Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-04
Base Ball Notes.

The Baltimore crowd of ball players was
very much behind the game at the close
of the meeting Saturday night. Hanlon,
Kelley and Dunn were the biggest losers.
Schlefly, the second baseman drafted from
the Pacific Coast League by the Washing
ron club, has been traded by Portland, with
Jakey Atz, to Los Angeles for Flood and
Smith. The two latter players were under
suspension for assaulting an umpire
Joe Cassidy was somewhat nettied over
the reports of his disappearance. and left
for his home in Chester last week. He
will probably return soon and take up his
studies at local business college.
A letter from Townsend. DeE, says that
Jack Townsend and Lave Cross have chased
all the rabbits out of the little state over
into New Jersey and Maryland and that
the two players have put away their guns
for the season. ..r.
Dick Cooley represented Topeka at the
Western Association meeting at Kansas
City. He has purchased an Interest In
that club Good-by to major league ball
for Dick.
Ferguson. the new outfelder of the New
York Nationals, purchased from Louisville.
is six feet tall and weighs 1877 pounds.
Hedges OF st. Louis hankered after Ell
berfeld of the New York Americans, so he
could put Wallace on third. He wants a
third baseman badly.
Even an ordinary amount of hard luck
should not prevent the New York Nationals
from winning the pennant for the third
time. says the Brooklyn Standardization.
Decatur, ILL.,. is promised Pitcher Barry in
case he does not make good with the Bos-
ton Americans. Boston has enough to spare
him, and it looks as IL he would go back.
Honus Wagner saves his money. He owns
four brick houses in Carnegie. Pa, which
bring him $3.50 per month, and the end is
not yet. 1t is asserted that four Pittsbdrg
players are worth 100000 each.
The Boston American League club has
thirty names on the official list promul-
gated: Armbruster. Barry, Burkett, Clay,
Collins, Criger. Dineen, Ferris, John Free
man, jerry Freeman. Gibson. Charges Ora
ham, A. Graham, Goodwin. Grimshaw. Har-
rs, Hughes, Josslyn, McGovern. O'Brien of
East Boston. olmsted. owen. Parent, Pc
terson, Rising, Selbach. Stahl, England,
Winter, Young. This list includes ten pitch
ers. six catchers and six outfielders.
The American League race was one OF
far more sweeping and frequent changes
than the National" says the New York
Sun "A chart OF this race looks like a
weather map full of windstorms No less
than five teams We're first at one time or
another-the Athletics, who won the PEN
nant; the Chicagos, Clevelands, New Yorks
and Washingtons. First place clubs were
as low seventh. and seventh place clubs
as high az first
Here is a fans dope on the prospects OF
the National League teams next season:
Chicago has Chance. and Pittsburg with
more Brains the Pirates might win. There
Is liable to be something Doom by the
Phillies. New York Ames to win. Brook
Ign has poor Batch. Boston will win
Moran usual. Cincinnati will hustle for
success at all Hazards. st. Louis has sign
ed Spade and should dig up good team,
but they Arndt liable to-" Hazards" Is
the puzzle now In this dream.
President Charles W. Murphy, youngest of
the National League magnates has this to
say about his predecessors: "Of course It
is pleasure to recall the fact that the
Chicago club has had some tllustrious men
president. When I think that I have
been elected TO waddle around in the shoes
of former Secretary OF the Treasury Gage.
Norman L. Gazette, Potter Palmer, William
a. Hubert. A. G. Spalding and James A.
Hart 1 naturally do not wish to suffer by
comparison through any act that would not
prove beneficial to base ball"