Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-17
MAJOR LEAGUE GOSSIP
BIZ ! o. MORSE.

New York plenty of worry, and while It
may not finish first will be good second.
and next season look out Dreyfuss Is not
conservative when 1t comes to keeping his
team fast. AS soon as there Is sign OF
break he begins to hustle.
There's little doubt the season Of 1908 will
begin as early and last as late as that Of
1905. 1t is results the magnates are after,
and results they have had. No season has
ever approached that of 1906 in financial
sense, and every club In the National
League has made money. Some clubs have
made lot of 1t. New York has made a
barrel. and the American League team has
done so much better than last season that
Owner Farrell has unloaded in good style
to get some players who can strengthen his
team. and 1t looks as IL he had corraled
some very good ones. Boston is down in
the list In the National League, but has
done far better at home and abroad this
season than 1t did last, and with a team
that can hold its own could do twice as
well. 1t Is up to Dunn to do things for
next season. 1t looks as II he had lost g.
clever couple in Perrine and Hoelsketter,
the pair he drafted from Denver, but got
away from him. Now would be the time to
try colts and find out what is In them.
Those who read the local paper last Sum
day doubtless noticed the advertisement OF
Mr.. Dunn that the books are now open for
subscriptions for stock in the Boston Ma
tional Base Ball Club Unc.), par value $40
share; 7 per cent dividends. The public
were informed that the grounds and club
will be rebuilt, remodeled and reorgantzed.
So here is given an opportunity at little
expense or considerable. as may be desired,
to get into base ball. and 1t would not be
surprising in the least If many awaited
themselves of the opportunity President
Soden Of the old organization says that all
Mr.. Dunn has to do to enter the charmed
inner circle of brother magnates is to make
good with his $4,000 the 1st OF November
and he will be In command.
Jake Stahfs many friends here In Boston
will wish him plenty of good luck with the
Washington team next season. 1t Is a very
heavy load he has to bear however 1t
isn't cinch by any means to handle a
strong club and 1t is much harder to ham
die a team that is building up this season.
There isn't any doubt at all that the re-
sponsibilities Of handling the club has af-
fected his ball playing. This has happened
IN the case of more than one manager of
teams. Fielder Jones Of the Chicago White
down SO fine these days that a bench man
ager is almost necessity. This Is what
Fred Clarke of the Pittsburgs Will come to
in the no-distant future, without any
doubt at all.
If Stahl can start his team out in the
spring as he did this season there is no
doubt at all that he will achieve success
even more decided than that achieved this
season. He has better team by cons.d-
cradle than he had in the spring. Washing
ton did well to secure such fine young
ball tosser as Catcher HeN1on. There are
few better today among the young crop.
Our old friend Charley Hickman we'll show
ed here what he could do amid harmonious
surroundings. What a man he would have
made for Cleveland after Larry was oblig-
ed to lay off. He is valuable to a team for
his hitting alone, and outside of that he
played bang-up game at second base.
Regret was expressed in base ball circles
here that John Anderson was not secured
to cover first for Boston. John always
wanted to play here. and there is no doubt
at all of the worth he would have been to
the locals had he been secured. There is
no doubt that Freeman of Minnea polls will
get a show here. but If he can hit for but
20 in that company what hope Is there
he can hold his own in such fast company
as the American League, where the pitch
ing Is faster than in the American Associa-
ton, and bound to be better in 1903 than
1T was in 1905? No change need be looked
for in the rules. The vast turnouts show
that the public like the rules full we'll and
desire no changes. The games are sharp
and quick, and call for skill of the highest
order The tie games afford more oppor-
tunities for double-headers, and although
the players do not care for such the public
do and always will, and a double header is
always sure to bring out big crowds.
The expenditure of money is no encomium
these days first-class team must expend
money to keep in the game, and 1t ought
to be willing to spend money to get play
ers IL generous public makes 1t possible.
Garry Hermann Of Cincinnati has expend-
ed lot of money without the patronage
Of the larger cities, and yet Is far Off from
the darling wish of his heart-a champion
team.