Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-25
THIS AND THAT

A statement appearing in one of the
New York papers yesterday to the enect
that the owners of the washington cup
tillon has done for the local team since
he took the helm is all rot. 1t Is this
sort of newspaper talk that gets the man
ayers. players and owners OF the dinerent
clubs disgruntled. and all over mere rumor.
1t terminates like gossip always does-be-
comes SO enlarged that 1t isn't necessary
to get spy-glass to see 1t.
Cantillon has really Just started to work.
1t has taken him the best part of two
years TO weed out the old players and
replace them with new blood. A tail-end
team cannot be made into pennant WIN
ner in a minute. The trades that Joe has
made have all been beneficial to the club.
and this last stunt Of his in selling Falk-
enberg and Altizer for $4,000 has got
the fans as well as all the base ball
writers, guessing as to what he may do
next. There are now only three OF the
old crowd left-Warner. Smith and Hughes
and the former is to become real mag
nate himself next year. This will leave
the two lanky pitchers out OF the old
crowd Of wage earners. We will leave 1t
to the fans il Cantillon hasn't saved the
two best plums In the basket.
With the Detroit Tigers going along at
a swift pace and McAleer's Browns only
doing middlin' well and liable TO take a
good slump at any time. 1t remains for the
White Sox to pull of another of those
hard uphill fights for which they are re-
nowned. The club as whole Is confident
that the team will yet come along with
rush and win the championship of the
American League. They are good fighters
and have that never-saydie spirit. OF
course 1t is possio.e for them to lose II
their team becomes crippled. as was
proved this year and last. but If their
nine is intact Comiskey keeps all of
them full Of grit until there is no hope
that the pennant can be won.
That winning streak of the iladelphia
National League club is almost without
parallel in base ball history. When they
left home on their last western trip, they
were in the ruck. and dire things were
in store for Billy Murray. After getting
out of Sleepy Hollow they struck their
stride and out of nineteen games in the
west they annexed fifteen Of them and
came home in the first division. showing
Cincinnati down another peg. II this
pace could be kept up they would soon
be figuring on getting slice OF first
place money.
The reports in the morning papers that
there is dissension in the ranks OF the
Cubs will no doubt be denied by Charlie
Murphy and his press agents before the
day is over. He will probably be blue In
the face. jump seven feet In the air and
call people names. However, the story
seems to come pretty direct and 1t will
take a whole lot Of denying on the part
of Chubby Charlie before the fans get 1t
out Of their craw. However, a story OF
this sort should always be taken with a
grain Of salt II there Is the dissension.
as reported. ii wouldn't take long for
Murphy and Chance to clean out the un-
desirables regardless Of the result They
are in the business for the money and the
glory. and II friction Is going to beat
them out of these commodities It is a
pretty sure thing there will be a house
cleaning.
Umpire Tim Hurst is quoted as saying
that he always calls runner out who
slides into first base. 1t is hardly prob
able that Timothy said anything OF the
kind or he would be admitting that he
errs in many decisions he makes at the
initial sack. But IL brings up an interest
ing point
by sliding?
to deceive the umpire. while In the al
legged interview Tim Is made to say that
the player slides because he feels sure
the ball has him beaten.
Players who practice the tricky
Cobb. George Stone and "Zeb'' Milan. for
instance-testify that the stride gives
an added inpetus to the body and saves
fraction of second
And II Timothy Is correctly quoted
many PLAYERS and close students Of the
game differ with him.
Mr.. H. W. Lanigan Of the st. Louis
Times springs forth very cleverly as fol-
lows:
Then il really isn't according to
Hoyle. Base ball is the greatest game
ever written. Aside from the splitter
there is nothing artificial In II. Into the
cuspidor with the splitter Just the n.
L. club owners are clamoring Have two
men like Howell and Joe Doyle Of the
Yankees mixed up in a matinee like that
great sxteen-round one fought by the
Cardinals and the Giants Sunday-why
you wouldn't get back to WHEY and the