Evening star., 1907-06-26

Yesterday. when he threw The bali over the
,eit-held fence after Hickman had made a
Dao error. and was followed by another by
1eydon. was undoubtedly in very bad taste,
but under the circumstances can easily he
forgiven Hughes has put his heart in his
work this year. and. being quick tempered
Irets great deal when the Nationals lose
ne can win three games out Of four If given
good support, but he evidently forgot yes
terday that he was working against the
Athletics. The chief fault to be found with
f1ueneS break yesterday is the fact that
ne Is liable to have the players turn on him
ana give him a taste of his own medicine
Players don't make errors because they
IKE to. and 1t makes them sore to have
lnelr M work shown up in the way Hughes
did Yesterday. We feel sorry for Tom, but
he viii have to worry along until Manager
Cantillon gets together team who will
rot depend upon the pitchers winning out
their games all alone.
There should be lots of good sport at
Van Ness Park tomorrow afternoon when
the Century and University clubs clash on
the diamond. The game will start at 4:3O
the admission being by invitation. Both
clubs have good players on their member
ship roll and high-class games will prob
ably be played by the two teams.
Defeating the Washington combination
in both ends of a double header yesterday
afternoon. while the st. Louis Browns
were performing a similar operation upon
the Detroit bunch, the Athletics yesterday
moved quietly and gracefully into third
place. just two games behind the Cleve-
!anders and about three and one-half
games back of the Chicago leaders. After
today the Athletics go away for a long
stretch. playing four games in Boston, be-
ginning tomorrow, and four more in New
York. after which they start on their sec
ond whirl through the western country.
hal Yla
dollars" says Clarke Griffith. players
who have the real brains and ability and
who have nothing the matter with them
cannot be had for love nor money. There
are plenty Of players who are there with
the goods when it comes to playing the
game and who might be got. But it doesn't
take much scratching under the surface to
find that there's something the matter with
most of these pretty good ball players
whose employers are willing to turn them
loose for piece of money. They're pretty
liable to be disorganiZarS. groucheS, crabs,
chronic kickers fellows who take the dark
side of everything from the color of the
mattress of their sleeping car bunk to the
gold filling in the umpires teeth. Just one
man of this kind on a ball club will queer
the outfit.
Following is classic" taken from a
Minneapolis paper, and shows what the
fans have to put up with out there:
Mike Cantillon's hired hands of the ball
feat upon Charley Havenor's soubrettish
Milwaukee bunch at Nicollet Park yester-
day afternoon. Chauncey Olcott kilroy
was the gunner for the locals. and while he
threatened to become hysterical at times.
he restrained the weary wiggles and pulled
out victory.
Young Mr.. Goodwin was doing the
hurtling for the vat workers and proved
strangely unprodigal of permitting solid
bastes and slanting slams In fact, he only
permitted five hits. but two of them were
of such opulent proportions that they Were
the equivalent of scores. Jawn Freeman
pulled off his usual home run performance
and so tickled one dear thing in the stands
that she had to be removed and fed sew
eral quarts of soda fountain fiZZ before she
regained speech. Then she returned in
time to observe Gustavus Adolphus Dundon
scorCh the ball over the picketware for
the second home run. This so worked upon
her nervous organization that it was neces-
sary to souse her head in a rain water bar
rel at corner of the grand stand to
bring her to. Had it not been for these
two mighty sledgings the game would have
been loSt-but IL wasn't