Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-04

Arthur Irwin. for two years manag
or of the Trontos, and in his day one
of the best snortstops In the bust.
ness. has passed up the game and
gone into the hotel business at Tren-
ton.
President O'Bricn has found Harry
Clark. Milwaukee's third basoman.
guilty of an assault on Umpire Wcr.
den and has imposed fine of 800.
If Perry could get the hundred he'd
not be averse to being beaten up"
again, says the Ohio State Journal.
Says Gym Bagley: "That hollcr on
McGraw reminds us of the old saying
that you can please people some OF
the time, but not all of the time.
There are some fans who. because
McGraw brought home two pcnnant
winners. became imbued with the idea
that he must bring one home every
year"
Cleveland will likely keep Boxmen
"Heine" Berger and Otto Hess. Sew
eral clubs. notably st. Louis and New
York. refused To waive on the two
pitchers. and. as Lajoic wanted to use
them in trade, he will carry them
for the present ut least.
a southern journal picks about all
the flowers In the garden of rhetoric
while tearing eff all exhaustive de.
scription of baseball manager. Lis
ten: "Matty Matthews, he, the I'M.
shaycn, unshOrn, ooscbclted. nngar-
tered. slacll-kneed, loblollied, slave
driving. whip-cracking demon manag-
err"
Magnate Kinsella of Springfield,
who recently sold Larry Doyle 10
John r. Brush for $4,000, got the
youngster in peculiar manner Last
summer Mattoon wanted pitcher and
Kinsella loaned It Jokerst, the Col
linsville chap. Mattoon, in return,
gave Kinsella his pick of the team
Mt the end OF the season. Doyle was
his selection Now he gets $4,000 for
that youngster, while Jokerst Is pitch
ing in the Illinois Trolley League.
"Whatever became OF Dummy
Hoy, the former White SoX outfnld-
,er?" is question often heard. The
former great deaf mute. who was with
Comiskey for the first couple of years
the old Roman had his team in Chi
cago. is still alive and leading the sim
pie life on a farm near CINCINNATI.
Hoy has lost all interest in baseball
and has not attended game OF pro
fessional baseball this season He.
however. keeps in close tonch with
the big league doings by studying the
scores very closely.
Several National league clubs are
advocating the doing away with eXhi-
hilton games during the regular sea
son. The injury to Fred Parent at
Sandusky was an eye-opener.
Herman Schaefer. the Detroit sec
ond baseman. says that any old joke
will get round of applause this year
from the Tigers. "As long as you
can keep winning everything Is heav-
en.like. It's when you're getting
bumped that you feel like giving mp
baseball. for it's dogs life then.
Everybody has 1t in for you"
The Cleveland Press is out with a
campaign against the error column III
baseball saying that 1t makes fielders
shirk balls that they could probably
get II they were not afraid of making
hobbies because they would go on rec
ord. This is plainly uncalled for No
body in the ranks of the majors who
Is of any value mt all ever thinks OF
errors he might make. If they shirk
the slightest chance the manager
knows 1t first of all.
Charley Dryden. the great hnmor-
list OF the sporting world, Is travelling
with tho White SoX IS representa-
tive of the Chicago Tribune. Charley
saws the White SoX will win the pen
nant and is serious when he makes
prediction.
The American League is the league
for hot pennant fights. Season after
season it is Il real race in this organ
iZation for the flag
Jim Mcclure has instructed Jimmie
Barrett to take no chances In slid
ing Barrett is coming around IN
good style" says the manager, "and
want to see him back in his old
form"
Joe Lake of Jersey City leads the
Eastern League pitchers in the line
of strike-outs with total of 90 koXen
of the same team is second with IS,
but his good record is married by tn
free passes to first.
Humpy Badel the former buffalo
outfielder who jumped 10 the Johns
town 1'ri-Statc League team early
last season, is out of the game for
good. He is reported TO be in the
grip of consumption at his home in
Pittsburg.