Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21
his curves and drops. The game starts at
4 o'clock.

The committee having charge OF the tes-
timonial for Jake Ate learned yesterday
morning that the once Washington amateur
sported fine watch and decided to pre-
sent him with fine diamond scarfpin and
handsome watch fob. Atz and all the play
ers Of both teams were called to the plate
just before the game started and Umpire
O'Loughin made the presentation speech.
There were numerous pretty plays In
both games, and the errors in the second
generally resulted from hard hit balls TAX
ing bad bounds at the time the players were
just about to pick them up. In the first
game Tony Smith made swell catch on
Donahue's short fly in the initial inning, and
then came right back in the third with a
whippoorwlll stop on George Davis. Altizer
pulled off two grand catches. one on
Dougherty and the other on Sullivan. the
latter being a foul fly almost to the bleach
ers. and 1t took bundle of nerve to COM
plete the catch. Delehanty was also there
with a fine catch of Robe in the eighth in
ming. For the Sox. Davis. 1sbeH and Hahn
were the star performers. In the second
game Shipke made sensational stop and
throw to first on Sullivan In the third In
ming. and Bob Ganley shut off that terrible
sixth inning by getting a line fly on the
dead run not more than three inches from
the ground. In the seventh inning Otis
Clymer repeated his performance of rum
ming into the bleacher seats after Altrock' s
long fly. but got away without being in
jured 1t was another nervy performance.
Although Fielder Jones muffed an easy fly
on Delehanty in the first inning 1t didn't
rufle him bit, for he came back In the
sixth with remarkable catch of Charley
Jones and prevented the ball going to the
fence.
speed at times, but he would change his
pace at the wrong time. and the Sox were
laying for it. Patten should shift his
tactics with this bunch of wise gazabos.
They can outguess him every time. and
that is all 1t amounts to when heady
twtrier faces a crowd of wise batsmen.
The national commission has done several
foolish things since its inception. but moth
ing that can compare to the decision that
compels Fred Falkenberg to refund couple
hundred dollars to the Harrisburg club.
debt incurred in 1903 The Harrisburg club
was an outlawed organization then. and
the players were jumping and doing things
that would not be tolerated for q second in
organized ball. That the commission would
go back two years to dig up claim against
Faikenberg sayOrs of persecution. 1t Is
more than likely that Falkenberg will take
the claim into court, as he believes he has
fifty other cases concerning the players and
clubs of the outlaw Tri-State and Pacific
Coast Leagues that will now probably be
dug up and the commission Will have
pretty mess on its hands. Anything hap
pening in the outlaw days should have been
buried when an agreement was reached
and the organizations came under pro-
lection.
There came near being a calamity for
the White Sox Friday afternoon when the
team was leaving the cars at the local
depot The players were In good spirits
and In an act Of playfulness Dougherty
threw his suit case at Frank Smith. 1t was
a big heavy affair and just graZed Smiths
head and shoulders. Had 1t landed there is
no telling what might have happened, and
with Smith out of the running the White
Sox's chances for the pennant would have
gone glimmering. When Fielder Jones
returned here from his home yesterday
morning 1t gave him a slight chill when
told of the incident. 1t will be remembered
that a suit case battle is what knocked
Rube Waddell off the rubber in 1908 and
robbed the worlds series of a great deal
Of its interest.
The veteran George Davis was certainly
there with the stick in the second game.
He was up five times and only tore of
three singles and two doubles Dele
hanty was also hitting them some and
was but little behind Davis, as he plunked
out two singles a triple and a home run.
"Dels" home run was almost a duplicate
OF the hit that OLoughlin lost while UNI
pirng from behind the pitcher in one of
the Boston games. The ball went on line
into right, hit about a yard inside the
line and had enough twist on 1t to carry
1t into the bieacher seats.