Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-13

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ball this season why doesn't he sign UP
with somebody?
| II Eddie Grant improves over his 1909
record as much as his 1909 figures i'm
proved over his work in 1908, what
walloptng whale the Harvard man will
surely be:
! One little man who went back to the
minors but who had plenty of big league
stuff left. was Jimmy Slagle. This small
but capable performer would strengthen
half a dozen big league teams right
now.
Little Cree declares that no youngster
can crowd him off the Highland Outheld.
The chunky fellow is good and capable
ball player, and it will take wonderful
| juvenile to displace him.
| Some of the captious cynics say Engle
| is not good Sround-coverer. The stocky
one caught 295 flies in left field last
season, and that is going some for ~l33
| games.
1t is said that Keiber, the big south
ern pitcher now on trial with the Giants,
| is showing such skill that he can pitch
| a soft boiled egg for six innings ana no
| body can break it with a bat. Magnih-
cent. Simply WonoerIul.
Jimmy Sheckard Is said to he hold
out, and has so far failed to join the
Cubs. Sheck must be forgetting that he
isn't getting any faster as the years ad-
vance and that several lively youngsters
are yelling for his job.
Drucke, the Giants Texas pitcher, won
fourteen games and lost four last season.
He may prove a valuable performer II
encouraged properly.
Nearly all of the young pitchers COM
ing into the big league this season were
pitifully weak hitters in the minor cir
and hit as Luby, Gumbert, Tener and
few others were wont to do would make
a terrific sensation.
Tyrus Cobb is not the first Of the
Cobbs to win big league renown. Balti-
more had Cobb pitching some sixteen
years ago. a fellow with an enormous
drop curve-duite a star. Don't know
what became OF him.
Back of Clifford Pinchot in solid array
stands the united base ball interests.
Where are. the bats Of the future to come
from If the nations wooded preserves are
Ito be wantonly wasted?
The Boston Nationals have one pretty
good asset-Curtis, the Milwaukee pitcher.
This hurler Is very capable, Np TO big
league stuff all the time and showed good
class in the few games he pitched for the
Beans last season.
Billy Evans will not umpire the Nap
Cub series in New Orleans. He submitted
a proposition which was agreeable to Sec
rotary Barnard, but President Murphy
turned it down. Evans asked for guar
antee for all scheduled games. Murphy
agrees to pay only when he worked.
Drake, a Detroit recruit is doing fine
work in practice. Queer. considering how
this fellow looms up in the minor leagues,
that the Tigers have farmed him out SO
long.
Left-handed infelders, aside from first
basemen, don't happen any more. Hick
Carpenter and Billy Hulen were among
the last of them, though Keller tried to
play the infield when he first came in.
Jimmy Ryan also played short part OF
one season-with an average OF .7S4.
C. II. Ebbets Of the Brooklyn club has
recommended to the National League di-
rectors that the Philadelphia club be al
lowed an additional thirty days in which
posed manager, w. J. Murray. Ebbets
says the Philadelphia clubs papers are
locked in the safe of Vice President Ell
lott, who is in Europe.
The day Of the umpire is dawning. One
Of them, Tom Lynch, is boss Of the Ma
tional League; another, John Heydler, is
a police lieutenant, and down in Georgia
they declined to hang an umpire who beat
to death g. pitcher who disputed his de-
cisons on balls and strikes.