Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-27

him down the line and pointed out hole
where he alleged the ball struck. Later on
when Sheridan was umpiring. Grin tried
to have him go to the field and inspect
hole where the ball had struck. You
bring the hole up here and let me see 1t. ;"
said Sheridan.
President George E. Lennon of the St.
Paul base ball club has confirmed the report
that Manager NJ. ]. Kelley, Walter Slagle,
Jack Sullivan and Charlie Hemphill had
been sold to the St. Louis American League
team. Mr.. Lennon also added that Pete
OBrien had been disposed Of to the same
club.
This has been an exceptional season in
the number of extra inning games. There
have been SO far forty-fve such battles in
the American League and forty in the Ma
tional, as follows: MISUNDERSTANDING
games 16: eleven-inning, Il; twelve-inning,
4; thirteen-inning, 6; fourteen-inning, 2;
sixteen-inning, 2; twenty-inning, /. Ma
notwithstanding, %; eleven-inning, Q;
twelve-inning, 4; thirteen-inning. 3; four
teen-inning, q eighteen-inning, L; twenty
inning, 1.
Jimmy Collins manager of the Plymouth
Pebbles, thinks that ninety victories will be
enough to win the flag. That would give
the champion team a percentage OF .5S4.
Last year 1t took .617 to win, and 1t took all
Of that. too. for the championship was not
decided until the next to last game had
been played.
came into play in last Thursdays tie game
at the Polo Grounds. With Strang on first.
Bresnahan hit safely to center. On account
OF the poor light Strang could not tell
whether Seymour would take the ball on
the fly. He had to slow up between bases,
and Seymour, taking the ball on the first
bound and close to second base, threw
strans out at second. A scoring rule says:
In no case shall base hit be credited
when a runner is forced out on the
play" That made 1t tough on Bresnahan.
President Hedges of the Browns has to
laugh at Joe Kelley's claim that he has
Fol da6 snn 10
contrary" says the st. Louis magnate,
I'VE have Hemphil. We have his signed
contract and have 1t filed away in my
safe. However, In order to settle the mat
ter once for all I will mail it along to Ban
Johnson and he can notify the country that
HemphilI Is once again our property
Joe Yeager has been hitting well this
week, better than any of his eliminates ex-
cept Delehanty, who has made fast start
in fashionable company. The main body Of
the New York Americans, however have
not been batting as well on the road as
they were at home before going west Still
the team has been winning creditable pro-
portion OF its games on the road. Nearly
every game has been a hard fight. One
eleven-innlng game was won to /, one
game was won to o. the runs coming in
the ninth inning; two were lost to 1; one
was won to !, a twelve-inning game was
won to and a ten-inning game was won
I to 2. Sheer gameness has pulled the
team out more than once
Just about the time Friday afternoon the
Giants got through pounding the life out OF
Charley Chech who was the star of the
American Association twirlers last year
President Hermann of the Cincinnati club
closed deal with the Columbus manage
ment for Pitcher Gus Dorner, who now
holds down the same honors in the Amer
lean Association that Chech did last year.
or course that is only a coincidence in con-
nection with the deal for the man, who Is
said to be the pitching wonder Of the sea-
son. Dorner will Join the team as soon as
the Reds get through with their present
tour.-Cincinnau Enquirer.