Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-09
Foot Ball, Racing
and Other Sports
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big find for one of the local teams. as he
is in first-class condition once again.
One doesn't hear much about the Water
loo Ga) team. Just the same. it has sold
Casper to Cincinnati and had Lewis draft
ed by the Athletics
Sitton who uses the splitter and who
the star of the Nashville Champs
ought to make good for the Maps. Down
in southland he's touted as another Lieb-
hardt
Covaleski has been changed to Covel by
the official scorers of the National
League. Sounds like changing Mike to
Percy. Probably won't have any effect
on his ability to beat the Giants. though.
- Paul Cobb, kid brother of the famous
Ty. is to be given a tryOut by Jimmy
McAleer. Many experts declare the young
ster amounts to little. but McAleer thinks
the Cobb blood is the blood that makes
diamond stars and he will sign him up
Why not get old man Cobb. too-the
whole Cobb family?
Not in some fifteen years has a south
paw topped the National Leagues pitch
ing brigade. Two lefthanders have bask-
ed in the spotlight in the American
League to wit: Waddell in 1905 and Plank
in 1906.
A paragraph going the rounds has it
that Matty Mcintyre has just said that if
Detroit is going to trade him there is no
place he would rather play than i'm St
Louis under McAleer.
Elmer Stricklett, who jumped the Dodg-
erS year ago to pday with the coast out
laws finds that he is getting nothing but
promises from his employers. He needs
the dough. and if he can make his peace
with the national commission and Char
ley Ebbetts would like to get back in a
Brooklyn uniform.
President Ban Johnson wants to do
away with the kicking over the division
OF the worlds series spoils He hopes
to get the other magnateS to see the wis
dom of hanging up certain fixed sum
for the teams to divide on winner and
loser basis
King. Chance Brown. Tinker. Holman
and Sheckard have contracts with the
Cubs which are still pending. Evers and
Steinfeldt are practically the only stars
Murphy will have to satisfy.
The Baseball Rumor Factory is working
overtime now. According to the latest
the Giants are to combine with St. Louis,
wreck one team to strengthen the other
and then beat the Cubs. Some managers
seem to believe that the only way to lick
Murphy's bunch is to jump on it in a
body. Pretty soon there will be scheme
on foot to fire the champions out of the
league for playing too good ball.
1t is common gossip that when Clark
Griffith was released from the manage
ment of the New York Americans he be-
gan Matching a scheme with the Ameri-
can Association men looking to the expan-
sion of the circuit to take in Chicago.
Pittsburg. Cincinnati New York and
other cities. but that after the ground
had been gone over thoroughly it was de-
cided to call everything off. Griffin, it Is
declared, had Hal Chase under his wing
and had planned TO make wholesale raid
on the New York Americans.
John |. Taylor. president of the Boston
Americans. was i'm New York the other
DAY and while discussing the release of
James Mcclure from the management Of
the club disclosed the fact that Mrs. Nc
CURE was the real manager of the team.