Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-20
Washington. and a large crowd will! be
on hand to see the sport tomorrow.

The White Sox look very good just now
even with Fielder Jones out OF the game
and the team that beats them out in the
pennant race will more than likely wiz
the championship.
Mcbride ana Delehanty are certainly q
fast pair when II comes to pulling off q
double play. Both men have quick throw.
ing movement. and it doesn't matter who
is the pivot; the ball generally goes over tc
first like a shit.
clymer has fully recovered from his re-
cent severe cold and is taking things
easy on the bench. Ote is too clever a
ball player to fretObout resting up while
Pickering is in right field. as he recog-
nizes the fact that Ollie is playing great
game Of ball just now. Altizer Is also al
most all right again. but he would have to
go very fas. to push the kid" off third
base.
Four men on the bases second base
stolen three times and no score. all this
in one inning is the unusual occurrence
recorded in the Boston Cleveland game
last Monday. The Maps were the ones IN
volved.
Joe Doyle will be out of the game for a
couple of weeks at least. A physical
examina ton disclosed the fact that llga-
ment was torn loose at the elbow. joe
watched the game from the press box yes
terday. He agrees that things look
mighty different from the viewpoint OF the
scribes.-New York Telegram.
A Texas Lacquer at the right time is
lust as disastrous as safe line hit.
Chesbro is sure Of it. In the inning IN
which the Detroits made six runs Mon
day there were two punk hits by the
cha nlpions that did every bit as much
damage as any which happened 10 De
made.
J-mpires Hurst and Evans will have a
great put-out record if they keep at the
lob of settling disputes between the Tigers
and the Hilltops. 1t is true there We're
only two Detroit players put out OF the
game Monday but it must also be borne
in mind that Detroit was winning.
Ball PLAYERS must receive their salaries
when due if the club is at home; few
clubs pays salaries on the road payer
in the Atlantic Association received SiU
the first pay day. when his CONTRACT I. CAMEO l..
for $40 The player was justified in quit
ting at once and had a perfect right to
sign with another club.
Kid Elberfeld was out yesterday he is
looking fine and says he feels bully Inc
shin is a bit sore yet and the Tobasco hld
has to use cane. He is itching 10 get
back in harness, but will not take any
chances until the leg is entirely healed:
The Kid is delighted with the kind OF
ball his understudy is playing and says
he is mighty glad he can take his time
New York Telegram.
Don't be surprised if you hear of Rube
Waddell hurting a basketful Of fatirons
at his mother-in-law. The big left-handar
got revenge on his old master Connie
Mack. Yesterday He worked for the
Browns and allowed the Athletics just five
hits Errors behind him gave Phlladel-
phia an early lead. but st. Louis ham,
mered Bender out of the box In the sew
enth and breezed in.
The Detroits showed rather clever
maneuver yesterday when. with New
Yorker on third and one on second and
the infield playing in. Schaefer made a
move as if to run back to second and
take a throw from Schmidt. The scheme
was for Schmidt to make quick throw
to third instead and catch the runner
there unawares. 1t happened. however
that Chase was on third. and that old
bow is not caught off his guard often
New York Sun.
Ty Cobb Of the Tigers has established
one record this season-that of being
thrown out three times in one game This
ha opened in a contest against the White
Sox which Tyrus won all by his lonesome.
In the first inning Cobb doubled and
was caught trying to stretch the hit an
extra base Two rounds later the south
erner belted out a triple and was thrown
out at the plate in an effort to make a
home run on the hit. Cobb didn't like the
umpire's decision and told him So with
the result that the referee followed the
lead of the Chicago suburbanites and
tossed Tyrus out-out of the game