Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-13
BASE BALL NOTES.

Base ball players move in circles like
other folks. Dick Cooley will play first base
for the Topeka team next season. 1t was
in the Kansas capital that he first came
into note ball player.
The South China Morning Post of Hong
kong of December last tells of game
played on December l between the sailors
of the United States steamship Raleigh and
the Hongkongs. The tars from the Raleigh
won by score of 10 to IL.
The application of player A. r. I. Hille-
brand for a rehearing of his case was re-
fused by the national base ball commission
at Cincinnati yesterday. Hillebrand request
ed that his name be stricken from the
reserve list of the Washington American
League club, but the commission recently
refused his request.
1t was authoritatively stated that William
M. Higgins, the captain and catcher of the
Brown University base ball team, has
signed with Hugh Duffy to play with the
Philadelphia National League club next sea-
son. Higgins is a senior.
Ducky Holmes, who has secured con-
tract to manage the Lincoln club of the
Western Association, Yesterday was given
key of the White Stockings. Holmes will
make his plans to play with the Lincoln
club from the outset of the Western cham
pionShip season.
Catcher Jerry Donovan, for three years a
member of the Williamsport base ball team
has signed a contract to play with the Phil
adelphia National during the coming season.
Donovan is the favorite catcher Of Johnny
Lush also Of WilHamsporr, who has signed
to pitch for the Phillies. Manager Sebring
has already signed two catchers for Will
liamsport-Blair Of last years team and
Henry, a Western Lacquer with fine rec
ord.
Quate Bateman, the base ball player who
was stabbed by Charlie Dexter at Des
Moines, Iowa last fall, is slowly recovering
from the wound at bts hnma in OLD
Texas. Bateman played fast ball with the
Milwaukee club last season, and was sold to
the Cleveland Americans. Bateman writes
to friend in Milwaukee that he is still
very weak and may not be able to play
until late in the summer
President Pulliam, who is in Chicago SAYS
that the National League season will open
on April II. in spite of the determination
of the American League to open five days
later. 1t remains to be seen now whether
President Johnson will shift his plans and
Pulliams circuit. Just why the National
League insists upon such an early opening
Is not clear to base ball fans, unless 1t is
due to the fact that the magnates want to
gather the shekels as soon as possible
even though the players and fans suffer
from the erratic weather.
THAT fade-away ball of Mathewson's is
additionally effective because 1t comes up
approaching level" says a student Of
the game. IT don't know what PLAYERS
think of it, but that Is the way it impresses
me, VINO nave watched from the grandStand
Mathewson pitch a good deal. Never hay-
Ing batted against 1t I may be wrong but
1t seems to me 1t hasn't as much drop to II
as Garvin's fade-away had and for that
reason is all the more effective. You know
1t is harder to gauge the speed of anything
that Is coming straight toward you with
out altering its elevation than something
that veers Its course up or down or to the
side There's nothing that helps the eve
calculate the speed, and ball coming
straight toward you on the same level ali
the way would keep batters guessing as to
when II would arrive That ball of Mathew
sons seems to come up that way It drops
some, of course, but not enough for the
change in course to give you a line on II:
and think that Is why 1t Is so puzzling,'
Napoleon Lajoie. whose four-year contract
with the Clevelands expired recently. has
resigned for the coming season for fhe
largest salary. 1t is said. paid to a PLAYER
In the big leagues. The great PLAYER will
draw between 5000 and $4,000 for cover
ing second base and managing the Cleve-
lands this year, and is worth every cerff of
this amount, according to good base hall
Judges. In the National League Barney
DreyfusS insists that Hans Wagner Is the
highest salaried player, as the big Dutch
man receives more than 81. 900 for his serv
Ices. It Is generally believed that Mathew
son of the New York Nationals gets close
to this sum, while John McGraW's salary
is said to be at least $4,000