The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-06-03
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
The Maps now lead the league.

Inc maps nov le6Q tne league.
Bill Burns will probably work to-day.
Every club in the first division changed
its position yesterday.
Ed Walsh has now won nine games out
Of eleven pitched for the White Sox this
season.
Seybold will be back in right field for
the Athletics during the coming Western
trip
The failure of the Bandits means that
Washington has seen the last OF outlaw
ball for a number OF years.
Otis Clymer is doing some mighty deeds
with the bat during Bob Ganley's rest.
Yesterday Clymer peeled of a double and
single
Dutch" Sterzer, the Washington boy.
has pulled Grand Rapids into first place
in the Central League by winning the
last eight games he has pitched.
John Kelly. the last Of the players who
went 20 Baltimore with the Montreal
Eastern League franchise in 1903. has
been sold to the Newark team.
Capt Joe Courtney Will have a GOOD
nucleus for a team at Georgetown next
season. Practically all Of this years
Blue and Gray players will be eligible.
Tom Hughes famed seven Of the Ath-
| letics, and although touched up rather
lively at times, the long fellow always
I frightened up when there were men on the
/ bases.
Chris Won der Abe, the famous presi-
dent OF the ST. Louis Browns when they
were winning pennants. has turned his
attention to politics. and is now a candi-
date for the legislature.
Button" Briggs did something Satur-
day that no other pitcher In the Amer
/ lean Association has done in recent years.
He went through nine innings without
having fielding chance Of any sort.
! Walter Carlisle, recently released by the
/ Boston Americans. has Joined the Kansas
/ City team of the American Association.
The outfelder felt that he could have
made good with Boston. had he been
played regularly.
/ Walter Pickett. Of Lima. is the star
/ pitcher Of the Ohio State League. He has
worked In eight games, three Of which
/ he pulled out Of the fire after other pitch
ers had started them. He has yet TO
lose his first game.
! Thoney's throwing arm is still bother
some. and It is doubtful II Manager Nc
CURE. of the Boston Red Sox. will keep
him in the game much longer. Thoney
probably will be used as a pinch hitter
for the rest Of the season.
So intense is the interest In tho Ma
tionals just now that Clarence Jacobsen
has made arrangements to have Sunday s
| game at Chicago reproduced at the Acad-
envy on mechanical diamond. The fans
/ will be able to see play for play.
There have been S64 bases stolen in the
American Association up to the present
! time. Louisville has the largest number
of offerings, fifty-seven. Mig Perrine.
the former Washington infielder, has a
/ big lead for honors, having swiped fifteen
bases in thirty-six games.
Jack Flynn, the former Toronto first
baseman, lost in his appeal made to the
/ national commission, asking for his re-
/ lease from Milwaukee. Instead Of grant
! ing the request the commission ordered
! Flynn to report to the Brewers Flynn
! is a Georgetown law student
Two stories relating to deals for two
of Chances players have been sprung.
and both are pronounced by President
Murphy and Manager Chance as with
out the slightest foundation. One is that
negotiations for the much talked-of trans
fer Of Artie Hoffman to the Cardinals are
under way, and the other says that
Schultz is TO be traded for Pitcher Kar-
ger.