The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-08-26
Baseball Notes and Comment.

| Williamsport. Pa. now has a winning
lead in the Tri-State League
/ Branch Hickey. of the New York Amer
leans, declines to play Sunday ball
The Pittsburg Pirates have shut out
/ their opponents eighteen times this year.
The Cubs ctunot equal their record OF
last year If they lose more than of the
43 games they have yet to play
The White Sox want shortstop Monte
Cross, OF the Athletics, but Connie Mack
has hung out the nothing doing sign.
II Bresnahan can invent a few more
wrinkles. in the way Of catching harness.
he won't need his big mitt. He caught
! a third strike the other day in his shin
| guard.
! Campbell, a player OF the Sioux City
club. will probably be smothered with
demands for his services next spring In
| a recent game against Denver he literally
/ knocked the cover of the bali.
They will be talking about this 2O-to-5
game twelve years from now" remarked
a fan who had become eallous enough not
70 care. Yes. but they won't be talking
about Il IN New York.-New York World
Malachi Kittredge. the new manager of
| Dayton. with full authority 20 sign and
release men, began by signing George
Simmons. OF Brooklyn. for second base
and George Rub, formerly of Terre
Haute. for shortstop.
AS long as a ball player Is hitting the
bail, everything he does looks good Since
Stone began to wallop Ike a champion.
the critics in St Louis have discovered
that he can throw 10 the plate, which Is
one thing he never could do.
Ten men have made five hits in a game
this year. They are Wagner, Seymour,
Lewis Browne. Schultz. Mitchell, and
Titus in the National. and Stovall Old
ring, and Barrett in the American. Wag-
ner alone has performed the feat twice.
stats" Reeder, the former Cumber-
land pitcher, who started the present
season with East Liverpool. going thence
10 Wheeling, is now playing with Nc
Keesport. 1t was claimed Reeder was
not fast enough FOR Central League
company.
Charley Pittinger is a sick man. and
it is doubtful IL he ever pitches another
game of ball IN the National League. He
has been paid off IN full until the end Of
the season by the Philadelphia club, and
VIII open a grocery store and restaurant
at his home in Carlisle
a Texas League athlete has doped out
a new twist on the squeeze play. Instead
Of uniting. you take a wild swing at the
| ball and accidentally fall against the
catcher In the case OF quick tempered
catchers, such as Buelow. Bemis, ard
Bresnahan, We do not recommend this
system.
In two cities Of the American Associ-
alton they can't see. or. at least. they
say can't see, why Toledo Is leading the
American Association. These towns are
Minneapolis and Columbus, and in both
places they figure their clubs should be
ahead Of the PackeTs.-Indianapo
News.
The Cincinnati club has closed deals
for the following new players for next
season: George Paskert. from Atlanta;
Billy Campbell, from Harrisburg: Nike
O'Neil. from Harrisburg; George Pearce,
from Newark, Ohio; Pitcher Raglan. from
Omaha; Outnelder MCGEE from Omaha;
Rudy Hulswitt from Columbus Pitcher
Up, from Columbus.
As an evidence OF how the love Of base
bali for its outdoor advantages is spread
ing through all ranks Of citizenship.
pair Of glasses from the press box picked
out the following men sprinkled through
two sections Of the grand stand on the
New York Polo grounds. Former Judge
w NJ. K. Olcott, John Philip Sousa, Tim
Sullivan (the Little. Dan O'Reilly.
Cbauncey Depew. Marshall p Wilder.
Mark Twain. Richard Harding Davis.
Owen Davis. the playwright: Jesse Lew
isohn, and Theodore p. Shonts.
Nlagnate Canullon. Of the Afillers. ar
ranged a trade with himself whereby
Gene Ford, for several years a member
OF the Minneapolis team, was trans
ferred 20 the Des Moines team and
Pitcher Edmondson was recalled. Ed
mondson, who replaces him on the staff
of pitchers, comes back after q failure
earlier in the season. He came here from
Washington and had one trial, falling
down badly. lie was sent 70 Des Moines
and after getting into condition is said TO
have been working in good shape.-Ain-
neapolis Journal.
1t is the fellow on the bleachers that is /
the true critic on sports not the man who
gets in on pass or pays the high prices
for tickets The fellow in the bleachers
is the one who Is always present: the
grandstander is your occasional spectator.
II person wants real estimate Of the
aohlty OF performer or aggregation Of
performers, 90 10 the bleacherS. There
the merits and dement's of men and
teams are discussed expertly and with
a deadly line for facts. No getting away
from those fellows They sit in judg-
ment day after day, and their ability to
judge cannot be denied. Woe unto the
man who tries to "fourflush" with the
bleacher crowd! They know each mans
capacity TO a dead certainty, and the
make-believe has no place in the hearts
of these hard-hearted critics. How
much, think you, does the Judgment
of the bleachers affect the manage
ment2 More, possibly, than the average
man suspects. Continued protests from
the bleachers causes the most hardened
manager to take notice, and the approv-
ing applause Of these arbiters OF the
game sinks deep into their souls. The
bleacher crowd in our American sports is
the one performers are afraid Of. Ath-
letes play continually 20 the bleacbers
because they realize that the real Judges
sit there and because these judges have
1t within their power to make or breal,
any performer 1t is lucky for all CON
cerned that the bleacher crowd IS a dis
corning one and altogether iust-NTT-
waukee Sentinel.