The Washington times., 1909-09-03

Cnsla you have allowed him to
/ coach all day" Get out of the came =
! replied the tnen irascibie but usually
placid Nj. Evans
! The team left that night for Chicago.
and while there Cantfllon took his
henchmen around to Johnson's Office.
ne met Evans there, and Cantillon pro-
tested against the fines laid on Schaef-
er and Ungiaub. Evans was game
/ enough To admit he had been hasty
and Johnson took off the said fines.
In discussing the poor showing Of the
team on the Western circuit Cantilon
! enthused about the showing OF his men.
except the pitchers The twirling staff
is In miserable shape. Not one of the
slaomen can be counted upon to retain
5000 control for any length OF time
and the helders have almost reached q
state OF despair. Fly timely hitting by
Onglaub, Lelivelt, SIatterv SChaefer
ana killfer. the club has come from
oehind with a rush on numerous occa-
siohs' only TO have the pitcher give
the whole snap away by Wild heaves
over over the catcher,s head or by bases on
Twice when Washington aupeared
hopelessly behind and happened to get
men on bases. the pitcher was taken
out and Slatterv was sent IN 70 bat
He delivered the goods with a, ciout
tnat scored enough runs to tie IN the
proceedings, then the substituted Ditcb-
er proved as wild as a March hare
Can YOU beat it2 These are onix. T-,-o
OF number OF similar cases. and moth
ing on earth could be more demoraIiz-
ing to ball team than Just such in
cidents
Naturally, the unfortunate Nationals /
have had much complaintN to make
ABOUT the umpirinE- As human nature 4
VIII always cut a big figure in human I
NE. despite the dreams of widowed /
reformeTs and millennial shotIters n lie
]
the snort end of more than one deal /
Even so potent a potentate and heavy !
listed an individual as Ban Johnson /
laS not been entirely unamenabIe to /
Ihis is enOugh-in every game thew
played in the West there was but
1ne. umpire for Washington
. Johnson was human. and undoubtedly
figured that the Washington games were
not as important as those I'm which tho
Athletics, Boston, and Detroit were in
vowed, The umpiring staff is short a
man since Tim Hurst took the count,
aud where the necessary weakness of
ne single umpire system had to be a |
actor. Washington got them.
narrowing tales of Washington play-
RS winning two or three times I'm one
afternoon. only 20 have their good work.
poiled by the failure OF the umpire to
Zee the matter rightly, are told bv ev-
ry man on the team. and they are NOT
IS unreasonable as most Of the usual /
ticks against the arbitrating A close
ecision giving Washington the better of
with Detroit might cost every man
m the Detroit team a couple Of thou
and dollars in worlds series money. /
While II wouldn't benefit Washington a
ents worth. Catch the idea? And !
'ou can't blame the jumps so much.
Cantillon stated it was perfectly true
e had sent Mike Kahoe his ten davs'
otiCe OF release.
The manager was enthusiastic about
ne showing Of killifer and YOhe He
links they are going TO be valuable
iuS this year and next Yohe IS SADLY
icklng in experience but is irnprovIuc.
lpidly- Killifer has been smackinz the
an with great vigor at odd Intervals
ma mas held his own in fielding halfi 7
dozen different positions.
CantillOn said that as far as he knew
lere was no truth I'm the report that
-alter Johnson's arm was seriously OFT
commission and Johnson will soon be
D the slab.
Asked to account for the failure Of 7
'ashington 10 do any dra fling this year :
antillon explained that ne did not think
Re experiment worth the money. exact
az the guess made at his views i'm "
he Times yesterday.