The Washington herald., 1907-08-05
Former Has Won More Than Half
of His Games, While Wilson Also
Has n Good Record in the Minors.
Two Games VIII Be Played with
Detroit This AfternOOn-GOssip.

support Goodwin has world or speed
and when working right he can go with
the best of them.
Kiddo Wilson, the former Central
Lacquer, after a poor start has shown a
reversal of form. and is pitching cham
pionship ball. He has won 800 per cent
of his games, which is an excellent figure,
considering Milwaukee's position In the
race-ffth. Wilson is stin youngster,
and another season in the association viii
fit him for a thorough trial in the big
leagues. Jack Doyle is coaching the
youngster and thinks he viii develop into
a real star. Like all youngsters, he is in
clined to wildness. but when ne is able to
get the ball near the plate it is hard
matter for opposing batters TO connect
safely.
Milwaukee has another pitcher whom
Joe Cantillon thinks a great deal of, and
il would not surprise Milwaukeeans a bit
If he was drafted by the Washington
club this fall The pitcher is Cliff Curtis,
a lanky youth, who halls from Delaware,
Ohio. Last year Curtis was one Of the
best twirlers in the league. and his work
has been uniformly successful this year.
1t is known that Cantillon thinks well Of
the Ohio lad, and may give him trial.
Another Washington possibility, so the
dope goes, is Frank Roth, the little tow
headed catcher. who did such valiant
service for the White SOX when Billy
Sullivan was injured in the latter part
Of the race last year. Roth is showing
better form than ever this year, and is
one of the twelve regulars in the assO-
citation, batting over 800. Roth formerly
played in Philadelphia and St Louis, and
is due for another trial 1t is said that
COmiskey will secure Roth for Cantillon,
and that a Washington man will figure in
the deal on the Chicago end.
The Nationals play a double-header
with the Detroit Tigers this afternoon.
Charley Smith will pitch one of the
games. while Graham Is slated to pitch
the other
Catcher Block had not arrived last
night, but he is expected here in time for
to-day's 6ouble-header. and he may be
sent behind the bat in one Of the games.
League that something sensational does
not happen, and a new complexion given
to the race for the championship emblem.
Connie Mack. Jimmy Collins, Clark Grif-
nth, and Fielder Jones all won their spurs
as managers in the johnson organization,
and now Hughey Jennings, taken from
the Eastern League. comes along and OBJ
tdins Unstnted praise for his handling of
the Detroit team.
Winter predictions placed Cleveland.
Chicago, and New York as the favorite
cOntenders for the banner of superiority.
Detroit not being much thought Of on ac-
count Of the presence of many cliques in
that club.
The Miehiganders were considered an
aggregation OF good mechanical players,
who lacked the temperament necessary
to keep from squabbling and the nerve to
make a good long fight. That the team
has succeeded in keeping in the first divi-
sion and near the top ever since the cam
paign began is due entirely to the way
It has been handled by Jennings, whose
reputation as a leader is what might have
been expected from a player who was
as brainy as any that ever worked in the
National League
Unfortunately, great expectations in
baseball are seldom realized, but Jennings
looks as if he would swell the average
Of successes of anticipation.
Instead Of there being a three-cornered
fight for the Johnson gOnfalOn between
the HighlandeTs, the White Sox, and the
Maps, the race has developed into a mad
chase between four teams. one of which
is not New York.
Matty Mcintyre has recommended a
freak outfielder to Hughey Jennings. One
of his legs is considerably shorter than
the other. When he stands in the field.
for symmetry's sake, he places the long
leg in a hola When the ball is hit TO
his territory he jumps out of the hole
onto the long leg, and, with one tre-
mendous stride from his highest to his
lowest altitude, he IS under the ball At
bat he is a conundrum. He stands on
either leg. When the ball comes Shout
der high be drops to his short leg and
it's called a ball, passing over his head.
If the ball comes rather low he raises
10 his long leg and it's below the knee.
Should he be forced to hit, he can, and
can beat out any old kind of poke, by
leaping down from his long leg to his
short one. One stride carries him within
sliding distance Of the bag. Once on
first, there is never any question about
him making the rounds Naturally. his
name is withheld.
There are many men in this world who
never get all that is coming. Christopher
Columbus might have had an under
study who really doped out the route 10
America. but as long as we don't know
any better We have TO let him get away
with it. Fielder Jones won the worlds
championship for Chicago, but do you
ever see his name in the papers? Not by
a jugful. Charley Comiskey, owner of the
team, is in the public eye, and to him
goes the credit. When John McGraW
landed the precious rag for New York he
was justly tOuted as a wonderful manager
from one end Of the country to the other.
But you never hear anything about Field
er Jones. He is a great manager himself.
but he IS under the shadow Of Comiskey
ard the searchlight never hits him. Such
is not the intention Of the Chicago own
er, however, for he has tried to hand
Jones all the credit that is coming his
way. The public simply won't see ii.
Charley Hickman is getting up in the
world, says the New York Globe. From
tailender, Cheerful Charles Ieaped to a
membership in the worlds championship