Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28
CHIPS FROM THE DIAMOND.

CHIPS FROM THE DIAMOND.
The fans are now counting the days
and weeks. Just a fortnight longer and
the season opens with flags flying and
the band playing.
Don't get nervous over Delehanty. 1t
won't be long before sluggcr Jim will
open up and say he was only kidding
Good. warm weather will surely bring
Del out Of his shell.
Readers of The Sunday Star will be
! wishing a eIbd season for Umpire Bill
Evans. He has certainly turned out
many good chapters during the past
winter, and the fans" will welcome him
back when the snow begins flying once
more.
To Covaleski belongs the honor of
pitching the first no-hit, shut-out game
Of the 1909 season. He accomplished
the feat against Trinity College team at
Durham. n. c., March 49, Not Il man
reached first base and the Phillies won,
l to 0.
Joe Tinker is due to leave Chicago for
Chances camp, and the manager also
has almost convinced Johnny Evers that
the Cubs chances for another pennant
will he hurt unless the shifty second
baseman changes his mind about wait
ing until June before joining the team.
Truck Eagan has gained a new lease
of life by being transferred from ST
Paul to Vernon. Truck always had a
keenly developed antipathy to playing
anywhere else but in that dear old CALI
fornia. 1t is a habit of the naive
so9s."
In the matter Of injuries TO Athletic
players New Orleans appears to be a
hoodoo. 1t was there a broken ankle put
Seybold out for the season last spring
and this spring Danny Murphy is laid
up indefinitely with a sprained ankle
sus aimed while sliding on the 18th in
slant. 1t was at first thought his ankle
was broken.
The Indian outfielder. Bender. Of the
Columbia team. blacklisted for stabbine
Manager Win Clarke last year. may be
reinstated, as Clarke did not press the
prosecution. Bender is coaching the
College OF Charleston base ball team, as
usual, this spring.
Tim Manning. who played on the old
PhillieS under the late Billy Barnie's
management in 1882, is now resident
of Chicago. where he is engaged in bust
ness. He has son who is "A fine ball
player and who has played two years
in the fast Chicago City League as first
baseman and catcher. The youngster
now feels qualified 10 try his hand
minor Lacquer and is willing TO accept
an engagement.
President Dreyfuss of Pittsburg last
week made the official announcement
that Pitcher Irving tCy'D Young ii.
who brought to Pittsburg from Boston.
would not be with the Pittsburg team the
contract. and that's the reason he is not
with Pittsburg," said Dreyfuss who de-
clined to go into particulars
1t is reported from Little Rock. Ark.
that Catcher Charley Schmidt is getting
ready to sign his Detroit contract He
has told his friends that he is ready to
make concessions If the club will do the
cession coming anywhere. Schmidt is
catching for the Cumberland College
team. which he is coaching.
Joe Harris, the big twirler, who was
the opponent of Ed Coombs of the Ath-
letics while pitching for the Boston Amer
leans III the famous tWenty-four-inning
game has signed with the Providence
along that he would not get in line, but
he said that he was perfectly satisfied
with the terms offered him, and affixed
his signature to a contract in jiTy.
Manager Frank Reislng of the York
Tri-State team has signed Pat O'Bren
twirler. He is six feet tall and halls
from Jeanette, Pa. He won sixteen out
of eighteen games he pitched for an indie
pendent team near Philadelphia last sea-
son.
Manager McAleer seems to have picked
up several good men among his recruits.
Infielder Griggs. the Texan second base
man. looks like the most promising. and
rheumatism Griggs may be regularly as
signed to second. Catcher Smith. from
Pueblo. is worth retaining, while Outfield-
efs Crum and McAleese have done some
good work. Crum especially.
Manaser Wilson Mathews OF the
Charleston club has signed Pitcher Bra
zeal Of New Orleans and a first baseman
whose name he will announce later. H.
infield. Mathews says that he has an in
ternational aggregation. His pitching
staff is Hebrew and Scandinavian: CATCH
ers, Irish: infield, Dutch, and outfield,
French and Irish.
Frank BrusGeman of Sioux City. Iowa,
formerly catcher for the Davenport team
traded to Rockford for Catcher Lee
Lemon, made grand record in the ind-
viduals in the ninth annual tournament
of the American Bowling Congress at the
Duauesne Gardens, in PittsburS, Pa.
Frank rolled a total of 691-only eight
pins less than. the record established by
Archie Wengler last year.