Evening journal., 1913-05-19
On The Base Lines
Sporting Gossip and Com
menlon Plays and Players
Let's Get
Acquainted

/ IL ANN~A - 80
On the road
Cockll Heckert, ct al. have been
remarking, "wait until those Chicks
hit the road" Well, they've hit.
Watch them.
Harrisburg and York see the boys
until Thursday night The Friday
Allentown game will be played there.
The Trenton Wilmington games,
scheduled az Wilmington on Monday
and Tuesday, have been transferred
to Trenton.
The weeks records show few
more Chicks batting above 800.
Lefty Russell and his brother. Al
len, are about the biggest pair in
this old league just now.
Rain knocked out the All-wilming-
ton and Church League schedules.
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ayers are talking Of moving the
schedule up one game to prevent
the double headers.
The cartoonist was kind to Jimmy
Jackson's Chicks. Boosts like that
ought to put life into this baseball
village.
NAut a.
may be appreciated upon their re-
turn home on Friday.
Bert Conn has signed a Trenton boy
named Heist TO play second Vandine
also will play third hereafter. Tren-
tons latest twirler Is Billy Sutclife,
of the q. S. Reading Club.
Those who have a sympathetic
nature needn't waste any Of It on the
veterans this year They're getting
along quite. we'll. thank you. Lajoie,
of the Maps. is batting $50 in his
eighteenth year in fast company;
Honus Wagner. OF the Pirates is
ciouting at a 800 rate: Christy Mat
hewson, the "old master" has won
six out of seven starts this year. and
Eddie Plank. of the Athletics, who has
heon pitching since the Civil war, Is
among the leading pitchers.
The most remarkable triple play
ever executed on a ball field was
credited TO the Athletics yesterday,
when six men, including an outielder
took part in il.
Speaking Of automobiles. the Reds
have a Packard and the White Sox a
Benz-
The Dodgers are batting like iends.
having averaged close TO ten hits and
six runs per game during the past
week
II might be we'll to keep your eye
on the Red Sox The old machine is
working better than il has beon at
+, any time this season and another
month may see them within hailing
. distance Of the top, even though they
are far behind the Athletics now.
The boy sat on the upper eek,
And he was full of woe
One peddler trod upon his neck,
Another on his toe.
Bill Locke. Of Philadelphia, is
building half a dozer new booths to
supply the demand for tickets. BIZ
is the gent who says baseball is a
losing proposition.
Jim Thorpe. in last Tuesdays
game. ran from second 10 third, a
distance Of 90 feet and earned a
months salary Conundrum. At that
rate per foot, how much would he get
for running a Marathon?
Pitching feats have been a feature
OF the week in the American League
Walter Johnson's scoreless record
, was broken into by ST. Louis only af-
, ter sc consecutive innings that had
; been unproductive of tallies for his
. opponents. He registered his ninth
victory Of the season yesterday and
o has yet to lose game. Falkenberg
of Cleveland has won seven and
droped none A fine performance was
that OF Fisher Of the Highlanders
against Cleveland last Wednesday
= when he only allowed FIVE hits in q
! l5-inning tie game.
y Ed Walsh's performance of yester
y day against New York showed tha
g he was back for duty in his old form
u and with this moist ball premier go
-5 ing well and several other twirleri
displaying marked effectiveness I'M
V White Sox are well fortified in th'
box. The Red Sox pitchers are sgl
Laying. but the club is making som
headway out of the ruck. The las
four days have shown New York &
be without twirler who could real
ly depended on.
Umpire Hayes Of Newark, n. j., ma
be furnished with a guard today
he wants il, following the demonstrs
ton during the game with Rocheste
yesterday, when he and his dressin
room windows became in turn II