The Washington herald., 1907-09-27
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Double-header with Cleveland to-day.
First game at . o'clock.
Tom Hughes and FalKenberg are slated
TO pitch for Washington to-day
The South Atlantic League will have
no nonplaylng managers next season.
Jimmy" Collins now tails the third
/ basemeu of the American League in
| fielding
The White Sox took fifteen out Of
/ twenty-one games from Washington
| this season.
The Athletics gathered fourteen out
OF twenty games from the St. Louis
Browns this season.
The Chicago National League cham
/ pions won seven TO q games this sea-
son and whitewashed opponents thirty
/ times
'Tis said that the Atlanta club Of the
Southern League cleared $4,000 the
/ past season. That's nice for the stock
! holders.
/ Jim Morgan, the Montreal manager
and sam EdmOnston, the Minneapolis
pitcher, watched yesterdays game from
/ the stand.
| The Chicago Cubs are now training
/ for the big games next month. as there
was nothing iu the old National
League makeup 10 worry them
"Rube" Foster. considered the best
colored pitcher in the country. shut
out Jake" Stahl's South Chicago club
without a run or hit last Sunday.
Having played advanced baseball all
summer. SChaefer and O'Leary. the Mi
lesian members Of the DetrOits, are going
into advanced vaudeville this winter.
According to the Boston Herald
there have been sixty-oue pitchers tried
out in the National League this sea-
son TO sixty-two in the American
League.
Ed Ashenbach viii draw the tin can
this fall from st. Paul. Lefty Davis
taking his place. The Cincinnati pro-
meter will surely land @ good berth for
next season in class &C
Second Raseman Paul Siebrie. of the
Richmond club of the Virginia League
is a physician as well as a ball tosser
and has been presented with a set or
surgical instruments as a token OF
the esteem in which he is held by his
friends and admirers,
II is a good wager that the attend
ance at the DetrOit-Athletic games In
Philadelphia to-day, Saturday and
Monday next, Will beat anything ever
chronicled in that city for three games
end Connie Will have so close the gates
before time IS called each day. If he
wants TO play the game.
When McGraw Is put out Of a game in
New York he enters a tool box against
the grand stand and witnesses the rest Of
the bout from that point. KLEIN blocked
his game here by closing the little door
back Of the Pirates bench after the
Giant leader had backed of the lot
Cantillon has little 20 say about the
reports from Chicago TO the effect that
Jake Stahl is going TO sue the Washing
ton club for preventing him from playing
ball this season 4 don't see where we
have kept Jake from being in the
game" said Joe last night. "On the
other hand we did everything possible
10 get him 10 play, but he refused 20
come here, so we sold him to Chicago.
The fine Of 5000 imposed by Presi-
dent Johnson on the Cleveland club
for delaying the game at Detroit a
week ago Friday viii be appealed 70
the board Of directors. The league
constitution gives any club upon which
a fine has been imposed the right to
appeal TO the directorate. and the
Cleveland club intends 10 avail them
selves Of the privilege. The case viii
be gone into thoroughly.
The President asked DT. Wiley whether
his recent trip to Europe had developed
any new ideas regarding the development
Of man through the stomach.
NO, I hardly think So" replied the
Doctor.
Didn't you discover a change OF diet
that would increase the batting average
Of the Washington baseball team?' per-
sisted Mr. Roosevelt
Any change of diet would do that"