Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-25

| the Bostons, in which bob" Ewing gave
| such a good account of himself. Ewing
ought to be a great man this year. When
| tn. champions of the American left Gin
cinnau the praises of Harper were sounded
everywhere, and the fans were saying
what he was going to do this year. Really
1t does not pay to count your chickens be-
fore they are Matched, and the Pittsburgs
did things with the idol in the first meet
ing. That youth Clancy seems to have
taken the place of Bransfield. He is a good
ball tosser and Is bound to stick to his
task all right. He got in right where he Is.
Bransfield, on the other hand has given
Philadelphia first-class player and they
are pleased beyond measure with his work.
Pittsburg is far and above a better team
than it was last year, and ought to push
New York far more than was the case last
| season. If Dreyfuss can steer his team
clear of injuries. 1t will be mighty fast
aggregation that can take a ball from 1t.
Peitz has opened in his new company by
batting the ball splendidly. New surround
ings have doubtless worked to his advan-
tage and they often do in the game of base
ball. The club is strong in the pitching de-
partment, and a mighty good quartet are
Lever. Philippe. Flaherty and Lynch
The PittSburg team did very clever act
when it got the cast-off southpaw from
Comiskey-Flaherty. 1t often happens that
a league does not want the discard of one
| of its teams, and he goes to the other and
makes good, indeed.
The Boston Americans picked out a good
man in Catcher Arthur McGovern, and this
| young man is bound to make good when he
| has had more seasoning. All he needs is
experience. He goes a his work in a thor
oughly business-like way. and takes to work
| as duck takes to water. He is superb
backstop and throws sharply and unerr-
| ingly. He handles the stick splendidly and
| is bound to make one of the best batting
catcherS in the country. He has been ham
pered somewhat recently by a bad finger,
| injured by foul tip in one of the exhibit
ton games in the south.
A player who has made an exceedingly
good impression in the games in which he
has played this spring Is Irving Young, the
New Hampshire southpaw, who has
| pitched for the Boston Nationals He did
excellent work for the Concord IN. h
team, and no pitcher in the league did any
better work. His great forte is his COM
mand. He is a stocky built youngster and
Fred Tenney thinks he has a brilliant
| career before him. He fields his position
splenddly and has varied delivery. He
promises to be one Of the stand-bys of the
team in the box this season.
The local Nationals have another proms-
Ing man in Jake Volz of San Antonio, Tex,
who showed an ability to strike out more
| men in the New England League last sea-
son than any man in that organization He
did not join the Nationals before 1t got
back to Boston for the reason that he was
not In good health. There is, no reason
however, why he should not give good ac-
count of himself when he gets into condi-
ton.
No one is railing at the foul strike rule
these days more than Buck Freeman, the
slugger of the Bostons. and Buck does
not like it little bit. There has been some
heavy scoring in games this spring, but it
must be remembered that the season has
been very late and both pitchers and players
have been unable to do the work they Will
do when the weather is hot and they can
let themselves out. There have already been
some very small scores, and on the open
ing day of the American all the figures were
remarkably small. Wait and see how il
will turn out when the season is at It's
height.