Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03
BASE BALL NOTES

Too bad it rained yesterday on account
of the good money that went to waste. Re-
ports from Philadelphia say Treasurer
Fowler lost ten pounds thinking over the
lost receipts
The New York Highlanders made a good
start at home and may yet make it warm
for the Athletics. There is nothing stranger
than the shifts of luck in base ball.
The Hughes testimonial got quite a boom
yesterday, the contributors being Thomas
Evers, II. I. Tharp, ]. NJ. Dunn. George
Thompson, ]. c. Settle, S. II, E., r. II. Ter
rel and w. c. Thacher.
Manager Stahl believes in being fortified
with pitchers as they are the best trading
material IN the business. a fairly good
pitcher can always get job where a fairly
good batter and fielder goes a-begging.
Tomorrow being Labor day, the Athletics
and Nationals will play two games, one in
the morning and one in the afternoon. Tall
Tom Hughes is liable to work in the sec
ond game if he feels equal to the task
Don't forget the games at American
League Park tomorrow between the Com
missioners and Sunday School League
boys. The fur will fly all day.
Two hundred residents of Edgewater.
Bergen county, n. j., have signed petit
tion to the courts for an injunction pro
hibiting the playing of Sunday base ball
at that place. The petition is aimed at the
New York American League base ball
team, whose owners are about to lease
Pleasant Valley Grove, an athletic field,
Just below Fort Lee. Information reached
Edgewater that the team intends to play
I'm the field every Sunday next year, ard
the plan is to present the petition as soon
as the lease is filed. Edward NJ. Fitzgerald,
a wealthy resident started the petition.
1t is a laugh at the meant team. Papa
Ban would rather see the pennant floating
on Tammany's Flagstaff than yank -
pound bass out of the raging stream.
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All streams, you know. when you yank out
a big fish. or any nsh, is raging The
Yanks are moving about like bunch of
inebriated cab drivers doing a cake walk
at a sangerfest. The Browns tied em.
Cleveland wasn't easy picking for en-.
And here goes Detroit walloping EN- twice.
Poor Griff! Perhaps he'll meet with bet
ter luck next season.
Al Setback made a new outfield record
for the season at Chicago the other day
four errors In two games, three in one but
the record for quickness and neatness in
error making, for short space of time. is
held by Mike Grady. Mike went in at third
one afternoon at the West Side Park, Chi
cago Hardly had he set himself when a
grounder appeared. Mike fumbled it. Then
he picked II up and flung It over the first
baseman. He muffed the throw-back,
picked up the ball again and threw 1t over
the catcher. BY this time several gentle
men had scored and another was coming
down to third. Mike muffed the catcher
return and then SHE'D the ball into the
stand. Some brutal people gave Mike six
errors on two minutes work, and others
let him off with four.
The Eastern Empires and the Atlantics
have arranged to play two games at the
Coliseum Park tomorrow The first game
will be played at 1880 and the second game
at 3 o'clock
The minor leaguers will now be stripped
OF stars and other players
Scrap Iron Man McGinnity again got 1t
last Thursday where the ak landed on the
ROSTERS anatomy.
Wagner batted 1000 in the first game last
Friday at Pittsburg and 500 In the second.
Look out, 'Cy" Seymour
Yes. President Johnson, you may turn the
flag over to the angularly constructed