The Washington herald., 1909-08-28

BASEBALL NOTES
AND COMMENT

Boston will look 70 meet Detroit soon!
Bulletin ss9: Mike Donlin will play
with ST. Louis, f..
There would be Joy In Brooklyn II
Willie Keeler could be impressed as
manager.
BIZ Carrigan is showing that he can
play first base all right when he isn't
needed behind the bat
Mitchell the young twirler signed by
Cleveland. says he has a record of
twenty strike-outs in the minor archives
Jack Chesbro has not been OF any
value to the Highlanders this year. He
never got his curve back after fostering
the spit bail.
The Giants have more points in the
National League standing than they had
year ago. but Pittsburg and Chicago
are also far ahead OF their 1905 record.
They had to stop a recent game in
the West TO fire out rooter who threw
the sun In the eyes Of the opposition
pitcher BY means Of large section Of
mirror.
The race for the Eastern League pen
nant IS the most sensational in the his
tory Of the organization. Rochester. New
ark, Providence, and Toronto are neck
and neck.
Regarding reports that he Is going 20
retire next season. Fred Clarke Of Pitts
burg, says: When I do get ready to re-
tire, the first man I'll tell will be Barney
Dreyfuss"
Big club owners are generally OF the
opinion that the national commission Is
satisfactory as at present constituted,
and that the idea OF an increased mem
bership by additions from the minors
will die out
Mike Welday, outhelder, has been re-
leased to Providence by the Chicago
Americans to join the Grays at once, as
part Of the deal by which Blackburn goes
70 the White Sox at the end Of the East
ern League season.
Wagner is getting peevish over his
intermittent hitting. He is said to have
lost his temper at a jibe fired by Arlie
Latham, IN one Of the New York games.
when Texas Lacquer Of his was
grabbed by Doyle.
Four series ended in the East among
the National League clubs Chicago has
won eleven and lost none in Boston.
Pittsburg won six. lost FIVE in Philadel-
phia; Cincinnati won three lost eight IN
New York; St Louis won three, lost
eight in Brooklyn.
The Chicago National League team viii
play at the Inlet bail grounds. Atlantic
City. on Sunday, instead OF the Brooklyn
National League team. The worlds
champions played at Atlantic City sew
eral weeks ago. and were defeated By the
Atlantic City Conegians.
The Chicago defense has not looked so
good as in former years. although its ap-
parent loOseness in Boston might have
been due to the fact that there were few
times that the team was really IN dan
ger. It takes a tight fix 10 make the Cubs
play their best, on the bases they are
as crafty as ever.
That Joe O'Brien may lose the presl-
dency at the winter meeting OF the Amer
lean Association magnates developed re-
Gently. Tebeau and others. tired of
HavenOr's rule. are banded 10 defeat
O'Brien. Z. S. Barnard, OF the Cleve-
land club. has been offered the post. 1t
is understood he has declined to let his
name be used.
Clin Blankenship viii leave IN a few
days for the Coast, where he will get
into the game regularly, and this will be
much more TO his liking than warming
the bench Mike KahOe. who has been
scouting for new material. will soon leave
Washington. as the season for picking
up players is about at an end. He, too,
will not again don National uniform.
Joe Wood. the boy wonder OF the Bos-
ton Red Sox' pitching staff. is nineteen
years old. He has not set the league afire
with his twirling, but he has obtained
some prominence through his ability TO
set down opposing batsmen on strikes.
In game at Cleveland recently he
performed the final four innings OF
contest. and in that brief period famed
out ten Of the Maps.
One great baseball player who never
had any minor league experience Is Sher-
wood Magee. Of the Philadelphia Ma
tionals Magee was playing with an anna
teur club in Carlisle Pa. when he was
spotted by a scout" who signed him TO
play with the Quakers. Magee was given
but one days practice by Manager
Duffy before being placed in left field
There he has stuck ever since.
Russell Blackburn. the brilliant young
shortstop Of Providence, who is known
around the Eastern League circuit as ne
81, 900 beauty on account Of his big deal
with the Chicago Americans, is out e the
game for at least month, and It is very
doubtful IL he plays again this season.
The injury to his leg sustained at Mon
treal was more serious than at first re-
ported, and it now develops that he has
broken the fbula.