Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-04
BASE BALL NOTES.

With the clouds ready to open, 1t was
case of do not bat. and thus the game was
won for the locals.
From the result of the batting of the
locals in the second and third innings
mad the game gone to a finish. Mr. Har-
ris would have been driven to the tall
timbers.
Schlafiy received Il very hard knock in
the head on Monday and did not make his
appearance on the field yesterday. Geo
Nil covered the keystone sack His work
was tiptop and he connected for two safe
drives
Charley Jones certainly has his eye on
the pail. as he drove out neat double In
the third. Lave Cross and Hickman also
got in good swats, the formers being
triple and the latter's a double.
Buck Freeman is holding down the ir
itlal sack for Boston in great style and
viii give Grimshaw a run for the posi-
ton when the latter returns from his
home in the New York state, where he is
nursing bruised hand
Weather whims and schedule exigencies
have so ordered it this season that the
New York Nationals have played sixteen
games thus far with the Quakers and
only six with the Pirates.
Mike Herman, who helped the New
y orks win the Temple cup and who was
at once fine fielder batter and base run
ner. sees an occasional game at the Polo
grounds these days.
Two of the best finds of late years in
base ball have been dug up by New York
clubs. One is Third Baseman Devlin of
the New York Nationals the other First
Baseman Chase of the New York Ameri-
cans.
Attention has been called to the fact
that two likely catchers. namely, Doom
and Murray, have red hair. Why over
look Jack Kleinow? Jack is no SLOUGH as
a baCkStop and yields to no man In the
radiant redness of his locks.
most unusual feature of the first
game between the New Yorks and Ath-
letics last Monday was the fact that botl
OF the pinch hitters that Griffith sent to
the bat cracked out a safety. Moriarity
was one and Yeager the other. 1t is not
any too often that one man goes to bat
for another and produces the bingle, and
when two do 1t in one game 1T Is excep-
tionaI
The case of Jack Taylor. who played IN
Chicago before he went to st. Louis and
now returns to the former city. recalls
similar Instances. Several seasons inter
yened between two different occasions on
which Jack Doyle was a member of the
New York team; Tom DAILY played in NIL
waukee after and before service with the
Brooklyn team, and old Jake Beckley
played on the st. Louis Whites years ago
and later returned to that city after doing
first base duty for P1ttSburg. New York
and Cincinnati Willie Keller played with
the New York Nationals in 1893 then went
to Brooklyn. then to Baltimore, then back
TO Brooklyn and then to the New York
Americans.
Manager Dunn of the Providence Eastern
League team signed Outfelder Setback of
the Boston Americans yesterday. Selbach
will report today in Baltimore.
Griffith. Mack and Lajoie OF the Aneri
can League are having a game of now-you-
see-it-and-now- you-dont for first place. and
it was ClevelanG's turn to see it yesterday.
The three points lead the New Yorks had
forsook the hilltoppers and attached Itself
to the CIeveiands. No blame lies at the
New Yorks door for this. The New York
Philadelphia game was called at the end of
the second inning on account of rain. Each
side had scored one run The Cievelands
and Detroits put in six innings, the former
shutting out their opponents. Another
change of berths had TO do with fourth
place The Chicagos won both installments
of a double header from st. Louis and tum-
bled the Detroits out of fourth position.