Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-14
BASE BALL NOTES.

The Nationals wind up with the New
Yorks today and will be home tonight
f1ty yesterdays game wasn't pulled off in
Washington. We would have enjoyed the
sitting immensely.
Delehanty must have been feeling very
We'll thank you Three singles and a
triple show that he had his eye on the
ball.
And Neuer looked so good when here.
Perhaps Crit is working him too often
for left-hander.
The great catch made by Ganley with one
mana must nave been a SiZZler. Several Of
the New York papers say that it was one
OF the most sensational catches ever seen
In that city.
Besides pitching a good game. Gehring
ciouted the ball hard. He has a mighty
swing at the ball. and he must have caught
one or Neuers wide curves on the end of
the bat. The fact that the Yankees got
thirteen hits off Gehring counts for moth
ing, as seven of the bingles were made in
the different innings after two were out
and he had eased up.
Capt Fred Cook on his Way home from
Sea Girt stopped over In New York to see
the Nationals play the Yankees and from
this on he belongs in the mascot class
Fred says that Ganeys catch was simply
the greatest ever, and appeared impossible
up to the fraction of a second when Bob
stuck out his right hand and pulled in the
ball.
Just think of Smith, ShIpke and Gehring
each coping two hits. If the two first
could only hit around .2GO wouldn't they be-
the sweet kids.
Keep your the ha
records this season. Ganley is close I'D to
the leaders Flick and Miles, and Charley
Jones has been coming very fast OF late.
The White Sox have taken the series from
Detroit.
"Rube" Vickers. who did not prove fast
enough for the Athletics won twentv-seyen
out of thirty five games in the Tri-State.
Congalton. the former Napoleon. has
SHOWN great improvement both at the bat
and in the field for the Boston Americans
and should be a fixture on the 1908 team
The champion batters In the American
and National Leagues will receive diamond
medals from a ST Louis jewelry firm. They
are valued at 500 each.
RuCker. the southpaw who IL twIrIinp in
the Dig league for the first time. has gained
the distinction of twirling a winning game
against every other club in the league
Lucky find for Brooklyn
st. Louis woman has applied for a di-
Vcrce and named base ball as the core
spondent 1t may come out in the evil
dence. however. that the wayward gent
simply was using the noble national game
as fall guy.
Detroit fans claim that Sam Crawford
Is the greatest last-of-the- season batsman
IN the business. Somehow or other when
0fy. 70 tt,~y, tI1
fielder finds his batting eye Is at its best.
and the way he kills the ball is a terror to
opposing pitchers.
Lejunne of the Springfield OLD club, who
won the base ball throwing contest at the
sports In Cincinnati on Wednesday, re-
GENTLY made an exhibition throw at Grand
Rapids. and the ball travelled 1917 yards,
several yards better than the worlds rec
ord His winning throw at Redtown came
within two inches Of the record.
The st. Louis Republic man does moth
ing II not enervesce over Niles. He says:
Without any doubt Niles Is. In effect, the
While Billy Sunday. Tom Brown. Martin
Hogan and many others might have been
as fast for forty yards or 50, or to first
base. none of these fleet fellows enjoyed
the weight and the prOpulsve physical
power Niles possesses In other words,
they were fast in a weak, shallow sort of
way. whereas Niles has the piercing crush
ing speed of the flying locomotive. Brown,
Sunday and Hogan were little, graceful
sprinters. Niles Is a plunging, earth-cast-
ing, fence bursting tornado.