Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
GLEANINGS

Another no-hit. no-run game has been
added to the seasons list. Pitcher Hi
West OF the Toledo club recently shut out
Milwaukee without hit being made off
his delivery.
Heidrick will help that Brown outfield a
whole lot. He is banging the ball in the
same old way as of yore. He got three
singles In four times up yesterday and
stole base. That looks pretty good.
Napoleon Laioie did what he probably
never did before. in Boston at any rate
series. Jack Thoney robbed him of one.
and Sullivan was likewise unkind We'd
nesday.
Every time a St. Louis Brown player
looks at Waddells arm he thinks, "On
that depends about $1,000 extra for me"
The 5000 represents each individual
share in the worlds champion series.
1t was only a month or so ago that the
Buffalo papers were talking of sending
their team to the Pacific coast for a post
season series with the pennant winners
the Bisons will have hard fight on their
hands to keep out of the second division.
September 1 the drafting season opens
The big leagues have lined up a small
army of youngsters for draft. Only one
player can be drafted from the class A
leagues. Where more than one man is
drafted, names are placed in a hat and
drawn by the commission. Then the
clubs draw for the man. This was the
way Boston landed Joe Kelley last fall.
BY the terms of the deal whereby
Brooklyn secures Third Baseman Lennox
Rochester is given a clear title to Batch.
Hurley and Butler. The latter is one of
the best catchers in the league, and was
wanted badly by Jersey City. Looks as
"a or a ~
trade.
Providence has picked up a couple of
likely players for next season. They are
Shortstop Blackburn and Pitcher owen
from Worcester. the leaders in the New
England League. and Pitcher Ward of the
New Britain club. Owens is said to be a
coming star and several major league
teams were after him.
There is pitcher named Golden down
in the Blue Grass League that looks as
il his name fitted him. Twice this season,
he has shut his opponents out without
hit. and has won sixteen out of eighteen
games he has pitched.
Barney Dreyfus of the Pittsburg Ma
tionals insists on having Warren Gill,
first baseman of the Grand Rapids Cen
trail League Club, just as soon as the
Central League season closes September
now, but the Central League magnates
refuse to allow him to CO. although Drey-
fus has offered a good bonus and an
other player to replace him.
The st. Louis Browns beat the New
Yorks yesterday and made substantial
gain on the Detroits, who were beaten
for the third straight time. The WASH
ingtons toppled the champions. The
Clevelands lost their fourth straight.
They were beaten by the Athletics in
smuggling game, and the White Sox nosed
out the Bostons in the same sort of
battle.
Reports from Nashville are to the eff
feet that the fans of that city have gone
base ball mad. They do nothing but talk
base ball. This enthusiasm has practi-
cally all been aroused by William Bern
hard. the Cleveland pitcher. who this
year took up the duties of manager of
the team. and with a tailender to start
with has turned out a team that is now
putting up great fight for first place.
1t is said that the owners Of the Nash
vile club will clear close onto $4,000 this
season. bonus of $1,000 has been Of
fered the team if it finishes either first
or Socon6