Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-07
BASE BALL NOTES.

Reports from Los Angeles are to the ef-
feet that Pitcher Walter Johnson will not
Join the Nationals until May. Walter left
the hospital too soon and had to return.
Soldier Boy Dave Altizer was much
better this morning and is able to get out
Of bed He will be a.. right In week
or two.
The fact that little Shipke is leading
the Nationals with the stick. as told In
The Star averages last night. is a well
come surprise to the local rams. III
Shipke can hit anywhere around 200 on
the season he will class up with the best
third sackers in the American League
The season is just one week off and the
Nationals open in Boston next Tuesday.
1t will probably be the veterans. Cy Young
against Tom Hughes, and the fur will
fly.
Fels. the Yale shortstop. handles him
self more like a finished ball player than
any college product seen in a good while.
New York Sun.
Umpire johnson has signed for four
years with the National League. Some
persons are always running headlong into
trouble.
Hemphil. the former ST. Louis out
fielder. now with the New York Ameri-
cans. is singing the ball hard. and in
the last Atlanta game registered four hits
out of as many times up.
Uowa) club of the Three I League that
it will enjoin the players from appearing
on the diamond before 3 O'Clock Decora-
ton day.
New York fans are cautioning Griffith
no derrick quickly his
pitchers this season. Grif has habit
Of yanking a pitcher out when the batters
begin to feel the twisters.
CIV Seymour is the one Giant not to be
given an error since the Giants started
practice.
Jimmie Barrett did not like the idea of
being sent on the road with the second
team. claiming that he was in good form
for the first team. AS Cy Young and sew
eral other clever players are out with the
second choice, Mr.. Barrett shouldn't
mind.
Manager Armour of the Toledos de-
clares he will bar picture hats from his
bali mark this summer. If the courage
Gus William can carry out this edict
against the spreading headgear Of the
ladies he will not only have accomplished
a unitarian reform. but one which some
mean man Will appreciate lIoii all CS-
thetic standpoint as we'll.
An impression seems to have reached
New York that Harry Niles presence
with Kid Elberfeld's division of the YAM
KEGS means the bench for that lively
player when the season opens. and that
Moriarity has captured the regular job at
second Nothing like 1T at all. Niles is
with Elberfeld to get the necessary prac-
tice with the Tabasco kid that the lat
ter's illness has made impossible in the
south
President Pulliam of the National
League thinks the new rule Of crediting
a batsman with a sacrifice hit when he
scores runner a fly to the Outfield
will be productive Of highly increased
batting averages but the records of 1907
in the major league do not back him up
There were 2OS runs scored on flies to
the outfield in the National League last
year and 800 in the American League
Had these outs been scored as sacrifice
hits, as will be the case in 1908, the gen.
eral batting average in the National
League would have been raised only from
DAB to 245 and in the American League
from PAS to .2jO.