Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-12

McGlynn reported in st. Louis looking as
thin as a fence rail. He trained walking a
beat on the York, Pa, police force the past
winter.
Dan McGann has got his second wind on
the base ball proposition. Reports from
Los Angeles say that Dan is making two
and three hits day. and most of them are
twO-baggers or more.
Wallace never takes on surplus flesh. He
turned up looking better than ever this
spring.
Railroad rate regulations will cut into the
profits Of the league base ball clubs this
season. The various clubs travel about
100000 miles in a year. spending $4,000.
Formerly the clubs were allowed special
rates. which meant a saving Of from a
quarter to half of the regular fare.
McAleer Canned hickey because War
rem Branch refused to play on Sunday.
The Browns will play nineteen Sunday
games this season.
Frank Isbell is acting as interpreter for
the rest Of the White Sox during their train
| ing trip in Mexico. Isbell speaks species
| of hybrid Spanish that is barely ineligible
/ to the Greasers and which he acquired
| from some Spanish laborers near his home.
| 1t is said that the Chicago Nationals are
ready to turn over Infielder Sweeney. Out
| fielder Osborne and another player to the
| Boston Nationals free of charge. George
| Dewey. the new owner of the Hub club, has
been depending upon contributions from
| other clubs in the league ever since he
bought out Soden and Conant.
Isn't this a fact: That the only time
| when hard hitting is relished is when the
| home team Is doing it? Did anybody ever
! go home In gleeful mood from a game
when the home pitchers had been driven
out of the box?
Manager Hughey Jennings of Detroit is
| trying to work Matty MacIntyre. the out
| fielder off on the Chicago White Sox. in
| exchange for Pitcher Owens. Mac1ntyre is
| dissat isfied with Detroit.
The Chicago White sox ars making things
| hum in the City of Mexico. Upon their ar
rival an immense crowd, including hun
| dreds of Americans. greeted them and
| treated Charley Comiskey to an ovation
| President Ban Johnson did not accompany
| the SoX because of Illness.
| Lelivelt. the young outfelder who is slug
| cling the ball for the Athletic Yanigans. re-
sembles Pickering in the field. He is a
left-handed hitter, and his position at the
| bat is not unlike that of the former Quaker
! center fielder. There is this difference
however. that the new man possesses some
| gray matter.
| Manager Griffith of the New York Ameri-
| cans has arranged to play contests with
| the soldier club at Fort Mcpherson, neal
| Atlanta. Under the rules of the War De
| partment the soldiers cannot play such
games unless two members Of the army are
on the opposing team. Griffith will there
| fore play two soldiers in hts outfield, but
| keep the infield intact.
Eddie Foster, whom Connie Mack is try.
| ing out at shortstop, is one of the young
| est players in the major league. Foster is
/ nineteen years old. but a fast and ex-
perienced player. He was with the Coffey-
| vile team of Kansas last year. He may
not get a chance to play regularly until
next year. but in the meantime he Is going
to get plenty of work.
Andy Stevenson. one of the St. Louis
| Brown recruits, is prize fighter of con-
| siderable local note around the Mound City
| but he found that the demand for mitt
| artists on the wane he turned his
! attention to the diamond and made big
| hit in the Texas league, from which Nc
| Aleer picked him up for the Browns.
| Tim Jordan says Patsy Donovan of the
Superbas has Muggsy McGraw skinned &
| thousand miles as a base ball manager
| Your re right. Tim, when 1t comes to dispo
| siton. at least. for there isn't finer fellow
| in base ball than this same Pat. Donovan
! whereas McGraw-there's no need of com
| menting further-everybody knows that ]
Muggsy isn't an angel
No memoer of the Giants training squat
is getting more bouquets in these earl!
days than George Browne. the fleet RICH
| fielder. ITO see Browne run the bases ant
hit the ball would make the fans in New
York go wild with joy writes one scribe
| Brownie is just as fast as ever on TIL
bases and his hitting yesterday was tn
feature of the game
George Stone, champion batsman of TIN
| American League last year, Is persistinl
| in his refusal to report to the st. Loui
! Browns, and now McAleer Somebod,
else has started the story that Stone i
afraid to go to Texas for fear he'll ge
malaria. Tack a few extra hundreds ont,
Stones salary Mac, and you'll find out II
| short order how much he's afraid of ma
laria. the boil weevil or anything else tina
fiourishes in Texas or any other part of tn
| Union