Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-20
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

Il look to see the Athletics win the
| pennant," says Stovall. George also looks
| to see cold weather next winter
The breaks of the game compose a
gllttering generality which covers a null
| tltude of shortcomings.
| The trouble with a good many dia-
monds in the rough in base ball is that
| they stay rough.
cincinnati needs another Benton. The
Reds last three victories have been as
far apart as the Rubes appearance in
the box.
Most of these topnotch hitters of the
present age strike out oftener in a week
than Willie Keller used to in season.
Harold Chase has been welding the
stick we'll since he became a White Sox.
His average for the first seven games
was $40
Peckinpaugh hasn't maintained his
hitting since he was advanced FIVE num-
bers in the batting order.
The most troublesome hitter of the De-
troits in the New York series was not
Crawford or Cobb but Gainor Cobb
shone as fielder rather than as bat
ter.
Somebody asked Joe Wood if he con-
sldered speed his best asset. Yes" re-
piled the Smoky One. II think IT'S best
to throw the ball past them
If. as has been stated by eminent au-
thorities. beating the Pirates means win
ming the pennant. then there is likely to
be cluster of clubs finishing first.
These sideshow games of the Giants
not without their aVpnfful dayo1nn.
ments. In one the club ran the chance
of fat fine. In the other Merkle was
beaned with a mask by an Jump.
since restored to a regular berth. He
has hit safely in every one of the twelve
games in the west and for that period
is batting well over 400.
The Clevelands in the east made a
poor stab toward gaining on the Ath-
let1cs They began with flourish by
beating the New Yorks four straight,
but went bad after that and lost eight
out of the fifteen games on the seaboard.
Wichita Falls in the Texas Oklahoma
League has sold Pitcher Robert Myers to
New Orleans of the Southern League. In
April he pitched no-hit game against
TeXarkana.
Catcher Lavigne go to Lynn to keep in
the salary limit. but that he still holds
claim to him and will come in for any
money that may accrue from sale of
the catcher.
Check another minor league manager
who has been given the can degree be-
cause he could not win. He is the vet
eran, George Needham, who has been re-
leased by Charleston of the South At
lantic League. Catcher Gould Menefee
succeeds to his woes temporarily. Charles
ton has also released Horace Milan. the
kid brother of Clyde Milan of Washing
ton Young Milan was given a looking
over by Clark Griffith of Washington in
the spring and then sent to a Virginia
League club. Later he returned to Crit
fifth, declaring he had been let out in Vir-
glnla because everybody had it in for
him. Griffith then got him the Charleston
job.
Ty Cobb and Carl Zamloch of the De-
troit Tigers will conduct base ball team
Of big leaguers through California and
other parts of the west, If plans that are
at present in the embryo stage are car
red out. Just who will make up the per-
sonnet of the expedition has not been de-
cided upon, but 1t is planned to get as
many native sons as possible to surround
Cobb, who is the big hero of base ball in
the west the same as he is in the east.
In the west they have had to worship Ty
from afar, and according to Zamloch,
are daft to part with their real western
gold to see the greatest of them all in &C
ton. Zamloch has managed teams that
played the smaller cities of California in
years past, so that he has had experience
along that line and knows about how to
conduct the business affairs of club such
as he would have en- route.