The Washington herald., 1907-10-20

Jim Mcclure wants to trade Unglaut
for Stovall. Of Cleveland.
Manager McAleer will spend the win
ter figuring how his fine team finished so
low In the pennant race.
OF the bunch Of players MeGraw has
excavated for 1905 Larry Doyle is the
only one who listens like the real thing.
Monte Cross is being groomed for a big
league managerial berth. Cincinnati would
be fortunate II it landed the angular
shortstopper as leader.
Del Howard never will forgive Manager
Tenney for trading him from lOwly Bos-
ton TO the Chicago Nationals, which gave
him a chance 10 get his bit out OF the
worlds series velvet
Baseball sharpS now have a great deal
Of respect for Manager William Murray.
who. in his first big league season.
pilOted the Phnlies more than 100 points
higher than the year before.
It is said that Comiskey will also OBJ
tain the release Of Norman Elberfeld be-
fore the winter ends. Tannehill Elber-
field, Parent, and Douohue would form
a remarkable inner works combination.
Joe Cantillon says he would keep
Catcher Blankenship for no other reason
than the fact that he discovered Johnson.
the Rocky Mountain phenom. Blank,
however, more than earns his salt behind
the bat. Joe adds.
Ty Cobb was the only major league
player to make 200 hits. He exceeded the
mark. Honus Wagner might have quail
fed had he not received an injury which
kept him out of action during The last
two weeks of the season.
ATtie Hoffman. considered the surest
hitter and most brilliant player on Charles
Webb Murphy's stipend roster, was una
bic to play in tie worlds series because
Of an injured leg, but the Cubs made a
clean sweep just the same.
II wasn't Jimmy Dygerts fault that
the Athletics failed 20 win the pennant.
The exponent Of the spit ball pitched
twenty-nine games and returned twenty
victories. His record Of three consecutive
shut0uts In four days toward the fag
end OF the season should stand for some
time.
Speaking about Au-American baseball
teams, try 20 pick a combination which
can beat this selection: Chase. first base;
Lajoie. second, Wagner. short, Devlin
third Magee, left. Flick, center; Cobb
right: King and SChTeCk. catchers: Don
ovan, Joss. DygeTt Plank. and Walsh.
pitchers. s.-Philadelphia North American.
Patsy Donovan believes that young
Mcmillan, Of Jacksonville, viii develop
into great shortstop for Brooklyn
He has drafted the lad and will give
him a thorough trial There are rumors
of z-r-f= ur q low u
the Brooklyn team. Among the pitchers
sized UP by Donovan is Red Waller,
Of Bridgeport. He pitched for the Man
hatJans, a fast New York professional
team, two years ago.
They are ringing the bell on Roy
Thomas over in Philly. Roy has been in
center for the Quakers so long that the
young generation of fans believe he
helped to found the game. Now they
say he is slow and that he would have
no batting average if he could not beat
out bUnts Also. they charge him with
lack Of ambition and poor base running
That's a strong indictment. and il looks
bad for Thomas. Manager Murray is
trying to trade him for HOstetter, the
versatile ST. Louis player
Napoleon Lajoie was one Of the proph-
cts who went wrong on some of his
predictions He picked Chicago 10 win,
but weRr even further and told why
the Tigers would lose. That was where
he got in bad "Rossman will surely
blow up declared Larry, for I know
him since last year. when he played
with us. He has not the stability that
is needed to make a great player"
Rossmans batting average makes La
joie look Ike a bogus prophet. The
big fellow surprised all the critics, who
figured him out as a weak point in the
Detroit team. He outhit every player
in the series. except Steinfeldt. and was
head and shoulders above Cobb and
Crawford Furthermore, some of his
hits were directly reSDonsibIe for runs