The Washington herald., 1911-07-02


ing him In to nnish out games as chances
present
Leonard is a graduate of st. Nary
College. San Francisco, and several other
American League clubs were after him.
Jake Beckley, who was a major league
star when many of the present-day sem
sations were crawling along the floor on
their hands and knees, continues to break
up games with his war club. Jake now
| Is pastiming at Hannibal, Mo-, managing
\ the Central Association club there, and
4 the other day he poled out seven hits in
a double-header. Can you beat that?
The veteran may be slow around the
| frst-base territory and his throwing arm
may be dead, but he hasn't lost the
| eagle eye that made him famous on
the big circuit In his collection Of seven
hits for day were double and a triple.
But that isn't all Jake went go far as
to pilfer base.
Joe Kelley threw a bat into the grand
stand at Baltimore Tuesday and his
| Toronto team mates had to rescue him
| from the crowd. Joe resented fans
criticism Of his team and the fan hurled
chair at him. The bat was the Kelley
retort, and then some more chairs de-
scended around Joe's bald pate.
The national commission may yet have
to decide the case OF Stephen v. White,
Princeton's mainstay in the box for three
years, who appears to be a bone of con-
tention between the Giants In the Ma
tional League and the Red Sox in the
American League. 1t was announced on
Tuesday that he would get a chance un-
der John J. McGraw, but now word
comes from Boston that he has signed
with the Red Sox and will report at once.
White is good pitcher, and with more
experience may be able to hold his own
In major league company.
Gordon Mackay, of the Philadelphia
Times, who was here with the Athletics,
says:
One OF the rabId fans who Is always
breathing. drinking. talking, and think
ing baseball pulled a funny one the other
day. We'll. suppose that we will lose
Speaker next; they let him be captain
for a few days, and that ought to settle
II. Every time that they make a man |
Look at the list. First they made Doc |
Gessler captain. and then they swap him |
to Washington. Next they pick out |
Harry Lord for captain, and they walIop |
him into a trade with Chicago. They |
take Heinie Wagner and make him field |
leader. and the next crack out Of the box !
they ask waivers on Heinie.
Now, by gosh, it's Speaker they make |
captain, and I suppose that he'll be the |
next gent 10 get the ak alongside Of his |
collar button"
A dispatch from Minneapolis. Mimi,
says: Detroit wants Gavvy Cravath and |
Hughie Jennings is going to get him If |
such a thing is possible. A deal is now |
understood to be under way whereby |
Cravath will be sold to the Tigers and |
the Millers are trying TO get back Dave |
Altizer at the same time. Cravath de-
serves to be in faster company at the |
rate he has been soaking the ball. He led |
the league last year and bids fair to /
head II this year with the stick. He is a |
hard-working outfielder and few balls get |
by him. Cravath wouldn't mind a change
in the least but he hasn't heard anything
about It. In Cravath, Crawford, and |
Cobb the Tigers would sure have some
slugging outfield. There is but little
doubt that Cravath would hit at a fast
clip In the American League, probably as
hard as he is in this league. Cravath was
in the American League two years ago.
He played with Chicago and Washington.
From the Nationals he went back to the
association.
John McGraw, OF the Giants, once sent
Dad Clarke, the old pitcher, to a minor
league town to look over a left-hand
pitcher who was said to- have a curve
like a wagon wheel and terrific speed.
Clarke took one look at the pitcher and
to New York.
did you see him? Did you see him
pitchT' asked McGraw. Tell me, how
did he look?''
TN tell you how he looked" said
Clarke. He looked like a right-hand
pitcher with a sore arm"
Bugs Raymond did not go East with
the Giants. McGraw fined the big insect
200 and suspended him last week. Bugs
was missing when the squad left for
Boston. A New York Newspaper man
with the Giants said Bugs would probably
Join a life-saving crew at Atlantic City.
That yarn about me becoming a life
saver is bunk" said Raymond at the
Planters Hotel last night. I'm going :
lp to Chicago and will probably 20 to
work at my trade. You think that's a
oke. Well, I mean business this time.
I'm the shiftiest stereotyper that ever
,ame over the pike, and I'll get a Job IN | I
'ome Chicago newspaper Office. McGraw
VIII have to send for me before the sum- I
ner is over. r.''-St. Louis Exchange. {
Frank Bancroft is far from being dis {
outraged over the poor showing of the
reds in recent games. He said: Years
go. when Johnny Ward was manager
4 the Giants. they made their first
Western trip and dropped to last place,
nut later on they got on a big winning
freak, came to the front and ended by !
laying Baltimore for the Temple cup. {
n a horse race they do not pay on at
he head OF the stretch. The Reds have
ot played nearly half their games on ! j
he home grounds. and some great !
hanges may be looked for within the :
ext two or three months
Looking over all the major league I
cams one finds 1t impossible to discover 3
better outfield than that of the Boston Ia
led Sox. In hitting, base running.
hrowing. and covering ground Lewis,
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