Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-12
UMPIRE EVANS SAYS ST. LOUIS
PLAYERS HELPED LAJOIE
Official Grew Suspicious in Saturdays
Game-Lanigan Gives Facts Regard
ing Sundays Feat, Which Has
Caused Scandal.

H. W. Lanigan. sporting editor of the
ST. Louis Times, and one of the best post
ed baseball writer's in the country. insists
that Lajoie was helped to the eight hits
he made Saturday against st. Louis
Lanigan further quotes Umpire Evans as
saying that Lajoie was helped in Sun
days game by the ST. Louis pitchers.
This is Lanigan's story of Lajole's feat:
If President Ban Johnson of the Ameri-
can League does not order a thorough
investigation of the way Napoleon LaJo!e
secured eight hits in eight times at bat
In Sundays double-header at Sportsman s
Park. thereby probably giving him the
chug-chug cart which he and Ty CoDo
have been batting for so keenly the past
thirty days. when the F'renchman came
with a new rattle and hooked up with the
Georgia Peach after the latter gentle
man had come from 100 points in the rear
and forged to the front. it will only he
because the auto was never enrolled as
an Official prize. and the big monarch
believes it but fitting that the Brownies,
If they wanted to see Larry win out IN
the race with Ty. had right to DO "hat-
ever they desired to do.
have been on the base ball assignment
in st. Louis since 1899. A member or the
Sporting News staff for one year. / have
worked on the dailies through every year
from 1895 1t was the first time in all
the half innings and full innings. snort
games and long games. good games ana
bad games. that I have seen the honesty
Of the national pastime questioned. What
happened goes under the name of bur-
lesaue state some, and should not be
taken seriously nor have any afterclap.
Maybe so.
Billy Evans Saw Through the Trick.
A~&> Cox,, 6oxy' "a
game that he has oficiated at a big
bunch of Cleveland games the past month.
mot until today" he stated. have. l
seen anything to make me believe that
Lajoie was being helped to win the bat
ting prize. Some time back l read story
in a Cleveland paper which stated that
the pitchers were out to get the auto
for Larry; that they would put the ball
in the groove for him, with nothing on It.
whereas Cobb would be asked to swing
against the best stuff they had in stock.
1T sounded plausible, but I can truth
fully say that not until today have 1 seen
Larry. helped out. and I'm even not sure
that he was helped today. But some
things that happened looked funny. Take
when the Maps were in Philadelphia. 1t
was natural to suppose that Connie
Mack's pitchers, with the Athletics having
the pennant cinched. and liking Lajoie In
preference to Cobb. would dish UP easy
y. y,
the afternoons that Coombs and Plank
were twirling l never saw them SO fast
A Regular Christmas Gift for Larry.
Saturdays happenings amounted to alb
solutely nothing in comparison to the gift
giving Sunday. 1t was as IL 1t was
Christmas eve and John D. Rockefeller
and Andy Carnegie had ordered the
Lajoie tree decorated without any limit
to the cost To get back to Saturday, all
that happened was some siovenly hiking
by Stephens. Corridor and Stone on a
pair of pop foul hys Larry shot up. Also
bunglesome work by Northen and Hart
zell in chasing an easy spiral from the big
fellows bat, and eventually Northen, get
ting up with the ball. made a most
glorious muff.
Oficial Scorer Parrish detected joke
work by the f1elders and figured they pull
ed to such an extent that hit for Larry
was forthcoming and Larry got 1t. In
Thursdays game Parrish also gave Larry
hit on dinky tap which Mitchell first
allowed to get away from him, and Trues-
dale, after retrieving. threw to the con-
crete. Parrish claimed the ball was spin
ming around: was mean one to handle.
though admitting there was no force to it.
and that it took a false hop. So Larry
was credited with hit. There was a