The Washington herald., 1908-07-12
GOSSIP FOR BASEBALL FANS

Doubie-hcadcr tomorrow. starting at ?
o'clock
Ruhe WaddcH has beaten tho Athletics
three times since he Joined S. Louis.
Brockton has good lead in the New
England League
Charley Moran is PLAYING recond base
for Scranton In the New York state
League.
Jerry Nops tho old-umer. is pitching
for the Bridgeport club, of the Connect-
cut League.
Starting Tuesday. all Of the games at
National Park will De called az Z O'Clock.
instead Of 4.31.
Harry BAY, the ex-Nsp, was out o.
the game at Nashville for awhile. suffer
ing from malaria
Hub Hart. formerly of the White Sox.
is doing the backstoppinE FOR Moutyom-
cry. in the Southern League
Willie SudhoT after drifting from
league 10 league. has a berth with To-
peka in the Western Association.
Pitcher Mack nobinson has been Sc'd
by Birmingham 20 Cincinnati. 20 report
at the end Of the Southern League sea
son.
Lebanon Ous Clymer was there again
with a rai- az safe taps One of his hits
nearly tore the glove OF Bill Dineen' s.
hand
'Gabby" Street has developed into one
of The best coachers on the team. he
makes lots of noise. and the fans seem
90 like &c.
pitcher DimpHe. who was with the
Philadelphia Union League club before
its disbandmeut has been signed by
Lynehburg
CLYDE Milan continues his great fielding
All of the visiting players are praIsing
the work of the younsster Cantillon dug
up al Wichita.
Clark Griffith Il at The game IN New
York almost every day. and is much in
tcrested IN the efforts OF Elbcr.eld To
bring the club out ot the rut. GriE Is of
the opinion that there Is a lor OF good
baseball In the Yanks. and that before
long they will show IT,
There will be some radical changes on
the New York team next spring. Elber-
field realizes that he hasn't a chance 20
get near the pennant this year. and. while
he will put Ep the best fight De can he
intends looking after men 10 strengthen
next years club
II Is said that Arellanes. the Mexican
pitcher, who was highly recommended %
the Yankees as a pitcher by Hal Chase
but could not he obtained owing To the
national commissions decision declaring
/ him 10 be the property Of the san Jose
Club will be a member OF the Boston
/ Americans shortly
I Under National League scoring rules
! Merkle, Of the Giants has played In only
1 four games. Under American League rules
he has played In fifteen. The National
! League counts IL rs "A game played" only
when man actually takes a position in
/ the field. simply ADDING on his extra time.
/ al bat 20 mis- previous totals. The Ameri-
can counts ij ID game played IL a man
/ even runs the bases for another fellow.
There Is nothing In the league az the
present time that is rs fast as The Detroit
club. The Jennings push is going al a
/ speed that will soon put them ahead oi
/ the other clubs. and the cheStiness that
/ was so apparent on their last trip has
| disappeared. and they are playing better
/ ball as a result Cobb Is doing enough
work Just now 10 make any team win
/ but every man on the club is helping
/ him. and they are trying every trick ir
the game.
! Eddie Mcfarland. who has bumped
around In big league company more than
] the famous JACK Doyle has been released
again. Jim Mcguire had him for a while
and he was doing good work with III.
stick and behind the bat but il is sal,
Eddie went the same route as he did witl
other clubs, and the result was tnat jim
Mcclure gave him his unconditional re
lease. It's too bad a good ball playe
like Mcfarland can't keep on the straign
path.
Here is some dope on the Marquard An,
Meyers deal which ought TO make tn
New York fans get Up and throw tn
cushions around TO think that McGrav
has landed such good battery. Up t.
July Marquard won eighteen and los
seven games Two of the games wer
no hit contests. Meyers. tht catcher, 9
leading the American Association I'm hit
ting He has faced the twrler 10 times
mace &c hits, and raced home with :
runs. making his average .S3a.
The fact that the Giants paid Su.0O
for Marquard and 5000 for Meyers ha
set the minor league magnates 20 fig
uring the value Of every man who look
like ne might be Of major league cali
ber. and the figures always come out bii
ones. The bush Ieaguers have lnaate,
the price Of possible talent 10 the poln
now where there is no talking busi
ness. The Cincinnati Reds have beel
after two or three promising Young fel
loZrs. but since the sale OF Marqliard ther
has been no chance 20 close a deal a
any sort Of a reasonable figure Thl
was one OF the reasons why John 7
Brush tried TO keep the story OF the pur
chase quiet and why there is so mucl
three-cornered bad feeling between Char
ley Murphy. Garry Hermann, and tn
president Of the Giants.