Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-09
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Ty Cobb hit for an average of $50
against Russell Ford of the Highlanders
last season.
Doc White-not G. Harris-win succeed
Doc Schneider as trainer of the Maps
next year. White is black.
According to Eddie Collins of the Ath-
letics. Ed Walsh is the toughest pitcher
in the game to steal q base on.
Jake weimer, the former Cub pitcher
and later q member of the Reds and
Giants stats, is now well-to-do stock
yards commission man.
The Maps have eight backstops signed
White Sox catcher, is the latest man to
be put on the list by Manager Mcclure.
Connie Mack seems sweet on college
pitchers. Harry Martin, the Tufts Col
lege man, is said to be another coming
star, and Connie has him safely hooked.
Charlie Jones led the fielders of the
is the old Washington and st. Louis
player, but he is with the st. Paul team
at present.
Inc University OF NOLTe Dame contrib
uted Murray of the Giants, Beecher Of
the Cincinnati Reds. Burke OF the Doves
Reulbach Of the Cubs and Daniels Of the
Highlanders.
Nearly all the white ball players, it is
said, have given up the game in Cuba,
and the teams are now made up almost
wholly Of blacks. They stand the heat
better than the Castilian hidalogos.
The record Of the worlds champion
Athletics proves that the sacrifice hit is
far from obsolete. Collins. Oldring.
Baker. Murphy. Barry and Lord had 1877
suicide snlashes to their credit during the
past season.
Can Fred Tenney come back? It's
pretty certain, say Boston scribes, that
he can make good as manager Of the
Boston Doves, but whether he'll be able
to play the first sack at his old gait is
an uncertainty.
OF the forty athletes on Comiskey's list
only two live in Chicago during the win
ter months. The rest of them are scat
tered between the .rock-bound coast OF
Maine. or something like that, and the
Golden Gate Of California.
II we were Fred Lake we wouldn't care
to hang around that old Boston town
much longer He has been canned from
two teams there within space Of two
years. Yet they say that Lake is a
mighty competent base ball man.
President Somers plans to make the
Maps injury proof next season by carry
ing a double inf1eld throughout the year.
Most managers would rather have one
star utility man who could play any old
position at any old time.
Harry Steinfeldt. is around Cincinnati
looking like anything but q broken-down
veteran. What's the betting that both
he and Sheckard are not found In their
old pastures In the spring? They look
good enough for years to come.
Hugh Duffy does not believe in babying
the ball players too much. The expert
ence he had with Mclean when he was hit
on the head last fall turned the Sox man.
ager against the habit Of giving player
a lay-off after slight injury by pitched
ball.
The impression seems to be that Danny
Fletcher Is visiting the same place that
old Doc Cook went to after Copenhagen
looked into his proofs.
Chester Nourse, the Boston American
League pitcher went to a hospital yes
terday and had the third finger of the
right hand amputated at the first joint.
The operation was decided upon as last
resort to prevent the spread OF blood poi
soning. The finger was broken while
Nourse was playing ball last season. and
1t had bothered him ever since. 1t Is
claimed that the operation will not affect
his power as pitcher.