Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-13

Tomorrow will be ladies day. and with
the Tigers as an attraction big turnout
OF the fair sex is assured.
Bill Coughlin looks better and is playing
better this season than he has ever done
in his career on the diamond. Too bad
we had to part with Bill
Jerry Ednger and his band of assistants
are earning their money this sort Of
weather. 1t Is a continuous performance
with them doctoring up the diamond SO as
to make game possible. big canvas
to cover the entire infield will soon be
secured and then little work will be neces-
sary.
Buck Freeman batted for .321 for Min
neapolis In thirty-seven games
Joss won ten straight. but has lost four
out of the last five games pitched.
Carrigan, the young Boston American
catcher, has hit for .345 in sixteen games
for Toronto. He has caught in fine style.
The large round zero in the hits column
behind George Stones name is as regular
as the box score. Can it be that as great
slugger as Stone was last year is slated
for niche in the hall of busted phenoms?
George Mullin. the great pitcher of the
Detroit club, is giutton for work He
wants to pitch three times a week. Prob
ably 1t is because he has been promised
bonus If he wins thirty games.
Knight lost out because he lacked am
bit1on.' says the Philadelphia Press. He
didn't appear to be in condition to play the
game of which he was capable and as
one man put 1t, because he was too long
legged"
Last year everybody was pulling for the
Gu Suos In the National League because Of
the roWdyism of McGraw. Now 1t is a
question whether the fans would not rather
stand for the fighting tactics of McGraw
than the conceit Of Charley Murphy.
Do you notice how the scene of pennant
interest swings back and forth? A few
years ago Boston, New York and Phila-
it is three western cities with only one
eastern city in the hunt at present
The Philadelphia North American man
claims that of the somewhat less than
1900 people who turned out to see the
game in that city Saturday fully one-third
turned turn %. out to ,, see Collins perform. At
earn "Jimmy's" $500 salary.
The pitchers boxes should be on a level
found he was more effective when the box
was raised six inches or a foot and now
all the grounds in the major leagues are
handicapping the batsmen with the raised
pitchers boxes.
Good ball players have nothing to fear
vince. Who ever heard Of Wallace pro-
testing against dig in the ibis when he
is making errors.
Catcher Clarke of the Clevelands had
finger broken by foul tip in Mondays
game at Boston. He will be out of the
game for several weeks.
The national base ball commission has
temporarily reinstated Players Steve Crit
fin and Harry Bressler, who were black
listed and banished to the Tristate League
for contract jumping. The commission took
this action to allow the players to make a
living in minor leagues, on the recommen-
dalton of President Carpenter Of the Tri-
state League.
sly Sanborn Of Chicago says: THE latest
trade Of Jacobsen of st. Louis for Dineen
of Boston has inspired in the hearts of
Jones and Cantillon the hope they might
get slice of the Boston watermelon If it
is to be cut up and distributed generally
Both Washington and Chicago could figure
John l. Taylor would consent"
The st. Louis Republic says of the ac-
QUESTION Of "Bill'' Dineen by the st. Louis
handed; hard-headed Hedges has Bill
that he did not pay $4,000 for him makes
any difference in his actual effectiveness on
the slab, whatever 1t may make in the
love to see Hedges Jared loose from his
lucre. In any event, we shall see II s., 500
Bill Of 1907 is not as valuable as the al
legged $4,000 Bill Of 1906 Fall as the cards
may: the heaven-born Hedges Is bound to
$4,000 ball. who wins? Hedges. If 81 800
Bill is not $4,000 BILL who Is ahead?
Hedges. Always In front So we shall call
him here Paravant Hedges. Born under a