Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
be on the rubber for the Clevelands.

Walter Johnson is no farmers boy. He
halls from Los Angeles and Is a graduate
OF the high school tn that city. How the
Pacific coast clubs overlooked him is q
mystery. Must be Cantillons good luck.
The pennant race presented a funny prop
osition yesterday. Detroit was defeated.
yet went into first place. and now the Ath-
ietics and Chicago are tied for place
honOrs.
Yum Moreland. one of the best out
fielders in the District. and leading batter
OF the Sunday School League. signed a con-
tract Yesterday to play with the Martins
last night Moreland. who has played with
number Of amateur teams OF this city.
has always been noted for his batting. and
1t is expected he will be able to make good
on his trial in professional ranks.
The navy team Of the Departmental
League Will play an exhibition game with
the Ninth Street team. which made such a
game fight for the pennant OF the North
east Church League, at 18th and D streets
northeast tomorrow friday at $50 pm.
Bert Blue the Columbus catcher, sought
by several big league clubs. has a record of
twenty-six full games behind the bat with
out misplay. Never blew" once. SO to
speak.
Lajoie says he will play first base for the
Clevelands until the club finds better
man. He may have to walt some time
The Boston Americans are last in batting
In the American League. with New York
last in fielding The latter, however, Is
first in batting.
Before making any bets on the result OF
the American League race. walt until the
Tigers and the Athletics hook up and sep
arate In their eastern series. This Is our
inside wire.
Roy Thomas Of the Yankees says he Is
not going into the speed contests for ball
players at Cincinnati. All efforts to get Jim
Mcclure iI have likewise proved fruitless.
as Jim thinks Hoffman. Bay. Brown, Stone
or Oldrtng might beat him.
A year ago Mugysy McGraw was being
pointed out as a shrewd manager who tried
to develop only one carefully chosen young
ster at time. The same critics who laud-
ed his system then are now criticislng him
for not realizing that veterans grow old
faster than youngsters develop.
There is more than an even chance that
the Boston Nationals will trade Sam Brown
and Inf1elder Sweeney for some frst-class
catcher. President Dewey has asked for
waivers on Brain and Bridwell as well. but
it's dollars to doughnuts that he has no
intention of letting go of the two last
named.
The national commission is still trying to
stamp out the farming" evil prohibited
under the constitution Of organized base
ball. but so far the league magnates have
shown much skill In beating 1t as a trust
lawyer sdestepping the more historic docu-
ment.
Lew wiltse, brother of George Wiltse of
the New Yorks. has been reinstated by the
national commission In order that he may
play with some little minor league club. he
having been banished for life to the Tri-
State League. where he failed to make
good.
The Cardinals have introduced a custom
in St. Louis which. We trust, will not be-
come popular in these parts. Every time
a Cardinal is criticised ip the story OF
game he comes surging into the press box
the next day and wants to see the guy
that wrote that piece The mortality
among base ball scribes out there is not
heavier than usual SO far. however.
Says a Cleveland critic: "Mr. Mack is
never heard on the coaching lines. nor does
he give any clairvoyant act like the F'ays.
but the Athletics just the same. are always
disarranging the plans OF Jones. Lajoie.
Jennings, Griffith and the others So far
as Mack and Griffith are concerned Grin
has done most Of The disarranging. His
team has won six games out OF nine from