The sun., 1908-05-12
baseball Notes.

! Though last In the race the detroit champion,
} have not been shut out this scason.
Recent averages show the New York American,
| to be leading thclr league In long distance hitting
| hugs RAymundS Spltball Is said 70 make aImos,
aS much trouble for the catcher as for opposing
! bAtters.
Roy Thomas is slated to " let 90 By the phIa
delphia Nationals. Osborne Il nlllng the bill In
| centre feld.
II Grnth should trade Morlsr.y TO Boston for
! Winter what would he do for utility man during
| ElbCrfclds absence
Not long ago the DTookyns bctt the New Works
three straight but they seem To have exhausted
| most OF their energy In 80 doing
| Ina schOOlbOy game In Cincinnati the other day
signals Wcrc given by rcellng on a string Of mum.
/ hers as In football, better system IS 10 have a
| few 10 htters.
Mathewson has been cleaning lp in 1ne style in
the Fast. and n he doesn't hold his own against
| the strong Nesterners good many local cTankS
will he disappointed.
II is said that HuFhey jennings has a string on
the services OF Rubc hArquArd. the Indianapolis
pitcher. who has been creating sensation In the
American Association.
clyde waters. the former Williams College
catcher, basketball player and quarterback, has
signed With the New Haven club Of the Connect
cut League. Waters was With Montreal a while
last scGson.
To date the Princeton team has won Is games
and lost 2, annapolis has won and lost 3 Nale
won and lost >, Holy Cross won and lost ? Penn
sylvana won i2 and lost 3, Cornell won and lost s
West Point won . and lost and Harvard Won )
ana lOst ,,
It turns out that Barnsy nrty fuss could have
had IAjole at one time, but did not care to take
the chance and give up for that player There \
nOhOdN In the business who has better Judgment
than barney In sizing up young talent, and he can
he forgiven for an occasional error Ot Judgment
Ball clubs that haven't night enough In them
10 question ruling are always low IN the race Is
q remark credited 10 Frank Chance What nonsenSsI
Teams can win pcnnants without being qucStloners
OF rulings which often Is synonymous with uu1plrs
batting and being tailender does not imply no
Kicking,
Larry Mclean backstoppcd rIcellenty," sc.
cOrdlng 10 a report. Hal Chase hunthelds in hne
Jack ChesbrO Splthalls IN The most effective man.
ncT possible, Hans Wagner grGundcovers with the
best Of thsm and nobody nycatches better than
Jimmy Sheckard.
Not \ few twrlcrs can 60 In Vheu q game Is lost
Snd pitch Ike house Ant who wouldn't do As
vel Nerc II not that there was everything 10 gain
and nothing TO lose, lts pitching under q strain
thHt furnishes the real test. Tho number Of close
games won In Overalls long list OF consecutive Vie.
tories makes his record all The more notable.
Fred Goldsmith the old time pitcher. remarked
the other day that there Us nothing IN baseball ot
the present era that Ansous team did not have
and Jim O'Routkc Hgrecs with lin. Eyldenty
then, those persons who had the impression thai
thCrr was such thing In eSstcnrc a. tho foul
strike rule witch did not hamper the batting Of
tho old timers. arc dreaming,
MoBuE, Ala. May H. Nine members NJ the
Mobile and New Orleans teams oi the Southern
League and l'mplUs FtgSmmons and OBren
were arrested nerc after the game yesterday and
charged With violating the anil Sunday baseball
law lond was given for lhelt appearance before
Judge Jules Y. NlfOrd 70 morrow morning. The
warrants will he signed by ", !. u. BranscOnb
president Of the Law and Order League Of Mobile.
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