The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-08-10
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

John McGraw says he is still in the
race. Yes. for fourth place, perhaps
Umpire Tom Connolly wears shin
guards. but not 50 as you would no.
tice IT,
Seymour. OF the Giants. viii be IN
able 10 get back into the game again
until next week.
Catcher Byers, of Baltimore batted
for .367 Think Of q catcher with that
batting percentage.
Pitcher Hal, late of Cincinnati, held
Minneapolis down 10 three hits in his
first game for Columbus.
johnson will pitch the opening game at
St Louis. and Oberlin will probably
work in one OF the games with the
Browns.
Norman Elberfeld is getting his
practice every day, and will be in the
game when the Yankees leave for their
final Western trip.
Bull" Durham. formerly Of the Ma
/ tionals, continues to pitch winning ball
for Louisville. He held Minneapolis
to three hits the other day
James Moran-The Herald cannot af-
ford to take sides on the question. The
matter should be adjusted by the league
officials without outside interference.
Tiff, the Brown University pitcher.
for the New York Yankees. held ST
Louis to one run in six innings in his
first appearance in the major league
Detroit offered the Indianapolis club
$500, aside from the purchase money,
for the use Of Pitcher Summers right
away. Indianapolis declined 10 accept
George Tebeau is wrathy at the story
telling that he is trying to organize an
outlaw league. lie says these stories
axe getting 10 be annual affairs from
his enemies.
If we did not have such a kindly re-
gard for Charlie Zuber, tho bright Gin
cinnati journalist, We would nominate
him for the position Of manager Of the
Reds.-New York Mail
''Rube" Geyer. Of Columbus, is pitch
ing great ball at present. Not q run
/ has been scored against him in his last
nineteen innings. He has won nine
games and lost four this year.
Thoney still leads the Eastern
League in batting. but his percentage.
$50, is lower than il has been for
weeks. Joe Kelley is second with S3S
In So contests ThOney has made SO runs
and 100 hits.
Boston had taken seven games OUT
OF eleven from Cincinnati before the
latter landed six straight. such is base
ball, however. and Boston viii have a
chance 10 get even when the Reds get
there this month.
Latter-day ball players are begin
ming TO argue against the old tradition.
and assert that a hard pitched ball
cannot be batted farther than a slow
0Ue They offer as proof OF this that a
batter in hitting out fungoes which
he pitches 10 himself can often hit
them over the fence.
II is stated on good authority that
the differences between Hugh Duffy
and Fred Doe, Of the Providence club
Of the Eastern League, are purely
financial and not personal Ii is now
q question which man viii sell out his
interests TO the other. Neither DuTy
nor Doe will talk about the matter
"Oh, guess the Cubs viii be in the
business next year" said Charley Muir
ply, Of the Chicago Nationals, when he
was asked what his scouts had been
doing. II have II men out and they
have hooked from % to 80 men There
was a long time when I did not hear
from them. I began to get scared
especially when 7 heard that there were
so many other scouts in the field
When the wires did begin buzzing.
however. they sizzled The scouts said
/ they had been in the bushes. so far
| from civilization that there were no
/ telegraph wires That's why I didn't
hear from them"
Baseball Is raging up in Alaska and
the arctic regions are all torn UP over
a thirteen-inniug game recently be
tween the -EllIotts and the
Diamond H. Z. team These clubs.
which are considered the best in the
Copper River section, had 2 wild time
Of il, ana the Diamond bunch won out
II 10 10. An Alaska paper says that
Fred Guthrie, the umpire. made him
self very popular with the players Of
both teams by his good judgment in
rendering decisions. Send for Fred at
once. Ban and Harry The man who
can umpire q thirteen-inning game be-
tween Alaska1s and become popular
with both teams is too good for minor
( league company.
I have been asked 10 explain the
origin OF the word "southpaw' as ap-
Piled TO a left-handed pitcher. and.
while I would not insist that my an
swer IS correct, most old-timers and
ball players in general whom 7 have
questioned consider il very plausible
Most ball grounds are laid out with
the grand stand facing to the east
that the spectators in IT NAV be shaded
from the afternoon sun. The pitcher,
therefore, as he faces the grand stand.
has HIS right hand to the north and
bis left hand 10 the south. The left
hand IS therefore the south paw Per
haps some one has a better explana-
tiOn. If so, would like TO be enlight-
ened, says "Old Grad" IN the Boston
Herald.