Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-27
FODDER FOR THE FANS.

! Lefty" McIlveen is making good with
the New YORK; Americans
! Patterson, the former Chicago Ameri-
can pitcher, has won seventeen out OF
| twenty-four games for Minneapolis.
| Young Jim ORourke has already been
benched by Elberfeld and Laporte is on
| the job at second base
| 1t begins to look as if the Lancaster
team had the pennant won in the Ohio
| state League, though accidents may hap
| pen.
| Willett of Detroit came near losing his
| job with that club at the beginning of the
| season. Now he is the leading pitcher
| in the American League.
| The Chicago Nationals have lost twelve
| out of eighteen games to Philadelphia
Rooters of the Phillies are looking for
| second place in September.
| The contract for the Cincinnati team
| playing in Cuba has been received. The
! Reds play three games week for four
weeks in Havana. receiving 500 each and
all expenses from the time they leave
| home.
President McCaffery of the Toronto
! base ball club announces he has bought
| First Baseman Houser from the Scranton
| Club of the New York State League.
Fifteen hundred dollars was paid for his
| release.
| The New York American management
! intends to try out a raft Of youngsters
this fall. Four more have been bought
| from the Newark Club. They are Pitch
| ers Frill and Mueller, Infielder Engle and
Outfielder Demmitt. Frill is the former
Pony pitcher.
Miss Carrie Meyer of Allentown. a col
lege student, has been engaged to pitch
for the Delmar Club of the West Chester
Pike League Saturday. Last year she
pitched for Delmar and won her game
from the strong Grassland Club. The
game will be played at Delmar.
The st. Louis Republic says that the
Detroit Club quit cold last fall against
the Chicago Cubs and will probably quit
September 4. ) and 6. when they meet
the Browns in st. Louis. That's a good
joke about the Tigers quitting.
That Billy Murray made no mistake
when he purchased Earl Moore from Jer-
sey City for his Philadelphia Nationals
was demonstrated yesterday, when the
big boxman let Montreal down with two
| hits in fourteen innings and struck out
| ten of them.
! Jack Dunn is pretty astute judge Of
| ball players, but he let a good one get
away from him in Demmitt, now with
| Newark. When a member of the Orioles
Demmitt was rather weak with the stick.
but under the tutelage of Stallings he has
| improved wonderfully and now has an
| average of .26S. He is also fast on the
| bases and a splendid fielder.
The White Sox are to get Rollie Zeider.
| the fast shortstop of the San Francisco
SIuD OI the racine coast League. An
| nourrement has been made that Man.
ayers Long and Jones have put through
a deal whereby the minor league club Is
| to get three players and a cash consider
| alton for the shortstop. Zeider will not
join the White Sox until next spring.
| however
| Three notable. figures In the world of
| sport figured in recent ofessional
ball game out in Chicago. James j. Cor
bett, the former heavyweight champion
of the world. umpired. while Pop Arson.
one of the greatest opponents of the ma
tional game that ever played. managed
and played first base with one Of the
teams and Walter Eckersall. the famous
quarterback of the University of Chica-
go, played right field on the same team.
| Because Waterbury refused to pay him
| the same salary that ne received from
| the ST. Louis Nationals. Shortstop joe
O'Rourke has jumped the club. Water
| bury offered him $3.50 a month, and he
| wanted $500. and claims that the manage
| ment is compelled to pay it to him. Man.
ager Harry Durant claims that he has
| not been playing the game that he has
| been capable of since reporting to him.
| and he has suspended him for the rest Of
| the season.
Jimmy Sebring, the Tri-State 'outlaw"
| player, may be seen in the Brooklyn line
| up next year. The rumor that the con-
| tract jumper might be reinstated and
would be bought by Ebbets for the SUI
| perbas held prominent place in Chicago
| base ball circles yesterday. When ques-
toned about the deal Ebbets said that he
hoped Sebring would receive justice. and
| that if he should be reinstated he would
| pay more for his services than any other
owner President Murphy of the Cubs
! heard the ruInor and was much wrought
up over it. Apparently he doesn't want
TO see any other club get the player after
his many unsuccessful attempts to have
| the outlaw put in good standing.