Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-16
BASE BALL NOTES.

Come on. you Nationals! Dig your toes
i'm the ground!
1t will probably be Falkenberg against
Burchell in today's game.
Delehanty. says he won't cash his prize
ticket for case of wine until after the
close of the season. Wise boy that.
The New York Americans generally win
their opening game.
Capt Tad Jones of Yale is banging out
one or two hits in every game he plays.
oldring is not well. and Connie Mack
may send Moran to center field until the
RUDE is fit again.
"Mathewson as. good as ever is the
general verdict. That will make shud
Chance.
Topsy Hartsel is sporting pair of black
eyes. the result of being hit on the nose
by pitched ball in practice before last
Tuesdays game.
Tim Jordan made the first home run OF
the big league season. He made his in
the second inning, while Cobb made his in
the eighth and Delehanty in the ninth.
Age has failed to dim the orbs of old
Capt. Arson. In game in Chicago the
other day the dean got into harness for
one inning and connected for a clean sin
gle over second.
The big opening day crowd affixed its
smile OF approval on Wee Willie Keller.
The way in which he placed 'em and ran
em out showed that last years slump
was mistake to all intents and purposes.
Ty Cobb started off at rapid pace with
the stick making three hits in the first
game. Other big leaguers who clouted
safely three times in their first game We're
Kleinow, Rossman and Evers
To all appearances the new rule pre-
venting pitchers soiling a new ball worked
all right. If the pitchers had any more
trouble than usual in controlling the new
fashioned. dull-finish ball they did not
show it. Still. one day isn't test
"Kleinow's lucky hit" is the way the
New Workers. two-bagger in the twelfth
inning is described in Philadelphia. 1t
was as clean hit as ever was made and
would have been good for two bases and
probably three under any other circum-
stance. Smith of the Athletics, however.
made an unlucky hit. His two-bagger
would have been at least a three-bagger
but for the ground rule.-New York Sun.
Jimmie Williams made a big hit with
McAIeer in Cleveland in the opening game
He drove in the winning tally in the tenth
with clean single and also scored the
first run in the eighth after timely
binge IT was Ferris that doubled to
bring Jimmie in.
Joe Doyle certainly has the Philadel-
phians on his staff He has worked in
six games against Macks men. and has
won all but one. Joe said yesterday that
he felt no i'll effects of the overtime strug-
gle. He is in great condition and will be
ready whenever Griffith calls OH him
again.
After all. what's not i'm a name. Hav-
ing dismally failed in the American Asso-
citation struggle. Louisville believed the
sobriquet 'Colonels' far too ancient.
They have switched to Night Riders
something more up-to-date and more i'm
pressive. Why doesn't some one annex
the title Of Merry Widow
Just before the 1903 base ball inaugural
Rube Waddell turned up missing. Nc
Aleer sent out several hundred scouts on
the trail of the erratic one. and they final
~ located him in a st. Louis byway. He
promised he would join the team at once
and be good. RUDE is starting early this
year.
Eastern League magnates are in a
scramble after Jim McGuire's castoffs.
Hugh Duffy thinks he has a fine chance
of landing Jimmie Barrett for the Grays.
while Stallings. Buckenberger and others
are sweet on Thoney and Denny Sullivan.
Word comes from st. Paul that Monte
Cross is ready to talk business for either
of the latter pair. They don't seem To
figure on Jim. at all. He'll surely need
some one in the outfield, despite the fiat
tering reports Of Cy Young's ability.