The Washington herald., 1907-09-01
Baseball Notes and Comment.

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In percentage Of games won.
ComislSey says there is nothing in the
talk OF a deal of George Davis for Elber-
field.
Beebe, OF the St Louis Cardinals. has
the best strike-out showing in the Ma
tional League.
Charley Hickman. with a .2Ss average,
has a better batting record than any Of
the Nationals except Clymer
President Ebbetts, of Brooklyn. VIII give
to his players the entire receipts of the
game his club will play in Saratoga next
ksunday.
Pitcher Hoffer. once with Baltimore, is
with Oklahoma City in the Western As
ISOLATION, and pitched no hit game the
other day.
Pitcher Tevis, of the Houston (Tex)
League team, is slated for try-out this
fan with Indianapolis. He is expected To
report September 8.
The Brooklyn club has refused 10 per-
nit the Chicago Cubs or Giants to play
Sunday games with the Far Rockaway
team at Far Rockaway.
Grantland Rice, the wen-known Atlanta
writer. says that First Baseman Pete Lis
ter, obtained BY Cleveland. IS the best
first baseman the South has ever seen.
SAYS Connie Mack: 1.-THE addition of
Collins has given us one of the best men
in the country. veteran, who has been
through the grueling, and who is never
so good as under fire.
With Barrett. Sullivan. Congalton,
Thoney. Gessler. Carlisle, and Cravath
from whom TO select. the Boston Ameri-
cans ought 10 have very fair outheld
next season. Too bad three good ones
can't be heiled out OF the lot.
The Yankees will practically have New
York all to themselves for the rest Of the
| season, as the Giants have less than ten
games to be settled on the home grounds
just before they start West on their final
trip. which ends in Philadelphia
Neuer the new left-hander Of the New
York Americans. made about as fine a
debut as any young pitcher could hope
| TO make. To take a game from a team
that is going the way the Boston Amer
leans are travelling now was 40 small
! performance.
KnOckoUts Of batsmen by pitchers are
/ becoming common In the big leagues.
Batch was sent TO bat for Bergen In the
ninth at Brooklyn Wednesday and got
an awful blow in the side Of the head
| from one Of Overalls fast wild ones lie
was down and out for a minute, and
Pastorius took his place on first
Jack Doescher Doc Reisling. and Red
owens have asked the national commits
sicn for reinstatement These three play
with the Tri-State League when shat
| league was an outlaw organization II
is said there is a money difference be-
tween each Of the payers and the Brook
/ lyn club.
/ Pitcher Knobs, obtained by Brooklyn
/ from Chicago IN exchange for Harry
/ Gessler last year. has asked the national
/ commission 10 declare him a free agent.
/ in that his contract with the Chicago
/ club did not permit the club 10 trade
him. Knobs is now pitching semi-profes-
! sional baseball in Chicago, and Mike
! Donlin says he is a good eGe.
/ George T. Stallings. the former Buffalo
/ manager. has issued statement, deny
/ ing the report that ne would be in charge
Of the Montreal team next season. lie as
/ serts that ne has no intention Of going to
/ the Canadian city. Il is further asserted
/ that Third Baseman Jimmy Morgan, who
/ IS manager of the team at present viii
1 oil the same position next year.
! Billy Maloney plays insane baseball a;
times. In the ninth inning Of a game
/ ith Chicago Maloney was on first with
/ two out and Brooklyn two runs behind
/ Although mis- run was not worth a snap
/ Maioney took a long chance by stealing
/ second and then third Hardy. the Cubs
new catcher. showed he knew some base
/ ball by letting the crazy lad 90 as FAR as
he liked.
The secret Of successful batting has
/ been disclosed by Frank Chance. Hit tbs
/ ball in the eye. he says. other authori-
/ ties say lift the ball on the nose, still
/ others hit il in the solar plexus. while
/ there are others who declare that tho
/ only correct and reliable spot % apply
/ the punch is on the trade mark.-NeW
/ York Globe. Hit IL any old place. SO
! long as you hit 1t safe.
! There remains about three weeks 10
play, but the race in the American Asso-
/ citation Is practically over as far as the
/ first place is concerned. Columbus is only
| matter Of four or five games behind, but
/ at this time of the year that is a big
/ handicap, and it appears especialle large
/ against such a club as Toledo. which has
/ been playing consistent ball and promises
to continue TO do so for the remainder OF
! the season.
! Hamilton, Ont, IS anxious TO secure a
/ franchise in the Eastern League, and al
ready offers have been made TO the own
! ers of the Montreal Club TO purchase theiI
franchise. It is declared that Montreal
intends to stick. although it is claimed
the club is about 5000 in the hole. Ham
/ ilton is between Toronto and Buffalo, and
teams going through one OF the latter
| cities to the other pass through Hamil-
/ ton. 1t is place Of about $500 popula-
ton, and the people there are baseball
crazy.
1t is rather an interesting fact, in con
nection with the history Of the Pittsbure
and New York clubs. that each is a good
winner on the home field of the other
The Pittsburgs have beaten the Giants a
majority Of games IN some one series in
New York, and then gone home, only 20 be
well walloped by the Giants there Some,
I times the Giants have run away from the
/ Pittsburgs on the Polo Grounds and have
been beaten the next series on the Pi.
rates diamond. There never has been q
season when either team could be said e
have a safe advantage over the other.
A story from Altoona that says that
President Carpenters organization ha.
! not been a paying business proposition
this year is generally conceded. To carry
the players it had on its roster the mag
mates had 10 pay big salaries, in som,
! instances as big as those paid in tn,
/ tor Taa,rfrac THE nov roll h,- - .
| heavy drain on the Tri-State exchequer
If Ii is decided 10 withdraw from or
ganized baseball next year, as now seems
certain If the league continues, Presiden
Carpenter viii not be at the head O
the organization. He was largely instru
mental in getting the TTi-State organiza
! lion l1ndnr the cnuar Of the No ton q