The Washington herald., 1908-06-05
Merit ana Merit Co. 900 F St
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Roy HartzeI. utility inhelder for the
ST. Louis Americans, has been sent to
/ Newark
/ Hank O'Day is umpiring as well as ever
I which means the limit for good work
Pittsburg Sun.
The Pittsburg club has purchased from
the Philadelphia club the release Of Out
fielder Roy Thomas.
Frank Roth is clouting S75 for Nil
waukee. This is the man Cantillon is
after for the Nationals.
Cleveland is trying 70 land Laporte
from Boston. Turner is out of the game
for two weeks or more.
Jack Townsend. the old Washington
/ pitcher has been signed by Williamsport
| in the Tri-State League.
That seventeen-inning tie between Chi
cago and Boston, in the National League,
is the seasons record for long distance.
Tom Hughes would rather win at Chi
cago than anywhere else, so if the big
/ fellow is in shape he should beat the SOX
/ II the Athletics could get Milan and
Hughes from Washington they would be a
pennant pOssibility.-PhHadelph Record
! Grant has gone 10 Harvard TO take
]
ing as his understudy at third base for
the Phillies.
/ The Cincinnati club has performed more
than satisfactorily on the home grounds.
Now they must show their real strength
on the road.
The Brooklyn Union League team has
been recognized as the Ridgewoods. and
will play Sunday games at Meyerose
Park. Brooklyn.
! In two successive games the Newark
/ club, OF the Ohio State League, was
shut out without hit by Pitchers White
and Mock, Of Lancaster.
Reports from Chicago say that Jimmy
Sheckard VIII probably recover from the
/ explosion Of ammonia which threatened
70 destroy the sight Of at least one eye.
President Navin. Of the Detroit Amer
lean League team. has announced the
sale Of Pitcher Herman Malloy 10 the
/ Indianapolis American Association club.
Arthur Dillon. the pitcher, has been
! chosen baseball captain at Gallaudet Col
/ lege. Dillon is considered one OF the best
twirlers ever developed at Kendall Green.
They say in Pittsburg that Hans Wag-
I ner has become a vegetarian. II he has.
/ what need has he with q chicken farm2''
New York American. Why, 10 get the
eggs. OF course That's easy.
Two or three more defeats for the
! ChicagOs. with no victories interspersed.
will make the National League race as
bewildering an exhibition OF baseball
pyrotechnics as that Of the American
/ League.
The recent performance OF the Detroit
club has never been equaled in baseball.
From the bottom to the top Of the stand
ing in three weeks. and nearly all games
away from home, will stand as the. record
for long time.
! Langraf the Philadelphia Union man
/ aGer, jumped town and left his PLAYERS
! here. After President Hart Of the Wash
/ ington club, had given the Bandits
enough money to get out OF town. he did
the same hOnors for the Quakers.
Joe McGinnity. Of the Giants, has de-
clared that he VIII quit the game and go
i back 10 his business at McAlester Okla
! unless satisfactory terms are offered him
| by the club that acquires title to him.
He says he is out for a good season.
Il can't see any difference in any OF
/ the American League clubs says Man
! ager McAleer. Of ST Louis There. are
! a great lot Of pitchers in the league, and
most Of them are pitching great ball.
| With race so close and teams so well
! balanced. bad headwOrk is liable TO lose
as often as anything"
President Charles H Ebbetts. Of the
! Brooklyn baseball club. is aggrieved. He
/ has protested against the New York
Americans sending Catcher Butler to Jer-
sey City. He says the New York club
/ did not ask for waivers. and that he IS
willing to pay back the $500 purchase
money that New York paid 10 BROOKLYN
and take Butler back
Pitcher Billy Hogg did not accompany
| the Yankees on the Western trim. He has
been indefinitely suspended by Manager
| Clarke Griffith for failing 10 get into
! proper condition Despite the fact that
the manager has given him every oppor-
tunity TO round 10 form, Hogg. according
TO Grifilth, has f~iled 70 apply himself 10
hard work. He viii warm the bench
without pay until he is able 10 deliver the
| goods.
! With Bresnahan. BridweIl. Herzog. and
/ Snodgrass out OF II, the New York Ma
tional League team would be in a bad
way If another accident should hammer
4 Nicklin is at short, leaving Merlxle the
| only utility man, and Merkle is a first
baseman only. Bridwell put on a uni
form at Boston. but felt so badly that
he had to return to the hotel before the
game started. Herzog is not with the
team at all. having been sent to his home
TO recover from the strain he sustained in
| Chicago.
/ Roger Bresnahan, protected battle shin
of the National League. needs more pro-
/ lection. About every spot on Rogers
! body is taken care Of by armor plate ex-
! cept his right hand, and on the recent
| trip Mr. Bresnahan was raped three
| times on that unguarded member. Now
/ Roger, the man who made shin guards
famous, is working on a design for q
( right-handed glove which viii not In
terfere with his throwing. He has al
ready had made a hard leather protector
for the back Of his hand, with finger
guard long enough to protect the ends
OF his digits. but It did not work WELL
and he is trying TO improve #.
Western baseball magnates laugh at the
report that Celia, Adler. and Titles are
/ going to cut into the ball business by
purchasing the st. Louis National League
/ franchise. There is little doubt that the
racing and bucket-shop men would like
TO get hold Of Robson's plant. but there
VIII be nothing doing in that line The
I St Louis club owes Garry Hermann It's
life on notes. and II there is going TO be
any selling done the astute president IS
going 10 declare himself Even II Stan
ley Robson should care 20 sen to the
Celia combination. the other magnates
would object; and it viii be recalled what
happened TO Chris Won der Abe when he
thought the st. Louis franchise was his
own property.