Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-21
Base Ball Notes.

The Nationals play a double header with
Cleveland today and then move on to De-
troit tomorrow.
The double defeat OF the Athletics at st.
Louis yesterday was something of shock
to the followers of the team In the Quaker
city.
Kid Elberfeld's foolish break yesterday
In assaulting Umpire Mccarthy In the Chi.
cago-New York game will just about losa
the pennant for the Highlanders. He VIII
be suspended and his place is hard to fill,
although Yeager has done good work at
short.
Manager Stahl's suspension runs out to-
day and he will be in the game tomorrow
at Detroit If he gets back from his Scout
ing trip in time.
The Middle Section Giants of Baltimore
and the Atlantics of the Metropolitan
League of this city play two games at
American League Park this afternoon. and
the sport should be fast and interesting.
The local colored boys anticipate taking
two games from the Baltimoreans.
Heidrick has decided to join the st. Louis
club at once. He has played independent
ball around Plttsburg this season.
Catcher Drill of the Detroits is laid up
. with an attack of fever and Jack Warner,
the former st. Louisan, is doing all the
backstopping.
a western writer says that Ed. Barry, the
rev pitcher of the Boston Americans Is
built on the lines of a Fitzsimmons. His
home is in Madison Wis. He will report
at the close of the Three l season.
The Chicago American League team has
five postponed games to play in Boston. Eff
forts are being made to have the two teams
meet in a doube-header at Providence on
Sunday, September "a and another game
may be transferred to Chicago.
Fred Clarke has again advised the Pirates
to let the umpircs alone. Says he: Forget
them. The Pittsburg club is not in high
favor with the present administration, ami
the umpires know 1t, but they will decids
the plays as they see them, and If We obey
the rules they can't handicap us.
81 Seymour has increased his lead over
Hans Wagner, and now leads the National
League batters by good margin. Sey-
mour in I04 games has been to the bat 4O1
.377. Wagner in 10l games has been to the
bat 372 times and made 1873 hits, giving him
.35S per cent.
A Toledo sporting editor says that Bate
man. the pitcher-f first baseman -outfielder
secured by Cleveland from Milwaukee. is
not ripe for fast company, as he cannot hit
curve ball. If such is the case, the AmerI-
can association twirlers must pitch an aw-
full lot of straight balls to Bateman as he
has made over 100 hits and is led by only
three batters in the league and has played
in eightyfour games.
Bent on winning the pennant, George w.
Heckert, manager of the York base ball
team, has started to strengthen his team
by signing new players. The first new
player tnat ne mas ianded Is Harry MCCOr-
mick, former New York and Pittsbuf z
National League outfielder, who is reserved
by the Phillies. Mccormick will join the
team in York today and will play his in
itial game with the champions In the after
noon, when they meet the Williamspo~t
team on the Penn Park diamond.
Cheer up, old man. that's nothing" said
Clarke Griffith to Jake Stahl of the WASH
ingtons Thursday night, when Manager
Jake received his notice of three days sus-
pension. ut is nothing to be suspended L
used to be suspended so often that I could
not sleep good unless l had an official no.
tce from Ban Johnson under my pillow at
night. Kid Elbeffeld and had great
race a few years ago. seeing which could be
put out of the game and be suspended the
most times. 1t was hard work and had
to almost exhaust my vocabulary in talking
&c the umpires, but | won out in the end
But this year I am as meek as lamb
Have not been put off the field once. None
of my players have been suspended and
only two of them have been put on the
field-Chesbro and Kicinow. cleveland
Leader.