glade or Petty Will serve them up
for the Browns.
Providence has arranged to secure Osteen
and Putnam of the New York Americans.
1t is a surprising affair when Billy
Keller makes two home runs in game
Keller is not hitter of the Slugger variety.
Jersey City is handicapped by the alb
sence of First Baseman Cassidy, who has
broken bone in his right arm by being hit
by pitched ball.
Roland Wolfe formerly of the Boston
Americans, has been purchased by Mil
waukee from Dubuque. Wolfe was sold by
Cantillon to Dubuque and turned out to be
the best catcher in the Three L League.
An all-star Southern League team. piloted
by Charley Frank, is booked to invade Cuba
in the fall. That makes three contemplated
tours to the queen of the antilles, but the
Frank Bancroftian expedition IS In as un-
certain shape as that tour of the world.
The Cleveland American League manage
ment has purchased from the Providence
Eastern League club Ernest Vlnson, leIt
fielder, for s., 500. Vinson will finish the
season at Providence. He leads the East
ern League batsmen.
Pittsburg has given Roscoe Miller his un-
conditional release. virgil GarVln OF
Brooklyn will be signed by Pittsburg II
Hanlon adheres to his announced intention
of letting him go for his share in the late
rioting and INSTRUMENTATION IN the BROOKLYN
team.
Come along with the proof that that
home-run hit of Wyatt Lee over the rgnt
field fence entered a house and rolled under
a piano. The fence part Of the story Is all
right, because several hundred people saw
the ascension, but the piano END mas YET 70
be verified. Anyhow. it was the longest nit
ever made at Eclipse Park. We waited
long time to see some one do it and we Will
probably wait longer before it Is repeated
Louisville Post
Because he thrashed Umpire Durnbaugn
lOf giving d decision CoIi1tdiy W AAS
Captain Keane Of the New London base
ball team was heavily fined Saturday by
Judge Lucius Brown in the Norwich ponce
court. Keane was arrested in the midst OF
a scrap with the umpire and was held on
a charge of assault and breach of the
peace. He pleaded guilty and paid the tine.
but before being allowed to leave the court
the judge told him that the public attended
ball games to see the game played, not TO
witness wrangles between players-Boston
Herald. .h
A Chicago dispatch to the New York
Herald says that bottle throwing is favor
lite amusement in the former city In the
game in the lake city on "Wednesday the
bottle throwing was most noticeable. All
the afternoon, however. 1t had been going
on sporadically, but when in the eighth In
ming Giant Luck brought In two runs Tying
the score, the throwers appeared IN force.
With two men out. and Ames ana bresna a-
han on bases, Browne sent triple over
into left. When Browne got back TO MS
field position you would have thought him
miniature Port Arthur. One hit him IN the Inc
leg. and another whizzed so close 10 ms
ear. when he was hauling down an aeriai
attempt Of Evers, he said afterward ne
thought the bleachers had been thrown AT
him.