Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-17
BASE. BALL NOTES,

JACK carr the northeast boy, has signed
win Indianapolis for the coming season
NO outlaws for this wise lad.
contractor Dunn started on the renairs
10 the Nationals park yesterday. notwitb-
standing 1t was Friday and the weather
bad. '1e'
hlttredge and StarkelI are the only two
payers who have not Joined the Nationals
to date. Kit should have been win, StabI
from the start 81
What pity 1t is that Mike DonIi,, i $40.
working tor Andy Freedman. The New
aork HaSnate would have thrown the ont
heiuer over the fence long ago and barred
Nun from the grounds.
manager Burnham of the Newark tea m
appears 10 be man Of small calibre Be
cduse fltcher WoiIe got the best of him in
business proposition In 1904 he is stiii
after the youngster and irving tn drive
MN out or the business The Newark
sPoi tlhs writers should take UP the case
TT II Is ABOUT time to hear from the train
!us camps about some new styles of twis-
ter that has been manufactured or in
vented by some OF the pitchers Last wear
az thls time all that could be heard was
the spit bali "NN'
Muggsy' McGraw. VINO Is friend of
PatSy Donovan's, is said to have made the
trame-up which landed Donovan the man
ageriai Job in Brooklyn
Bobby Wallace is one of the ideal hall
payers lie scarcely has to turn a hand TO
get IN condition. and reported to St Louis
p iG rlIp ,yir1sr
weight f' s
President Murphy of the Chicago Ma
tlonals announced that he had secured the
signature OF Rothgeb the outfieider who
played with the BaItimores and Washing
tons last year. Rothgeb is now at Cham
palgn, Ill, and will report for duty to the
cubs at once.
The Mexico Valley League was due TO
start its season last Sunday. The NJ. v. |,
consists OF four clubs. the Olympics. lgO6s
Grays and fronteriZos, the season beg n
ming March IL and ending April ~ Most
OF the players or the league are Mexicans
there oelhS Garcia, Lopez, Perez, Serrato,
IbarroIa, Ramiree, Diaz. Martinez Ortiz
Rueda and others with patronyms sugges-
tive of sunny chimes.
In the spring of 1900 Hiram College of
Ohio had IL battery consisting of one
. Flopper From ana another one Frank La
porte the latter now with Griffith Laporte
was a catcher then, and whatever may
have been his academical standing he led
his class in base ball.
Claude kossman, the new first baseman
OF the CieN Glands. put in a. busy winter He
played ball with team or American pro-
ressionais in Cuba, and on his return
played indoor ball in Albany. Then he
went in for cross-country running uutli re-
porting time came.
Edward Hanlon, manager of the Cincip-
natl team, has been compelled TO leave the
training quarters in Texas. and is at his
home in Baltimore, recovering from an at
tack OF malarial fever. In Hanlon's alb
= X
Vile players. Hanlon expects to meet the
team when II reaches the home grounds on
March -.
An exchange says: THE entrance n tho
hotel where Cincinnati stays In Marlin
Springs, Tex, has the street number S71
After gazing at it moment Cy Seymour said
TO Ned Hanlon: Clever of these peop.e To
hang up my last years batting average
Funny, isn't It? Seymour Is still in Gin
cinnati. The critics can easily nick an
other number and also another player.
Nearly all the big leaguers are fond of
chicken and ice cream, and heaven helm
the hotel or dining car that flashes these
Or, rather, help the other diners IL tnev
don't get in when the door opens it's ali
on The ball players are there at the tap
of the gong. They have been waiting
half an hour. They stay there so long as
the chicken holds out. Ice cream and
apple pie is the favorite dessert
1t would not be in the least surprising
If two new men are found in the outfield
OF the Chicago White Sox this year II
has been the general impression that Dan
Green has been going backward and
therefore. another is slated to take hls
place. Jones may try Hub Hart the
Everett boy. In the outfield. while Frank
Hemphill may also be assigned an Quilted
position
Manager Collins has sent for Leon Mar
tell, the Georgetown College catcher, to
come south, and the young man is expected
to go next Thursday anager Collins had
a chat with Martell at Washington last
Saturday. Good catchers are scarce and
Collins Is bound TO Keep on the alert for
the best In sight He is well satisfied with
both Peterson and Graham. The latter he
says. reminds him very much OF the late
Martin Bergen, in his style OF handling the
ball and in throwing.-Boston Herald
Rube Waddeli, the eccentric pitcher of the
Philadelphia Americans. is in the ltmeIjphf
once more. While walking through dark
street in Montgomery the other night Wad-
dell was knocked down and robbed Of sao
by two negroes. who escaped. WaddeiIs
head was cut open and he was picked nm
unconscious. When he learned that his
money was gone he turned to the auf,u
lance surgeon who was dressing the wound
and said: Never mind me head old sport!
Get the guys that got me dough,''
Harry Murch was given a trial at first