Evening star., 1905-09-26
Base Ball Notes.

The Nationals and Clevelands are mixed
up In a double-header today and the con-
Test should be inter sting
Manager Lajoie warmed up with the
Blues yesterday. but he ran things from
the bench during the game. He will have
to be very careful of his injured foot for
the rest of the season.
Right Fielder Flick the hardest hitter in
the American League. broke his thumb in
Philadelphia last Friday during practice
and win be out of the game for the rest OF
tha season.
Jack Heyden. recently of the Baltimore
and York clubs, Is with the Clevelands, but
the national commission has placed ban
will probably be hung up until next spring.
He is needed very badly by the Blues just
new and is crackerjack player
Young Tate didn't look quite so good yes
fine catch of a short fly. Joss made him
bite at the outcurves, tanning him the first
time uD.
Charley Jones and Frank Huelsman were
both out practicing yesterday and will prob
ably be IN the games today. as Manager
Stahl wants to cinch the seventh place in
the championship race.
President Noyes occupied seat near the
players bench during the early stages of
the struggle. but when Townsend was trim
med fer a single, double and a triple, he
took to the woods.
The Chicago club is certainly coming on
with great rush and the Athletics will
have to stand to their guns without a
CULVER. For gameness and speed there is
no team that has anything on tho White
Socks and they will be dangerous to the
Athletics down to the last jump.
Billy Clingman is the latest ball player
t. retire. He declares that he will not play
next season.
what does the Cincinnati team need
more than anything else?" repeated Hans
Wagner. when the question was put to him
by Charley zuber while the Pirates were in
Cincinnati. Base runners, and lots of
them There is no team in the league so
deficient In good base running material as
the Reds. If they could only sandwich in a
few men who did not have to be led around
the bases, they would get a great deal of
benefit out of their hitting They are among
tn, best batting teams in the big circuit,
but when 1t comes to getting much real
good out of their hits they fail to do busi
ness. Base running counts for much in a
game"
Gould a team of midgets beat team of
10: gfellows?'' is the question fans are de-
batting: The midgets would line up about
as follows: Dygert and Barton, Connie
Me ck's pony battery; Harry Gleason. first
base; Miller Higgins. second base: Freddie
Parent, shortstop; DR.. Casey. third base;
center field, and wiilie Keller. right field,
The 1ongfeiiows might comprise "Cy'
Falkenburg. pitcher; Frank Bowerman.
catcher; Jake Stahl. first base; Napoleon
Lajoie. second base: Jack Knight, short
stop; Bill Bradley. third base: John Ander-
son. right field; Charley Jones. center field
and Louie" Huelsman, left field.
IT know Christie Mathewson we'll. and
he's the fellow 1 want to be pitted against
in the big SERIES" says Rube Waddell. 81
have pitched against him once. and beat
him badly. too. 1t was in Chicago in 1901
/ was member of the Chicano Nationals
early in the spring of that season before
went to California, and when New York
came along to play its first series with us
I was on the card to pitch for our team,
Mathewson being on the other side. That
was the season he made his reputation and
pitched probably the best ball of his career
l went into the game handicapped by
broken little finger which I had to strap
up to keep in place. We beat New York.
10 to 2 and / drove in three of our runs
myself. The bases were filed in one of the
innings when / came to bat. and 1 soaked
q ball Mathewsou pitched SO hard that 1t
went over the canvas sign out In center
field. The hit netted me two-bagger and
easily cleared the bases. I haven't pitched
against Mathewson since, but / want at
least three cracks at him in the worlds
series if it is between us and New York"