Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
MAJOR LEAGUE GOSSIP

BY TIM MURNANE

of late as winning propositions as the cit
les are considered too hot in summer for
the great players
With the exception of two or three games
at Rocky Point. beach resort between
Providence and Narragansett Pier the Bos-
ton Americans have played games in
New England outside of their own grounds,
and yet there is no section of the country
where base ball clubs and plants are so
thick.
Out of regard for Fred Doe, the club filled
in an open date last week at New Bedford
and had a fine time. The players were a
greater attraction than a one-ring circus.
and the comments heard around the hotel
were extremely funny.
Lew Criger discovered an old friend in
Jake Weihl, who is running wet goods
well.
Weihl was the star player at Elkhart in
49, and Criger had some good stories to
tell of this Indiana outfit.
I'm never forget" said Criger, 1.-The first
game ever saw Jake play in. 1t was
against Ansons Chicago White Socks, and
the grounds We're packed. l have very good
reason to remember the game. too con-
tnued the Boston catcher. Il was boy
then, living on farm and went to town
wearing my best blue jeans, for the biggest
event of my life up to that time. Just out
side the fence on the side of road, dis
covered team with load of hard wood,
and soon found comfortable seat where
could look over the fence and see the game.
Just as the great players came on the field
and shout went up l experienced a pecu-
liar sensation and was raised fully ten feet
in the air, going to the turf in a heap. 1
soon discovered that the perpetrator of the
joke was the fellow who owned the team,
loaded with a business whip. My jean trOu-
sers were too thin to break the force of the
lash, and | was in no form to give the un-
cultured citizen an argument. Since that
time have often looked for that chap, and,
believe me. were 1 to find him and he
broken down. wearing overshoes. even on
the Fourth of July, l would give him the
thrashing of his life
In one of the Detroit games here Uncle
Dick Cooley nearly caused a riot by making
phenomenal one-handed running catch or
a pickup. Dick says he caught the ball.
but Silk O'Loughlin would not allow it..
and the champions won the game. The
large crowd present took sides, the visitors
having as many friends as the home team;
in fact, that is one of the features of the
games in this city The visiting clubs re-
ceive fully as much encouragement as the
home team. and l think this helps the home
team on the road. as they become accus-
toned to roasting from the entire circuit.
The Detroit players are all worked up over
their good luck and will look good until
they arrive home and fall down, as they
are sure to do, for they are going about %
per cent faster than the dope allows them
with the present bunch. The club has a
fine string of pitchers. a rafting good third
baseman and Sam Crawford. with in and
cutters that will stop with disappointment.
Crawford gave the finest exhibition of stick
work seen in Boston this season, including
three fine home runs, once with the bases
full.
1 hear that Stanley Robson says base
ball will never pay as whole in the big
leagues until the big leagues are amalga-
mated. If that time comes the lovers of the
game from Marblehead to Idaho will not be
satisfied unless Sir Stanley and brother
Frank are included in the new deal to the
limit, for no finer men were ever mixed up
with the sport.
Thomas Burns, the Colorado Springs mag
nate. has finally given up backing the club
game. Thomas was never the right man in
the sport and had more disputes for the
national board to settle than any other ten
men, and he quit with Charley Nichols on
his heels with big claim for managing his
Kansas city club during a foolish fight I
am afraid that Nichols will have to get
satisfaction out of the Colorado mining ex-
pert through the courts, as Thomas has no
standing in organized ball.