Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-02
CHIPS FROM THE DIAMOND.

! CHIPS FROM THE DIAMOND.
| II Mike Donlin and Mabel Hite want a
| subject for new vaudeville sketch
what's the matter with labelling it: MAX
| ing Mike Manager?'
| Curtis, a catcher who has been on the
| Giants reserve list for three years. has
been sent to the Albany club. McGraw
having the right to recall him In August.
| When Ty Cobb stole second. third and
home the other day he accomplished
| what he has been trying to do since the
season started. He is after a worlds
record in sack swiping.
No more , umpire s batting TOR d Kid FL
to the effect that it doesn't pay.
The false rise" ball which travels
downward for fifty feet and then >shoots
horizontally. is the latest hot weather
dream Of the western sporting writer's,
who claim Addie joss has 1t in great
perfection.
The New York fans have about quit
hoping for the rag. The Giants have
been going badly under the strain, and
they are up against a foreign trip until
August -.
In gobbling up minor league players the
| scouts are getting their hands on some
named Smith. But what's the matter
with the Jones family?
Jimmy Barrett. the old Boston and
Detroit outielder, is burning up the
ground for Milwaukee. and Is doing a
| lot to keep the Brewers up in the Amer
| lean Association.
Mike Donlin is one OF the many stars
who started In as pitcher. He was
lefthanded finger in California when st.
Louis coaxed him east.
| Kid Elberfeld, who ought to know,
| says balls batted by George Stone are
the hardest to field on account of the
English which Is impaired to them by the
peculiar swing Of the bat.
Tim Murnane is another expert who
| says Jimmy Archer of the Cubs has it
on Killing as thrower and all-round
workman. Kings strength, he deposes
lies in his hitting. Take another think,
Tim.
When It is said that college players
hardly ever make good. one will have to
take back water when looking at the col
| legians in the Athletic combination Ed
die Collins came from Columbia. Eddie
Plank from Gettysburg. Harry Davis
JIs II.
Bender from Carlisle, Jack Coombs from
Colby, and Jack Berry from Holy Cross
Guess Cleveland got all the worst Of
the Cy Young trade last winter. The
two pitchers that were traded for the
old man, Chech and Ryan, have already
been sent back to the minors, two Reds,
karger and Hall, going to Boston in ex-
change.
The Cincinnati National League club
has purchased Outfielder Patterson from
the Guthrie club of the Western Assoc
citation. Patterson, who is only nineteen
years old, and is playing his first league
ball this years, has been the find Of the
season in the Western Association. He is
the hardest hitter in the league. batting
close to $50 Is a fast outfielder and
very swift on the bases.
Some enterprising gentleman in Macon
Ga, sent out q report that Tyrus Cobb
was tired of base ball and would quit
the game at the end Of the season, to
start In the auto business. When asked
about the report t., Tyrus stoutly denied it.
as ! can play" The truth OF the matter
is that '"ry'' likes to work and he's going
to work all the year around. This win
ter he will spend his tiWe selling auto
mobiles. He likes the auto game and
since buying a machine for himself has
decided that he will devote his leisure
months to booming It,
Every one seems to be crying about the
fierce slump the great Hans Wagner is
having with his slap stick Hans, it is
true. has fallen off considerably in the
hitting business. and 1t was the general
opinion In the base ball world that Hans
would go to pieces in his fielding when
he took the slump in batting. But the
Dutchman has been playing great ball
on the defensive part Of the game just
the same. Hans will come back with
his big club just as sure as he is a great
ball player. He is up there getting his
walks. and playing for the success Of
the club at all times.
| Eugene Moore. the crack southpaw re-
Gently purchased by Pittsburg from Dali
| las, is keeping up his brilliant record In
the Texas League, having won four games
and lost none during the past ten days.
| This is the lad who attracted attention in
| the spring. while the major league clubs
were in the south, by holding the ST. Louis
| Browns to one run In two games. He
also held Washington to three hits and
| Detroit to five. Moore has won ten games
| and lost five this year. Two Of his de-
| feats were by 1-to-O scores and the
other three were all due to poor support.
Pittsburg bought him outright, but he
| will not report to Manager Clark until
the close OF the Texas League season on
September Z.
Big Jim Vaughn. whom the Reds want
| the Macon club and doing good work, is
on the tongue Of every Yankee player who
| saw him work. Willie Keller has often
/ said. ssTf that fellow Vaughn can learn