Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-12
NATIONALS AND ATHLETICS DIVIDE DOUBLE4iEADER
LOCALS WIN FIRST TO j. ATHLETICS SECOND 7 TO o.

will be seen in big league company in the
near future.
The club owners the country over could
well afford to offer a $4,000 prize 10 the
| fan ingenious enough to invent some piar
| for attracting and holding interest in the
| game played by teams with no chance OF
winning the pennant, or, better still, OF
providing substitute for the pennant
The ups and downs of base ball man
ager are aptly illustrated in the case OF
| Malachi Kittredse. Last year. when he
was manager of the Royals. he was
roasted by the papers and knocked by the
by the team. This year he is one of the
most popular men in Scranton, as result
of having practically won the pennant for
that town.
Secretary Reeves of the Phillies says
that Connie Mack is satisfied that he got
his moneys worth when he got Jimmy
Collins. Last year Collins put the Ath-
leticS in the race down to the finish. This
year he has been of no value as slayer
but Mack is satisfied. Collins probably
will not be with the Athletics next year
according to the Philadelphia Nationals
secretary.
Jack Frill. the Newark Southpaw. can
now be rated in the millionaire class OF
ball players. Jack was notified last week
of a windfall in the shape of a fifty-thou-
sand-dollar legacy left to him by an
uncle in Pennsylvania. He received a
letter from Harrisburg lawyer yester-
day giving him the particulars. He an
nounced that this season would probably
wind up his career as a ball player
Barney Petty certainly has the soft
snap. All he has to do is to pitch some
five or six games against Cleveland and
call it a years work. Barney used to
pitch regularly for St. Louis against all
the teams in the league. He quit the
job, however. year ago, it being too
strenuous. Since then he has been con-
against the Maps. Against the other
clubs he had no terrors but against
Cleveland he is Ed Walsh. "Cy'' Young.
Bill Donovan and Tom Hughes all rolled
into one.
The New York Americans played a dou-
ble-header in Boston yesterday and won
| one of the games. They took the first
one, which made two victories in sue
/ cession on the road-rapid travelling for
them. The DetroitS were capSiZed by the
ChicagoS after beating that team twice,
and the Browns fell before the Cleve-
lands once more. Instead of making trou-
BILE for the leaders the Browns are hav-
ing all they can do to hold on to third
place. The Washingtons and Athletics
broke even.
Report is current now that when the
900 base ball season begins Hal Chase
will don Cleveland uniform. Among the
Ohio squad are number of pitchers and
| outfielders. all of good quality. which the
Blues could do without, and 1t would APP
pear not improbable from this that some
sort of deal could be put through sat
| isfactorily whereby Chase would be
traded for some of the Cleveland surplus.
Chase would fit in nicely with Bradley,
Turner and Lajoie as the intield makeup,
with Stovall, the present first sacker, re-
tanned as a utility man. II is certain that
Frank Farrell has little chance Of getting
Chase back into the Yankee fold. and a
trade to strengthen the New York twirl-
ing staff may go through.