Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-03
BASE BALL NOTES.

| 0R01 DAHL NOxGS.
| A bill prohibiting base ball games on
| Sunday between l and 6 O'clock in the
afternoon passed the Minnesota house at
ST. Paul Thursday by a vote of 81 to 81.
! This is the slow dragging period. when
| the fan person. filled full of training camp
| dope from his shoes to his hat suffers
with pent-up yearning to be shown.
| The season of the Pennsylvania and
West Virginia League will be opened the
| first week in May. The schedule is being
| prepared and will be submitted to the
clubs in few days.
+ Candy Lachance is planning TO place a
semi-professional base ball team in VIM
sted Conn. Lachance's days as a player
| are about over. and the Winsted berth
would probably be a profitable one for
him.
Those grandstand patrons. WHO felt
that the Merry Widow hats worn by the
lady fans last season were source of
woe are invited to cheer up the worst
| has came this season.
| Joe Kelley is one man who does not
regret leaving the majors. Kelley is sat
isfied to stay where all is peace and
contentment instead of strife and worri-
| ment because an owner has not got a
pennant-winning club
About the period when the asphalt side
| walks begin to bubble a few of the New
York scribes should be compelled by law
| to read over the back niles.
Johnny Evers had better call off that
June l reporting date. for Zimmerman is
putting up a wonderful game at the key
better desert Troy as soon as possible
| and join the team. for thinner Is max
| ing stops on the Everesque style with reg
| ularity.
| Probab bly, there may have been mis-
| calculation at some point or other. Al
any rate the threatening departure OF
having no second division in the Ameri-
can League smacks of a subversion of
| nature.
| Charley Schmidt's favorite bat arrived
| in San Antonio at the Detroit training
| camp the other day and the Tigers arc
| figuring that 1t must mean that Charles
| is one OF the last hold-Outs Of the hold
| out season.
| From now on until the season opens the
minor leagues will be drawing players
from the majors. Nearly every big league
| manager has announced his intention OF
having several OF the youngsters walk the
| plank at an early date.
When Jawn McGraw looked Walter
Johnson of the Senators over and de-
cided he was very choice stock he broke
| the first great law Of Gotham. which de-
| MES that there is anything good outside
| the immediate family.
| Last Sunday. when the Cincinnati
Reds played a game their home
grounds against the Colts, there were
1000 admissions. and Frank Bancroft got
more money than he took for the club In
the fourteen exhibition games his team
played on its training trip.
Pop Arson, who is on the road with
a team PLAYING exhibition games. was
National Lacquer for sixteen seasons.
| from 1915 until 1892. He played in 1.3s2
games and made 2,25o base hits: having
| a batting average of .344 for his sixteen
years-a record that has never been
| equaled.
| Homer Cravath who is playing left
| field for the White Sox, made the last
game of his team in California a notable
| one by knocking the ball over the left
| field fence at the Vernon grounds In Los
| Angeles. Cravath has been doing very
| we'll with the stick In all Of the early
games.
Brother Joe Cantillon of the Washing
| ton club was chased out Of Wichita by
| the game warden. who was trying to stick
license Joe was invited to go hunting
and he and Outfielder Clymer accompa-
| MED Wichita fan for whirl with the
ducks. Joe escaped to Topeka all right
| Kansas City Star.
| Jones successor as manager of the Sox.
and there is an undercurrent of talk to
| the effect that In the event of his fail
ure to secure Jones. Comiskey will don
from the bench. with Sullivan. Davis and
Isbell acting as sort OF board OF
strategy.
| The other day the White Sox loaned
| Catcher Payne to the Reno team and
he scored five runs, nearly beating his
| own team mates under Sullivan with a
timely home run. double and single. All
that saved the Sox was that they had
| hammered out II runs In the first three
| innings of the game.
| While Bresnahan was predicting that
the Giants will win the pennant you can
bet the family junk ride that he was
working one McGraw for a few tips on
! how to develop a team OF youngsters. 1t
/ sounds good for Roger to make such a
| prediction. after having been a Giant
himself. but you can bet that the great
| backstop of 'em all will be roofing for his
4 team every time 1t lines up against the
Polo Grounds brigade.
| VIM. ]. Holmes. known to the older fans
1 as "Ducky." and remembered because
of his famous run in with Andy Freed
! man on the Polo grounds years ago. man.
| aged the Sioux City team which won the
| Western League pennant last season.
| Holmes at one time played under Stall
| ings. the present manager OF the New
| York Highlanders, and he says that at
| last Farrell has secured the man who
can land a winner at the l66th street
| grounds.