Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-12

teen more games than they did all of last
season. when the sum total OF their vic
tories numbered forty-two. With almost
a month of the season Yet to be played.
embracing nineteen or perhaps twenty
games. II is not unlikely that nine or ten
Of these will be won. This would give the
/ team the record Of having won some
thing like twenty-five more games this
| year than last. substantial increase
which il kept up in proportion for a
few years would soon put the Nationals
in the fight for the pennant.
complished in the matter of making pos
sible the playing of the worlds series be-
4 fore snow fails?
A week or two since 1t was announced
with considerable flourish of trumpets
that President Lynch of the National
League would begin work on President
Charley Webb Murphy of Chicago with
a view of bringing forward the games
scheduled between the Cubs and the ST.
| Louis Cardinals for October 10, l. and
10. Since that time nothing has been heard
concerning the subject. and II now ap-
pears as though the National season Will
be prolonged for six days after the Amer
/ lean League has completed its schedule
Chicago has six games to play with
| st. Louis after October 8. The regular
scheduled games are for the dates NEIL
toned above: but in addition to these
| there are games which must be played
on the 9th. 18th and 18th.
Unless a grand change all round Is
| effected IL will be impossible for the
Cubs to complete it's schedule prior to
October Il. After Sunday Murphys aggre-
CATION will he in the east until October o.
when the Cardinal series opens. Thus
1t can be easily seen that the task OF
bringing forward" these six games Is
anything but an easy one.
Let hon a
team will he compelled to play until DC
| tober Is. The Athletics close at Washing
ton October :. the American season clos
ing the next day.
This means that Mack will have to keep
his band together in idleness for a week.
| in order to take part In the series.
VIII Mack consent to this? VIII the
American League officials be content to
await the pleasure of the man who. be-
| cause he thought Pfttsburg would again
win the pennant, tried his utmost TO
make impossible the playing of the great
| est series the base ball world has ever
known?
OF course the money to be derived from
these games will cause Mack, johnson
| and others interested to pause long before
deciding against the series; but there Is
| another element to be considered-the
weather.
Fans will recall the unfavorable wealth
er experienced last year during the play
| ing OF the series. Both In Pittsburg and
| in Detroit. cold and disagreeable days
were encountered, and this despite the
fact that the series was begun fully a
week before it will be possible to begin
| 1t this year.
Dick cooley's Topeka team is being
| is 1t playing all the games away
| from Topeka, but as he whirls around the
| circuit he leaves a player mere and a
| player there: Topeka fans are finding
| fdentially. II Cooley didn't sell a few
players he wouldn't have money enough
| to pay the rest he has left. Topeka won't
| turn out so he can do 1t by getting some
gate receipts. There is nothing else left
| for him to do.
Now that the national commission has
| Grabbed the plan Of an ''all star series at
/ the end Of the season. the Tigers again
are talking of pulling off another Cuban
jaunt. President Navin has expressed his
disapproval OF this idea In very positive
| terms, but the players believe that they
/ can show reasons why such a trip would
not have any bad effects on their work
i next season.
Il can understand why Mr.. Navin would
/ object to our spending the entire winter
i in Cuba" said one Of the men prominent
| In the project recently, but no Ill effects
should result from a short stay on the is
i land late In the fall. AS soon as we fin
Used our series in Havana, all Of the boys
would be ready to come back and spend
| the cold months at their homes. This
/! would enable them to put on weight so
| that when the spring training season
opens they would be in proper condition
to start thte reducing process
/ On recommendation OF Scout Jimmy
| Casey. the Detroit club has drafted
Catcher Onslow from the Dallas outfit,
/ winners I'm the 1910 Texas League race.
\ The backstop is husky young fellow OF
| about twenty summers, and will come
here highly touted. He is a good receiver
| and a fine thrower. according to reports
but is somewhat weak with the willow.
Onsow makes the fifth catcher on the
| Tigers roster. the list being Schmidt,
Stanage and Casey, who now are wearing
the uniform; Kocher. the new acquisition
from Bridgeport. via the Highlanders. and
| the Texan.
Now that Manager Jim Mcguire of the
Maps IS In the business of proving to GER
/ tain players how they missed their proper
| vocation when they started out TO win
| fame on thte greensward by Transforming
| Southpaw Jack Graney and Catcher Ted
Easterly into outfielders, he may continue