El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-22

PittsburE is certainly Johnny Evers'
Jonah city. Every time he plays on
the Forbes field he IS either thrown
out Of the game or has a bad row with
the fans. The cause for all the hard
feeling goes back many years-way
back before the new field was built
Evers was playing second base and
Fred Clark. manager Of the Pirates,
attempted to steal As the Pirate man
ager went into the bag he attempted
to knock the bali out Of the hands Of
the little second sacker. de dldn
succeed but he certainly proved the
ETers kept nursing the Crouch and
got il reared to mans estate about the
time Clark started for third EVeLs
drew back his arm and snot the Dal-
square at the head OF the FlL&le >
manager. and the ball went true Wnen
Clark came 10 he hunted UP the CUP
What do you mean ne denanqeG;;
Paying YOU back in your own com;
TaDIfed Fvers. You tried TO knock
that ball out Of my hand SO you w9ul "a
be safe on second Just decloeo 10
let 20 OF It."
And Evers from that day to this has
never been able to get back into me
good graces Of the Pittsburg fans. he
is now out Of the game on account OF
a bad cold.
HEIDI also assistance. The worst is
not vet to come. IL has came Jim JeI-
fries is going to fight the Big Smoke
again. Fact-the dope comes olrecI
from Los Angeles. After the pltiTul
spectac Gle at Reno, on July 4 1911, me
General belief would be that Jim would
hunt a hole and pull It In after him
and never. never under any cOnsldera-
ton. get into print again, out once
more he is trying 10 come PACK me
report may be naught but pleasant
dream, but coming from Los Angeles
We fear for the worst
That there is no cut and dried Torn
for good smuggling. smuggling over the
none OF the heavy stickers smite the
ball the same way. Take Hal Chase.
for instance. It is considered the
worst OF form" to step away from
the plate but Chase though he does
not actually step back. is fidgety with
his feet and suggests he IS about 10
hack away. But the records show he
has panned a few in his day
Fred Merkle puts body as well as arms
into his swing and is a vicious swing
err Caldwell is awkward and never
swings for the pin twice the same way.
Cobb and Jackson stand in an easy,
Ioafing kind Of a way, and do not wake
up until the ball is right on them
I,afoie probably has more form" than
any Of the heavy hitters, but he doesn't
follow through to any great extent
arm movement do the work for him.
The whole list shows every cOnceiv-
able method, but hardly any two alike.
St Louis in the American has now
Joined Boston in the National In the
100 loss" class-if 1t can be called
class"
busting off the archives just once
more: Ben Sanders. who pitched for
the Athletics 20 years ago. now comes
forth with a claim for the WORLDS rec
ord for the fewest number Of balls
pitched in a game. He says that one
day in 1891 he served just IS to St
Louis There's too much dust on the
archives to browse down that far.
Wen take his word for ii.
In the National league on Thursday
there were three double headers and
each one ended ! and 1 score.
Mana ger Jennings Is trying TO get
all drafted players this season. so that
he can give the Youngsters a tryOut
before the spring training begins.
Connie Mack IS rather worried over