Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-20
BASE BALL NEWS AND COMMENT.

That's a splendid race in the Eastern
The chances favor Buffalo. but Jersey City
and Baltimore are making a game finish.
Altrock is once more In fine fighting form
for the Chicago White Sox. He is game to
the core, and will be right there at the
finish.
Pitcher Beecher, recently of the Hough-
ton Copper Country League team, has made
a good start with the Minneap polls team.
He was drafted from Houghton.
Glaze, the Boston American college
pitcher. is said to have the most peculiar
motion of any pitcher in the game.
The veteran Dick Harley has played a
very good game for the Providence Club
this season.
Buffalo fans trying to induce STALL
ings to change his mind about retiring
from base ball this season, but he is firm.
The umpireS in the Eastern League have
been having some very warm experiences.
Conn. the first baseman of the Harris
burg team, had % put-outs the other day.
Altrock must be trying to dim Ed
Walshs record. Four games all wins in
eight days. is going some.
Charles Street is doing great back-stop-
ping work for Jimmy Sebring's Williams
port team.
The Lancaster outlaw team is said to be
dickering with Charles Atherton of the In
dianapols team. in effort to have him
manage the team of 1897.
Savannah has won the championship of
the South Atlantic League with Augusta a
close second Birmingham is the winner
in the Southern League. The squeeze play
did a large share OF it for the latter.
Pitcher Oberlin Of the Milwaukee Ameri-
can Association club, purchased by the
Boston American leaguers, joined that club
here Monday.
1t looks like poor craftsmanship but
good business for Frank Farrell to refuse
to play the Giants with his New York
American League team this year. The
Highlanders have the call In New York
now and the series will probably not take
place, in spite of the change of front on the
part of the National leaguers.
Chester J. Chadbourne, outfielder of the
Worcester New England League team, has
signed with the Boston Americans and will
| report in Detroit. Chadbourne Is one of
the leaders Of the New England League In
batting
Bagley In the New York Mall says of the
left-hander Ed Barry. who has returned
to the Boston American fold: Barry, who.
by. the way. is as tall as Falkenberg and
as wide as DIR. Casey, has a new bali. It
Is neither a fall away nor a head over
heels. It's kind Of a geometric parabola
tied to a gasoline explosion. a-but that's
what 1t Is. 1t Is very effective-the batter
gets free ticket to first when Barry serves
1t often enough"
Frank C. Bancroft. business manager Of
the Cincinnati team. thinks that when a
double header Is to be PLAYED each game
should be limited to seven innings He
thinks that fourteen innings of play in a
single afternoon Is all that the fans care
for. and he is certain that all the players
would be pleased at such a change. He
contemplates having the ACCESSIBILITY of
such a reform brought up at the next
| meeting of the rules committee.
George Stone of the st. Louis Americans
walks br.skly to the plate. swings his bat
up over his left shoulder. and holds it
there beside his left ear. He shoves his
right leg forward and plants it firmly.
bearing his weight with his left leg. As