The Washington herald., 1908-04-28
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Virginia at Georgetown Field again to-
day.
Hats of TO Georgetown. champions Of
the South!
The Post-ofice team viii play Catholic
University Tomorrow
Charley Smith will probably pitch al
Philadelphia this afternoon.
Metropolitan-Chevy Chase club game at
National Park tomorrow.
One Of the pie scores Of the year was
Purdue University's S7-to-0 victory over
Butler College tie other day.
The Unions got a good start. The sue
oessful rally will go q good way toward
encouraging the team, and will build I'D
fighting spirit
Minneapolis has been awarded q pitcher
by the national commission. Chapene
IS his name. He jumped the Blillers thres
years ago. going to the Tri-State.
A New Haven paper has asked fans for
advice on a name for the New Haven
team. One fellow votes for Horse
Thieves. another for ''Neversweats.
Joe" O'Rourke. the former Yale in
fielder, is not good enough for the St.
Louis Nationals, according to the st.
Louis GlObe-DemOCrat. 4 stronger man
is wanted at shortstOp-
The St Louis Browns are proving a
big surprise. While MeCloskey's Cardi-
mails have a strong grip on last place in
the National League. McAleer's club Is
well up in the fight in the American.
Carlisle, of the Boston Americans, was
considered about the speediest outfelder
on the coast last season and displayed
fine speed during the exhibition games In
the South. Thoney has little on Carlisle
in getting down to first.
Duffy, the Georgetown catcher. has
been doing good work in all the games,
and with another years experience
should make one of the best backstops
in the colleges. He fields his position
nicely. is a good thrower, and can hit
some.
Several minor leagues have been after
Cy Macdonald. of Georgetown. but the
big fellow has decided TO stick TO the coll
lege ranks. Georgetown permits sum
mer BALI playing, so Macdonald viii
probably play with some independent
team.
Manhattan College worked a kid trick
against West Point the other day that
gave it a victory. Manhattan had men
on second and third bases, with two out
In the ninth inning, and was one run 70
the bad. Let me see that ball" yelled
the Manhattan captain, Il think Il is
torn" Smith, the Cadet pitcher. will
ingly tossed it over. but the Manhattan
man let the ball go TO the bleachers, The
two men on bases crossed the plate. and
il was Manhattan's game. TO 6. The play
was so silly that even the Cadets smiled.
Ed Hanlon. who In his day was regard
ed as the shrewdest baseball manager in
the country, and who has developed such
noted leaders as Johnny MeGraw, Hughey
Jennings, Joe Kelley, and Johnny Dunn.
saw the Giants play in Philadelphia. He
found time TO express an opinion of the
men that are battling with McGraw to
land a National League pennant in New
York. Hanlon likes the team from both
ends. He considers it stronger than any
thing that has represented New York in
three years, and predicts that McGisw
will land a pennant if at least two of
the pitchers besides Mathewson make
good.
The southpaw peril threatens two
American League teams, the Detroit
Tigers and the White Sox. The Tigers
have off-side batters in Mcintyre, Davy
Jones. Crawford, Cobb, Rossman. Schmidt.
Ktllian. and Siever; the Sox have left
handed batters in Hahn, F. Jones, Dough-
erty, Donohue Altrock. and White Both
teams are almost certain to get their iii
of WaddeIi. Bailey, Graham, Newton,
Neuer. Patten, Tannehill, Plank, Latti-
more. Hess. and Granney. They viii work
White, Altrock, Killian, and Siever
against each other.