Evening star., 1909-06-06

inning games so far this season. That's
pretty near a record.
Criger throws the same old. snapshot,
effective way, and cuts down the men who
try to steal just as he has been doing for
50 many years.
Rube Waddell is winning game after
game, and doing lot to pull the Browns
out Of humble position. When Rube is
good he is a wonder.
If the White Sox do not make
good on their eastern trip Comiskey
might as well spike his guns. They will
be showed into the ruck and held down
till they drown.
Rube Waddell feels younger than ever
"Rube is great stuff, only he will forget
his bearings now and then, and topple
off his balance says Jimmy McAleer
Too bad the comedy cannot be crystal
lied and presented in moving pictures A
set of films showing Mcmillan playing
short and McAleese playing the outf1eld
would drive any audience into paroxysms
of delight"
Stem and Burch played against each
other in the Decoration day games at
Boston. Too bad Oakes and Holly, form
erly of st. Louis, weren't there-they
could have had great old tree party.
Some bright young chap got off this
one: ''Isbell is old enough to be called
played it ten years before Chadwick
thought about fnventing it,
Fred Tenney has not yet hit his bat
ting stride, but it will be noticed that.
just as was the case last season, he is
making more runs than any of the other
Giants. Once on base, slow and stiff
though he may be, old Frederigo is the
safest and sanest navigator Of them all.
Duke Farrell believes that his arm is
coming back. For the last week he has
been winging the ball overland with
nearly all his skill of several years ago.
He is nursing the pinion carefully. how
ever. He says If the arm gets well he'll
make the rest Of the catchers hustle to
keep him out of the lineup. At that.
it would not at all be astonishing to see
Old Ironsides in action some of these fine
days up on the hill.
Stones absence from the Brown out
field is a serious drawback both at the
bat and in the fycatching department.
The team needs him worse than a camel
needs a drink.
Errors in the Brooklyn outfeld seem
to be physically disastrous. Sebring and
Lumley both busted their fingers mufhng
flies
What will be Hans Wagner's excuse
for his annual retirement bluff next win
ter? The old boy is going at the smooth
est gait Of his life right now, and the
game could hardly spare him.
If Bill Bergen had delivered a hit
Tuesday and tied up the score in the
ninth the Giants would have had lot
to say to Leon Ames, all uncompliment-
ary. He surely did go winging in that
last inning.
1t was hoped that the batting aver
ages would begin to improve In the warm
er weather, but, judging from the num-
ber of shutouts. the pitchers are enjoy
ing the warm weather more than the
batsmen.
Those Giants are the eighth club in
the National League when 1t comes to
more home runs than any two other
teams put together. Some paradox there.
yes?
in the American Association this season
none who have worked in Milwaukee
look better than Fred Linke. He has a
good curve and possesses something
many other youngsters lack-control.
Linke looks like the goods. and with a
steady old catcher like Schreck to work
with he should develop into a good man.
Milwaukee News.
An odd accident happened in a New
Haven Holyoke game. Mccormack was
on third and Perkins at bat for Holyoke
The signal for the squeeze play was
given and Mccormack dashed for home.
When within ten yards Of the plate
Perkins hit a savage liner, which struck
Mccormack In the stomach. Mac was
out and the f1uke cost Holyoke the
game.-Exchange.
TTniv nf 70
foot ball star. now playing left field for
Seattle, is off In the lead of the North
western League batters for the 1909 sea-
son. With a mark of .324 for the first
nineteen games played by Seattle, Capron
is the virtual leader, with several ahead
of him because they have batted less
than twenty times. before the law of per-
centage has had chance to get in its
work.-Seattle Times.
Kid Gleason Is a funny old bird. He
was believing madly Monday and O'Day
construed his remarks as excessively
personal-which they surely were. Hank
called him sharply. and Gleason yelled
"All right" replied O'Day. but Hank
must have thought it queer coaching to
have the runner called bat-eyed goat
and urged to get q map by which to
distinguish balls and strikes.
II have not purchased any real estate
in Chicago and / don't care to discuss
Chicago newspaper reports about a new
ball park in Chicago for the American
Association during the playing season
Just now we are trying to give Mil
waukee fans good base ball. l have
nothing to say about the report" That
was the statement made by Charles S.
Havenor. owner of the Milwaukee club
From Chicago comes the report that
Havenor had bought, or intended to buy
property on the North Side of Chica go
which is valued at 5000, 900. The property
was scheduled to be used as ball park
by the American Association. which, it
was reported, planned to put a team in
the Windy city. The property In question
is said to be better situated for base
ball park than any park now in ex-
istence there.-MilWaukee News.
Ball followers all around the circuit
are marvelins at the brilliant showing
made by the youthful workmen of
Connie" Mack. the crafty leader of the
Athletics Connie" said before the sea-
son started that he did not expect much
this year from his teanA but thought he
had the ''makings." This judgment will
probably be found correct in the long
the Athletics will continue to terrorize
the entire league. The veteran teams will
come to their own in time, and then
the youngsters will gradually be showed
down the ladder.
Stallings will undoubtedly hold on to
Joe Ward for a time at least Two
weeks ago the Big Chief asked for
waivers on the Altoona infielder. He
National League club for a second base
man but the majority of Amar;cop