The Washington herald., 1908-07-09
GOSSIP FOR BASEBALL FANS

Otis Clymer has made ten hits in. his
| last fourteen times at bat.
In the Southern League six clubs closed
last week above the 500 mark.
Piusburg has won twenty-nine Of its
last forty-one games, and twenty-eight
OF them were played away from home.
Cantillon will pitch Walter Johnson to-
day while big Ed Walsh will probably
be Fielder Jones selection.
with the season only half over. the
Browns claim 10 be on velvet already
the receipts to da5e being enough TO
cover all expenses. salaries included. for
the year
Twenty-eight straight games at home
during July and the early part Of August
IS a programme that gives Columbus a
great chance 10 climb in the American
Association.
Jim McHale. Of the Boston Americans,
will go 10 Hugh Duffy's Providence club,
McHale is a player who loves work and
asked 10 b. sent somewhere so that ne
might keep his hand in. and the Red SoX
management thought Providence the best
place.
A Boston scribe has figured It out that
the reason the Beaneaters do not win
more games is because they fall 10 hit
when hits are needed. When you know
that that IS the reason all ball games
are lost you VIII perceive that Tor 8ood
clear logic this chap has Aristotle and
| Plate. showed into the minors
Pitcher Gladstone Graney has been sent
back to Cleveland by Columbus and II
4 ls understood that ne will be told 70 keep
right on going until Portland, Ore. is
! reached. where he Is said 20 have been
/ planted in exchange for an outfelder
whom Lajoie wants. Otto Hess goes 10
/ Columbus IN place OF Graney.
Clarke Griffith for once Is a happy Iaan.
| All worries are of his shoulders, and for
/ the first time IN twenty summers he is
/ taking things easy. BY the way. did you
/ know that Griffith holds the second best
pitching record for n season in the his
/ tory OF besebau? In 1901 he won thirty
| one games. and had a pitching percentage
Of IA
! The Giants are superstitious. That is
\ their talk sounds like il. One day two
weeks ago the 1as pole on the Polo
| Grounds broke and the yellow pennant
! that the Giants won in the champion
| ship series three years ago. came tum-
bling 10 the ground This did not stop
\ the game. and moment lateI arthur
] Devlin cracked out a home run. The
! Giants have been winning ever since and
/ they believe that the omen is good
one and that another worlds pennant is
due 10 fly where the old one was.
The New York Tribune has the follow
/ 'ug roast for the Yankees: "Oue good
thing about the slump the Yankees are
in-oh. yes. they brousht IL back with
/ them yesterday 70 greet Detroit-is that
/ the wild rush and jam az the l6Sth street
Esubway station is a thing OF unsavory
! memory. The gathering that saw the
champions from Detroit win two games
/ from Elberfelds men yesterday could
/ hardly be designated by the word crowd
/ Sadder baseball playing has not been
| seen on Manhattan Island IN many a
day-that is. by the Yankees. They
/ seemed 20 make no effort 10 win. and
the discouragement that showed plainly
/ in every man made fl easy 10 see why
I the team has fallen from first place at
/ the end OF May 20 last place to-day. The
| scores yesterday were S 10 and il TO l.
but even such one-slded figures fail com
| pletely 70 give any iAea OF the difference
in the way the mines played.