Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-15
BASE BALL. NOTES.

the AthletlcS Will indulge IN the squeeze
| play to a great extent the coming season.
Connie Mack has his men working this
play a great deal at the training grounds
"Cy'' Young, the Boston Americans
twirier. enters his sixteenth straight year
of big league playing this year. His finish
seems far distant at that.
Tom Corcoran's prediction that the spit
BALI will die soon is contradicted by re-
ports from the different training camps of
American league clubs. 1t seems that In
that circuit the salivated delivery will be
used more this year than last. In the Ma
tional League the pitchers will probably
use straight delivery more and the spit
BALI less.
making fine impression at Birmingham
by his work with the New York Americans.
When with Cincinnati he was always re-
ga,aed as a waIm-weather pitcher. but this
year he spent month at Hot Springs, and
Is already in good condition.
There were f53 home runs made In the
American League last season, and in this
respect Boston led, with twenty-seven. New
Sor kwa second, with twenty-three. The
Athletics made twenty-five, of which Davis.
Seybold and Murphy made eighteen. Wash
fngton twenty-three, Cleveland eighteen st.
Louis fifteen, Detroit thirteen and Chicago
twelve
President Johnson has released Umpire
Conahan since Jack Sheridan consented to
Joe Common, who caught for the Yankees
durin gthe closing days of last season. says
ne VIII not consent to q transfer to the
Montreal Club. He threatens to play out
law ball.
Pitcher Ivor Wagner of the Columbus
American Association base ball club paid
sooe TO business Manager Quinn and there
by purchased his release from the club. He
took the action for the purpose of being
certain that he will not be farmed out to
the Wilkesbarre (Pa) team. The action of
Wagner caused a stir here.
In the National League championship race
the sharps pick New York to win third
pennant and firmly believe that Pittsburg
and Chicago will be the contenders for the
place. They place Philadelphia ahead of
Cincinnati, wit hthe others trailing With
Mathewson. McGinnity Taylor Ames and
Wiltse in good form. the diamond students
believe that McGraw's men will romp home
easily.
DO You know. I could not go on the
coaching lines and yell to the players"
says Pitcher Joss. Il don't know why,
but feel more like criminal on the coach
In g1nes than a ball player. / try to say
a few words and then 1 feel sheepIsh and
ashamed of myself. and back to the bench
| hike / guess the rest of the players feel
the same way, and that explains why we
don't have several running-fire artists on
the side lines. But / will admit that a
couple of good coachers on the side lines
can he of valuable assistance to team at
any time. Even sometimes they can de-
tCi iHsiIS d game III d CLOSE pIncn but the
umpires don't allow one to say much these
days, or you sent to the bench but
hope that it will be different this year.
can pitch all the better If there are two
good coachers on the opposing side trying
to rattle me. Sometimes they say mean
| things and you want to get angry, but all
| that l do Is to bite my lip and say moth
! ing
| The pathway of the youngster brea king
| into big league company is not strewn with
| roses, said a prominent base ball man
| the other day. II have known of occasions
when the other fellows deliberately crossed
| him SO as to show him up / remember
one instance particularly in certain Ma
tional League club where a lad from Texas
was trying to get start He was a strap
ping big pitcher, and looked good, but as
soon as the catcher got next to his delivery
he deliberately tipped off the batters what
kind of ball was coming, and the result
was the young fellow was driven to the
| timber in a hurry. Another similar In
| stance, with another club in the same
| league-that happened before the American
| was born-was with now famous bah
| player. He was catching and the star
| pitchers of the team deliberately crossed
| him so that he would get hurt and have
| to retire in favor of an old backstop whose
| days as a big league man were over but
/ these pitchers were his friends and wanted
| to keep Linn In the game So the young
| fellow suffered