Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-10
BASE BALL NOTES.
Nationals start a new series in Philade

Nationals start a new series in Philadel
phia today.
Falkenberg or Hardy will have to do ths
pitching for the locals.
Cleveland's defeat yesterday by st. Loui.
was q hard Low for the Maps, who still
have pennant aspirations.
The pennant-chasing New York Yankees
will be here Thursday. Friday and Satur
day. and the local fans" will have 9
chance to look them over
Pitcher Doyle, who has been secured By
the New York Americans, is styled the
slowest man that ever happened.
Indianapolis bids fair to register its. 1OOtf
defeat before the season is over
Jake Stah played grand game at first
while the veteran Lave Cross was the
money at third, making several sensational
plays.-Boston Herald.
Has any second baseman known to pro.
fessional baseball ever equaled the record
made by Zeke Wrigley this season fol-
Columbus. in playing twenty-eight consecu.
tive games without misplay?
The visitors worked hard for the game
and young MIL was prime factor In the
result as he saved at least three runs BY
great backing up-Boston Globe.
ambition. and the pride, and the energy, tc
go after that flag for all they're worth, 70,
the honor Of being a pennant- winning team
and for the big bundle OF post-seasor
money IHdI WOuiQ accrue, II Is not likely
that this offer from their employers will
Press.
Wakefield. the Senator'S catcher, was the
hitting hero OF the game. turning in two
singles and q home run, and driving in foul
of the five runs made by his side.-Bostor
Post.
The idea of Offering 5000 or any othe,
sum as an inducement to a team to make
an extra effort to win pennant is not new
nor usually effective. But the plan of letting
the news leak out as IL the owners didn'i
want 1t known sounds, like a press agents
stunt on down-and-out proposition. SOD
In some ways this sudden rush of the New
York club Is a puzzling thing, says the De.
troit Free Press. Until right now nobody
ever suspected that Griffith was Iarboring .
bunch of shut-out singers. In fact, The
weakness of his pitching staff is the thing
that has been named by the critics as the
fatal bar to pennant hopes for him. Now
of a sudden, his twirlers become untoucha.
Bile.
Don't worry about the Highlanders.
said 'Commy'' the other day. They're just
made to order for the White Sox, 'Grif's
team is going along at q frtghtful pace now
but don't forget that they have got to come
here for four games yet. which they won't
like SO well. The Sox have won seven out
of the last eight games with New York
and the other was tie. SO 1t looks as
though we had 1t on that crowd
Joe Kelley'S future will be settled within
the next few days. The fact that President
Ban Johnson of the American League has
declared that there is no place on his cir.
cult for Kelley now does not make 1t so
There is one club in the American that Mr.
JohnEon does not control" said Kelley. land
If l desire l can go with that team. How.
ever. I will not decide what 1 shall do until
after I have had another talk with Presi-
dent Hermann" 1t Is understood that the
St. Louis management has offered Kelley
the same salary he Is receiving from the
Cincinnati club to play with the Cardinals
The Chicago Americans also want him
Most likely he will manage Baltimore mex,
season.-Cincinnati Enquirer. Kelley will
never play in the American League. An.
other pin here.