Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19
Base Ball Notes.

Base Ball Notes.
The Nationals and Bostons are playing
another double header today. as the cham
pions will have to start for home early to-
morrow to meet the st. Louis Browns.
Thursday.
| The size of the crowd yesterday was re-
markable when 1t Is taken into considera-
ton that the Nationals can hardly go
higher and the Bostons are out of the cham
pionship running.
Some day George Mil will get supreme
confidence in himself and turn out high
class third baseman. He can handle the
| speedy ones all right, but lacks confidence
| in making the "bunt'' plays. He certainly
worked finely yesterday.
Chick Stahl made a spectacular catch on
Charley Jones In the second inning of the
first game. running in back of second base
and getting the fly about a foot from the
ground.
Kittredge gave good imitation OF
O'Laughlin's "strike tuh'' when he first be-
gan working, but quickly cut out the COM
edy and worked like professional arbitra-
tor.
| Hugh Tate, the outfielder has been play
ing up at Homestead recently, and was sent
transportation yesterday to this city He
will probably be given workout pefore
the season ends. he Is recommended py
Ted Sullivan.
Big Frank Huelsman had some more hard
luck yesterday. Gibson hitting him ter
rife whack on the forearm and putting MIN
out of the business for while. The ball
was going for Huelsm ans face and he
saved himself from knock out by throw
ing I'D his arm. He will be out OF the game
for couple of days.
The Detroit team Is going along at q
whirlwind pace and are now in the first
division. the luckless New York being
pushed back into the second division
through Yesterdays victory of the VOL
yerines over the Browns.
Manager Stahl is playing a great game
at present fielding sensationally and bat
ting hard and timely. He had a narrow
escape from injury when he slid into the
right-feld fifty-cent stand yesterday.
Willie Keller says he is the best left
handed second baseman in the business
Collins Is the best hitter on the Boston
Americans. and his average is % points
shy Of the 800 mark.
Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers engaged In
fsticuffs in an exhibition game In Bed
scrap Tinker has had on the field. He
and Wild Conroy mixed 1T UP on the dia-
mond once.
Jack Harper has probably pitched his
last game for the Reds. He has gone home
for the rest of the season. incapacitated
by an abscess in the armpft. He is likely
to figure In a trade that viii land him with
some other team next year.
The American Association season ended
at Kansas City yesterday A game with
Minneapolis postponed Sunday was to have
been played today, but 1t was declared off
on account OF rain.
been strengthened trifle by Barrys will
ingness to play for John I. Taylor. The big
twirler has come to- terms and has also at
fixed his signature to the 1906 contract.
One reason why collegians do not play a
better grade OF base ball may be due to
the howl against summer ball. AS one
prominent professional recently observed.
the college men are afraid to take a ball
in their hands in summer. and the only
playing they do is In the spring at college.
Yale. a new first baseman, was tried on
the Brooklyn team yesterday. Although In
both games he failed to make hit in his
six visits to the bat he took twenty-one
chances without a misplay. If he improves
in his stick work he promises to become
valuable player.
Geier of the st. Paul team threw out two
men at first base from right field in game
the other day. The most surprising feat
of the season In that line was done by
Elberfeld in Vicksburg last spring on the
training trip. Elberfeld played center field
that day and threw out two batters at
first base.
Recent figures show that the Ave best base
runners In the American League have stolen
17S bases, as against 1873 for the best five
in the National League Flick, Hartsel,
Hoffman. Chick Stahl and Fultz are the
five leaders in the American League and
Wagner Chance Maloney Devlin and Dab
len in the National League.
Since their defeat Saturday the Pirates
have become reconciled to the thought that
the pennant Is not for them. The reason
CIcu SidEhS TeIuSeU 10 CONSIDER q post
ponement of the game played last Friday
and the scheduling OF double-header for
yesterday was because he feared that by
such an arrangement a chance to play one
game might be lost and the pennant cause
thus hampered by failure to pluck a need
ed victory from the Reds. Then the locals
came back on Saturday and put the Pr
rates out Of the chase.-Cfncinnati Enquirer
Bill Hart. the old-tfme pitcher. tells Of a
game played by the Lincoln team against
the Wfchftas back in 1887. The Kansans
won the first game. to B. which so ranked
in the breasts OF the Nebraskans that they
trimmed the Sunffower men the next day
As to z. making 30 hits. mo man on our
team had less than five hits" says Hart
I'VE made nineteen runs in one inning"
The members of the Lincoln team at the
time were: Swartzel. Dolan, Hart and At
kinson, pitchers: Kid Baldwin and Charlie
Hoover. catchers; Beck1ey. first base; Dave
Rowe, second base; Joe Herr, short; Fred
Lang. third base; Schasfer, Reeder and
Hall, outffelders
BOWLING SEASON cTA prS