Evening star., 1907-08-24
BASE BALL NOTES.

Mr.. Block made the Nationals only error
yesterday, but he also made three hits.
Some one must have told Falkenberg
something. He is certainly pitching like a
man who Is pleased with himself.
And they picked the Detroits to win the
pennant! That would be a pretty bunch to
go against the Chicago Cubs.
That ''kid'' Milan seems to be standing
UP pretty we'll He secured two singles
again yesterday and Is said to be very fast
on the bases By the way, he doesn't fls-
ure at all in the Mcbride trade.
How could the Nationals lose when Falk
enberg made two hits against Siever? His
stick work must have paralyzed Coughlin.
Schmidt and Rossman.
Managers Cantillon and Jennings may
arrange today to pull Mondays game back
and play it tomorrow. but nothing definite
has been heard along these lines from
Detroit
The White sox of Chicago have secured
Infelder Ate and Pitcher Manuel of the New
Orleans club Of the Southern League.
They are saying now that Lajoie's trouble
Is that he is too kind to his players. Don't
see how that jibes with his stopping Sto-
wallis harmless little jest with the chair.
Cleveland has grabbed a new young third
baseman by the name Of Dautell. He halls
from Marion, Ohio, and is said to be an ex-
pert long-ddstance chair thrower.
What a lot of fun the humorists will
have with Pitcher Warhoop next season
II he behaves as the rest of our twtrlers
do when Silk O'Loughlin or Jack Sheridan
won't let them work the corners.-Cleve-
land Leader.
The Tigers worked the good old moss
draped concealed ball trick on the Bostons
the other day. but as Mr.. Knight, the
schoolboy phenom, was the goat, 1t isn't
surprising that they got away with it.
A St. Louis critic pointed out the other
day that the infleld of the Cardinals Is COM
posed almost entirely Of real Mound City
athletes. Judging from Its performance
yesterday we should think that st. Louis
ans would be trying to conceal that fact.
Cincinnati leads the league in club bat
shows how misleadingiy foolish and useless
figures is AS a matter Of cold figures,
this means that Cincinnati! is better hit
ting team than the Cubs, and If you believe
1t you are crazy in the head.
Last winter, when the American League
held its winter meeting up on Broadway,
Ban johnson informed us that the race In
the American League was going to be the
closest and most sensational in base ball
history. We offer this to the Philadelphia
muck rakers the nucleus Of a line of
evidence to show that the race was fixed.
When Patten tried to sneak over strike
on Larry in the second inning the king
lambasted 1t for two bases into right field.
In the same inning Smith fumbled Clark's
grounder but picked up the ball in time to
a ball player and looks about as good as .
any youngster who has broken in this sea-
son.-Cleveland Leader.
Neur, the star southpaw of the South
Atlantic League, has been sold by Savan-
nah to the New York Americans. He left
Thursday to join the Highlanders, and will
is not given out.
Eddie Cicotte, the crack pitcher of the
Lincoln Base Ball Club, and one of the
twirling stars of the Western League, has
been sold to the Boston American League
team for $1,000. cicotte is to finish the
1oin Boston after the middle of September.
The respective owners of the Boston Ma
tional League and American League base
ball clubs have closed an agreement to play
q post-season series Of nine games on sue
cessive days, Sunday excepted. The series
will begin on the National grounds October
day. Irrespective of the outcome. the full
series will be played,
Somebody ought to take the Washington
athletes out and introduce them to each
other. In the opening chapter Mr.. Block
almost lost his top-piece when Mr.. Patten
heaved the ball back quickly. Block wasn't
made an effort to stop the pellet Even
Jack Sheridan was surprised. and he had
a lively time side-stepping. Patten let go
and yelled, Look out!' and Block looked
Cleveland Press.
"Grif" Not After Lajoie.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, August A.-"Wul I get