Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-08
Union League Games Today.

Union League Games Today.
| Washington at BROOKLYN
Elizabeth at Wilmington
Baltimore at Reading.
| The sun managed to struggle through
the clouds this morning a d the Nation
| ais and Athletics will probably be able to
| get together for their first game of the
| season in this city at 1870 this afternoon.
| Manager Cantillon was on hand early at
| the park this morning and with a large
corps of assistants went to work on the
playing field Gasoline was sprink!ed
along the base lines. around the batters
and pitchers boxes and then set on fire.
After the burning the ground was raked
over and with the help of e sun and
wind the field will be in fairly good shape
for the contest. The Quilted is finely
drained and by noon there was not enough
water on the grass to dampen ones feet
in walking over it
The players were on hand promptly at
10 O'Clock and after dragging the batting
net to the center Held fence. all went to
work with bats and balls. two hours of
| good practice being obtained. Delehanty
and Clymer failed to report and Altizer
and Pickering will be on second and in
right field. respectively.
| manager Canl1IlO0 mas OSCFOoQ 10 WOTk
| Tom Hughes this afternoon as the vet
| eran was very effective against the Ath-
| letics during the recent series in the
Quaker city. and Charley Street will go
! behind the bat.
| Manager Mack of the Athletics had in
| tended taking his crew OUT to the grounds
| of the Capital City League this morning
| for practice. as he was fearful the two
days: rest may have slowed. up the msn.
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| and the players put in the morning loung-
ing around the Arlington lobby. The
! two teams will line up as follows for to-
i days's game: -. r
| ley. left field: Pickering. right field; AL
tizer. second base: freeman. first base;
Street. catcher; Mcbride, shortstop3 Ship
Ike. third base: Hughes, pitcher.
| Athletics--HartseI left field; Nichols.
| shortstop; Collins. third base; Davis. first
base: Murphy. second base; Schreck.
| catcher; Oldring center field; Coombs.
right field; Bender; pit cher
| Cmpire-Connolly
| Both the American and National leagues
as well as the Eastern. Union and other
leagues were affected by the rain of yes
| terday. SO much so that not game was
played in either of the first four OrganiZa-
| tons.
| Rain also prevented all the games
scheduled in the Connecticut. New Eng
1 land New York State and Tri-State
| leagues. and also stopped many college
games that were scheduled. Taken as
| whole, the day was more disastrous to
base ball than probably any day has been
| since the season began.
| In some of the. leagues rain has kept
| the base ball players of the diamonds for
three days and there will have to be some
| Encouragement of schedules AS far
! planning for double-headers is concerned.
| In order to play off all the postponed
/ contests. %
| Business Manager Fowler gave out the
news last night that hereafter there would
| be only one ladies day at American
League park. and. that today would be
the first day. Heretofore there have been
two -days-Tuesdays and Fridays-each
week set aside for the ladies to get
in free when accompanied by an escort
but starting with today the fair ones will
be admitted gratuitously on the latter
| day. AS Friday is generally considered
| a bad-1uck day by the ball players. ii Is
| the general supposition that Mr.. Fowler
wants the ladies present TO offset the
''hoOdoO.
a reporter for The Star had quite
| lengthy cOnfab with Manager Mack Of
| the Athletics last night. during which
Shortstop Mcbride was under discussion
The fact that Mcbride has only played
one or two first-class games on the home
|
| Il wish the Washington fans could
have seen Mcbride perform in Phladel
phia last week: they would have COM
pletely forgotten poor Joe Cassidy. He
| was all over the infield, and in the two
games the Nationals trimmed us he was
! a big factor.
| II figured that Mcbride beat the Ath-
letics out of at least twelve base hits
during the four games. three 20 a game on
an average. He was especially fine on
| fast grounders over second. specially
| Cassidy used to be very good at and his
| recovery was something remarkable. Nc
| Bride is also at home his right his
| good throwing arm cAming in nicely, and
class man. He may not hit very hard
and often-but few infielders debut
| was surprised to hear that he had been
singing the ball down here against the
| New YOrks.
| Summer base ball playing by college
| students for remuneration has been one
| of the most serious questions confronting
faculties and athletic committees. For
years those having supervision of sports
in our. colleges made determined efforts to
| eradicate the practice. and no institution
of the country was free from what was
generally recognized as an evil and a
grave menace to amateur sport. In many
cases the athletic authorities accomplished
little or nothing: others minimized the
| number of offending cases. while some of
| the larger colleges practically eliminated
the evil after years of persistent effort
In those institutions where success was
not attained. and where students per-
sisted in playing for money under as
| sumed names and covered their tracks
| so cleverly that 1t was next to impossible
| to secure evidence that would lead to
their disqualification as amateurs, there
developed reactionary sentiment Many
| leading educators came out openly in