The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-07-11

prospects at all of finishing any better.
Hard luck, Kit
Evansville and Terre Haute failed TO
score in eighteen innings at Terre Haute
July 4. The latter made two runs In the
nineteenth inning.
Hoey. the Boston outfielder released 10
Toronto. must have been pleasantly re-
ceived. The day he reported the Toronto
team lost first place.
Umpire KERN. after hard day at
Kansas City recently, lost his patience
when he got outside the gates. and at
tackled a spectator. breaking his nose.
He was not arrested.
Our old friend, Frank Huelsman. has
been reported sold TO the Montreal team
in the Eastern League, and Kansas City
fans are bowling. They declare he should
be kept for his hitting alone.
Toledo leads the American Association
in batting with a mark Of 2Sl Columbus
is second. with -267. In team fielding. In
dianapOliS leads ST. Paul brings up tie
rear in both hitting and fielding.
1t may seem a bit early TO predict
things. but you can't get away from the
fact that If the CUBS can win, say, about
90 per cent Of taeir games on this trip
nothing short of a railroad wreck can
keep them from winning the pennant-
Pittsburg sun.
Jack Mccarthy, who was released by
the Brooklyn club this spring, seems to be
All in He had a good season last year.
bat his legs went wrong and aEept him out
OF the game so mueh that he was shipped
10 Kansas City. He has just been turned
loose by that club and may quit the game
altogether.
George 4. HUFF the University Of III
nos physical director. is now making
the rounds OF the Three T. League cities
on the lockout for promising youngsters
for the Boston Americans. He Is said 70
be particularly interested in Third Base
man Doyle and Pitcher Beecher, of
Springfield
The present season has been the most
harmonious since the amateur baseball
fever struck Washington While many
Of the players are in more than one
league. there seems TO be a satisfactory
arrangement and there has been little of
the wrangling which did so much to hurt
the game here last year. Nay the good
work go on.
Roger Bresnahal, Of the Giants. is still
weak, and his head gives him a whole
lot of trouble. There IS one danger hang
ing over his head continually. according
TO his doctors declarations. Should he
ever be overcome by the heat, II might
prove fatal TO him, they say. Roger is
minus several pounds, but IS rapidly re-
gaining his strength.
The hold which Jack Sheridan has on
the confidence Of the baseball public was
demonstrated once or twice in Chicago
Sunday when a batsman fused over q
called strike or two. Instead of the big
crowd joining in the protest. as usually
happens. only an occasional rJOter said a
word, the majority thinking the batsman
might be slightly prejudieed, at least.
7 haven't anything TO say about Rube
Waddell,' declared Griffith 'Rube is
good pitcher in spots, but what is the
use Of talking about signing Wadden un-
I'll the Athletics express desire 70 turn
him loose? I would like 10 have Wad-
dell, but il is a question that cannot be
decided now" Griffith would not say
whom or what he would give for Wad-
dell
At present the batters' box is six feet
long and four feet wide, half Of it being
in front Of the plate and half behind.
AIcAleeT and O'COnnoT, OF the St Louis
Browns, think that an extension Of two
or three feet on the front end of the box
would help the batter along a lot. with
out in any way interfering with the
present arrangement Of the game. This
would give the batter a chance to run
up on the ball and hit either a spit bail.
curve, or break before the latter had q
chance TO deviate from d straight line.
Under the present rules, If a batter hits
ball while out Of the batters' box he is
called out.
Many weeks VIII lapse before Dan Ne
Gam, field captain Of the Giants, Will
again don a baseball uniform. and the
end Of the season may come before he is
able to hurl a ball across the diamond
or clutch a bat firmly enough TO make a
swing hurt. After waiting patiently for
three weeks for his arm 20 round into
shape, and undergoing various treat
ments, the stubborn whip was put under
the Kray Monday and the hospital sur
geons found that the bone was broken.
and the whole affair had TO be slapped
into a plaster cast to walt for further
orders in the main bone Of the forearm
q longitudinal break was discovered. and
the split bone will have 70 knit together
securely before Mccain can again take
his job at first. The doctors explained
that d longitudinal break is one that
runs lengthwise of the bone. instead of
cr0sswise, as is usual in sucn cases. For
that reason they are very hard TO dis
cover. and but for the X-ray Big Dan
might have been still waiting for the
soreness to get out Of HIS wing This
news came as a deep disappointment to
"a OIL ~ ba
want the captain back in the game Ne
Gam was hit on the arm by pitched
ball thrown by Coakley in Cincinnati the
same inning that Bresnahan was knocked
cut. With his arm in a heavy plaster
cast and splints. Dan watched the game
from the clubhouse yesterday, and, |
though anxious TO get back into service, !
takes the matter philosophicauy He
says everybody gets theirs sooner or
later, and there is no use to'kick.