Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-07
dimmed. 1t means quite lot to be con-
Quoting f1ag-winners instead of fiat failures.

dimmed. 1t means quite a lot to be con-
Quoting dag-winners instead of fiat failures
The trade whereby Boston secured chic"
Frazer and Harry Wolverton from the
Philiies for Pittinger will strengthen the
Beaneaters in that it will give them real
third baseman something they have not
had for years. Wolverton is a fine player.
but didn't get along very well in the
Quaker city.
Mike Donlin has gone to Hot Springs to
work for Rome Respess, the Cincinnati
turfman. Mike will join the New York
team at Savannah in March.
President Soden now announces that Dick
Cooley will be retained by Boston next sea-
son. Trouble for Tenney even before he ID
appointed manager of the Beaneaters, for
he has declared that Cooley must go If he
rules.
That great Cleveland aggregation has
fallen to nothing, says the Cincinnati Com
proved failure. The material is undoubt-
eddy there to win championship in any
league, but who can get the work out OF an
all-star combination? Comiskey failed In
the Brotherhood year with a lot of stars,
and so has every man who ever tackled the
proposition. A team wants no stars if 1t
can get nine good ball players.
The New York National League club an
nounced yesterday that Second BaSeman
Sammy Strang, who was released by the
Brooklyn club near the close of last season,
has signed a contract and will be used as a
substitute infielder by Manager McGraW
that the Nationals during their spring trip
will play in Indianapolis on April and 4
and in Columbus on April s.
w. A. Phelon, in the Chicago Journal,
says. ITO a man up tree 1t seems as II
the most sensible way OF helping the pat
ting without prolonging the games would
be to enforce three-baIl rule. This would
make the pitchers hand them right across
the pan, and would not result in any mark
ed increase in free passes, for the average
pitcher nearly always wastes one or two in
wide shots, hoping to pull on the batsman.
With a three-ball rule the slabman would
| have to cut this out and shy them right
across the middle.
win probably be raised to So 200 for the sea-
son. The present limit is S2,4OO but the
| league has prospered so much in recent
years and the playing talent has reached
such a high standard of excellence that the
club owners feel that they can afford to be
liberal The league is the best equipped
minor organization in the country today.
1t has well-balanced circuit corps OF
excellent managers, and with +. L. PoWers
at the head of it, there seems to be nothing
but renewed prosperity in store for 1t for
years to come. The Buffalo, Jersey City,
Baltimore and Newark clubs all made big
money last season.
Somebody started the report again that
Jake Beckley, the ST. Louis first baseman,
had decided to leave the diamond and be-
come a bookmaker, probably because Jake
won a couple of bets at Los Angeles. Those
who know how tightly Beckley pulls his
purse strings laughed at the story, which
was quickly followed by an indignant de-
NAL from the veteran ball player himself.
Dad Clarke, who usually has a line on the
peculiarities of all players, once greeted
Beckley as he came to the bat in this man
ner: Hello, Jake! l hear you refused to
pay a quarter to see an earthquake the
other day. 1T wasn't a quarter, was
Beckley's retort; cit was nickel.