Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-26


started playing ball on Sunday. and has
made eleven more hits up to date than he
had at this time last year
Philadelphia paper remarks that cit
begins to look as if the fans who want to
see the worlds championship series would
have to do their travelling between Phili-
deiphfa and Chicago. Does this party ey-
pect the Phillies to beat out the Cubs?
A story to the effect that Memphis sport
ing men are betting to that the Cubs
VIII be favorites over any American League
club that opposes them in the worlds
championship series comes from that city
This is very complimentary to the Cubs. but
these gentlemen evidently know some
thing and have thrown out the Cubs last
race against the American League cham
pionS.
How's this for race? In the South At
lantic League, in which jacksonville
Charleston, Macon. Augusta. Savannah and
Columbia are contestng. the three first
named clubs were tied at forty-nine games
won and thrty-six lost last Monday morn
ing. Macon was playing the best ball of the
trio at last accounts.
Figues don't lie Far be it from such
The west and east have hooked up 40
times since the campaign opened. One
hundred and four victories have come west
ward while sixty-six were pocketed by the
fasteners.
Jack Sheridan must be on his summer
vacation. says Elmer Bates. He is taking
the field duty for his. and letting young
Stafford generally considered the least cap
able umpire in the American League. do all
the ball and strike work every day. Pretty
soft for Jack old boy, but rather hard on
the pitchers and the suffering fans.
Clark Grif has nobody but himself to
blame for being shy OF pitching talent He
let out Howell, a better boXman than he
and Powell. who is also q. IA Re
Gently he turned Walter Clarkson over to
Cleveland. Griff was overly generous. He
gave Lajoie young Del, besides Garrison,
getting in return the pitched-out Moore.
Chase feded Yeager's triple to the right
field wall in the fifth. The belt got past
Laporte. Hal was after the ball from the
second it left Joe's ash. That's one of the
reasons why he's such toplner. He never
misses out on a play, and had he left the
garden to Laporte Yeager most likely
would have made the circuit. AS 1t was,
Hal kept Joe third. and he died there.
as Jones rolled to Elberfeld.-New York
Sun.
Monte Cross. the Philadelphia shortstop.
claims he has been persuaded by the book
ing agent of vaudeville circuit to organ
ize a quartet of ball players. and that he
has been promised twelve weeks in New
York alone. Cross sings first tenor, and 1t
is his idea to get Ed Walsh the White Sox
spitball thrower. for second tenor; Mig
Clarke of Cleveland for baritone and Harry
Armbruster of Toledo for bass. All four
are high-class singers. and could make good
on their vocal stunts. Pitcher Morgan OF
ST. Louis is another man who possesses
rare powers as vocalist.
The American League race assumed a still
more interesting aspect yesterday when the
New Yorks defeated the Clevelands the De-
troits two games in Boston and the
Phla delphias took two falls out of the
Chicagos. The Detroits took second place
away from the Clevelands. and they. to-
gether with the Philadelphias, are making
a threatening attack the trst-place
citadel held by the White SoX. The latter
have been knocked about roughly for two
weeks past and must do better ii they
to resist the determined efforts of the De-
troits and Athletics to overhaul them The
Browns squared accounts with the Wash
ingtOnS.