Evening star., 1909-05-09
CHIPS FROM THE DIAMOND.

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Casper keeps on pitching for the Reds.
None Of the other fellows made him gasp
yet.
How John Killing must have laughed
when he read about Pittsburg stealing
six bases in one inning off Paddy Moran,
II Durham could only pitch against
Lennox and Maddox on the same day
the scores would sound like bull market.
Frank Chance lays off in one game
whenever his team plays a double-header.
The team also loses every game in which
Frank does not participate.
Mike Mitchell, who had a bad season
last year, is just killing the ball this
spring. and seems to have regained all
his batting power.
Jimmy sheckard is having an elegant
season. He is doing the best work he
has shown since he Joined the Cubs.
Jimmy Slagle threatens to join one of
the Chicago semi-pro teams rather than
be relegated to a minor league. The Rab-
bit likes Chicago and hates to be driven
away.
What Is this, a brewers convention?''
muller. Schlitzer. Krause, kleinow and
Elberfeld were tumbling round the dia-
mond.
II Covaleski is going to hold that buff
falo over the Giants much longer strong
measures will have to be taken, or a new
bunch of batsmen found some place or
other.
Hans Wagner broke a base-runnine
record Sunday and the seasons base-hit
record Monday. Behave, thou German
germ, behave!
Babe Towne. who caught for Comis-
Sey three years ago. is now with the
Sioux City team. Weaver who was with
the Sox last season is back at Wichita
George Washington never had a chance
to play base ball. Judging from the exist
ing records OF Georges size and strength
he would have been a $50 point hitter and
first baseman Of the Brouthers type.
Fromme, who was given to Cincinnati
without murmur is showing grand
aoil1ty. Many critics always maintained
that this Reuben was a star if he had
decent luck behind him.
Demnitt Is the pinch hitter Of the
AAiS hlohuCIS, anu StdlIIRS mas sent him
up nve or six times already. So far he
has not delivered even a semblance of a
nit and George ought to shift the deal
John Evers has rejoined the Cubs and
Chances men feel like four-tirne cham
pions already. At that Zimmerman has
been playing a good second and has been
hitting way over the 300 mark.
Mike Donlin. it is said. is no longer
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to the old game, Mike, and in a hurry,
Mordecai Brown has now stepned
into the breach and saved three games
TOT the Cubs. Where would they be
Enright the California inhelde-.
jumped out of st. Louis and went
home. Californians often get home.
sick that way after a taste of the
chilly eastern spring.
Oakes Of the Cincinnati Reds start
ed like demon, but Is coming down in
his batting like stick of a skyrockct.
Hyatt. the Northwestern slugger. has
now been sent up as a pinch hitter on
SIX occasions by the Pirates. He has
made good only once. landing a three
bagger.
iris Speaker of the Boston Reds
continues to laminate the pill. He is
evidently wild to reap that $500 bonus
promised him II he hits over 800 on
the season.
Camnitz. the Pittsburg hurler never
before rated as q topnotcher, has won
spring He has practically carried the
team.
Those naughty Cubs must have felt
inf fnr1xy
the Pirates took two away from them on
their own grounds Sunday.
Do not overlook the fact that Ar
thur Devltn never played finer ball
than he has shown so far this season.
He Is hitting elegantly and fielding
like a combination Of Bradley and
Collins.
Various critics have been praising
the first-base play Of Beck In We'd
nesday's game he looked like fricas-
ssed gander as he gangled awkwardly
around the initial corner
Carl Lundgren, who has been a faithful
pitcher for the Cubs during the past eight
years, Is to get the hook. Lundgren will
he pitched his best in icy weather and
was of small use to the club in the sum
mer.
JACK IaylOr mas Deen released by CO.
lumbus. This sturdy old pitcher has evil
IDENTIFY come to the end of his string
What star he was a few years ago, and
how he did hate newspaper men!
Young Higginbotham, the st. Louis
pitcher. was notified that the team had
no more use for him, and that waivers
had been asked. but that he could pitch
a game anyway just to help out. SO
he went in and trimmed the Reds in
dainty style. His release will probably
be recalled.
It has always been the case that when
a championship team begins to fire its
old stand-bys. even though they seemed
to be getting feeble, that team fell by
the wayside. What did Boston amount
to after it let George Lachance go? And
how will the Cubs fare with Slagle and
Lundgren out?
ST. JAMES, BOYS
NOSE OUT WESTERN
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN. Md. May 8-The
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