Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-20
BASE BALL, RACING
AND OTHER SPORTS

| best Patten and Kitson have demon
| strated that hey are in fine fettle. and
should the other members of the pitching
force get going at their best the batsmen
| who oppose them this season will have a
| rocky road ahead of them.
All the games lost so far this season have
/, been by small margins and can be ascribed
to poor luck as much as anything else
and when the men back of the twirlers get
hitting together many victories will come
our way.
The Washington club had to put up q
big lot of money to secure little Mig Per-
rine. and several magnates have been polk
ing fun at President Noyes for acting as a
fall guy for Patsy Tebeau. as they claim
ed. During the practice season Perrine did
not do any remarkable work at shortstop
and it must be admitted that Manager Can
tilon considered him the weak sister, "
but held onto him with both hands on ac-
count of his well-known pugnacity and
ginger. That Perrine has made good so far
goes without saying, and should he be able
to continue at the present rate until the
close of the season he will class up with
the best in the country.
Several of the New York scribeS. when
here with the Highlanders, claimed that
Perrine was simply lucky in his hitting.
and that he was very ordinary. But the
little fellow has kept up his grand work
and the Boston papers praised him very
highly. 1t will be admitted that Perrine
got in several lucky base hits against the
New Yorks. but he continues hitting the
ball along these same lines, and it cannot
be ascribed to luck He is certainly a
nervy youngster at the bat when the point
is a critical one. and there has not been a
time when he didn't hit the ball on the
nose. although it didn't always go safe.
President Moves believes his investment in
Perrine has been an exceptionally good one.
and it is known for a certainty that he can
dispose of the little fellow and make a big
profit on the deal
Tim Murnane. the nestor of base ball
writer's, does not think it is dignifiei In
Manager Cantillon going out on the coach
ing lines to help along the Nationals, and
claims that Joe can do just as good work
from the bench. From this point it looks
as though the Nationals need the coaching
of Cantillon. as they have been going along
at easy rate for the asst three years
and from the way the team has been play
ing this spring 1t would seem that this
contention is right. The Nationals have
been altogether too quiet when playing with
other clubs, and Manager Joe puts just
enough life into his players to make them
understand that they are out for a victory
from the time the first goes to the
bat until the final out is leg stored. Mr.
Cantillou is certainly responsible, in his
coaching, for the fighting spirit he has IN
stl!ed into his men. and the way tie Ma
tionals have been contesting every foot OF
the way 18th the New York and Boston
| teams has opened the eyes OF the
of the new manager: Managers
coaching from the side lines may not
please the effcte Bostonese, but from the
way the local spectators have taken to
Manager Joc's work clearly demonstrates
that they like the innovation. and there
the answer AS a retort courteous il might
be suggested that like demonstration with
the Boston players would do a great deal
of good and perhaps land them in the first
division.
Bob Gaalcy's record in Thursdays game
with Boston three hits, base on balls
and drive toward Collins that tock a
great stop to prevent goine safe, looked
In speaking of Ganley recently Cantillon
said:
Don't lose any sleep over Ganley. 1
tell YOU he is a first-class player in every
department of the game and | am not a
bit sorry he has had the bad luck of gettr g
a poor start in Washington. Had he
started off the way he travelling on
the practice trip he would have set the
real fans daffy and he would have had to
keep it up to please everybody. Now he
can work his way into the patrons con-
fdence and he will have everybody swear
ing by him before the season is d month
old
Ganleys work is on the Keller order.
not being a slugger with the bat. but a
place hitter. and he will get to first many
times through his good judgment in wait
ing out on pitcher who is little wild.