Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

Special Correspondence of The Star.
CHICAGO, July 13, 1905.
Charles Comiskey, president of the Chi
cago Americans, not old. but gray and big
since passing up the playing end of the
game was looking at the practice of Boston
and his own boys from a lone seat under
the grand stand last week when stranger
to him turned and asked:
Mr.. Comiskey, do you think your boys
can win the championship"
Without turning his head from the field
he answered promptly: Il never had a club
yet that l didn't think would win the cham
pionship."
The gray hairs on the old chiefs head
stood for disappontments in base ball, for
while Commey is among the first six leaders
of pennant winners, he has missed the mark
fourteen out of the last sixteen attempts.
A fine base ball general, liberal and well
liked Comiskey has one ambition. and that
Is to win the American League champion
ship once more. Last season his team was
In the running until September, when, one
or two Of his best players went bad with
| injuries and his team went out in night.
This season the team Is playing very smooth
base ball; in fact, know of no ball team
playing the game as smoothly as the White
Socks The championship bee is buzzing in
their bonnets and every man is doing a
thinking part as well as Comiskey. The
Socks have by all odds the finest inf1eld
playing the game today.
George Davis with his fifteen years of
major league experience, has something on
all other shortstops. He has developed
TannehIll into a second Collins or Bradley,
and made Dundon one of the cleverest bag
men in the business. while Donahue has a
little something on all the first basemen OF
the present time. There are no fatty felix
players on the Chicago team. and Comiskey
has great reason to feel well satisfied with
his outfit Winning the championship is an
other matter, and the chances are good for
several more gray hairs for Commey before
the trick is turned, with Philadeiphia,
Cleveland New York and Boston to still
be reckoned on. for the last half of the
season is the trying time.
1t would take a great many losses by New
! York to give new life to the national race
| If the Giants would commence to worry this
would encourage the others and the last
| half of the season be full of good sport
| PRESIDENT Ban Johnson informs me that the
| tendance at the American League games
up TO date is over 100000 more than last
season at the same time. In Boston alone
| the attendance has averaged 500 over last
season per game.
| am fully convinced that Chicago is one
| of the three cities that will support two
| major league clubs, Philadelphia and New
| York being the other two. From what
| hear from those well posted on local affairs
| Chicago has all the other cities beat mile
| when it comes to amateur base ball clubs
/ For years Philadelphia, later st. Louis, was
| the hotbed of the amateurs and semi-Eros
Boston close up for while, but not
4 one of these cities was a marker for Chi
| eago at the present time.
| With the two major leagues playing one
| Sunday this season game between local
| amateur clubs drew over 5000 persons.
1 On trip around Chicago last Sunday
passed several small parks and open fields