The Washington herald., 1907-05-19
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
l. well. watch BROOKLYN.

I N ell. We'll, Wditu bItNhlAN.
/ Hard to lose after that nice lead.
Seventeen straight for the Giants.
King L8joie is still far below the 300
mark
Chances Cubs are regular bulldogs. the
| way they hang onto New York's flank.
/ Frank Selee finds it difficult to avoid
1 the last hole
| Six games won by only one run each
shows good ball playing.
/ Great race in the New England No
/ easy task to pick a winner there
George Iiun never handed us lemon. %
| says Charles Murphy Of the Chicago
/ Cubs"
/ The Cincinnstis will play mt Elizabeth
/ to-day. and the New York Nationals next
/ Sunday.
/ Fred Doe has picked up an independent
shOrtstop named Conway, also Catcher
Donovan. Of the Phillies.
I Altoona has traded Pitcher Charles
+ Shields TO the St Louis Nationals in re-
. turn FOR Pitcher Carl Druhot
/ Pitcher Henry Mathewson. the brother
/ of the famous Christy. has joined VIII
| mington. Of the Trl-State League.
I Beebe. Of the 81. Louis Nationals. is the
most balky pitcher in major league ball
He has had three called on him thus far.
Kip" Selbach is getting on nicely with
the Harrisburg club, in the Tr-State
I He is a clean up man in the batting list
and hitting fairly well.
II looks as if that offer of Hanlon's Of
/ his salary if his team finished first would
+ be perfectly safe If he made il good for
the first division
The veteran Tom DAILY has been OBJ
tanned TO manage the JohnstOwn Tn-State
League team, and Arthur Brouthers will
play third base for that team.
After dropping six straight games. the
Columbus. champions of the American As
/ sociation. won a thirteen-inning game from
Kansas City, by making four runs in the
thirteenth inning.
Buck Freeman is evidently deter
mined to smash all records for home runs
this year. He won another game for
Minneapolis Wednesday 10y slamming the
leather over the wall
II is decidedly questionable whether the
teams Of the major leagues will be able
TO get in all their scheduled games this
year. There have been so many postpone
ments 90 date that there will be weeks Of
double-headcrs this summer.
Brooklyn lost just as many games a
year ago at this time. but landed more
victories. Cincinnati has done better than
a year ago, and st. Louis has done worse.
A year ago Boston was the American
League tail-ender, and now it is ST
Louis.
President Dreyfuss thinks McGraw is
wrong In the argument that I-mpire Rig
Ter had no right to throw in dry BAN
Wednesday. The local club owner saws
that under the rules the umpire is tbe
sole judge as to the fitness Of the ball for
play and that there can be no appeal
from his decision.
Umpire Dugan, Of the Central League
has resigned. He claims that ne has
family at home that needs protection for
years to come. He gazed on 200 rabid
fans at Grand Rapids the other dav. with
only one policeman 10 protect him. He
Immediately decided that it was time to
do the life-saver act and get out
1T is ridiculous to say that the PLAYERS
of to-day are not far in advance of those
Of twenty-five years ago. saws Fielder
Jones. The game has improved in every
department In the old days there were
about fifteen or twenty good players. and
those few showed the others up. Now
adays every man must be star, or he
does not play.
Some pitchers can't get control of Il
wet ball SAYS McGraw. L frequently
send in McGinnity when the weather is
damp because he can handle "A wet ball
better than any other pitcher. a wet ball
was hard for tine pitcher the Reds had in
Wednesday. We were behind when the
incident happened. and l was there to get
ali that was coming to us. Did you ever
know me to take less"