Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-28
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

Brooklyn has asked an option on Cram
err and Giddo. the crack battery Of the
| Frankfort team Of the Blue Grass.
Sammy Strang Nicklin has returned
| from Paris, bringing his cultivated voice
| with him. and recently showed up at the
| Polo Grounds and took workout with
| the Giants.
Names, first baSeman, released by Fort
| Worth, has signed with the Huntsville
team of the Southeastern League. Jack
Reidy is also a new player with the
Huntsville team.
Pitcher George Hogan. who was with
| the Cincinnati team of the United states
| League. joined Lexington in the Blue
Grass after the blowup.
Pitcher Weiser DELL the big pitcher sent
| by the St. Louis Cardinals to Butte for
development. seems to be coming on fast
He recently held Ogden to one hit. In
steadiness marred his game. however.
Clark Griffith is quoted on both sides of
the Sunday ball question as II concerns
Washington, but there Is no doubt Wash
ington fans just now at least want Sun
day ball. In fact they would like to
watch the team play double headers
seven days a week.-Sporting News.
Tommy Mcmillan, having finished his
school term at the University of South
Carolina, has rejoined Charlotte In the
Carolina Association. He graduated this
year In the Caroiinas he is regarded as
one Of the greatest college players turned
out in the south.
Pratt and Smith, the two Southern
League stars. who tied for batting hon
ors in their circuit last year. are running
fairly well together this year, Pratt with
/ ST. Louis in the American and Smith with
Brooklyn in the National. Though Pratt
leads Smith with the stick, the latter has
his rival bested in fielding.
President Fitzgerald recently fined the
London club Of the Canadian League 800
regulations allowed. London threatened
to Strike" but the league directors up
held the presidents action and London
backed up. The 5000 was divided between
four clubs that were victims Of the Lon
don pass liberality.
This seems to be the open season for
rebuilding ball teams in the American
League. Four managers have threatened
to clean house. Stovall. Jennings. Davis
and Wolverton are searching for new
players and gradually letting veterans
go. These four clubs are booked to finish
in the second division this season. but at
any rate all four leaders are making
desperate efforts to get their teams into
shape.
Sammy White. the Princeton bright
star, who has been on the point Of join
ing several teams, with Baltimore making
the most definite claim to his services, now
Announces that he is going to join none
OF them. but that he will go into bust
ness Baltimore claims to have his con-
tract tucked away in the Office safe to
spring on him any time he changes his
mind again.
In spite OF his successes as a minor
league manager. Cliff Blankenship Of the
Missoula team Of the Union Association,
is firing of the job and he has confessed
to friends in San Francisco that unless
something better turns up for him next
year he will retire from the game. His
wife, who is the granddaughter Of
recently inherited a fifty-thousand-dollar
fruit ranch in Sonoma county. Cal, and
Rlankenship is planning the running Of
this ranch.
President Charles Ebbets now has his
scouts looking for a right-handed batter
for the outfleld. A surplus Of southpaw
stickers has made the club q mark for
left-handed pitchers all season, and OPP
posing clubs have sent their left-handers
against Dahlen's Prides with successful
regularity.
The United States League has taken its
hat out Of the ring and the various NOV
ers In its organization are now searching
for a suitable epitaph. The last game
was played in Pittsburgh Sunday be-
tween teams Of that city and Chicago. It
is stated that the league will be launched
again next spring.
Connie Mack is finding the present race
in the American League a good deal
closer and harder to figure than he and
most other people thought 1t would be.
He plans yet to jam the Athletics into
year he will know his club has been play
ing some base ball.-New York Sun.
Hal Chase has been q big sad disap-
pointment to the fans this season. He is
batting about 100 points under the aver
age he maintained last season. His field
ing has not been up to the Chase stand
ard. and he has ceased to be considered
the premier first sacker. 1t is upon these
facts that many fans claim Chase is not
giving the team his best efforts. Chase
is the kind of player who likes to work
with loser, they argue
Chick Gandil is riding the crest OF
wave Of popularity. Fresh from the
minors. this boy has been playing a
tionals and showing real class. Wash
ington fans declare he is the best first
sacker in the league now, and Hal
Chase and McInnes are still working
on the Johnson circuit. Gandil has
made good SO far and Grin has every
reason to think he has acquired q star
bali player.-New York Sun.