Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-09

It's only an exceptional case with Capt Col
Inns of the Boston club and 1 can see that
he needs help right now, for his club falls
down too often on simple propositions.
A good manager who will work with his
captain Is the proper thing. Manager
Mack of the Athletics and Manager Nc
Graw of the New Yorks are invaluable to
their clubs, and Hugh Duffy is fast gain
ing ground as heady manager who can
work out campaigns with the captain OF
the club Take the Chicago club with
Fielder Jones. He has Comiskey, great
general yet in base ball. Joe Kelly injured
his playing when he took the management
of the Cincinnati club AS a captain he
all right; now he has no one to confer
with and must be at good deal of the
time
The strength Of the Chicago National
League club is in the handling of the bust
ness by Jim Hart and the clever handling
of the club by Frank Selee. The latter Is
very much like the late Harry Wright in
his way of handling ball players, and no
two men could get better work out OF their
men than Wright and Selee.
Don't worry, boys. The luck usually
breaks even in the long run and worry will
injure your ability to make good when
called on to use your brains as well as
hands.
No club feels the sting of defeat like the
men who have tasted the fruits of victory
1 see that my friend. Harrington Jones,
one of the cleverest sporting writer's In
the country, is now covering base ball at
Jacksonville, Fla. Mr.. Jones is the official
scorer Of the club in that city and got
into disfavor with few local fans for
daring to be honest. Shamokin Kelley is
umpiring in that league and being at
loss to know how the balls and strikes
stood on a batsman, as he was without an
indicator he properly turned to the official
scorer and asked how the thing stood. MI
Jones answered after consulting his score
book. The local player was deprived or
base on balls and kicked at the scorer for
his failure to lie him into base on balls.
The howl that went up as the ball player
was sent to the bench was heard In the
everglades and re-echoed to the favor or
Mr.. Jones.
Not long ago a Cleveland syndicate
wrote and asked me to interview Cy
Young and find out how he accounted for
his falling off in effectiveness as pitcher.
The next day l witnessed Mr.. Young pitch
the greatest game l ever saw, holding the
PHILADELPHIA Athletics down to ten scat
tered hits in twenty innings. l decided
not to interview Mr.. Young on the decline
of his pitching powers for at least nve
more years For, like wine and cheese. ne
grows better with age. Although record
game in the American League, 1t was I'M
interesting Outside the battery work Hobo
Ferris alone had any brilliant work to Of
fer and his fielding was the grandest that
I ever witnessed on ball field. 1t was a
case of to the right and left, one-handed
running scoops jumping one-hand catches,
quick recoveries after marvellous stops,
trapping the ugly Founders as no other
player can until the crowd were on their
toes. .
Hobo Ferris has superior when 1t
comes to handling ground balls and IS
never bothered by rough ground while
lust the reverse is the case with his side
partner Freddie Parent, who is wonder
full ground coverer but poor trapper, and
must have perfectly level ground