Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-14

1909. He ought to come back better
than .2s5 this year.
Otis johnson. Staflings recruit from
the coast, made thirteen home runs last
year and stole forty-five bases. Worth
cooking into.
Tommy Leach was the best run-getter
in the fast company last year-l26 scoi es
in. Isl games. Even the wonderful Cobb
scored only lie.
Tommy Needham has duly signed his
Cub contract. Tom must have caught
at least FIVE innings last sea on, so that
his salary certainly came easy.
The Cubs won twenty-one games from
Boston last season and lost exactly one.
How is that for having buffalo on the
opposition?
None Of the big teams seems to want
Danzig, the fellow who was farmed out
by the Boston Reds. Yet he led the New
England League with a record Of 345.
Larry Doyle is one of the few bats
men who hit better, in the big leagues
than on the little circuits. For the past
two years he has batted at q higher per-
centage than when he was In the minors.
Seems good to hear that the Giants
have q youth named DAILY. The big
game has seemed wrong. somehow or
other. without Daily in the line-ups
somewhere.
Bill Dahlen isn't saying much about
his Brooklyn team. Time Bill was gath
ering them the way Roger Bresnahan
has been doing.
The season of junketing to Cuba is
about over and nearly all the American
players have returned. As the Cubans
won big majority of the games with
the Gringos, the people of the isle are
now proud and chesty.
The young outfielders drafted by the
Cubs. fast kids who thought they had
a cinch on the utility field role If moth
ing better. are pretty blue since Ginger
Beaumont was added to the Murphy
string.
Most of the ante-season line-ups for
Stallings' team persist In leaving La
porte out OF all the calculations. And
yet he hit .29S last season, with good.
sturdy biting all the way. Why over
look him nowo
Baker of the Athletics made about as
fine campaign last season as any
youngster in the business. Connie Mack
certainly found a real crackerjack in
Johnny Evers, like Eddie Plank. has
never played on but one big league club
Eddie started in 1901 with Mack, while
Evers played his first game with the Cubs
in 1902.
The new contracts Of the big league
clubs hold the players pretty close. but
only the rowdy players will be greatly
affected.
George Perring is the only member of
the Cleveland club who is not bene-
dict. Every other regular member Of
the Maps has been married in the last
few years.
This young man Foster. who has just
signed his contract with the Highlanders
will give Jack knight an awful chase
for the shortstopping job. He is fast
and classy player. who looks like big
league material
Can Johnny Killing come back?' That
is the question that is being discussed
every place where tanning bee Is pos
not If he took the excellent care of him.
self that he is credited with.
Two Of the Chicago Brotherhood team
of 1S90-Charlie Comiskey and Charlie
Bartson-are very rich men today Their
united wealth would probably outclass
any money in the hands Of any pair
who might be chosen from any other
team of the long ago.
The ak is falling throughout the coun-
try on young ball players and they are
being sent back to the minors in droves
In a few weeks the minor recruits will
be coming home much sadder but wiser
Jimmy Block OF Milwaukee, recruited
from the Minneapolis team, has sent in
his signed contract to the Chicago Amer
lean League Club headquarters, with the
information that he is going to fight hard
for the catcher's berth.
Hugh Sweeney. a brother of Ed Swee-
ney. the New York American catcher.
has been signed by Manager Jordan OF
the Atlantic Southern League club.
Try as Ty Cobb may he will have diff.
Guilty in equaling the base-stealins record
made by Harry Stovey. The veteran was
playing with the Athletics in 1889 when
he established the record Of 158 steals.
Addie Joss did not shed any tears when
he read the announcement that Bill Kav
had been sold to Louisville. Addie does
not care where Kay plays, as long as 1t
is not in the American League. as he
cannot hit mile.
Since Arthur Clarkson was dropped by
the New York Highlanders there is only
one Harvard man on major league
team He is Eddie Grant Of the PhiIa-
delphia Nationals, who this week signed
a contract for another year at a big
increase in salary.
There's a kink In the good old dope
somewhere. Dode Birmingham, the
crack Cleveland outfielder, played foot
ball at Cornell for three seasons, against
the huskiest collections in the east. with
out even taking time out. Ten days after
he took up base ball he was In the hos
pital with a twisted wr.st-and for hall
the next season q bad leg put him out
OF the battle
The sensational fight made by the