Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-22
Base Ball Notes.

Poor Boston, Lost before $1,000 people.
Nationals tackle the Highanders again
today.
Wolfe and Putnam will probably do the
pitching today
When the game between Pittsburg and
st. Louis teams was called in the second
inning yesterday at Pittsburg the ex-cham-
pions had scored six runs to nothing
Word was received from Boston yeSter-
day that William H. Rogers, the business
manager of the Boston National League
team, had died in that city at the age of
forty-tive. Rogers was connected with the
Boston club for twenty years.
Jimmy Gardner, the former National
League pitcher, is seriously ill in the Passa-
want Hospital at Pittsburg and may not re-
cover from an operation He suffered from
an abscess which formed in his ear and
worked its way toward his brain.
Rain seems to have prevented other games
besides those in the big cities yesterday
Savannahs defeat of Augusta by to o
was the only event in the Southern League
and in the American Association only one
game was played Louisville and st. Paul
being tie, with one run each, at the end
of the seventh inning.
According to a bulletin issued by Pres
ident Pulliam Of the National League yes
terday the New York Club has released
w. h. Marshall to Minneapolis; c. Holmes
OF Pittsburg has gone to Cedar Rapids
Iowa; Clyde Goodwin of Pittsburg to In
dianapolis and Boston has released Cody
Internationally. The terms of Pitcher Will
lis have been accepted by Boston.
Capt. A. c. Arson, the newly elected
county clerk Of Chicago, sat on the bench
with the Washington players yesterday and
appeared to be much pleased with the pro-
player has been receiving many congra tn
lations from his old base bali friends in
this city on his splendid victory at the Chi
cago polls.
al is
He made five hits, twelve times at bal in
his first four games "
Lewis the Brooklyn's new shortston is
hitting the ball with some degree of fire.
quehcy, and also Is fielding In sensa tional
style: Evidently Manager Hanlon has a
find in him. :"
Connie Mack yesterday released Catcher
Iete Noonan, who was secured from Holy
cross College last season, and Noonan ha 9
signed to play with the st. Paul team of the
western League. This means that Powers
Schreck and Barton will do the backstoD
work for the Athletics this year
McGamwell is making a good Impression
IN his early season work in Brooklyn The
trouble, however, about "our boys" is that
they are youngish and prone to unsteadi-
ness. The Brooklyn team has possibilities
Hanlon may have made his own reputation
or had 1t made for him. as some insnuate.
The present season ought to tell.-BrooFiyn
Eagle.
Mullin, the Detroit pitcher. lost his first
opening game in three years He need not
grieve over that, provided he captures a
few during the remainder Of the season
With the Boston Nationals in new hands
1t viii be the proper thing to strengthen the
team. In Tenney the team has a capable
first baseman. All that Frank Dunn has to
do Is to secure good men for the other eight
positions on the field, in addition to half
dozen pitchers, and three good catchers
This sounds familiar: 'Lajoie drove the
ball to deep center in the seventh for three
bases. Barrett played nearly to the fence
or 1t would have been q home rum" Cam
not Lajoie be induced to pay more atten-
ton to managing the Cleveiands and less