Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-31

According To adVireS received here from
American League headquarters today the
Nationals will open the season of 1911 at
Philadelphia as the opponents of the
worlds champion Athletics. Wednesday,
tpril L. 1t wiz most likely he four
game series and is ha rdy calculated To
give the Nationals IL flying start in the
lace.
thicag" is To open at st. Louis. Detroit
at Cleveland and New York at Boston.
1t will no doubt matter but little which
ono of the eastern teams Washington
would have To- omen with. since every one
of them found the .oCalS an easy PROPOSE
tion last season. Had the Nationals been
able tn make any sort of showing
against the eastern end of the circuit they
would have been factors in the race So
1t can he figured that while. of course
the other eastern teams might he easier
than the Athletics. yet any one uf them
is Tough enough. So it might he we'll TO
start with the strongest one of the trio.
Last year the season opened here with
the Athletics as the visitors, and IT was
one of the hest games If the season., the
Nationals winning | 10 u. thanks to great
pitching by Walter johnson. who would
have shut the cha moionS out without Il
lit had it not been for the overflow III
right field. into which Frank Baker
popped a fiv which netted him two base
No doubt ii Johnson is ready he wi ! be
found on the mound again next April in
the opening game against the Athletics,
and here's hoping thta lie will repeat
1t is doubtful i: Johnson pitched a bet
ter game all season than that opener last
April He was On edge for mat game
and had the Mackmen i'll the palm Of his
hand. With any kind of luck he would
have put the first no-hit game To his
credit that day. the one safe drive made
of of him being d f1uke into the crowd
With ear field il would have been an
easy play for the right fielder. Johnson
famed nine of the Athletics that day.
ard il WAS his bril- liant pitching which
made ii the NEST suspicious opening
game in the history of the Washington
club.
Ed Konetchy tells a good story on his
former manager John McC1oskey- At the
time WolteIs was subblng III the Cardlnai
Outfield, and in a game In BROOKLYN had
connected for four singles in hve times
at hat. 1t seems that the Cards were
still run or SO behind, and McCloskey
was downcast. VOTERS was quite cheSty.
however. and after his fourth hit said:
Il guess I'm hitting them on the nose
McC1Oskey replied: Go out and get some
doubles; singles don't help much
The largest ball player that doth per-
form is thought to- he Julian Castillo.
first baseman of the Almendares team of
Havana. Senior Castillo weighs 262
pounds. and is one speedy boy despite
his size.
Pitcher Joe Corbett of Baltimore fame.
who retired from base ball few seasons
ago because of difficulty with the Brook
lyn club. is now a high-salaried employee
of the San Francisco Telephone Company.
In Philadelphia the fans are beginning
t. halt fbot D1x-oo fof led locS
because he pitched all winter at New Or
leans and had nothing left in the spring.
He's doing the same trick again this
winter
Joe Tinker will leave for the Pacific
coast soon. going by easy stages. He
will stop off at Denver. Pueblo and Salt
Lake; then spend several weeks in Cali
fornfa. extending his trip to Portland and
Seattle, If the bookings pan out
The Boston Nationals. it is said. will
play Tenney on first next season, and
Bud Sharpe will get the hook. Bill
Sweeney may go to second. but why not
keep him at short. when Davy Shean is
so clever en- the middle bag?
The name of Joe Jackson. may or may
rot be enrolled in the select list of 300
batters in the American League next sea-
son son says a writer in the Detroit Journal
Time alone will tell George Mullin is
quoted as saying that he does not believe
that Jackson will oat better than 80.
Jdckson's reco-l during the last season
was ~ III he Southern League, while
he clouted :he Eorsehide for .3S7 in the
twenty games in which he participated
IS Nap He made twenty-nine hits in
seventy-fve times at bat. He did not
have the advantage of batting against
the duck soup twirlers- Instead he was
called upon TO face some OF the leagues
best pitching bets. Gray. Walker. Groom,
Resisting. Morgan. Plank. Coombs. Ford,
Fisher. Hughes CiCotte, Collins. Wood,
C. Smith McHaIe. r. Smith Hunt. Hall.
Scott Young. White. Mullin. Summers.
X. Mitchell. Bailey. Malloy and Nelson
ave the tWirlers who tried TO stem the
batting advance of the young soutilerner.
CoomhS and r. Mitchell were the most
effective. Joe failing TO connect on either
of them in four trials.
Tim Jordan claims that his damaged