Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-24
BASE BALL NOTES.

Tom Hughes and his Yanigans reached
Topeka at noon yesterday and will begin
practicing today.
The longer the preliminary season lasts
the better Jerry Freeman gets. That in
field may yet be changed to Freeman.
Unglaub. Mcbride and Delehanty, with
Conroy in the outfield.
The White Sox dropped Pitcher Spen.
Ger and Outtielder Flanagan from the
roll when they departed from Sacra-
| mento.
1t is said in the Athletics camp that
Ira Thomas has asked to catch all TWEEN
ty-two of the games against Detroit, to
which Connie Mack has aSsented.
Jiggs Donohue Of the Chicago Ameri-
cans is still training himself in Chicago
with the University of Chicago candidates
and making a little money on the side.
Gus Dundon, Comiskey's former utility
man, has just been carved for appendi-
citis. He is getting along WELL but will
be unable to rejoin the New Orleans team
for some two months or more
Herman Schaefer. captain of the Tigers,
has been ordered by his physician to
stop playing ball while If he wants to
be in frst-class health for the opening.
Walter P CAMPER. who. in 1899. was
for time pitcher for the Brooklyn Ma
tional League ball team. was shot and
killed at Memphis yesterday by W. A.
Doyle. superintendent of the Bohlen-Huse
Ice Company. Doyle had discharged
Camper.
Jake Beckley has finally been forced to
Time. Even Kansas City has tagged him
For Sale" Beckley has been playing
ball for twenty years and has earned
enough of the vile stuff to retire with a
roll which would line up we'll with John
| DIS if he had saved it,
Although Dreyfuss is breaking his back
trying to dig up new first baseman, it
| looks as though Abstein will start off the
season at the first peg for the Pirates.
Storke and Kane have shown very little
to date and will probably be shipped back
| to the minors.
| DOC Amole. we'll known pitcher
who is wintering in Hazleton. who several
seasons ago made a star record with Bal
timore and Washington, has under con-
sideration a fiattering offer to play with
the Williamsport team of the Tri-State
| League this summer. Amole says that his
arm is as good as ever. He has been out
| of the game one year.
Connie Mack is having the time Of his
l nc III SClCCliA6 iuHeIu. DdNIS SURF
will be back at first. and Baker. the re-
| cruit from the Reading club has the third
| base job clinched. Mack has about steen
men to select from for short and second,
I but they are all so good that he doesn't
| know just where he stands.
| Funny how all these leading stickers in
| the American League hold out every sea-
son for an increase in stipend Dodo Criss
wants $4,000 this season. In 1908 George
| Stone led the league. and in 1907 he was
| a month late In reporting to the Browns.
| In 1907 Cobb was the candy boy and he
held out for a million dollar salary last
spring.
George Moriarity is playing great ball
| for the Tigers down in the south and 1t
! looks as though he will surely hold down
the difficult corner for Jennings this sea-
| SON. His whip is in great shape and he
! is pilfering bases with regularity.
The Chicago Cubs have four veterans
on the club who have been with that team
Chance has seen eleven years service,
King eight. Slagle eight. Tinker nine.
! Each of these men, with the exception OF
Slagle. who is slipping. is still star.
The team has more veterans on it than
any other in the major leagues.
| Charley Pruitt. who was not steady
enough for either the Red Sox or Cleve-
land. started game for New Orleans
against the Athletics. He was hit for
four hits and two runs in the first in
| ming. the Pelicans then putting in other
pitchers. who shut Philadelphia out for
the remainder of the game. the final
score being to in favor of the majors.
| Ten pitchers are on Connie Mack's list,
but six will be the limit he will carry.
Eddie Plank, although under weight is
| in good shape and will likely go through
| another successful season. Bender, if he
shows the disposition and willingness to
work all through the season that has
characterized his stay in the south this
spring, will also be sure of place. as no
better Highlander is playing ball today.