Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10
BASE BALL NOTES

! is Hoffman for Dave Fuitz. Powers. Shreck.
Waddell, Plank. Bender. Davis. Murphy.
the two Crosses, HartSel and Seybold. with
Connie Mack the bench. have gone
through the test and can be counted on to
finish strong.
Secretary Locke says: Il am glad wag-
ner Is not leading the league In batting.
As long as he is behind he will be playing
for the good of the team and trying to get
runs across the plate. Seymour Is playing
only for hits, and is, therefore, not of much
account SO far as team work is concerned.
Barney Dreyfuss maintains firmly that
Pitcher Clyde Goodwin belongs to him. and
not to the Cincinnati club. and he has or
dered the player to report to him on Sep
TENDER IL. In spite of the decision of the
national commission awarding Goodwin to
Cincinnati Barney claims that he bought
his release last month for $1.e0O. paid the
money down and has the Cancelled check to
prove 1t. He thinks the commission was
mistaken in its published finding.
Pitcher Reulbach slept nearly all of the
day succeeding the great twenty-inning Chi
cago-Philadelphia game. He actually lost
seven pounds of flesh in that long battle.
Harry Dolan is out Of the range of ma
tional commission fire. He has arranged
to liauidate the Cincinnati clubs claim
against him.
Dave Fultz will probably not play ball
again after this season. His batting has
| been extremely light of late, although his
fielding Is as fast as ever
One more pitcher for Pittsburg. The
Springfield Qll) club has sold Pitcher Ober-
lin for 81 600. Oberln does not leave Spring
field until the end of the Three-I League
season. September II.
President Grillo of the Toledos declared.
after seeing the Reds perform. that Co.
lumbus would defeat them In hollow fash
ion when the two teams meet the latter
part of the month.
Frank Donnelly, the best judge of play
ers in the Threc-I League, says that Bos-
toms new man, Goodwin. is a grand all
around player and fast enough for any
team In the business
Outf1elder Jimmy Barrett of Detroit has
retired for the season to give his dinky
knee thorough rest.
1t will probably seem like the irony of
fate to McGraw when the Athletics line
up against New York in the coming worlds
series. He 1T was who four years ago in
derision dubbed the Athletics white ele-
plants and thus helped struggling club
to fame and fortune
Gus Dorner. the star twirler Of the CO.
lumbus Association team. will not join the
and thinks he deserves a rest at the con-
clusion of the associations season.
Tim Murnane sarcastically remarks:
Clarke Griffith Is purchasing players right
and left for his New York Americans
Grif Is, no doubt, covering up few boys
for old friends" Is Griffith corralling more
| men than Jimmy Collins?
What right had the people Of Atlantic
City to go to see automobile races when
the New York Giants were to play there?
John ]. McGraw's reputation as sports
man was already pretty Well known With
out this latest exhibition.
With Wednesdays game. Doc Payne.
trainer of the Maps. severed his connection
with the team for the balance of the sea
son. There was desire on the part of
the management to lose Docs services until
the season was ended, but Doc Simply said
he couldn't be of any real service, with the
club all crippled up the way 1t is, and would
rather be off the payroll than drawing
salary for useless services.
Upon recommendation of the national
commission. simultaneous meetings of the
two major leagues will be held in New York
on December Il. In view of the close rela-
tons between the two bodies and the fire.
quent exigencies arising under the national
agreement, both the winter and spring ses-
sions of the major leagues should always
be held at the same time and in the same
city, so that conferences can be held on
matters of common interest.
Score one remarkable triumph for sun
day ball. Minooka, Pa, has discharged its
entire police force of eighteen because the
men had been on duty eight months with
out making arrest Minooka is on the
outskirts of Scranton and Is the best Sun
day base ball town in northeastern Pennsyi-
vania. The people there claim Sunday base
ball has made the town orderly. as without
it the saloons would be in full blast and
there would be work for the police force
Sporting Life.