The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-07-19
DIXIE WALKER NOW READY
TO TAKE HIS TURN IN BOX
Rain Calls Off Yesterdays Game doc" Meyer Is
Expected To-day = HinrichS llI-0ther
Baseball Gossip.

GOSSIP.
recently obtained from Youngstown. is
expected this morning, and may be given
a trial against the Maps in the present
series Jim Mcclure said that If McAleer
put Meyer In he might stack Fanwell tp
against him.
Here is a little dope on how the ball
mines in the American League stood last
year and what they are doing this year:
The teams TO show Improvement this
year are the Athletics, the New Yorks,
and the Washingtons, while st. Louis.
Cleveland. and Detroit show the greatest
falling OF The Bostons. who are third
this season. were third last, but they
show gain of FIVE points. This time
last year the Athletics were running sec
ond with a percentage Of $50. while this
year they are first with .6S4-a gain Of
81 points-and are IS points higher than
We're the Detroit leaders last season. But
splendid as the Athletics Improvement
has been, It Is surpassed by that OF the
Highanders, who were fifth this time last
season with a percentage of .443, while
they are second this morning with ST.
gain OF ia points. The Detroit cham
pions have siunspea 80 points. due prob
ably in part 10 Indifferent work In the
box. and partly TO the fact that the team
as a whole has slowed Up a bit But
both Cleveland and St Louis show even
greater losses in percentage. the Maps
going back les points and the Browns Ia
The Chleagos were sixth last season, as
they are this. but they show loss of %
points, which may be easily accounted
for by the absence OF their crack catcher.
Sullivan, for the greater part Of the
season.
Jack O'Connor. manager OF the Browns.
has a few things to say about the race
this season.
ANY time a team he's pitchers, watch
that team. II is 20 per cent OF a team
TO have a staff of pitchers" said Jack.
Connie Mack has the best bunch in the
business. and with a swell team playing
behind them. what else is there but the
flag for Connie?
Detroit has fallen to pieces. They
got the same sort Of breaks this season
that all the rest of the clubs had last.
and they show they are not there when
II comes 20 plugging an uphill game.
Their pitchers have gone bad, Cobb is
not hitting up TO last year. and there
you are.
Here II is half the season over. and
look at the Athletics record New York
may be up there lighting, but 1 can not
see anything but Comics team He's
got the pitchers. he's got the players, and
the team has Connie. You don't need
anything more for winner"
Griffith is either going to show up the
+, Cincinnati sporting writers next month
or the Baseball Writer'S Association will
be the eockiest bunch in the world for
ever after.
! Out there the scribes pretty nearly run
| the ball club. They have asked Griffith
TO arrange things so they can have charge
/ OF game next month and Grin is going
about to see If It can be fixed up. Two
Of the writer's will umpire the game and
two more will coach the Reds.
/ Grifnth's only condition is that he shall
be permitted TO write as he pleases about
the game in one of the Cincinnati news
papers the day following. The two reg
ular umpires. If the scheme goes through,
Will be given the same privilege
Ny old friend Tony Sousa took a TRIP
TO the ball park yesterday ana comes
across with the following spiel:
We came upon two umpires and Billy
Belts. out at the dampened baseball es'
planade yesterday afternoon. while Hon
] Jupe Piuvius was inwardly growing and
daring us 10 try pull on the game. and
the pearly drops of wisdom that fell from
their chiseled lips were gathered much
the same as Cleopstra's tears were EN-
bottled
: I'VE promised these loquacious umpi
not to divuge their names. and far be /
from us to do SO, having in mind Col
Roosevelt's savings saw: Take a news
paper man into your confidence II 70,
, wish to keep a secret
I'VE will. therefore, not tell the names
I OF these umpires who VIII officlate at to
: days game. No, never! Buy a score card
We'll. any way. one umpire quoth thus
3 ly: Say, can you imagine any guy VIII
is actively engaged in game OF baseball
D who is more OF the goat than the umpire
q We always have mfr" prefxed to GU
names in the tabulated score and it al
ways struck me that that Mr." was in
finite sarcasm
And interjected the other ump, who's
+ name we have not mentioned, dom
' you think that we, the umpire, more tha
I any other is entitled to the title OF tn
: 'Human-up-against-it -
1.-THE writer gently reminded them tina
). he was the interviewer and they the in
I terviewed. so after saluting by GRACEFUL
, removing their pneumatie~ shirt front;
they continued:
"'When a ball slides through the atmos
n phere of an afternoon and fools the bats
: man, he deludedly lodges; and 1t come
d over the equator OF the plate. and IN
Il umpire calls a strike; is It not then this
the umpire gets the hot end OF fate
Don't the home team arise as one ma
: and declare him a Harp That he is tn
n father of lies: that the truth cannot /
! found in him with a million eandle-powt
!. searchlight and a writ of replevin2 An
d they sir upon the bleachers, stand upo
It their feet and call in a loud voice: 'sRol
/ bert Footpadl Back TO the hand-boo
IS business.
d "And then. again said the other Jo
It Of baseball. the next one called |
n ''B-a-l-lll" The Pitcher bowls like ma
e bereft, ''W-h-a-tl OF all the bum lamps
y What you Cont know about balls an
strikes would take all Of Carnegie
{? money to buy libraries to contain book
+ telling Of it.''