The Washington herald., 1907-05-20
VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Portsmouth at Lynchburg.
Roanoke at DanVille.
az TUE TEAMS
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

] Roanoke. Z j .522 Norfolk. 10 .lo'
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
/ The Departmental League starts on its
/ third season this afternoon.
/ The New York Americans are certainly
/ having an awful run of luck in the
/ West
/ Bob Unglaub smashed out three hits
yesterday. two Of which were two-bag-
gers.
/ The annual Central High School alumni
/ student game will be played at National
Park Thursday.
/ Providence has picked up Catcher Dono-
| van, who has been with the Philadelphia
! Nationals for the past two years.
/ That was a hard game for Harry White
| 10 drop to Boston yesterday. The Wash
ngton boy weakened IN the tenth
Duke" Farrell, the old Boston catcher,
| believes that the spit ball should be abol-
| ished. He says that II is the bane Of the
game
/ Some good sport Is promised at National
/ Park when Tech and Western meet 10
/ decide the baseball supremacy Of the
| high schools.
! Old Cy Young not only pitched a pretty
game at Chicago yesterday, but he started
/ the rally in the tenth which nettcd the
/ BostOns four runs.
/ Jack Doyle, manager of the Milwaukee
team. has been SUSPENDED indefinitely by
/ President O'Brien. of the American As
sociation, for offensive language and gen
eral rowdyism.
Moser, the pitcher who did SO much 20
[ help Lynchburg 20 land the pennant I'm
| the Virginia State League last year. is
| pitching remarkable ban for the Trenton
/ club in the Tri-State League,
The Chicago Nationals have blanked
every club with which they have come into
contact. and have blanked ST Louis twice
making seven shut-outs iu all. The
/ Cubs have made uinety-fvc runs to
/ ffty-three. and of the runs made by their
opponents twelve were made i'm one game,
| by Cincinnati.
Making Laioie manager" said I'm
/ Ipire OL3ughiin. has made him an easy
man to handle. Prior TO his being ele-
waited 70 his present position he seemed
/ TO regard the Umpircs as his worst enc
/ mics. and we frequently had trouble with
/ him. Since that time he has tanned him
/ self wonderfully and no manager in the
league gives us less trouble"
/ Frank Chance brands as false the story
/ that he is going to release Ed Reubsch
! because the big pitcher is not steady
! enough for 4 championship team. Reul-
( bach has pitched but once this season.
/ and then he lasted only two innings.
/ Chance SAYS the big fellow is strictly a
/ warm weather pitcher and ne IS waiting
l for higher temperature. The New York
! club could use Reulbach. He always looks
/ good there.
/ P0bert l. Hedges, owner OF the ST
/ Louis American League club, is going 20
/ try a new scheme for preventing the
! pOstpOnemert Of games on account Of
/ a Tain-sOaked diamond. His scheme is
/ simple and has been considered by other
I owners Hedges has made a deal with a
/ tent man whereby ne is to he furnished
/ q huge canvas tent which will be spread
/ over the entire infield each night.
/ Jake Stahl may 60 back to his old
position behind the bat. There seems TO
/ be no other place open for him at Chi
/ cagO The two Chicago teams each harbOr
! a former star OF the University Of Illinois
/ Stahl is with the SoN and Pitcher Carl
/ Lundgren with the Cubs Pitcher Falken-
/ berg of Washington. and Frank Pfeffer,
! the Boston pitcher, who twirled a no-hit
/ game the other day are also graduates
| Of the same university, and played the
game there.
/ Here is an "AU Star Western team
which a St Louis writer suggests. Alt
! rock Of the White Sox and Brown, of
/ the Chicago Nationals, pitchers; King of
| the Chicago Nationals. catcher: Chance,
/ Of the Chicago Nationals. first base: La
/ JOE. Of Cleveland, second base: Wagner.
Of PittsbUrg. shortstOp, Stenfeldt. of the
! Chicago Nationals, third base, Stone. q
/ the St. Louis Americans, left field. Jones.
/ Of the White Sox. center field, and Schultz.
Of the Chicago Nationals, right field.
! y California baseball writer says.
It is hard to.see how Earl Moore will
| strengthen the Yankees. though To be
sure. Walter Clarkson has been of no use
. 20 the New York team this spring The
big Cleveland pitcher was a winner until
he developed a fiat foot He could not
bear his weight on this foot, and conse-
qGently he was out of it for a season.
The injury was caused by a batted ball.
| which hit Moore On the foot Last sea-
son he pitched two or three games toward
the close of the season. This spring he
has been called on few times. but there
has been nothing startling about his
work.
! There has been a world Of comment on
how long George Van Haltren has been
playing professional baseball While It
has been thoroughly understood that Van
has been in the game for ages, it was the
manager Of the Oakland team himself
VINO came through with the information
that he started with the National League
/ IN June 1857. For several years before
that he was playing ball California, and
he will come close 20 rounding out
quarter of a century. That's a long time
for the hard game that baseball has
proved. but It only goes to show that a
( man who will take care Of himself and
not disspate can last Van has more
. action to-day than many a youngster
who is Just starting, and for man Of his
years he is a marvel when it comes 10
running the bases"
II a batter deliberately bunts the ball
! toward an infelder, with the intention of
putting himself out 70 advance base
runner. he should be accredited with
| sacrifice hit" whether an infeld error
allows him 70 get TO first or not. In
| answer TO an interested fan on this
! subject. the writer must admit that
scorers do frequently overlook this point
in case the batter gets to first on an er-
ror. or a futile attempt is made to catch
the other runner The harm d,nc
by such a mistake hurts the bat
ter's hitting average. a sacrifice HIT
does not count as time at bat, ard
the batter consequently does not lose his
! percentage for helping in the play But
If he is not credited with a sacrifice hit.
he must be given a time at bat with No