Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-04
BASE BALL NOTES.

President Comiskey says there will be no
White sale in Chicago. He depends on the
southpaw to help land the pennant.
Umpire Jack KERN has forwarded his
terms to President O'Brien of the American
association and will go there If his terms
are accepted.
sporting Editor Harry Edwards of the
cleveland Plain Dealer is mentioned In con-
nection with the presidency of the Ohio and
Pennsylvania League.
Lajoie says that his foot ia In frst-c,ass
shape and that he never felt better or
more mi, ape to go the distance than at pres
eht. which viii be pleasant news to his
many friends and admirers
whey Platt Is looking for a major league
engagement. AS yet the big league mana
gers have not broken any bones sprinting
to the southpaw.
p1 Base ball asIl has another Billy Sunday.
Louis from Kansas City, says he will de-
sert the game for the ministry
. hoW would you like to be the ball trust?
American and National Leagues absorb
5000 white pellets in a season
claude Rossman, who has been signed
by Cle ,y thinks there is no doubt that
he Will beat out Stovall for the regular
berth at first base for Lajoie.
In his last two games with Los Angeles,
Schiafiy. the second baseman secured for
Washington, hit safely four times In eight
times up TWICE knocking doubles. and
played an excellent game in the field.
Pitchers Bernhard, joss, Moore Hess and
Hhos des and Catchers Bemis and Buelow
OF TIE Cleveland team will go to Hot
Springs. Ark, the middle of February to
start their preliminary work for next sea-
son.
The Philadelphia club is on the trail OF
an infelder. whom Arthur Irwin declares
to be easily worth $1,000 In the rough
and to give promise of developing into as
good man as Kid Gleason. Can it be
Hans Lobert?
Jake Beckley and Kid Gleason are the
only players in the National League whose
connection with the league extends as far
back as 1885, Ned Hanlon, Hugh Duffy
and Hank O'Day are three others who go
back that far, but they are no longer
players. though Duffy occasionally fills In in
the Quaker outfield.
An outlaw league is to be formed In
Michigan to buck against the Central
League. A brother to John CAMEL, who
owns the Grand Rapids club, expects to
The reorganization of the old Virginia
League recalls the fact that this organiza-
ton turned out such star players as Jesse
and Lee Tannehill, AL Ortiz, Sam Lever
Sparks. Bill Donovan. Norman Elberfeld
Jack Cresbro Chick stahl and others.
Charley Starr, who was tried at second
base by the st. Louis Americans last
summer. has been shipped to the St Paul
club Of the American Association which
is managed by Dick Padden, former cap
tam or the Browns. OuthelderS Van Zant
and F'risk and Catcher Roth of last years
Browns have also been turned over to
Padden.
The national commission collected $500
In fines last season. Five hundred dollars
came from the Youngstown club for play
ing Billy Phyle the outlawed Southern
Lacquer; $500 from Johnny Lush when he
was reinstated with the Quakers and 500
from the Cincinnati club for playing against
Phyle at Youngstown. Chairman Herr
mann will call the annual meeting of the
commission for Cincinnati either January
II or January 10.
According to Connie Mack. the manager OF
the Philadelphia Athletics. he has no inten-
ton of letting Pitcher "Rube" Waddell go
to the ex-champion BostonS. Mack con-
tends that the Bostons have nothing to offer
him in exchange for the big pitcher and
he is not ready to place any of his players
on the market. 1t is believed that WaddelP s
lame arm, which kept him out of the game
during the latter part of last season, will
be in good condition when the next cham
pionship season opens.
William G.. Evans, who was recently ap-
pointed an American League umpire by Ban
Johnson, is the first college graduate, it is
said, to serve In that capacity. Evans is
a graduate Of Cornell. Recently he has
paper. and for the past two seasons has
umpired with much success in the Ohio
and Pennsylvania League. He is a stick
Is cool and quick. fter he has run up
against some of the rowdies of the profess
sion he may not be so COOL but Johnson
will back him up at all hazards, as he al
ways does with his judges of play.
Arrangements have been made between
Manager Connie Mack Of the Philadelphia
Athletics and Hugh Duffy Of the Philadel-
phia National League team for series OF
nine games. to be played on alternate
grounds. upon the return Of the two teams
from their southern training trips The
Athletics, champions of the American
League, will make their headquarters at
Montgomery in the south, while Duffy will
take about twenty-five men to Savannah
about March /.
The two big base ball leagues have re-
served, purchased and drafted 487 players
for service in 1906. Allowing sixteen play
ers to a team, this means that 231 of the
tossers lined up are going to fall by the
wayside. The lists follow:
American League. National League.
Cleveland. ......... 80 Brooklyn. ........... 80
Philadelphia. SO st. Louis. ....... "a
New York. ......... 80 Pittsburg, .......... IS
St. Louis. ........... 80 Cincinnati. ,........ 2S
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