Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31
BASE BALL NOTES.

Because the players found too much
fault with the intrinsic value of their
trophies of war. no more individual
souvenirs are 20 be given TO members
of the team who win the worlds cham
pionship series Instead the national
commission has decided to give the club
owner a piece of costly plate.
Funny how little magnates know about
their team and the individual players.
When Frank Farrell was asked to say
few words about Elberfeld he did the
clam act When Secretary Nahon broke
in with cts all up to Mr.. StallingS,
Farrell Hnbenaed sui1eisn e{tp 70 st npa
ngs write checks on the Yankees bank!
Sure he is-maybe.
con,iskey has spiked the report that the
White Sox would establish permanent
training grounds in Texas after this sea-
son. THE only pleasant part of train
ing season." said Comiskey, lis going to
some new place. All there is 10 the
Texas story is that somebody down there
is willing to sell me the land II l want
10 buy it. Some one in Alaska might
consent to do as much"
Pitcher Frank Smith of the Chicago
Americans says he is not Joking when
he offers to fight Jack Johnson. Il
am pretty good with the gloves, says
Smith, and even if 1 should happen to
lose. I could make enough out of the
fight to pay me for the time | devoted
to training After l got through, I
guess I would be all right to go on with
base ball"
Frank Bowerman and Roger Bresna-
han recently had talk over possible
trade between Boston and St Louis. in
the course of which BOwerman said:
Make men love to work for you. Get
them to fighting pitch all the time
! Keep them on their toes and let them
know they are playing to win moro
than playing for their salary and
! they'll play pennant ball 1t hasn't
failed in Hugh jennings case. and that
New York morally won the National
I4eagu pennant last year is proof that
it hasn't failed in the case Of Jonn
McGraw."
Rumor has it that Sammy Strang
will ask Harry Pulliam for a job If
Umpire Hank ODay refuses to take
the jumps Sammy's experience in this
line is limited to but one attempt. In
the year 1906 when tombstone was
barred from the Polo Grounds. Mr..
NicSln welded the Indicator. When
the Cubs refused the services of the
self appointed arbiter. Sammy awarded
the game to the Giants. 0 to o. This
lnte1lS ence he 1OTWdTueu 1uIllaiN.
Next morning he got a postcard with
the following inscription: Kindly tell
me when you Joined my staff Of UNI
pires. Pulliam."
'The umpire in chief in all our Ma
| tional League games this year. says
President Pullam. will be the man
who is giving the decisions on balls and
strikes. The judgment of the man at
work on the bases will not be con-
sidered as final in case there is an APP
peal and there'll probably be plenty
of appeals. l am earnestly in favor of
two umpires in every game, but l just
as earnestly believe that one Of them
should be the boss and the other his
| assistant"
Fans often say that games won early
| in the spring do not amount to much
and that it takes the squirt at the finish
10 land pennants. The squirt at the
finish is all right, but game won in
April counts just as heavily as one won
in September. Thus, suppose Cleveland
and Chicago. in the American League
and P.ttsburg and New York in the
National had won one or two more
games in April last season. Detroit
and Chicago would not have been the
respective pennant winners.
It's back to the sequestered life for
Sammy Strang No chance to become
major league umpire this season. Hank
ODay yesterday came to time and sign
ed up with President Harry C.~Pulliam.
Pulliam had given the man who was
here" on the Merlle play until today to
make up his mind.
Matty Mcintyre the crack outfielder of
the champion Detroits was in New York
city yesterday. He has rapidly recover
ed from Il recent operation for appendi-
citis. With returned health. the old
spring ''holdout' germ has stung the
curly-haired boy. He received con-
tract from President Navin at Christ
mas time, but says he will not sign the
document His pay was not boosted.
Matty holds out every year. like Fielder
Jones and several others.