Evening star., 1915-04-29
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

May Is will be woman suffrage day
at the Polo Grounds. Tho suffra gists
have taken the whole upper tier Of the
grandstand for that day.
The Phillies are trying the squeeze
often and successfully more times than
not. Pat Moran, the field marshal, who
Just now is tearing things UP. seems to
be enamored with the play. Byrne is
his handspring at putting it through
The Pirates" says one who has seen
them in action. ARE a club which may
That is an opportunity not denied to
any one of the seven other clubs.
Only six or seven weeks moro, and
we shall begin to have some depend
able opinion OF the strength Of the
various clubs in the arena and the
various new players Forming any sort
OF an opinion this early is leaning on
a frail reed
A few former Giants who are still
doddering along and occasionally CIV
Gowdy. Rudolph. Becker. Demaree,
Bescher. Ames. Groh and Herzog.
Tom Mcclure, Federal League pitch
er last season. has decided to give up
the diamond for the typewriter. He has
accepted q position with a newspaper
about to be started at Prince George,
ball. If there is any.
Pitcher Byron Houck. who quit or
ganized ball to Join the BROOKLYN Fed.-
claims to have signed for two years
but the Brooklyn club has dropped
MIN, or Is trying to. Houck, however.
says he Is going to report to the club
and demand that 1t live up to its con.
tract with him.
Coach Hugo Bezdek Of tho University
OF oregon, was SO peeved at his team
losing couple OF games through over
commence that he recently made them
practice in downpour Of rain. with
the diamond a sea Of mud.
Pitcher Bowman Of tho University ~
Alabama. twirlsd ono Of tho best raines
seen in southern collegiate ranks thi.
season when he shut out Georgia with
two scratch hits and struck out stxteen
men at Athena. Ga. April 18.
Yale's nne showing on it, southern
trip has convinced the followers Of n.
Blue that the team will win the east
a,, ern shampionship-wIth en- mp eonsistent
has q finely balanced team. but it,
pitching 10 Of uncertain quantity.
Dous1ss. the Tigers. nrst bassman, is
drives The West Point boy nn1run haa s,Hn
teen last season. while the Prinoetonfan
has gathered three in the past week
One OF Douglas drives was made
gainst the New York American Lea que
club.
Pitcher Bailey OF Texas University. a
brother OF Bill Bailey. the former ma
tor league pitcher, struck out dfteen
Howard Payne College batsmen April
8 at Austin Tex. He won hia game.
to o, despite the fact that his team
mates secured only two hits Off Pitcher
Wooden.
Tho grand pitching OF link of Princo-
ton spells trouble for the big eastern
colleges. With Bill Clarke, the major
league veteran. as his tutor this lad
has improved in remarkable manner
and seems destined to carry his name
at the top of the list of great Prince
ton twfrlers.
Manager Stallings, In his upoues-
toned wisdom and Judgment. NAV mot
retain Luque. the Cuban twirler. as a
Brave pitcher this season. But his
work. judging merely from the box
score fgures-freQuent1y misleading, it
Is true-has certainly been par excel
lenoe in the past games-New York
Tribune.
Here may be the real reason why
Judge Lands hasn't handed down his
decision in the suit against organized
ball: AS receiver the judge is running
twenty-seven saloons. formerly operat-
cd by q brewery concern. now insolv-
ent. Any man who II in charge of
twenty.eoven saloons has his hands
full-Bo0ton Herald