Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-24

Guess Tom Hughes will have to turr
the trick today.

Guess Tom Hughes will have to turn
the trick today.
Walter Johnsons sunken cheeks tell
the story of his weakness. The kid"
must have had a very tough time.
Tom Jones is not the best first base
man in the country. but McAleer would
be foolish to break up that infeld, with
a fighting chance for the pennant.
Clyde Milan will hardly be benched
again for some other outaelder. He
classes up with the best and is always
on his toes trying to get around. Three
hits yesterday has good look.
Won't some kind gentleman come to
Grifflth's rescue with a pitcher or two?
He needs them sorely. Chickens come
home to roost. Grit, when you toss a
friend.
The st. Louis papers say that the Wash
ington fans" will quit the Nationals
after their long string Of defeats. Will
gang gets home. This hard luck can't
last all season and the boys will make
things hum in July. Stick a pin here.
bases on extra base hits.
Bob Ganley has made twenty sacrifices
and Bill Bradley nineteen.
st. Louis has made forty-one double
plays. Cleveland has made forty.
The Detroit catchers are charged with
only one passed ball.
Eleven fthe Athletics are batting be-
low .23O. while six are batting below 200.
The Boston catchers have had thirteen
passed balls. To many spit" ball pitch
erS.
Three triple plays have been made. De-
troit pulling off two. Philadelphia the
other one.
New York adheres to the hit and run in
preference to sacrificing having made
only forty-seVen sacrifice hits.
John Anderson leads the White Sox
with an average Of .296 Harry Davis
leads the Athletics with .233.
Cobb and Lord have made sixty-four
hits apiece. while stovaN and Stone have
made sixty-three. Laioie is fifth with
sixty.
The best batting team in the league
would comprise Mullin. Warner Rossman
Delehanty. Turner, Lord, Stone, d. Sui
lvan and Cobb.
deep student of humanity is going to
waste In Philadelphia as a mere base ball
writer. He has discovered, and solemnly
announces. that base ball fans are ''ickle'
and unreasonable" This guy is a real
pathfinder in the great study OF man.
We don't put lot Of faith in the story
that Griffith is trying to trade Conroy to
and another twirler. With the execution
OF Chase. Conroy is the only Yankee in
fielder putting up a really big league
game just now. and is about as nearly
indispensable as ball player ever gets
The New York Americans struck the
east yesterday and resumed their losing
streak. They stacked up against another
much buneted club. the Athletics, and
were worsted In hard-hitting melee. The
st. Louis Browns crept nearer to the
front by drubbing the Clevelands while
the White Sox were being damned by
the Detroits. The latter tied the Maps for
third place. The Bostons beat the Wash
ingtons. which outcome pulled the New
Yorks down to seventh place.
The Newark Toronto game was marred
Monday by a serious accident which oc-
CURED during the fourth inning of the
game. Larry Schlafiy. captain of the
Torontos, tried TO score from second base
on Tricks hit to right field. He came
tearing along directly behind Weidensaul
anu dS IcSuIt Cdulc III SlOlcHl CODtdCt
with Catcher Philbin who had received
the ball on McIlveen's throw. The force
of the impact was SO great that both
PLAYERS were rendered unconscious
Schlshy was removed to his hotel in an
ambulance and it was feared at first
that he had suffered conclusion o. the
brain, but later the physician in attend
ance declared that he was out OF danger.
but that his condition will likely keep him
out of the game for many days. Phibin
recovered after few minute S but was so
dazed that he was unable to continue and
,1gaS replaced by StanaKe.