Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10
By ]. ED GRHLO.

Elberfeld Is playing with a finger
that would keep the average player out
of uniform. One would suppose that
after being In the game for so many
years as Elberfeld there was little
in the way Of pleasure in 1t for him.
and yet the Kid would rather play ball
than eat. It is this that makes MIN
a most valuable man. The average
ball player. and many OF them after
only a few years experience. likes to
get out Of the game whenever an OPP
portunity to do so offers itself. E1ber-
field, on the contrary, does not want to
get out. He had decided to rest his
split finger yesterday. however. when
the score stood six to nothing in favor
of the Browns. and Schaefer was al
ready starting to the plate to bat for
him when the Kid saw a chance OF
tying the score and he refused to get
out, took Schaefer's bat and made
clean single which did much to tie the
score in that eventful fifth inning.
Elberfeld acknowledges to be the old
man on the Washington team. He ad-
mits he is thirty-three. and while there
may be others on the pay roll who have
soen that many years or more they &c
not admit 1t. There Is not man on
the team. however, who works as hard
for it as does the Kid. and 1t Is this
fact that has made him so popular with
the patrons of the game here.
Jack Lelivelt's fielding has not i'm
proved as was expected. He is hardly
any better now than he was when he
Joined the team, and the chances are
that Jack will never be what might be
termed a finished fielder. His greatest
fault is that he does not get started
with the crack of the bat. and has to
take most flies while on the run. when
he should be standing still under them:
But Lelivelt is proving the fact that
he is a hitter. and II 1t Is ever the
teams good fortune to get hard hit
ting, good fielding youngster Tor his
position, Lelivelt might be switched to
right field, where he would probably
do much better as q fielder than ne mas
been doing in left.
No one tries harder than Jack to i'm
prove his fielding. He has put In hours
at practice but he seems unable to get
the hang Of the art.
several very likely looking youngsters.
This fellow Newman is not Hal Chase.
but he Is a sort Of HANDY man around
that first bag, and, what Is more. he Is
some hitter. He has ALREADY proven TINS,
for he has found the American League
pitchers no more troublesome than those
in the Texas League. from which ne
halls. Truesdale at second Is not star,
but he has shown constant improvement
and may make himself valuable player
in time. Young Bill Killifer undoubtedly
is as good a young catcher as there Is in
the league. He has world or ability.
and with a little more weight would flll
the bill for any team
ed in the second, but he gave out after
the first. inning and was forced to re-
tire.
popular. Friday ten runs were scored In
this inning, and yesterday six. and the
bases were still crowded When the slde
mas retired A base hit or two more and
probably have been broken. There are
times when runs come very easy to a
team, and the past two days nave shown
that there are occasions when this falls
to the locals lot Ten and SIX runs In
one inning is unusual these days.
The scoring of ten runs in an inning
Friday recalls a game which was played
in Cincinnati few years ago: when
Rrooklyn scored nine runs in the first
inninr off a pitcher named Chauncey
Fisher. The manager considering the
game lost, Fisher was not taken out, ou'
Rrooklyn did not score another run dur
ing the remaining eight innings ana en-
PLAYING two games in one afternoon
under weather conditions euch as pre-
vaiied Yesterday is a great hardship
on ball players. and incidentally on the
,mnjre. II was perhaps harder work
for O'Loughiin than for any OF the play
ers. for they get their rest between IN
nin1s. while his jumps is constantly on
the go.
The players of both teams were a bad
Nv tired out lot when the final game
was over. They fairly dragged them
selves off Of the field. and once IN their
bus the St Louis players stretched. and