The Washington herald., 1907-08-18

Cleveland rubbed II into the Athletics.
Just think of how the sox needed that
game.
Thirteen more games on the Western
trip FOR the Athletics
Charley Smith was there with a couple
of bingles which counted
Washington has lost twenty-five games
by a single tally this season.
Scranton. Albany. and Troy are beauti-
League.
Malachi Kituedge has assumed the
management Of the Dayton club, Of the
Central League.
Detroit claims WaddeH has the best
change of speed OF any pitcher IN the
American League.
Jimmy Collins has taken of his extra
weight. and Is IN good condition, better
than he has been for two years.
A ST, Louis firm has offered handsome
medal for the leading batsman In the Ma
tional Lagu al the end Of the season.
The st, Louis Browns won seven cut OF
the eleven games played with Washing
ton IN St Louis this season, and led in
the whole series by eleven.
The Chicago Cubs are bound 10 have
some record or other 10 fall back upon. II
they do not make a worlds championship
This year It will be the champion shut
cutters
Pittsburg has shut Brooklyn out six
times this season. Ebbetts team has
been shut out seventeen times this season.
Boston has obtained sixteen blanks and
St Lonis nineteen.
Besides having little baseball skill. 1t
now develops that the Cardinals have no
sense of hUmor They are blaming the
umpires for their present standing in the
race. says an exchange
Joe Kelly has a smile on hts face these
DAYS that you can see a block away i
really have never had any doubt about
the result. says joe You see. we have
a ball team in Toronto"
Blankenship and Clymer. who. three
years ago, hoped into baseball history by
indulging In a fstic encounter on Expo
sitioa Field, are now members OF the same
team.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Seymour seems to be a failure as
pinch hitter Since he was injured re-
Gently the Giant slugger has been sent up
FIVE times TO bat for other players. but
not once has he made good with a safe
clout
The slow delivery contagioa that is
making an uproar in the American
League is spreading TO the National. The
Pittsburg fans are kicking on Sam Lever
now on account Of his deliberate move
ments.
Francis, the young pitcher from Wasau,
Wis. signed by Cantillcn has won eight
games, lost six, and worked In fourteen
inning tie this season. In the fifteen
games he famed 125 men, allowed sew
enty-hve hits, and thirty-nine runs.
Sid Mercer says. in the New York
Globe: The American League has been
guilty Of allowing too many slow pitchers
delay games this season. When a double
header is played the managers should
agree 10 either start the first contest at
l:So p. n. or shorten the second TO seven
innings"
Billy Sullivan, one Of the Chicago White
SoX's catchers, was acting manager of
the team for one day. lie says he lost
four poCads before the strenuous twenty
four hours were over, and he does not
care 10 tackle the Job again. Umpiring
and managing a ball team are two OF
the hardest Jobs going these days, with
the former getting a trife the worst Of
It IN the long run.-Exchange.
I'VE don't see the Cubs going back
much says Sam Crane They are up |
on their tiptoes from start TO finish, and |
that is just why they are winning. The
Giants get flashes of championship form. |
but they are not nearly as fast as some
Of the. teams they play against. They
think they are--perhaps but that is as |
far as they go. There are lots of old |
timers who think they are going speedy |
until somS husky youngster comes along |
and shows them up. Youth will prevail, |
and never more so than in athletics"
Oscar Graham won his first game for /
beating Toledo to 4. The |
Tribune said oscar Gra- /
ham made great impression on his
Arst appearance and Will be a favorste
from this time on. He was particularly
effective with men on bases and caught |
five men off first. Whenever a Toledo |
man got on first Graham watched him
carefully, and even caught old Bill Clark
asleep when the veteran was but a few
feet off the bag. But for bad support
Graham would probably have had shut
@SN ~ MS AhNhiA iJi LHt mems QlQ not 90
enough hitting TO count"
Commenting on the fact that Chick"
Fraser, Of the Cubs. Is developing into
spitball star, Mordeeai Brown is quot
I'd as saying:
I have a good spitball myself. but
Chance won't let me use It. You see
when man has all the curves that I use
ne does not need a spitball Also I be-
ieve man loses his curves when once
ne adopts the spitball delivery altogether
The spitball has made bad pitchers good
md good pitchers bad Take. for in
stance Ed Walsh and Frank Smith. of
he White Sox. They never were real top
lotchers, I'm told, until they mastered the
'pitban and now they are at the ton OF
he list. I might name some good pitch
RS who have gone wrong all through
heir adopting the spitball, but they stilI
believe they are good men in the box ana /
won't hurt their feelings by mention
ng names. They may, Of course. come
o the front with the spitball. but 7
lave my doubts. I am a great believer
n It, but with what have I do not need