Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23
BASE BALL NEWS AND COMMENT.
By J. C. Morse.

It has been asked season after season II
the next would not be the last Of the grand
veteran of the game ICY" Young, and it
looks very much as If he would be once
more at hand when the bell rings in the
spring. Tannehill continues to land his
games with splendid regularity. George
Winter is one of the reliabes of the Boston
team and has done painstaking work during
this campaign. Had Dineen been able to
work with his old-time skill the team would
have landed many game, but he was ut
terly ineffective the latter part of the sea-
SON There will be material in sufficiency
beyond a doubt to choose good corps of
pitchers.
Most gratifying this season has been the
splendid work of Manager Chick Stahl.
He never played better ball than this. His
hitting has been magnificent and although
the load Of the charge of the club was
placed on his shoulders, it did not handicap
him it does most managers, and he mas
sailed in with magnificent pluck and spirit
and given an excellent account Of his stew
ardship. Chick is a game chap and is
always out to do his best and his is an eX-
ample that cannot but have a good effect
upon his comrades.
President Soden and Director Conant Of
the Boston Nationals evidently hope to
have their team pass into new hands. Mr..
Soden is quoted as saying that the Boston
National League club with winning array
ought to clear $4,000 a year. Without a
doubt the club could be made a paying in
situation with good players
The fact that 1t is rumored that these are
the closing days of Hughey in Philadelphia
reminds one that Philadelphia secured
sons ago. An effort was made to induce
him to remain in Boston, but Philadelphia
presented superior inducements and he
went there. If he has a successor and that
gentleman is not given better talent than
Duffy had it is question indeed If he can
succeed any better. Dufy is hard
worker and no one is more faithful and
ambitious than he. The fact that Presi-
dent Shettsine indorses Duffy and appre-
ciates the work he has done for the club
ought to speak for itself to the minds Of
the stockholders of the club. No one Is
better acquainted with the conditions that
have surrounded Duffy than Shettslne.
There is some very good material in the
team and it would not take very much
strengthening to make the club one of the
best in the National League The club
did so well last season that too much was
expected Of it this year.
A manager who deserves a world of
creult 1or the "oih ne mas oolie 10 Z. d
Donovan of the Brooklyn club. Like Fred
Tenney, he made some very good deals for
the club.~-His predecessor took charge
of the Cincinnati club where he had but to
command to secure what he wanted. Dono-
van did not have such a wide fling in Brook
lyn, but 1t looks now as If he would be able
to land his club ahead of that of Cincinnati,
and that will be, indeed. a grand triumph
for him and for his. In another season
Donovan will doubtless have a combina-
ton that will be in the thick of the strug-
gle for the whole season. Donovan has
been handicapped considerably by accidents
to his players and again and again his team
has been seriously crippled, but he has
worked away with might and main and has
won golden opinions for himself and shown