Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-04

VINO said John Anderson couldn't play
first base?
If Charley Jones could only bat little
stronger what a great outfield the Ma
tionals would have.
Manager Cantillon favors young players
for his team and for this reason Parent has
little chance of coming to Washington.
One week from today and the season of
1907 gets under way. With good weather
the American League park will be packed
to its capacity.
After all the talk of boycotting that has
been going the rounds, Manager jennings
Of the Detroits has finally decided to hold
on to Outfielder Tyrus Cobb. Not a men,
Der of the team is on speaking terms with
him.
Goldie Morgan, the fast, useful young
Americans last year. is now studying in
the Harvard law school. He will be with
Montreal this summer.
Pitcher Ed Crane was another noted ball
player who took his own life, the list men
toned the other day being Larkin, Bergen,
Mercer and Stahl.
Walter Eckersall, the University of Chi
Cages great foot ball player, has signed
contract to play for Gap Anson's Chicago
work and was deeply impressed at the
showing of the foot ball star at the game
of base ball.
Judging by the spring performances of
the two brothers, President Dreyfuss got
the wrong Rogers. Brown Rogers, who is
twirling for the Louisiana Institute team,
and who may be landed by Washington of
the P. o. NJ. League, is feet 5 inches tall,
and he has already pitched no-hit-no-rui
game this year.
Probably when the north pole is discov-
cred the discoverer will find that 1t has
been pulled up and is being used for q base
ball bat. At any rate base ball is thriving
in the arctic circle, and one of the most
popular leagues in the world exists there.
Within the last few weeks agents for the
league have been In Los Angeles Seattle
and Chicago striving to enlist professional
League, which this year consists of Juneau,
Skagway, Dawson, Fairbanks, Douglas
City and White Horse
My Introduction to big league lase ball
wasn't very happy affair.", says Charlie
O'Leary of the Tigers. The first team I
Chicago, was the White Sox, and they took
me to Detroit with them to play q Sunday
game. i nearly quit right then and there.
If had l might now be politician in Chi
cago 1t was in one of those games out at
Burns Park. We won by one run, and as
we left the park the crowd came at with
beer bottles. 1t was the bottom Of the bus
for everybody, and as I was the most
scared got there first, / guess. Any way,
everybody else piled on top of me, and we
rode into town that way. l was nearly
smothered. They had hard time inducing
me to believe, that that was not an every
day occurrence
John Brush, boss of the New York
Giants, comes forward to explain the re-
cent cuts made in sundry salaries. He
says that he saved no money on the chops
and that his salary roll will be larger than
ever this season. The currency. SO says
Mr.. Brush, has been more eQuitably dis
tributed. Some Of the men who were get
ting too much money had 1t taken away
from them and handed to the boys who
had been underpaid. Dahlen was soaked
$500 and the money added to Devlin's con-
tract. Seven hundred dollars was ampu-
tated from Bowerman and given to Bresna-
han, who did most Of the work last season.
John T. does not say who got the money
he shaved off the contracts of Strang and
McGann.
the salaries of the American League stars
and it is easy to find out that base ball is
costly. especially where man is getting
big money for his bingles. George Stone,
the American Leagues champion batsman,
furnishes an example. He gets $22.25 a
day, for three hours in uniform, for two Of
which he would be actually engaged.
Stones 20S base hits last season were made
In 1874 games, an average of less than one
and one-third to a game. Supposing that
he duplicates his 1905 batting average and
draws salary of 81, 900, he would be paid
at the rate of 1922 for each bingle That's
batting some. and by the same token it's
gathering good money for hitting safely
one third Of the times he faces the pitcher.
The virtues Of hot-water applications are
recognized to such an extent that hot
water bags are made in a great variety of
shapes and sizes. The latest designs are
made to fit around the joints such as the
knee, ankle and elbow. They are very ef-
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