The Washington times., 1911-08-07

There should be plenty of good base.
ball this week out on Florida avenue.
! The Browns. no matter now they per-
form as a team, number several good
! individual perfrmeTs, and there should
| be plenty Of instances this week for
| long and continued applause. Bert
| Shotton, the agile and deer-footed gar
deEe,, is one of the niftiest outfielders
in the country, and, if he can execute
| a few plays such as he did against the
! Nationals in ST. Louis this year, he will
| certainly not be the most popular young
man in this neck of the woods during
| his visit. Shotton is very graceful and
| accurate fielder, and 1t will be surpris-
i'!nC If he does not nave an opportunity
of shaving his skill in that wide-ranging
| garden Of ours.
As hackstops go, Jimmy Stephens is
rated mighty, and he will most likely do
the bulk of the work here. Frank Ia.
| porte is a slugGing seCond-SackCr, and
| Jimmy Austin covers acres around that
third corner. BOBBY Wallace-well,
everybody knows Bobby Wallace, prince
Of good fellows, and marvellous short
IelIeI.
The Brown Hurlers.
In a Iwirling way there are big Jack
Powell, the man with the subtcrranean
vocables: Barney Petty, Hebraic hurler
of considerable class; Lefty" George,
whose Witness is comparable only to
the dCselt ste rm, but whose curves are
as deadly as that very storm; Earl
IIamiltnn, another southpaw who has
met with some success this season, even
with a tail-end outfit; and Red" Mel
son, the huge brak finger, promis-
ing performer or the hill. Out Of these
wOI k'nen Bobby Wallace is likely 10
find at least one who will conquer Nc
Alcer's lads.
The Browns will remain here four
days for five games. These games
are certain to be hotly contested, but
Manager McAleer contends that, with
his twirlers going as they have been
since coming home, he is almost GER
tain 10 land most of them. 'Husk"
Cashion, the latest finger to receive
his baptism in the big league, will be
used in one of the St. Louis struggles
and the. big Carolinan is confident he
will tame them.
Friday come the bare-kneed lads
from the Hilltop in Gotham and
Handsome Hal Chase will bend every
energy to collect his dispirited crew
and fatten on the lowly Nationals. He
will need to bend every energy, too,
now, for the Highlanders are going
on the rocks and the Nationals are
initiating a bunch of crags for some
Of these leading outfits to be wrecked
craGs for the Naplanders and she
White SoX who struck and were
wrecked beyond redemption.
Machine Broken.
That beautiful machine which Hal
Chase brought to this city at the
opening of the season, which was
confidently expected to bring the
league banner to the metropolis. is
sadly broken. That pitching staff of
which so much was expected has al
most withered away Even the peer
less Russ Ford has proved on many
an occasion to have but the strength
of a reed. Pennant hopes have gone
a. -glimmering, but Chase's Chasers
have not given UP the fight. They still
may cause trouble in the camps of
the winners.
The Higialanders will most likely draw
large crowds TO their games here. Fri
day a doubleheader is scheduled, and
''Perkude" Fowler will doubtless thank
his stars that there are so many seats
cut there in the concrete coliseum. The
HighIanders are popular here, and many
fans go to, see. Chase, perform around
that first sack. Yes, some crowds may