Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
BASE BALL NOTES.

Del Mason of the Cincinnats will coach
college team at Winter Park. Fla.
1t is said that Ed Ashenback will. manage
the Buffalo club next season.
Both Schaefer and OLeary have signed
for 1907 with Detroit.
Sandy Griffin, the ex-Bison is manager
of the Syracuse Stars
Tom Nicholson, once a well-known second
baseman. is now shoe dealer in Bellaire
O., and was mayor of the town last year.
Ohio, and was mayor Of the town last year
says there will be accommodations for
26,O0O people on the Chicago National
League grounds.
Since 1902 Buffalo has been twice vham-
pion, twice second and once fifth. Jersey
City has been first once, second once and
third three times.
There are few of the old players VINO find
umpiring as congenial as playing the game.
George Mcconnell. Buffalos clever first
baseman, was the tallest player in the East
ern League this year. and did some of the
tallest playing.
Presidents Pulliam and Johnson each pre-
diets that the team representing his own
league will win the worlds championship.
Bill Carrick landed sixteen out of twen-
ty-seven games for Newark this. season.
Wild Conroy did some splendid throwing
from the outfield toward the end of the sea-
SON 1t had not only distance but accuracy
William Thomas, the player drafted by
Cincinnati from Youngstown, is a brother
of the Philadelphia National League player
who has secured an interest in the Boston
National League club.
Billy" Lush. the former American
League player, is again coaching the ale
baseball team for next years campaign.
Devlin hit much better this year than last.
He batted .246 last year. and this season
improved his percentage probably fifty
points. Chase was another who produced
much improved stick work. This year he
was 800 hitter all the way.
Owner Charles A. Comiskey said of the
landing of the pennant by his club: Their
performance is a remarkable one, and
cannot speak too highly of the ceaseless
worry and labor that Manager Fielder A.
Jones has bestowed on the White Sox to
bring them home winners.
The veteran Jack Chapman is of the opin
ion that the Chicago National League club.
in its present success. and in the imam
cal accumulation that VIII surely attend
the worlds series. ought not to forget the
man that laid the foundation for the sue
cess of the team, Frank G. Selee. Would
it not be nice if Selee were given share
of the profits just as if he We're manager?
1t would be nice tribute.
Clark Griffith says his men have no COM
plant whatever to make over there being
no series with the New York Nationals.
when we pulled out of Chicago last time,
Griff observed 1.-The comments of the
cranks WERE Those are the fellows to
trim the Cubs But we got up against it
good and hard in Detroit. II We had gone
away from there in shape we would have
won the championship"
Harry Pulliam said in Chicago of the
sale of the Boston National League club:
You can say for me that the sale of the
Boston base ball club is another great boom
for base ball. 1 know all about the trans
fer 1t is bona fide one and the Boston
club will be a big factor hereafter. The
head of the club is a wealthy business man.
He will take an active interest and be
closly allied to the club and will travel
with the club. He is well posted on base
ball"