Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
MISSIVE FROM MORSE

BY J. O. MORSE.


Special Correspondence of The Star
BOSTON, June %, 1905.
ne most difficult task to pick the win
ners this year. Things have been going at
a nrettv topsy-turvy pace in both leagues.
In tho National the New York champions
made so warm a pace that it looked as if
they would be so far ahead by the tourth
Of Julv that the race would be settled then
and there but they have had their troubles
on the very first western trip, and the gap
between them and the clubs Immediately
behind them is not such a big one. The
pbilIfes went along merrily and gathered
eleven victories in a row, but they took
their SLUMP Cincinnati was going very
badly and things finally went their way,
while Selee's team also struck it's stride aad
did some splendid work
The adherents of the Washington team
went fairly wild over the showing of the
team and the squirt it made at the beginning
of the season was the real sensation of the
base ball world. The club made most
formidable showing when it was in the east,
but. once on the western war path, 1t was
fortunate to come home better than last,
and since then the club has been up against
1t good and hard. The American League
champions rested in the last berth for a
very long time and have met with many
surprises. Perhaps the club may succeed,
when the weather gets to the liking Of the
pitchers, in diminishing the gap that sep
arates it from the leading clubs. Perhaps.
Perhaps it would have been good idea to
try the farmed pitchers in the games while
the hot weather pitchers were under the
weather. Then Cleveland is expected to re-
peat the history of previous seasons and
take a slump. The team is playing very
strong game this season and has lead that
is very strong one and will be hard to
break Manager Griffith is still hopeful, but
it is difficult to see how he can hope to
daily with the championship this year.
Really, it does not pay to crow before one
is out of the woods Manager Shettsline,
highly elated with the wonderful showing
of his men, was telling what fine team
the Phillies were, when the floor gave way
from under him and down went McGinty.
At one time the Phillies had got within
gunshot of the leaders, when along came
the Cincis and the Chicago colts with a
rush, and what they did not do was plen-
ty. The Phillies are good team, 1t is true,
and are a vast Improvement upon the ar
ticle they had last season, but they have
not that pitching strength calculated to
maintain place in the first division, and 1t
is in that department they will have to
strengthen a good deal. It Is in that de-
partment the Colts and other teams are
very well fortified. The pace has been so
hot in the National that the Browns, Bos-
tons and Brooklyns are left at the post.
Brooklyn has been hard hit by the loss of
Lewis If President Ebbets has so much
money with which to strengthen the team.
why this cutlery about low salaries from
the members of the team, and why not pay
a little of It to keep the departed in liner
owens and Lewis could have been kept in
the team as well as not, SO 1t seems.
President Hermann made mighty good
point about allowing the spare talent of
team to go to the clubs that need 1t, but
why not the farmed talent as well? Here