Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-02

teen three-baggers this season. He leads
his team in batting and extra base hits.
The claim that the fall down of the Bos-
tol Americans is due to the release of La
chance is the funniest yet.
The Boston Americans have fourteen
pitchers booked for next season and should
be able to select six first-class men from
the bunch.
George Stone and Willie Keller are hav-
ing a nice tussle for first place in the
Anne rican league batting, and Lajoie threat
ems to beat them both. They are the only
three batsmen with 300 percentages.
Washington fans are preparing testt-
monial for Pitcher Tom Hughes. His work
has been hgh-class all season, and he has
become the most popular man on the team.
-PIttsburg Press
On the WashingtCns Huelsman leads in
double and triple sackers with 81 and 8 re-
spectively; Jake Stahl in homerS and stolen
bases, with 3 of the former and 26 of the
latter and Hill in sacrifices with 81
With Monte Cross back in line the Ath-
letics are playing practically the same team
that won the pennant three years ago.
Young Dygert of New Orleans, who goes
to Connie Mack, has pitched a one-hit,
two-hit, three three-hit and three four-hit
comes this year. He won them all. Brad
ley of Shreveport, another Athletic recruit,
won four four-hit games and two three-hit
games in addition to one two-hit contest.
The story going the rounds of the press
that Lajoie taught Harry Davis how to bat
is absurd. While with Pawtucket in the
New England League, Davis hit for over
400 and had t. give up with New York and
Pittsburg on account of water on the knee
Davis was always a natural batsman.
Ginger Beaumont wants to leave Mt.
Clemens, Mich, where he has been treating
rheumatism in his leg, and help the Pirates
in their fall games. He has been ordered
to stay at the resort, though, as Wallace is
doing well in center and Clymer is ready to
jump in a any time
At Omaha last Sunday Umpire Carruthers
put Cantillon off the field for using abusive
10 "a
threatened Carruthers, and the crowd took
the umpire's part and was preparing to deal
sUmmarily with Cantillon when he left the
stand.
Pete O'Brien who tried for Tom Cor
cOrans shoes during Bid McPhee's reign at
Cincinnati, has been sold by st. Paul to the
st. Louis Americans. He will join the big
leaguers at the conclusion of the Amer
lean association season.
Comiskey is reaching out after new ma
terial He has purchased Tom Dougherty,
Tip" O'Neill, Frank Hemphill and Harry
Clark from the Milwaukee American Asso-
citation club.-Philadelphi Record. Reach
ing out is good" Watch these men go back
next season. Why? Milwaukee is the Chi
cago farm.-Boston Herald.
One of the New York players said re-
Gently of the worlds series: about all we
Will get will be a championship button and
perhaps enough money to pay expenses.
The generosity of the commission is amaz-
Ing After grabbing off 10 per cent of the
gross receipts. they let us fight it out for a
division of the 90 per cent remaining. That
includes only the first four games. Why
not give the players percentage of the
tire receipts? I'll guarantee that there
would be no effort to make the series tie
up 10 the last game. Each team would
like TO win four straight. If possible, even
If more money could be obtained by play
ing the entire seven"
The Chicago White Sox are the wonders
OF baseballdom. Hitting second from last
in the American League and with no player
in the 300 class, the team has gone along
near the top all the year, and now it is as
torishing everybody by winning all kinds
OF games end stepping up close to the
pei nant leaders as TO make the race as I'M
certain as 1t was year ago.
It's all over but the shoutng-barring ac-
cidents-says the Philadelphia Inquirer. If
the consensus of opinion of the managers
OF the American League clubs amounts to
anything, the Athletics will win the PEN
nant this season and then fight it out with
the New York Giants for the worlds cham
pier ship. Clark Griffith is the only man.
ager in the American League bunch who
comes out hatfooted and declares that the
Athletics won't win the coveted bunting
But then II must be remembered that Clark
thinks pretty we'll of the chances of his own
team. But right down deep In the south
east ventricle of his beaten he admits that
the Athletics have better chance than any
club. including the Highlanders, to finish
first.