Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-29


| come our way before long.
With Patten and Chesbro on the firing
| line this afternoon, great contest should
result.
Hickman was lucky to get in his double
as Moriarity dropped his foul fly which
came down directly in his hands
Yesterday was ladies day and there
was a big turnout of the fair sex. For
the remainder of the season Tuesdays and
Fridays have been set aside ladies
days"
Scanlon, Notre Danes great pitcher, is
a brother of the Brooklyn player.
I'VE are getting more men on bases than
We ever did, but We aren't getting them
in sighed Manager Cantillon yesterday.
A st. Louis paper says that Connie Mack
has Joke team this year. That is because
the Browns smothered them. They didn't
look SO funny here
Walter Garrison should be moved to I'M
usual effort to make good In Cleveland.
1t was there that his great brother, John,
performed.
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playing center field for Wilmington
Bob Unglaub. the new manager of the
Bostons, is feeling his oats. He is giving
out short ragraphs how to train a
ball team. This from man who has
! hardly had breakfast as manager.
An exchange says that Griffith has ex-
perienced his usual run of hard luck in the
| ma tier of injuries and Sickness Didn' t
think that there was so m ch sympathy for
Griff anywhere outside of his own stamp
ing grounds.
Third Baseman Nenable of Wheeling is
leading the Central League batsmen with
an average of .3S2. There are six others
| over the 800 mark.
Just because the Minnea polls Base Ball
| Club has diregarded the recent city ordi-
| nance requiring a license fee of 5000 an
| nually for all base ball parks it will have
| to wait year before the fee is reduced
| Kansas City is leading the American AS
ISOLATION race, with Louisville in last place
| George Tebeau is the owner of both clubs
There has been much talk this season
about the remarkable frequency with which
| Keeler has famed. While you are think
| ing about that just watch Elberfeld's rec
| ord. 'TObasco' generally hits something.
1t is funny stunt that the Browns, sixth
| IN the race, nave the pest, the second DeS1
| and NTH best batters in the league, but
! that is what the league standings show
And George Stone is not one of the three.
| There will now be another test of strength
! The western teams now make their trip tC
| the east and when that is over we viii
| know where stand. There is one dis
| quieting feature about it. St Louis anG
| Chicago play better on the road than al
| home.
1t is a close race between two clubs ir
| the old league, but 1t certainly looks like
| an open one in the American, with the Son
| slight favorite. No one of the first SIX
| clubs can be counted out of it now.
The Yankees still hold one record any.
way Danny Hoffman is the leading run.
| getter of the American League even If his
batting has fallen to pieces on the nasty
western trip. And Conroy heads the base
stealers, with twelve burglaries to hi!
| credit
A western critic says that Tim Hurst may
! be all right. but he wants lorgnette. II
| he will look Hurst up and tell him this per
! sonally we will guarantee that he will neeG
| three medicine sharps and an indefinite
| leave of absence from duty.
! On Friday last the percentage of the Chi
| cago Americans was precisely the same a!
| that of the Philadelphia Americans a yea,
ago, but the Athletics of this year dropped
| 2l0 points behind the record Of last season
| Chicago was 1914 points ahead of it's record
| for last season Friday last.
| New York fans and not the Giants ar,
| blamed for the recent effort to mob UNI
| pires al the Polo grounds by an official o
| the National League. 1t may be pertnen
| to ask who educated New York fans in UNI
| pire battling" And then again, 1t nigh
be considered observation-disclosures Trib