Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
Base Ball Notes.

Detroit intends to hang on to Link
Lowe at the start at least.
Some writers say the foul strike is now
dead issue. Well, batting comes very
near being the same thing.
Joe Cantilon declares that John Malark-
ely was the best pitcher in the American
Association last season.
Elmer Flick of the Cleveland team Will
play his 1 ,0OOth championship game in fast
company this season.
Jack O'Connor has been asked to sign
with the St. Louis Americans next season
at a reduced salary. AS yet he has not
submitted to the cut.
II never speculate where we will fin
ish,' says Connie Mack, but l cannot see
how finish any lower than we did
last season. Mack says he intends to keep
Mullin. He had turned that player over
to Comiskey, but the latter decided not to
keep him.
Jesse Tannehill, left-handed pitcher of
the Boston American League base ball club.
is confined to bed at his home in Cincinnati,
as the result of a fall on a slippery side
walk, having landed on the right shoulder.
1t was said that the shoulder had been
diSlocated.
Ned Hanlon. manager of the Brooklyns,
has asked the other National League clubs
to waive claim to thirty of the fifty-four
players who were on the Brooklyn club s
roll a month ago. When it comes to coy
ering up players for minor league clubs,
Hanlon is in class by himself.
The Eastern League is holding Richmond
In reserve and blocking the efforts of Con
Strouthers to put the Virginia League in
the field. Ed Ransick has accepted a
franchise for club among the F. F. VS.,
where Jesse Tannehill, Sam Lever and
Jack Chesbro all made their earliest marks.
Only eight of the Cleveland team have
signed as yet Bill Bradley and Harry
Bay are holding out for more money, and
the former threatens to quit the game
unless the figures sent him are inflated.
ha1 oil m
called for big money and the cut comes
hard to him.
Billy Lush has now had charge of the
Yale squad for a week The New York
| Post says: Yale's base ball professional
coaches have included Clarkson, Nichols,
| Hickman and Murphy, but none of them
ever began work as Mr.. Lush does. Mr..
| Lush is base ball coach as Murphy is for
the track team and Kennedy is for the
| crew, and he will be with the base ball
men till the season closes. With Mr.. Lush
! comes a system of coaching which puts
| base ball on the same plane in point OF
| organization with the other sports at Yale
"Blr' Sudhoff has signed with the
| Browns for the coming season. His 1901
| salary was sliced. "Bill' appreciates the
| fact that he had a bad season and that a
| reduction was coming his way. So he tool
| it smiling.
| When Chesbro and Keller of the New
York Americans begin work coaching the
| Harvard University candidates at Cam
bridge next Tuesday they will find a wealth
| of good material. OF last years team only
| Third Baseman Carr and Left Fielder Fish
| ell will be unable to play again. Capt. C
| w. Randall, first base; H. D. Herman, sec
| ond base; w. G. Matthews. shortstop; A. e
McCarty. center field. and H. v. Greenough
| right field, will don the spangles again, to
gether with Pitcher P. N Coburn ant
Catcher B. K. Stephenson, the star bat
| terry. Among the promising candidate:
| who were subs last year or played OF
the freshman nine are Pitchers J. A. Tuck
erman, A. L. Castle and G.. F. Green; Thir(
Basemen c.. c. Bolton and w. D. Dexter
Outfielders J. d. Nichols, J. H. Giles, d. A
! Newhall and +. T.. Colby. Head Coacf
Nichols says a concerted effort will b,
made to develop good battery material ant
| to turn out a team of heavy batsmen. Co
burn is already pronounced the best colleg'
pitcher in the east.