Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-10
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

Heinie Zimmerman won ball game
by stealing home. thus making tickle
Chicago fans forget the times he lost
them by trying to steal third with the
| bases full.
Harry Parent, former ball player and
later umpire in the Michigan State and
western leagues. was kille5 in a fall
from roller coaster car in Detroit
| June Is. Parent umpired in the West
ern League in 1913, 1914 and 1915, but
| did not go out this year.
John McGraw came out with an alibi
| for poor hitting of his Giants at home. |
saying the shadows of the Polo
Grounds stands made 1t difficult to see
the ball And the same day the Cubs
| hit John McGraw's pitchers for eigh-
| teen swats. If John McGraw has an
other alibi he should spring it quick.
The body of Johnny Dodge, the Mo-.
PIE tnird oaseman, killed by pitched
ball, was buried at Louisville, KY, |
where his sister and grandmother, his |
only close relatives. live. Though Tom
Rogers, the Nashville twirler who
pitched the ball that killed Dodge, is
| held blameless for the accident it is
| said that it will result in new lesis-
!ation against quick returns and bean
| balls.
They have tried to marry off Hans
Wagner again-something the news
paper men do ever SO often-but Hans
himself says it's a bald lie and that he
Ball players will grab rifles and go
| to war If Gen. Funston puts the jumps
| in front of them.
| Among the players released the other
day by a Detroit base ball organiza-
ton was A. Herzog. which was the
| first intelligence that base ball had of
| a Herzog other than the HerZog.
The Vernon club has put a price of
$1,000 on the contract of Swede Ris-
berg. with the proviso that the club
which buys him must let him finish
the present season with Vernon. The
Chicago White Sox and the ST Louis
Cardinals both have been after the
coast star. but it is suspected that the
White sox have the inside track
Refuting the theory that golf and
American League best hitter and out
| fielder. plays golf every day on the
| Mayfeld course when he's at home, and
Bob Shawkey. one of the American
Leagues best pitchers. plays every
| time he gets the chance.
In the eighteen Inning Oakland-San
| Francisco game the morning of June
| iooSH, pitching IOT oakland, Uld not
: allow hit until the twelfth inning
He gave way for a pinch hitter in the
seventeenth and Beer. who pitched the
eighteenth round, gets credit for the
| victory, SO they say. And then they
talk about the fairness of crediting vic
| tories and defeats.
| On the strength of seventeen consecu-
| tive victories the impression began to
| creep about that the Giants were in
| vincihle hnf since then NJ hav
| happened showing that feeling may
| have been a trif1e intense.
An exploring party has gone to Alas
| ka to photograph wild animals, thus
neglecting a better field nearer home
| Between bad weather and unexpected
defeats. photographs of some ten or
twelve big league managers would
| show the widest animals.
| Leslie Nunamaker of the Yankees
| says Foster did not throw a curve ball
| in that no-hit game. Which, if true.
| is remarkable. He employed change of
pace. Nunamaker says. and the Yanks
| ruined their chances to hit by regard
| ing the pitching as easy and trying to
slam the ball too hard.
1t developed last week that the Pitts
burgh club had secured waivers on |
First Baseman Doc Johnston, though |
| no deal for his transfer to the minors |
seems to have been completed. 1t is |
| the plan of Manager Callahan, accord
| ing to reports, to put Hans Wagner on !
, first base Johnston has not been hit |
ting at all this season. though he is as |!
fast as ever in his fielding.
The New York Yankees have a pitch
ing prospect under cover who will be
wonder. according to Frank Baker His
name is Jack Enright, and he pitched in
Pennsylvania independent circles last
RefOra that he hal writ y,
a college team at Chestertown, Md
Manager Donovan has sent him to New
ark of the international League for
seasoning.
The wisdom of giving Grover Alexan-
der rest was shown in his game
against Pittsburgh. his first appearance
on the mound in ten days. when he
pitched one of the greatest games of his
career. Until two men were out in the
ninth only two Pirates had reached first
base on him. 1t is said by Philadelphia
scribes that he probably made a record
In a recent New York-Boston game
Johnny Evers pulled relay throw to
first. The ball was hit to Evers. He
tossed it to Maranville. and the short
stop made the throw to first getting
Schauer, the batter Evers says he did
it to save his arm, but Johnny McGraw
said the Trojan was trying to show
up one of his players and he actually |
kicked to the umpires about it.
Manager Herzog of the Reds is in bad
with the wives of his players. He has
issued orders that hereafter no woman
folks shall be taken on road trips Too
much gaddng about when wiley is
along is the reason given and too many
alibis for getting in late, the player L
always making the excuse that the Mrs
lust wouldn't come home as long as II
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garden.
Here's an interesting bit of CONVERSE
ton in connection with the recent in
Jury Of Alex Mccarthy of the Cubs. 1t
was Max Carey who spiked him and it I,
was some spiking. The two players had
q dinner date that night, and they kept
lit, too. in spite Of the accident OF the
afternoon. All of which shows that
cutting q man down is just part Of the
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