Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04
SPARKS FROM THE DIAMOND.

Cleveland is humping the bumps. The
loss Of Lajoie Is too much for them.
Bresnahan is falling away in batting.
Worry over his unlucky team. in all
probability.
The Reds seem to have something on
the Cubs this season and have given
them serious set of trimmings.
Eddie Collins shows no signs of let
up in his wonderful batting. He is the
real sensation Of the American League
season.
Ed Sweeney was the joke Of the league
as batsman last season. Now he gets
his hits with great regularity.
Philadelphia tried out a new catcher
named Froelich yesterday. With that
name the young man belongs either on
the Reds or the Cubs.
Cy Seymour gets into every game where
the Giants are far enough ahead to have
a cinch, but is Still extremely lame. 1t
will be some weeks before he is fully
recovered.
SlIdsC OCCS DCot " IAld lilo 1li6h-
landers together under fire. and Is play
Ing fancy ball at all stages, but his job
is a hard one.
Jimmy Austin is hitting well up with
the big guns now. II he can hold the
pace II will be a vast help to the High
landers.
If Jimmy McAleer gives up the lead
ership of the ST. Louis Browns It will
be voluntarily. The owners of the team
like him too well TO fire him. and realize
that he has had hard luck this sum-
mer.
Hugh Jennings now says he will keep
CLAUDE Rossman. The gentle Claude
has been hitting well OF late and has re-
captured his old job ON Detroit's. initial
pad.
Bullet Thoney is surely child of mis-
fortune. Kept out of most of last sea-
sons games by bad arm, laid up part
of this spring by serious illness and
now crippled by a broken leg! There's
hard luck for fair.
Detroit has taken a grip on Lelivelt.
a Mobile pitcher. brother Of the Lelivelt
now with Washington, and Neighbors.
| fielder. who had a brief trial last year
with Ptttsburg.
Two of the hits credited to Washing
ton Friday were tabled as errors by
most Of the scribes as 1t looked as
though EIberfeld and Manning made bad
| fumbieS The official scorer, however. In
| sisted that both hits took false bounds.
Leliven looks better In every game.
| He Is q swell fielder. q neat thrower and
demon with the stick. having the
knack Of cracking them in all direc-
| tions.-New York Telegraph.
rIrrh.s +ha 1Iiybl.,5 opats a n,,eer
compound. One day he pitches so ably
that the fans all demand regular turn
| for him. and the next time he is likely
| to go up in the air and be chased in a
coupe of innings. He surely looked
| great Friday.
| Charlie Jones, one OF the greatest of
batsmen and outfielders some thirty years
| gone by, will be rendered big benefit
at South Beach. Staten Island, August
| 81. Mr.. Jones, who is now disabled by
| age and infirmity, will get able help
| from a committee Of fans In New York
| and Brooklyn.
| Norman Elberfeld felt kind of strange
when he was moved over to short, but
| it didn't take him long to get back to
| good work
| Frank Bowerman cannot join the Giants
any too quick to suit the fans. With
| Bowerman back In the fold again it
| would seem something llk0 OiO times.
| Frank Farrell, 1t is said. has told
| George Stallings that he can spend $l0,-
| 600 for the right sort of pitcher. STALL
! ings believes that a star twirer would
! keep his team in the running.
| McGraw instructs his men to take
| chances Other fellows cannot make er
rors unless you make them throw the
ball is McGraw's theory. Go to the head
! OF the class. Mac.
Sagely remarks Charley Dryden In the
| Chicago American: There Is no use
| sending for Joe Cantillon when our Sox
| can lose those dummy games without
/ him.
| l am peaceful person. Nevertheless.
! want to hold converse with the Wash
/ lngton man who PIT pepper on my to-
( ba"co-and me Spithali ptcher.-joseph
Lake.
! They say in Indianapolis that Jimmy
| Burke is not very popular with Charley
1 Carr. Jimmy, II is said, has disobeyed
the leader several times. and now adorns
1.-the bench for that reason. Jimmy likes