The Washington herald., 1907-04-15
BASEBALL NOTES.

The Western League opens Wednesday.
Walter Brodie has finally completed ar
rangements 20 play in Trenton.
4 brother Of Jiggs Donahue VIII play
with the Canton Central League club.
Al orth is one OF the few pitchers who
do not believe that the spitball injuries the
arm.
Sam Apperious is playing center field
for the Montgomery Southern League
team
The game to-day viii start at 2:s5,
with Patten and Keefe as the probable
pitchers.
Hemphnl PLAYED a wonderful game in
the field during the St. Louis Browns
training trip.
Half Of the major league games which
were scheduled for the first two days
were postponed.
Charley Hickman believes that the Car
dinais viii finish in the first division in
the National League.
In the first game last season young
Cy Young shut out Brooklyn. and this
year he turned the trick again.
Larry Lajoie's relatives are planning
fine reception for the king Of players
when he visits Paris next winter.
Jack Carr. the Washington bos, has
earned the regular position at shortstop
at Shreveport, in the Southern League.
Mike Grady has just about outiived his
usefulness in major league ball. His re-
lease from the St. Louis Nationals was
unconditional.
Billy Hannah believes that he has
team at Norfolk which is strong enough
to make bid for the flag in the Virginia
State League.
None Of the managers has yet started
to work pitchers in regular order
as they have a.ad no opportunity 70 get
a line on form.
Harry Howell has won two opening
/ games from the White Sox. He defeated
/ Comiskeys nine last year. and repeated
/ the trick Thursday.
| Fred Clarke has finally decided 10 run
the Pittsburg team from the bench After
! his Outdelders get into form he viii only
/ play as utility man.
I Atz. Of this clty. who IS at shortstop
/ for New Orleans, broke up a game in the
/ Southern League on Thursday with a
clean single in the eleventh inning.
/ Hobe Ferris. of Boston. is greatly handi-
capped by being lame. He was badly
/ spiked couple Of days before the season
| opened. and he may be crippled FOR sew
/ eTal weeks
Overall who pitched the last bail in
1 the final championship game for the Chi
/ cago Nationals last year served up the
/ hrst curve in the opening championship
game OF 1907
! II Perrine continues at his present clip
l his position on the team is secure. His
only weakness at present seems TO be his
/ inability to get the ball across fast on
deep infeld hits.
Connie Mack has disposed Of Pitcher
] Cunningham OutneldeT LiliVelt, and In
felders NeihriGg and Foster. They have
been farmed out 10 the Hartford and
Harrisburg clubs
Adkins, the Baltimore tWirler. will
graduate from the Johns Hopkins medi-
/ cal department IN June and viii accept
! position in an infirmary. He intends 10
/ quit the diamond
Tinker. of the Cubs. is stiH suffering
/ from the effects Of the operation fer ap-
pendicitis which he underwent some time
ago. and he viii not be able TO play until
after the first of the month.
Jake Beckley has shaved his mustache
Titus. of the Phillies. is the only major
league ball player who now sports a cOf-
Zee strainer on the diamond Cantillon
got rid OF his while the local team was
in the South.
owner Taylor. Of the Boston Ameri-
leans. is said to have agreed to give George
/ HUFF. the new manager. more say in the
handling of the players than was ever
before allowed a manager Of that ill-
fated club.
According to the figures handed out by
the different managers, the attendance on
! the opening day in the American League
was $4,000. and in the National League
2S. .0O0. The National League figures rep
resent only three cities.
Among the players developed by George
Huff. the new manager of the Boston
Americans, are Jake Stahl FaIkenberg.
Beebe. and Lundgren. Hun is a grad
uate of the University OF Illinois. where
he played football but never made the
baseball team.
! II now develops that the White SoX are
making arrangements TO unfurl the
! worlds championship flag during the first
Detroit series. which commences on April
q. It was announced last winter that
the Nationals would be the guests for
the ceremonies.
Maybe there won't be something doing
| at Georgetown Field when Virginia and
Georgetown play the second game OF the
series for the Southern intercollegiate
championship. That shut-out at Char
lottesville was a big surprise and disap-
pointment to the Blue and Gray.
Every manager in the American League
has Jack Knights weakness at the bat
pretty we'll sized up, and Connie Mack
would be lucky If there were any way BY
l Z
the Athletic camp. Third base was the
ouakers' weak place last season. and it
locks as though it viii remain so this
year.