Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-23
Base Ball Notes.

All but one pitcher will be kept with the
Cleveland team until far into the season.
!. Detroit is being hoodooed by rain in Sun
day exhibition games in the south, and is,
accordingly, losing a little bunch of money.
Billy Lauder has esta bIished "a chair Of
base bair' at Columbia University, where he
is coaching the team. He gives daily lee
lures on the game.
Napoleon Lajoie says the reason the new
delivery of Ames of the Giants is called the
stop" ball is because it almost invariably
comes into violent contact with the bat.
The annual meeting of the st. Louis Amer
Jean League club held on Monday.
Robert Lee Hedges was chosen president,
Ben Adkins vice president and Lloyd Rick
ert secretary.
Bobby Low has refused to even corre-
spond with the Detroit club and.the likeli-
hood is that he win not play with the Tigers
this summer.
The Athletics and the Phillies are both
confident of winning that series at the
Quaker city next month.
Barry Mccormick so far has declined to
sign a Milwaukee contract. The figures in
| the document don't appeal to him at all.
The once noted shortstop, Frank Fennelly,
is now a member of the Massachusetts leg
islature.
Jimmie Casey is piling up errors galore.
Selee is not altogether pleased with his
work.
Frank Owen, who has been baking this
winter, has finally agreed to sign with the
White Sox. He gets an increase In salary,
but there is an fronclad behavior clause in
the document -
for Griffith In the south, and the willy man.
ager claims that GARRISON Will be one of his
best slab men this year. Ciarkson Is bat
ting well, also.
The Philiies are not only having trouble
with the rain, but the rowdies in Savannah
that watch the practice work help them
selves to all the spare balls they lay their
hands on and several times practice had to
be suspended on account OF all the balls
being stolen.
A tourist from Porto Rico brings news OF
base ball boom there. Fans gave up 81
for choice seats on that island possession OF
Uncle Sans.
Jake Beckley is not satisfied with terms
offered by St. Louis, and Mike Grady may
play first. Nichols has catchers enough to
allow Grady to play the initial bag. Beck
ley is getting pretty old, and should not
kick too much.
Pulliam, Hermann and johnson are still
arguing the Taylor case through the papers.
Hermann and johnson state that there is
not enough evidence to prove dishonesty on
the part of Taylor, aHd,-tAough Pulliam ado
mits this fact, he says the matter should be
sifted to the bottom.
1t is stated that the side-arm delivery Of
Fiene, the new White Sox pitching acauisi-
ton, is formidable. Players claim that the
side-arm delivery has been the secret of
McGinnitys success and those who have
seen Fiene work say that he is the only
and underhand ball.
Cy Young. in spelling of the first major
league game he ever PITCHED, said recently:
ut is only little oyer fourteen years ago,
but only three of the eighteen men who took
part in the game are now in harness in the
Davis and myself ''n1
The San Francisco Chronicle gives the fol-
lowing reasons for Dillon. not making good:
"fIis knee was bad he was disgruntled and
dissatisfied while with Brooklyn, the club
was poor one. way down in the race, and
the worry incident upon capfaining tall
end club naturally affected his individual
playing
The Pirates catching staff Is badly Grip
pied. Fred Carisch's right hand was split
between the third and fourth fingers yes
terday and the nail completely torn from
one of the fingers by coming in contact
with foul tip. 1t may be>tWo weeks be-
fore he is able to resume play.
Jim Sheckard has repudiated his agree
ment to play with the Lancaster Tri-State
League team. and has notified his friends In
Columbia that he had joined the Brooklyn
team,i and would leave for the south at
once. While Sheckard would have proved
a strong attraction for the Lancaster ag-
gregation, the management IS not greatly
disappointed for 1t did not put much faith
In his promises. 1t Is understood that Sheck-
ard has accepted the reduction in his sni-
ary from Brookiyn.