Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

leaves Sunday for Hot Springs where he
will get in shape for the training trip at
Atlanta
Bill Coughlin is laid up with the grip this
winter. Bill had a good grip on his bat
last summer, when he broke up game
against the Yankees on their last western
trip with Detroit.
Willie Keller is in the hospital in Brook
Ign recovering from painful but not seri-
Gus operation. The Yanks' outfelder will
be well and strong enough to start south
with his team mates on March A.
Dusty, Rhodes landed four out of six
games from the White Sox last season. and
took five out of six from the Athletics
That Is going some, without doubt.
Phillies next year. If Grant Is as good as
he is reported to be the chances are that
Courtney will be playing the part of utility
man before the summer Is over.
"Billy" Murray, the new manager Of the
Philadelphia National. League club, and
Connie Mack, the manager of the Ath-
letics. are to be rendered dinner Dy the
sporting writer's of the Quaker city on the
last day of this month. This date was
chosen in order that good will between
them might extend from one month to an
other.
The Cincinnati club is said to be negoti-
ating for young infielder, who has made
his mark with independent teams in and
around New York. He is highly recon-
mended by John Ward. former manager
and shortstop of the Giants.
John T. Brush will be the only represen-
tative of the Giants at the meeting of the
National League. Knowles will start for
Los Angeles next Sunday. This makes 1t
look as If the former champions Will not
figure in any deals. Still Brush is a shrewd
man when it comes to framing up bar
gain.
The worlds champions. the White Sox Of
Chicago, are to play forty exhibition games
before the season begins. This is said to
be a larger number than will be played by
any other club in the United States, and
a Chicago wag states, with some facettous-
ness, that Comiskey will have the players
earn their salaries for the coming summer
before they will have taken part in single
contest in the race for the American
League pennant.
Since Unglaub, who jumped the Boston
Americans to play with a club in what was
once the outlaw league, has found that
he is likely to be fined for his tmprudence
before he gets back to the major league.
he has ceased to quarrel with the Boston
management in regard to his salary for the
coming season. Perhaps he thinks that
the management will prevail upon the ma
tional commission to spread the punish
ment on light
home run. and the writers Immediately
conclude that it was the f1ukiest In the
history of the game. Jack Sheridan, the
dean of the umpires, who has served the
the palm to .Hunky'' Hines, the old Min
neapols outfie!der. The play happened IN
the ninth inning OF game between st
Paul and Minneapolis. Neither side had
scored. and in the ninth, when one OF the
st. Paul players hit high fly that sent
Hines to the fence. the fans all looked for
an extra-innng game. But alas! Hines
lost the ball in the sun, and it struck him
squarely on the top of the head, bounding
over the fence and winning the game for
the visitors Sheridan says that he VIII al
ways contend that Hines should get credit
for that homer.