Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-07
BASE BALL NOTES.

! Falkenberg was like the good little girl
| yesterday-awfully sweet, but when he's
| bad
1t will take an exceptionally clever short
stop to drive Altizer to the outfield. He
seems to be getting better every day.
What a jewel little "Topsy'' Hartsel is
He was one Of the few Quakers who stood
up against the Giants last fall and he is
still as good as the best.
Jack Warner caught another nice game
yesterday and has strengthened up the
| Nationals splendidly.
Manager Stahl has apparently regained
| his lost batting eye. He Is hitting the ball
| regularly now and his wallop yesterday
that. cleared the bases was certainly
I peach.
| "Stoney" McGlynn, who deserted the York
| club for Steubenville couple of weeks ago,
returned to his old team Labor Day and
won both games. On Wednesday he worked
| again and won another. That's going some.
| Washington hasn't given up hope >of land
| ing this man.
| The Nationals will return home next
| Thursday for three games with the New
| York and the series should prove interest
| ing:
Connie Mack has wonderful foresight in
| picking up pitchers. Not satisfied with
| landing Coombs this season it looks as If
| he has another god one in Cunningham,
who finished yesterdays game
Sam Crawford has hit safely in the last
| fifteen games and has made twenty-eight
| hits In that time.
Cincinnati won but four games out of
| twenty-five from the Chicagoes this sea-
| son. That's one-reason why the Cubs have
such a long lead In first place.
| The White Sox have twenty-five more
games to play on their r, own grounds to
| York has twenty-six games to play on the
road.
Clark Griffith will take about ten pitchers
| several double headers to play, and he must
| have plenty Of box talent to make his final
! squirt for the pennant.
| In his farewell game with Portland,
Catcher Mclean, who has been secured by
Cincinnati, hit out three singles and
home run and then boarded a train for his
| future associates.
EFT, recently purchased by the New York
| Americans. is an umpire batter. Brockett
| had a run-in with an Eastern League UNI
| pire a few days ago and was suspended
Lajoie is greatly pleased with the new
| quality think our fellows will have some
| have heard he said. Il think that Cleve-
| land has secured the cream of the minor
| league talent. Other teams may have Sc
| cured more men. but when 1t comes to
quality I think our fellows will have some
| thing on the others. "
The fans have quit picking the winner in
| the American League First 1t looked like
Cleveland, then the Athletics appeared to
have cakewalk. two weeks ago 1t was
| all Chicago and now New York is in the
| lead. There is little sense in trying to fig
| ure 1t out
| No more Of Tim Hurst for awhile, any,
/ way. 1t is violating no confidence to tell
| the prize fight referee that he failed to
make a hit here during his sojourn which
1 has Just ended.-Boston Herald.
| The gloomy Clark Griffith is back in the
| game. II Clark's Highlanders have as good
| luck with the manager again playing as
| they had without him, he can have no kick
| coming.
| Last Saturday In the game at Beverly in
| which the Wakefield team was beaten in the
/ last game of its series with Beverly the
home team had the services of Andy Coax
| ley. the old Holy Cross pitcher, now with
the Philadelphia American League cham
pions. Coakley jumped from a hack just
| before the game began and pitched under
the name Of Jones'" He won his game
| 5 to Boston Globe
Said Fielder Jones in Cleveland: ''All this
talk from the east about us firing under
the strain is nonsense. We are not tired
club. by any means. We are just as full of