The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-08
BASEBALL NOTES
AND COMMENT.

Covaleskie has struck his stride. He is.
a real minor Lacquer.
| Harry Lumley has shot the ehutes.
Manager last season and Internationally
released this year, is pretty fast work
Willie Mitchell, Of TIE Maps. holds
! worlds record. In the Texas League last
season he famed twenty men in nine
inning game.
! June SO will be a red letter day at
Shibe Park, Philadelphia. It will be Doc
/ Powers day, and the committee are hard
at work TO make the affair a big success.
Fred Tenney has been signed TO captain
/ the Lowell team, Of the Eastern League
/ This Is the first minor team that Tenney
! has ever PLAYED with in his long career
on the diamond
Adams, Camnitz. Lieield. and Maddox
| are the four pitchers upon whom Fred
| Clarke depends for the pennant. TO date
not one of these stars has delivered, and
| the Pirates are in hole as result.
Larry Mclean got swatted in the neck
/ with a bah at Redland. Poor Larry If
he isn't stopping high balls and losing
contracts, or getting pool balls in ths
eye, he is intercepting baseballs with his
| neck.
| Eddie Holly. the Rochester star, farmed
| last season by the Superbas, has gone
10 Mount Clemens to reCuperate. Holly
is a shortstop, and just stopped short of
having enough stuff to make a major
/ berth.
| II Is said that Bonesetter Reese, of
/ Youngstown, Ohio, is about all in. Tom
my Leach, the Pittsburg star, went to
! So. k~e, Haxf 10
| but Mr.. Reese could not attend him, be-
! ing in a poor way physically himself.
! The Youngstown physician has saved
more ball players from the scrap heap
/ than any other medico in the country.
| Frank Laporte, OF the HighIanders, is
the sensation Of the season all the way
through. RELOCATED to the bench, he was
! impressed into service, and the regular
sacker, Gardner, has not been back
since, Frank is hitting like a fiend,
fielding like a daisy, and throwing to
beat the orchestration, Another has
been who has proved THE exception APP
parently.
Playing for the Lowell team, of the
New England League, Fred Tenney. for
mer captain OF the Giants, made a hit
which brought in a run. and. according
to the experts. Fred showed enough speed
on the bases 10 score from second on a
hit. Tenney is after the flag. and his
team is now fifth in the race, with Jesse
Burkett's Worcesters near the top.
Gene Demontrevine is still playing in
the Southern League. It is said that the
| happy-go-lucky FTenchman never had
| but one regret in all his baseball life.
The Cubs years ago traded him off be-
cause he was drinking and raising Cain,
| and DemOntreville always wished. after
he Strengthened up and grew good, that
| he could go back to Chicago and show
how he could play the game.
Russell Ford and King Cole, OF the
Cubs, are the Two smoking sensations
of the present season. Ford is admitted
! by such terrific batters as Ty Cobb to
be the most puzzling pitcher the Tigers
have been called upon to face Ford is
absolute master of the splitter, and in
his control of the moist mystifer has
| Eddie Walsh beaten. No man ever
brought the spitted shoot to the efficiency
that Ford has shown Neither Of these
pitchers has lost game.
Ralph B. Pond, the University of Maine
outfielder, who will sign a Boston Ameri-
can contract this week. is stocky
youngster, and in a bunch of college ath-
| letes would be picked out as a shotputter
| or hammer throIer rather than a 100
yard-dash man, yet at the last Maine
| State meet the winner breasted the tape
/ in ten seconds fiat, with Pond right at his
elbow. Pond has repeatedly gone the dis
tance in ten and two-ffths seconds. and
can do the trick in eleven seconds In a
baseball uniform.
Secretary Riekart. of the St. Louis
Americans, maintains that the Browns
would easily win the pennant In the Ma
tional League this year, and probably the
worlds championship as we'll Lloyd fig
ured it out this way; 'Abstein, who was
fast enough to win the pennant and 70
| afterward help win the worlds cham
] pionship with Pittsburg. wss not fast