Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-26
TWO DEAD SWELL
BASE BALL TEAMS
st. Louis Sporting Editor
Picks the AII-NationaI and
AII-American Teams.
From the st. Louis Times.
National League.

From the st. Louis Times.
National League.
Catchers-Kling, Chicago: Bresnahan.
New York: Doom. Philadelphia.
Pitchers-Brown, Chicago: Reulbach
Chicago; Mathewson, New York: Willis
Pittsburg; McQuillen, Philadelphia: Ruck-
err Brooklyn.
Infielders-Chance. Chicago. first base
Evers, Chicago. second base: Leach
Pittsburg, third base: Wagner. Pittsburg
shortstop.
| Outfielders-Magee. Philadelphia, left
field; Donlin New York, center field
Schultz. Chicago, right field.
American League.
Catchers-Clarke. Cleveland; Sullivan
Chicago: Street. Washington.
Pitchers-Wash. Chicago: Donovan
Detroit; Joss. Cleveland: Johnson Wash
ington; Young, Boston; Waddell, ST
Louis.
Lajoie. Cleveland second base; Ferris
ST. Louis. third base; Wallace. ST. Louis
shortstop.
Observation-Disclosures Detroit; Craw-
ford. Detroit; Cobb. Detroit.
How do you like the writer's ALMA
you would be happy, regardless of which
side of the fence you are on, if both
outfits were ouerating in st. Louis.
Base ball was never as fast as it was
the past season True. there wasn'i
enough talent to crowd sixteen teams
Just the same there were more class A
performers than ever before.
In the writer's opinion the National
League has it on the American League
behind the bat and in the inner works
tn ffrt,{ V,Cr {c OF
wealth of successful spitball fingers in
the American League.
Chance. Clarke, McGraw and Murray
command the four premier teams in the
parent body. Neither manager has any
use for the splitter: in fact all four re-
fuse to employ twirlers who use tina,
delivery.
In the outer works it's about a stand
off, Were st. Louis, Chicago. New York
Philadelphia and Washington the own
ers of better sets of suburbanites the ad-
vantage would be with the Johnsoniar
member
That's because the Detroit team has
the greatest outfield in the world Blu,
aside from Cobb, Crawford and McIn-
tyre, where are there chaps like Clarke
gee, Murray. Wilson, Seymour, Thomas
and Lumley?
High-Class Catchers
Killing, Bresnahan and Doom, whom the
writer names to complete the ALMA
| tionals catching department. are the
peers of all their brethren in the Ameri
can League Gibson, Mclean and Der
gen are also superior to the big init
men in the baby organization. Then the
venerable Bowerman and Hon. Patrick
Moran are. as good as the best
Aside from the reliable and heady Sull
van, who is the catcher pure and simpI
and Lou Criger. who draws precisely tn,
same comment, there isn't a whole lot Ii
q catching way in the American League
! Were Sullivan and Criger sluggers. tall.
getters and fighters like King. Bresnahal
and Doom, not to forget Gibson and Nc
Lean, they would rank right with them.
/ But Billyam and Lou are aging Boil
| can catch. That's all. Where King
| Bresnahan and Doom take rank will
| the hard and timely leather lacers. Sulli
| van and Criger seldom bingle. Further
more. when they do reach first it takes
budget of clean hitting. some bob
! bling, to get them around.
Hitting and everything else considered
/ Schmidt of the Tigers. remembering tina
Mig Clarke was cripple the create
portion of the summer, looked to be tn,
most valuable windpaddist in the Ameri
| can League.
Street of the Nationals is one swell
| hustler. Schmidt went too punkly poo
against the Cubs to get an appointment
from the writer. Clarke, Sullivan ant
| the daShing Street, who would be wortl
So. 900 TO the firm of Hedges & McAleer
look like the chaps deserving of positions
| The rival pitching corps are great ones
Raymond is left off owing to his bat
habits. Also Fromme. owing to his bat
hoofs and weak whip Also karger
owing to the erratic form he displayed
| this year
| But in Brown, Reulbach. Mathewson
| Willis, McQuillen and Rucker. the las
| named the lone southpaw. the Nationa
League has six twirers of the all-wool
and-a- yard-wide variety. Chaps lik
| Overall Ames, Wiltse. Sparks, Corridor
Ewing. Camnitz. Maddox. Lush. McIn
| tyre and Dorner are also all to the good
| But it would be hard to improve on tn
| Swell Six.
Sweet Pitching Corps.
| Walsh, Donovan, Joss. Johnson, ''Cy'
Young and Waddell give the American
League a tiptop corps 1t would be i'm
possible to improve on the sextet. Eacl
| and every chap is not only star, but he
game to the core.
Chance is the National Leagues bes
| first baseman. It's close between Ross
man and Stovall in the American League
Evers and Lajoie are supreme on sec
| ond. Leach Devlin, Steinfeldt Ferri
and Bradley excel on third. Leach an
Ferris get the best of close picks. Wag
ner goes to short on the National Leagu
member though the writer knows full
| we'll that as a shortstop. at lmportan
stages. Tinker Is King Hans superior
But, of course, it's impossible to leav
the Flying Dutchman off the team.
| Wallace excels in the position all b.
himself now that Turner and Elberfel
are cripples in the American League.
Magee, with Clarke right on his heels
Donlin and Schultz form the Nationa
Leagues star outfield. The Detroit tri
/ takes the bakery in the American League