The Washington herald., 1907-09-22
Baseball Notes and Comment.

Atlanta viii have 20 get together almost
q new team. Besides losing Paskert.
Catcher Sid Smith, Catcher Sweeney,
and Pitcher Zeller by sale. Pitcher Castle
ton has been recalled 10y the New York
Americans and Third Baseman Dyer an6
Outda.der Becker have been recalled by
Cincinnati.
Young Cy Young. OF the Besneaters. IS
one OF the several Grst-class twirlers who
have been defeated more than twenty
times this season. Baebe and Stoney
NcGlyun. of the Cardinals. are two more.
'Three-duEered' Brown, or Bill DoH0-
Van couldn't win many games for that
ST. Louis Club.
Columbus led the American Association
in attendance. having drawn S-I04 for
the season. This is about the same num-
Der as was passed through the turnsties
last season. Toledo Is the next best city.
then comes Indianapolis Minneapolis and
Kansas City drew the best in the West
eIu end of the circuit
The new Yankees Bell Ball. and Blair.
have made favorable impressions. The
first two received all kinds OF commenda-
uons from the Philadelphia critics. and
during the few innings he worked the
young backstop showed that the money
paid for him was well Invested Loudon
did not do as well, but there Is plenty %
time Tor him 20 show what is In HIM
BIZ Stump, Of Cleveland, who umufred
in the Q. and J. League for three weeks
and ended his career by whipping
spectator after his last game at Laugas-
Ter, o.. VIII have two fingers taken off
10 stop blood poison, which has developed
from badly bruised hand. caused bv
his hstic contest. He may lose his hand
He has been in % Doctors care since
Tesigning.
There were nine shut-outs I'm the New
York-Brookiyn series this season. not an
Guiding a thirteeu-inning % 40 o game
In the tweuJy-three games played New
York made s.Nty-tW0 runs 90 forty
eiEht. landing twelve games To Ten. New
York landed five games by q single run
To SIX for Brooklyn. 1t was a great
series. New York landed one game. ]
20 @ and Brooklyn landed three
Says Harold Lanigan. OF St. Louis.
Cleveland doesn't play near good enough
ball TO cause the Cubs much trouble
Joss, ] think, is the only pitcher NJ
Lajoie owns who would be very trouble
some 20 Chicag0's cracks Almost surely
would Rhosdes and Thielman. both ex
Cardinals, be easy. ! doubt n Leibhart
would be winner. Hess. if he rounds
to, might prove a stumbling block"
Spit-ball pitchers in the Southern League
are up against tough proposition. The
opposing players have been rcsorting To
the use of fannie acid and licorice. and
number OF twirIers who make use of the
saliya-moistened ball have appealed 10
the umpires. who are trying 10 break ND
this practice. The only way to get rid of
this ball Is to have rule passed making
it an Illegal delivery to moisten the ball
Columbus has broken a minor league
record in the winning Of pennants in three
straight seasons. As far as major leagues
go. the feat of winning flags three
straight years has been accomplished by
Chicago. Boston. Pittsburg. and Balti-
more Major leagues have a better on
pOrtuuity 10 do this than a minor team
by far. Their clubs are kept intact. while
in the minors the raid Of drafters and de-
pletion of ranks by sales has ALWAYS 70
be reckoned with in building up a cham
pionship club.
A G. Rumble, known as Cap" to the
students of Northwestern University. for
which he handled the big mitt in 1901
and 1902, is to join the PhiladeIDhia
American League team in time for spring
training. Connie Mack gave him a tryout.
holding Waddell and other twirlers when
the team was in Chicago last, and he is
anxious 70 see if he is as good an all
around player as he is a backstop. Run
die has been with a Chicago semi-pro- /
fessionaI team this season.
Somebody asked MCCraw if no tbnugbt
the Giants would finish in second place
There's a bare chance" was the oflicl- |
reply. IF We get out Of Cincinnati with
half team. It has been a long time
since we have been able to play a game /
in Cincinnati without some PLAYER being
injured If we escape this time and win
the share Of games of which we are
capable. il is just possible that we viii
beat Pittsburg for the place. especially 1
II we happen TO be lucky against the 4
other teams Of the West"
Most of the Giants seem to be of onin- !
ion that the White Sox still have a very /
good chance to win the CHAMPIONSHIPS j., 1
the American League. Il thought that we 4
would play with some American Ieaeua /
club for the worlds championship this /
year" said one of the men Who con-
tested against the Athletics in 1865. For
a while it seemed as if we were going az
we'll as we did when we won the cham
pionship two years ago. but everything 1
began 10 break against us. and when Won
begn to pick up the wrong thread of q /
championship season IN baseball if is
astonishing how far you can follow it be- 4
fore you come TO the end"