The Washington herald., 1907-07-19
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Ganley clipped on triple IN the first
game.
The Nationals have won just half the
number OF the games that they have lost
Lumley has resumed duty in right field
FOR Brooklyn after an absence OF nearly
two weeks.
the foxy MCGraw decided that no double
headers would be played this series.
Tie St Louis Times goes into ecstasies
over the work OF Jeems Collins in that
city last week. and said he played classy
ball
The Athletics are only four points be-
hind Cleveland, while Detroit Is only FIVE
points behind the Athletics. That's q race
for you.
Boston has finally secured waivers on
Catcher Orendorn and the youngster has
been turned over 10 Hugh Duffey's Provi-
dence team.
Upward aud onward go Patsy Dono-
vans Brooklyn Dodgers. Yesterday the
club passed Boston and is now in fifth
place in the National League.
Though they manage 10 stick along IN
second place and keep the Sox uneasy,
The Maps are a different and much in
ferior team without Lajoie.
A picked team from the District League
will play the Metropolitan Police nine az
National Park this afternoon for the
benefit Of the police relief fund
A good game is promised tomorrow at
National Park, when Southern Railway.
OF the Capital City League, meets Treas
ury, Of the Departmental League.
All records for the sale Of q Three-I
League player We're broken when the
New York Nationals paid Springfield
$,5oo for Lawrence Doyle, the third
baseman.
That Is 10 0 defeat Of the New Yorks
by the White Sox was the worst Of the
season. What trouncings GTiflth's team
has received this season-15 10 o, I6 TO ;.
10 to I. and y 10 ..
Harry O'Hagan viii take tie place OF
the veteran George Lachance as the first
baseman of the Waterbury club. La
chance saved his coin while in the game.
and is not worrying.
1t has been decided 20 sign no more
Cubans With the Brooklyn Atlantic
league team. While the mea are all good
players, tie majority will quit when the
opposing { an gers the Ieaa.
II was in possible 10 Judge by his work
yesterday anything about Gerhing's abil-
ity When Case Patten is hammered in
such scandalous manner. a recruit is
lucky 10 escape without a drubbing.
Charity of fans is misconstrued," says
an exchange. Too true. Frequently a
great ball player. after an of day. ap-
pears discontented because some expert
In a spirit Of Just criticism refers 10 him
as "bind-eyed mutt or q Club-fOOted,
pln-headed stiff
Lee Tannehill, the star boarder OF the
White Sox hospital. is about ready 10
play ball again He tried out his bad leg
for time in practice and found that fl
was not an impossibility for him 10 scoop
up the grounders with ease, as he was
wont 10 do last season.
The return Of Chance will add conf
dence to the Chicago club During his
absence Hoffman did a fine job Of substi-
tuung at first, but the players could not
help but miss the influence of their ag-
gressive leader, to whom they have been
used 10 looking up TO so long.
The fans Of Pottsville have inaugurated
a unique custom as means of showing
their loyalty to their Atlantic league
team Whenever the players return from
a trip they are met at the station with
a brass band and escorted 10 their head
quarters. Sounds like the night the
Nationals came home at the top OF the
American League
Henry Niles, Of st. Louis. and Elmer
Flick, of the Maps. are running an IN
teresting match race for league honors
with the stick Flick has been In prac-
tically every game and has an average of
394 while Niles is batting SS9 for less
than half as many. But the latter has
come back from his injury with his bat
ting eye as keen as ever and the Nap
cannot gain.
'Lajoie is the greatest man in baseball
to-day solely because of his ability to
think quickly at a critical point" said
Doc" Powers. catcher OF the Philadel-
phia Athletics. in Il talk TO an interested
audience in the Broadway Y. NJ. c. A..
New York, the other other night on In
side Baseball" He has the power OF hit
ting any ball that comes TO him. and
when he misses it II IS because he IS try
ing to place his hit," said the speaker.
Powers spoke of the reform In baseball
caused by the event of college players
going into the game, and declared that
the morals Of the ball players to-day are
bettcr than ever before The game has
developed largely into a contest Of brains
and matching OF wits. he declared. He
related many funny stories about Wad-
dell. whose success he attributed to his
mechanical ability and great physical
strength