The Washington herald., 1907-04-29
NATIONALS At HOME
Open Series with PhiIadel-
phia Athletics To-day.
THEN COMES THE BOSTON CLUB
On May CantiIIOn's Team Leaves
for the First Western Trip of the
Season, and VIII Be Away Until
May 2T-FaiIure of Brooklyn and
the Browns Surprises of season.

Joe Cantillon and his band of Nationals
reached here early yesterday morning
from New York. Except for Blanken-
ships injured hand and Hickman's weak
knee, the squad is in good Snaps for the
series which commences with the Phila-
delphia Athletics this afternoon at Ma
tional Park.
After the four games with Philadelphia,
the recognized Boston club viii be the
guest at the local park. and thea comes
the first Western tour, which lasts from
May to May %. On this trip the Ma
tionals viii play at Detroit Chicago, St
Louis, and Cleveland
Falkenberg or Kitson viii probably
serve EN- up for the Nationals this after
noon, with Warner at the receiving end
OF the battery.
Brooklyn and ST. Louis, in National
and American Leagues are providing the
surprises OF the season 10 date. The bad
start of this pair of clubs is one OF those
riddles that crop up every season.
81. Louis was hailed as team with
apparent pennant possibilities. With good
pitchers, a fast inield, great outfield, and
number of hard hitters. including last
years champion slugger, George stone,
il looked as though the Browns would be
in the battle IRON the start.
Perhaps they viii yet get soins, but
McAleeIs mon will start with serious
handicap, for the clubs of the West nave
been trimming them with apparent ease
Brooklyn is in the same boat Last
season, late in the spring, Patsy DOno-
van took the club and built il up SO sue
eessfully that he finished fifth. and gave
the directors the experience of profit
for the first time in several years.
He has all the old men back this year
in addition 10 number of promising
newcomers. Vet the once famed Superbas
are getting away worse than anybody
not even excepting the Cardinals or Bos-
ton Nationals.
Neither team is crippled 10y accidents
nor is there any dissersiun TO explain the
sIumps. Moreover. accounts OF tine games
show they nave been playing plenty of
baseball.
For once, this looks ease where that
battered bat ever-smiling excuse of
hard luck could trutafully be- urged
Tri- Staters can feel justly proud OF the
work now being done by members of
their league who graduated into the
American or National.
Lush and Corridor are pitching tine
ball for the Phmes. and Jacklitsch is.
doing nearly all the catching Lobert Is
hailed as the star of the Cincinnati Reds
McGlyuu ana Holly are proving their
worth at St Louis. and Bell recently
twrled q great thirteen-inuing game for
Brooklyn. AltiEer is rated one of Wash
iugtons stars, and no player in either
league is hitting better than UnglaUb, of
Boston.
Garry Hermann, of Cincinnati. wlu
eject from mis- baseball park persons who
take it upon themselves 10 hOut or abuse
baseball players or umpires 1t is not
unlikely that other clubs may follow suit,
Then the rather numerous genus which
from baseball times immemorial has sat
in stands and h0wied and wnined and
bdrked and Vilihed players and called
names 10 umplres-nOne OF which he
would dare repeat in private TO these per
sons-win have rather a hard time OF II.
That Mr. Hermann viii be right, and
other managers viii be right too. if they
put their plans into execution, goes with
out saying. just why persons should be
permitted to reduce the stands of a base
u "A
menagerie has long puzzled those who
have given any thought to the subject.
Theaters. race tracks, CircUses, and
other public spectat0riums get along very
nicely without permitting every ul-bred
individual In the seats TO rend the ears
of his hearers with h0rrid speech That
baseball parks cannot also do so is not a
reasonable supposition.
A general hiss OF disapproval or a loud
cheer of approval are things not to be
discountenanced. But the snarling, whirn- /
pering sniveler. who calls men names
from place Of vantage and with im-
proper license, the Mountaineering idiot
who makes "a holy show of himself with
loud and raucous roofing. the seIni-slly
who make themselves modifying spec
tacles at a baseball game should be not
only suppressed. but oppressed as well.
What an awful bunch of batting bullies /
Lajoie has with him! Larry's gang had
a team batting average Of .279 last year. /
the next being New York with .265. The
Cleveland team batted out 1913 safe hits
last year. almost 200 more than New York (
which ranked second with 1,345 CIeve-
land had five men hitting 800 last year.
Lajoie himself led the world with pa base 4
hits. and Elmer Flick. his right fielder. /
was the best rdn-getter ia the American /
League, with IS 20 his credit. Stone had /
80 10 his credit, and made Dos safeties.
Strange 10 say. LajOie. who is recog- I
niZed as the premier slugger of the ma /
tonal same, failed to make a single home
run drive last year The big Frenchman /
never tries 10 kill the bull. He uses an 1
easy, graceful swing, and usually drives 4
the leather on "A line over the opposition I
inAelders' heads
While Larry failed TO make home run.
he led the world in two-base hits. with /
1OrIy-nine 10 his credit. Smashing on /
tWO-baggers is the Frerchman' s long suit.
Wagner, of Pittsburg, who is considered
Latoie's peer by many National League /
rooters. betted .339 last year. made ia 1
hits, and scored 108 runs Like I,aiofa /
Wagner also shines as two-base smash /
er, with IS doubles TO his credit, triples. /
and home runs
Flick, Lajoie's other star batsman. is /
another bear at lining out doubles. He /
collected So last year While Lajoie is the I
star two-base hitter of the world Flick
led all in manufacturing triples. with
= TO his credit LajOie only got z. /
George Stone was Flick s rival He raped !
out - triples.
Harry Davis of PHILADELPHIA. made
more home-run drives than any other I.
batsman for the American League. with
u 10 his credit Tim Jordan was the
star home-run hitter of the National
League with Il TO his credit.
NiiIanOva's Heavy Schedule.
Villanova. Pa, April 2S.-The scbed- |
ule OF the Yiilanova College football /
team for 1907 is near completion. I'll
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