Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-17

Inc Nationals WinQ up IN chicago tOQay
and then move on to Cleveland.
George Mill got only one hit yesterday,
but it sent the Nationals first run over the
rubber.
Patten may do the pitching for the Ma
tionals today, and perhaps we may win a
game from the White Sox.
The two days lay-off of the Nationals
apparently knocked them out Of their
stride.
Ban Johnson evidently wants to impress
on the Washington people, and MeSSrs.
Noyes and Cantillon in particular, that he
| Is the American League. He certainly dis
played his spleen toward the Nationals yes
terday when he refused to let Mike Kelley
play first base.
Clark Griffith offered to trade Clarkson
and Delehanty for Bill Dineen, but nothing
came to pass.
Manager McAleer is threatening a shake
up of the st. Louis Browns on account of
their miserable showing.
McGraw has not been on the coaching
lines in championship game this season
not at home at any rate. But the position
of the team shows the effects Of his able
direction.
Manager Kelley has succeeded in chang
ing the Toronto knocking spirit into one Of
boosting 1t takes home boosting to win q
game almost as much as 1t does a good
team.
Speaking of Keller, Lajoie and others who
seldom strike out, Kid Elberfeld is right in
that claim. 1t is a long time between whiffs
with the Kid. His bat seldom fails to get
at least niece pf the hall
Burke, the outfielder that McGraw turned
over to Boston, is making very favorable
impression. In a game at Pittsburg the
other day he got three hits.
Sheckard has been weak against left
handers this season. He clouts the star
board fingers as well as ever but has done
little against the )southpaws. In twenty
two games he struck out nine times.
Doc Newton won another game from
Montreal Monday with Kittredge behind
the bat. Newton is pitching great ball and
Is coming up to expectations.
Unglaub's players will have a hard time
the second trip they take around the cir
cult They have postponed game to play
off in every city now, except ST. Louis and
Chicago, and there's still a chance for this.
Krob, the left-handed pitcher that the
Boston Americans secured from Albany,
has been ordered to report to the Baltt-
more club by the Boston American manage
ment. Krob left last night for Buffalo to
join the Baltimore team.
Lajoie. the smuggling manager of the
Cleveland Americans, has begun to bunt.
F1elders almost invariably play back for
him, and Larry is trying to give them
something to guess about.
Criger and Unglaub of the Boston Ameri-
cans disposed of seventeen dishes of ice
cream in less than an hour in Cleveland
the other day, according to the best infor-
nation obtainable on the subject. The his
toric astronomical feat of eating quail
day for thirty days would be q cinch for
anybody that could do that.
Tad Jones Of Yale must have a big bat
ting average He has been Furnishing the
ball In every game, and against Tif Of
Brown made triple and single. There's
big league timber in this college backstop
but it is very doubtful whether he would
play professional ball.
ut is ridiculous to say that the players
of today are not far in advance Of those of
twenty-five years ago." says Fielder Jones'
1.-THE game has improved in every depart
ment In the old days there were about
fifteen or twenty good players, and those
few showed the others up. Nowadays every
man must be star, or he does not play.
Still lingering echoes Of George Huff as
manager of the Bostons. He says that to
run big league team a man must be a
good-handed fighter, diplomat, gold-brick
man and as sympathetic as a subway
guard. He has to know some base ball, too,
George.
Every western team in the American
League was winner yesterday. Two of
the fasteners were shut out. One was the
New Yorks, who lost by one run in their
hoodoo town Of Detroit. their first shut-out
of the year. st. Louis whitewashed the
Philadelphia; the Chicagos won with plen-
ty to spare from the Washingtons, and
cleveland beat the Bostons by a brace In
the eighth inning. The New Yorks now
have won one game and lost five in the
west, and 1t has not been all the pitchers
fault by a jugful.