The Washington herald., 1908-04-08
BASEBALL NOTES.

Rock Hill College At Georgetown field
to-day.
George Washington and Gallaudet play
at Kendall Green tomorrow.
The pitching arm OF Heinie Berger. OF
the Maps, is coming around all right
again.
The Eastern League was the last ma
tional agreement league to publish It's list
OF dates,
The National League teams are putting
II all over the Americans in the ante
season games.
Eddie Handiboe, the local indicator
handler, leaves here next week. to take
up his duties as umpire in the Ohio
League.
If Charley Street can continue the pace
he has set in the practice games he
should prove a star behind the bat for the
Nationals.
II begins to appear as though the fight
ffor the local interscholastic championship
will be between the Georgetown Props
and Technical High School.
With no counter attraction. Arthur r.
wins team should draw well Saturday.
when the first exhibition game will be
played here with the Philadelphia out
/ laws.
Few Of the college teams have shown
any astonishing ability to hit the ball so
! far this year. Fielding. on the other
hand. is as good if not better than ever
before.
The Nationals end their series Of exhi-
bition games at Louisville next Sunday.
From Louisville, Cantillon will take the
club to Boston, where the regular season
opens next Tuesday.
The season Of 1908 claimed its first vic
tim Saturday, when Manuel Lenkowie, of
Roxbury, Mass, died at the City Hos
pital. as the result OF being hit by a
swiftly-thrOwn base bali.
Hemphill, the former st. Louis out
fielder. now with the New York Amer
leans. Is stinging the ball hard. and in the
last Atlanta game registered four hits
out OF as many times up.
McCatheran. the former Central High
pitcher is prevented from playing at
Wesleyan University by faculty restric-
tions. but it is expected that he will be
eligible early next month.
The UHion League schedule is expected
by the end Of the week Arthur Irwin
the local manager, is member of the
committee, and he will probably arrange
to have Brooklyn here on April q for the
first championship game at the new Union
Park
Manager Armour of the Toledo club
announces that he will bar the latest fad
in picture hats at the Toledo park this
season, He declares that they are too
large, and obstruct the view Of the game.
He bases his decision on his experience
with the team at Chattanooga He said
he counted twenty girls in one party at
the park with these big hats, and the
crowd behind could not see anything. The
edict at Toledo has caused a sensation.
among the feminine fans. Mr. Armour,
you are hero
Comiskey says the White Sox will
spend a week or ten days of next years
training trip In Honolulu. A mere stones
throw. Griffith is thinking of putting in a
few days In the Libyan desert. Egypt.
where the soil Is a trife sandy. but the
weather fine. McGraw has his eve on
Tillitjap, Java. If ne can get somebody
to clear away the underbrush from the
diamond. Jennings is negotiating for a
plot Of ground, with clubhouse and
shower baths, in one of the cities of the
Congo River League. Frank Chance has
leased a field on the outskirts of Petro-
pavlovsky. Sea of Okhotsk, east Siberian
coast where the playing surface is a hlt
Icy. but level, and Charley Ebbetts' team,
once trained in New Jersey.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.