The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-06-30

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Lowell club Sl25 for his failure 10 produce
| his regular team.
Altizer may be a little erratic covering
short but is a handy man at bat and fast
on bases. lie Is now taking daily lessons
/ in bunting
/ The crack Wheaton CAId) team and st.
Stephens Institute will play at National
/ Park on the morning Of the Fourth Of
| July. These are two Of the fastest teams
in these parts. Sanders and Kerr viii
probably be the opposing pitchers.
/ Anybody who can get the right dope on
/ the Pittsburg Pirates Is the wlsest man IN
/ baseball They played worse ball on their
/ home grounds than they did on their first
road trip, and as soon a.s they leave home
/ they begin to play better than ever.
Sam Edmonston is not with the Ma
| tionals on the present trip. After giving
| the young player a trial in Philadelphia
Cantillon decided that EdmonstoB was
| In need Of more practice. EdmonstOn VIII
report when the Nationals return.
| Frederick j. Haskia. who Is writing a
/ series Of very interesting articles for The
Washington Herald, was formerly a ball
[ player Of some semi-professional note.
/ He played first base al Hannibal. No. He
[ is now a confirmed rooter for the Ma
tlonals
| Mike Kelley, who was barred from play
/ ing In Washington. had an American As
/ ISOLATION record Of batting safely in
/ twenty-five successful games. Friel, Of
/ Columbus. hit safely in twenty-three
games this year, but he quit on win
Kellum.
| Pittsburgs total Of twenty-nine bases on
/ hits, the record Of the year for the two big
/ leagues. was nearly tied by the New York
| Americans, who registered twenty-eight
/ BY making twenty hits and scoring fifteen
runs. the Yankees tied the big league
! records for both.
Billy Dammann, who starred for Cincln-
nau about the time Henry Chadwick was
| in his prime has a new lease on life.
/ Pitching for Evansville. IN the Central
/ League. he held Springfield % one run IN
/ seven innings. He lost out. however.
/ The 81 Louis National League Base
/ ball Club has obtained First Baseman
/ Burnett of the Tacoma CWashD team.
/ of the Northwestern League, and Pitcher
/ Raymond from Atlanta Ga. The terms
OF both deals are withheld, but IL is stated
Robinson paid s. $50 for Burnetts release.
/ Secretary J. H. Farrell, of the National
! Association. SAYS the Connecticut League
| has no more right TO pass a rule allowing
/ coaching from the bench than Il would
/ have 20 pass a rule allowing four strikes
| for each batsman. Farrell passed on the
matter for the enlightenment Of the
league secretary.
/ L take good care" SAYS Jesse Burkett.
/ mot 10 have my players interfere with
/ the Umpires and get thrown out Of the
game. as it means the weakening Of my
/ team and the loss o. games. The Lynn
/ club last season lost the championship by
| having their best players put out Of the
game for umpire batting"
/ Malarkey is making Montgomery uu-
Questionably the best manager ever His
/ intelligent handling Of the team has made
/ itself felt all over the league, and as long
as they play the game that they have
/ been playing for the past two months the
/ local fans will be satisfied whether they
win or lose.-Montgomery Advertiser.
/ Nearly all well-establlshed baseball
/ leagues contribute at least per cent Of
/ the gate receipts to a sinking fund. to be
split up at the end Of term OF years as
/ leagues usually are under an agreement
/ to stick together for a term Of years, and
cannot change the complexion Of their
! organization without the consent Of the
national board
4 number Of former big league ball
players, including Jake Stahl, Callahan.
and Dutch" Meters, will meet the Gun
/ theirs at Chicago to-day. Il would be no
/ trouble at all in Chicago TO get together
a team that would give a hard tussle to
/ any Of the big league clubs. The Gun
1 theirs. By the way, defeated the Chicago
/ Cubs last year.
/ Connie Mack Is keeping a quiet lookout
/ for Artie Brouthers, New Orleans third
/ baseman of the first Of the season Con-
ME bought Brouthers back from Frank
/ few weeks ago, but the South Carolina
sailor decided 10 keep Mack guessing a
while, and II is said that he is playing
ball In the Western Association under the
name of Sisters.
! To take the place of Lajoie when he
drops the title Of hero of the American
/ League there are now three youngsters
who will probably be batting for the
/ honor They are Hal Chase. Tyrus Cobb,
and Harry Niles and experts say that
/ never have three young ball players
/ shown greater promise Of being the three
greatest ball players in the league at one
/ time-Pittsburg Sun. How about Capt
/ Robert Ganley?
! Manager J. ]. McCloskey. OF the st.
Louis Cardinals, has signed a new first
/ baseman, Edward Konetchy, a Greek,
/ bought from the La Crosse CWisD team
| in the Wisconsin State League. Konetchy
1 is said 10 be the first Greek to break into
major leagues. He is a strapping big
man. six feet tail. and Weighing nearly
| 100 pounds. He was leading his league in
batting AT the time he was sold 10 St
Louis
Taking exception to criticism in the
! Shreveport Times charging him with at
tempting to spike Sh0rtstop Carr the
/ Washington boy. Catcher Harry Mat
thews. Of the New Orleans team, at
/ tackled Sporting Editor lenders on the
street. Mayor Bernstein interfered after
the men had clnched in rough-and- tumble
1 fashion. Policemen who arrested Mat
/ thews on a charge OF assault and bat
/ terry afterward were detailed to protect
/ him from an angry mob that followed
! his team to the depot.
The great objection l have to double
/ headers said Manager Jones, Of the
White Sox, rs the fact that 1 have to
wear sun glasses the first game, and when
have glasses on 1 cannot see what is
going on at all The SOx have plenty Of
/ pitchers and are better off in this respect
than any Of the clubs that we have to
| play double-headers with. We are no ex-
ception in the league, however, as every
one Of the teams will have 10 play as
many dcuble-headers as We WILL