Evening star., 1911-05-27
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

There are Collinses and Lajoies pr.sid-
ing over the second bag. but small Miller
Huggfns must be taken into account
among those who cover that position IN
way which is a delight 10 the eye and
an annoyance to the enemy.
Hartzell made four hits to Austin's
three in the ST Louis series and no er-
rors to Austins one So long as HartEell
is better hitter for New York than
Austin was it doesn't cut any ice any
way how hard Austin hits for St. Louis.
Some of the Reds say that they do not
blame McQuillan much for falling off the
wagon. The stay in St Louis for four
days without moving out Of the hotel was
enough to drive man crazy or TO drink.
they assert.
AS a result of the Greeves Sunday base
ball bill becoming a law in Ohio. new
schedule has been made out for the =.
League. This makes Sunday base ball
possible in every city Of the league. with
the exception of Newcastle.
Mayor Edmund NJ Allen of Joliet. III.
named Harry DE Miller, former twiEler
and first baseman for the Chicago Ma
tional League team, chief of police. TO
succeed William +. McMasters. De Miller
is exalted ruler of the lodge Of Elks.
Jack O'Connor. former manager OF the
st. Louis American League Club, and de-
posed by President r. l.. Hedges. after
the Lajoie-Cobb batting average affair
last fall, .ays he is in earnest about su.
ing Hedges for salary due on his unex-
pired contract
Not Pittsburg player has drunk as
much as glass of beer smoked q
cigarette since the season began" saws
Charley Power, travelling correspondent
I NE1c Nd Her uver
riding so much that they lost their ef-
fectiveness on the ball field.
Bunch all the stories of the greatest
play | ever saw that are going the rounds
and you would have a composite of plays
that First Baseman Comiskey or our old
friend Big Bill Lange used to duplicate
nearly every day when they were at the
zenith of their playing days. declares an
old-time far.
Bobby Wallace of the St. Louis Browns
has protested a game lost to Detroit be-
cause of Umpire Perines decisions. HoN-
man was called out in the third inning
for being hit by A hatted ball from AUS
tins bat The drive had glanced of VII
lett's glove before hitting the runner. and
for this reason Perines decision was
wrong. and Wallace was entitled 10 a
protest.
.Sallee thinks he is the best left-hand
pitcher in the National League. and is
going to prove II before the season is
over, says Roger Bresnahan. Nap
Rucker OF Brooklyn has nothing on SAL
lee neither has George Willis. | caught
Willis for the New York club. and know
him like book Sallee has the best con-
troll of any southpaw that ever curved
hall over the plate in my time
1t hurts a certain class of people 70 see
others enjoy themselves. bunch of New
York state reformers has asked Gov.
Dix to compel sheriffs to enforce the laws
against Sunday ball playing. Men and
boys. they say, lave been grievously frac-
turing the Sabbath by knocking balls
about vacant lots in various communities.
Gov. Dixs answer was that IL was the
first he had heard Of IL.
Owner John l. Taylor is out with an
other plea for a rule that the pitcher
need not take his turn at bat. once
Taylor thought that he could put through
legislation stopping the pitcher from TAX
ing his turn at bat and having a sub hit
for him. going so far s to hire an eTer-
gency hitter named Clay. who had made
a great record i'm the Tri-State League.
The legislation did not go through, and
Clay never got a chance to show what
he could do.
An energetic correspondent can cer-
tainly stir up a lot of trouble. Re-
Gently a Philadelphia newspaper print
playing base ball and in a kidding way
remarked that Manager Doom was
thinking of signing their pitcher Miss
Caroline Beale. The story was wired
TO the west and the next day the news
papers began bombarding their corre-
spondents in Philadelphia for photo
graphs of the young lady. An investi-
cation disclosed the fact that an ener-
getic young man connected with tho
Athletics had been doing a lot OF press
work, but he didn't suppose that any
newspaper outside of Philadelphia
would fall for the story
The greatest record for continuous
serNce in the history OF base ball was
broken when Lii Sager, third baseman
of the Evansville club. was spiked in
the hand and compelled TO quit the
field in the first inning of the game be-
tween Evansville and DAYTON May g.
Previously. Sager had not missed an
inning of Central League game since
July 20. 1904. Sager has long been one
of the star third basemen of the league
\ good fielder and a fair batter. he
never sustained injury nor aroused the
ire or the umpire. He was looking for
ward to completing seven straight
years of service next July and A run OF
1000 games this season. LII played
in s95 straight games with Evansville
and South Bend before he took the
count.