Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-25
BASE BALL NOTES.

MduIlCe w Olle the Well-knO"n le1C-nanQ-
ed pitcher of this city. has signed with the
Wilmington, DEL, Tri-State team for the
coming season. Pete Cassidy, the old
Washington player, is manager of the Will
mingtons and Maurice will be sure of fair
show the coming season.
Howard Wall has received letter from
Buck Freeman saying that he had great
success with his chickens this winter up
in Pennsylvania and had raked in consd-
cradle money. Buck" will be here next
Saturday. the Bostons having been ordered
to gather in Washington for the trip south.
Manager Murray has about decided upon
Kid Gleason for the captaincy of the Phil
lies Couldn't do better.
President Comiskey of the Chicago White
Sox has it figured out that his team will
play more than 200 games this year. This
does not include the probbale worlds cham
pionshfp games.
There are only seventeen players In the
American league today who went with
the organization when 1t Inaugurated the
big base ball war. That's cutting down
some.
Bob Unglaub has sent the measurements
for his base ball uniforms to the manage
ment of the Boston Americans. That looks
as though he would be in line the coming
season.
Evidently Gene De Mont has no burning
desire to rush into business as Brooklyn
grocer. Yesterday his Signed contract, call
ing for the same salary he drew last year,
was received in Toledo by President Ar
mOur of that club.
Umpire Tom Connolly has no use for the
proposed signal system to be used by the
umpires in denoting their decisions 1.-The
idea of using one arm for a strike and the
other for ball is absurd" says Connolly.
Some day We will put up the wrong arm
and then some fan will tell us to cut the
arm off,"
The meanest man I've heard Of lately sold
his son-in-law, well-known ball player,
one-half interest in COW and then refused
to divide the milk, insisting that it was the
front half Of the cow that was sold. He
made the son-in-law provide the food and
water for the COW twice day. Recently
the COW horned the old man, and now he Is
suing the son-in-law for damages. Hey.
Diddler?-Philadelphia Telegraph.
1t Is doubtful if there is a ball player con-
nected with the game on the field today,
with the exception of Orator Jim o Rourke,
who has put in as many. days playing ball
as Red Mack, the manager Of the Fairmont
CIV. Va club. Old timers declare Mack
started with Harry and George Wright way
back In 1868. Having played with the best
teams in the country in his time, Mack
certainly on the field would deceive any one
by his lively actions in regard to his age,
as he is as full Of pepper as he ever was
and runs bases like two-year-old. The
gang declares he is the real stuff. because
he improves with age.
Players Of the Beaumont stamp are placed
In a decidedly Independent way. Beau" Is
very well off, SO far as the worlds goods
and therefore is in a position to turn down
any proposition to trade him that does not
suit his fancy. Barring that consideration,
however. Barney Dreyfuss would not think
of trying to force that faithful veteran to
go where he did not want to. 1 fancy. how
ever that Beau would as lief come to
Boston as any city, were he to leave Pitts
burg.-Boston Herald.
Send me a couple of hundred. I am hard
up" Mack and Murray are receiving re-
quests of this character from ball players
every day. Ball tossers who fear they will
be traded try to get into the nagnates
so that they will keep them. One Of the
rules of the national commission Is that
player who is sold or traded must pay back
all advance money. Ball men who seek to
get the best of the magnates forget this In
their anxiety to take financial advantage
of the owner of a club. Nine ball players
out of ten are always broke. They know
not the value Of money. Instead Of saving
their salaries. they spend them as fast as
they earn them. There are many excep-
tons to this. but the men In closest touch
with the players will tell you that diamond
entertainers are Observation-Disclosures
Telegraph.