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Show NCfYS AMD GOS5IPor BASEBALbFANS Johnny Elvers is Making Good. Among the Chicago players who received re-ceived their first introduction to . league company this year is Johnny Evers, who is guarding the second Tag for the Colts. The critics in the Windy City have been saying all kinds of pleasant things about this youngster, young-ster, who was one of the star infielders ot the Troy club in the New York State League last season. Evers is a Seuth Troy boy and is 23 years of age. Ho first started out as a catcher but later became an infielder, doing brilliant work for the Troy nine at shortstop. Evers has been fielding and Pitcher Nick Altrock has gone to Bramwell, W. Va., to pick up a little easy money. The ex-Athlete shortstop, Fred Ely, may manage the Portland "outlaw" league" club. In all probability Manager Armour will now work Gus Dorner regularly upon the slab. Up to June 3 "Socks" Seybold has made sixteen doubles, two triplets and three home runs. Mai Eason got an awful belting from the Browns June 2. He does hate to be hit hard, too. George Davis plays occasionally with the Woonsocket (R. I.) "Gyms" for a tidy retainer per game. Jack O'Connor has been fined $25 by President Johnson for kicking and being be-ing put out of a game in the recent series with the Bostons. 'Tis said that Charles Augustus Co-miskey Co-miskey has promised to turn Lee Tannehill back to Louisville the moment mo-ment George Davis reports. Jesse Burkett hit safely in seventeen seven-teen of the eighteen games up to June 4. In the game he missed getting a safety he was at bat but once, drawing draw-ing three bases on balls. ' Strange as it may seem, the Washington Wash-ington team was as good a drawing attraction at-traction on the recent Western trip as any of the other Eastern teams. JOHNTTY EVEPS bitting like a veteran leaguer since he joined the Chicagos. His batting average for the first 24 games he played is 315. Tim Murnane's Predictions. Cleveland is the only one of the sixteen six-teen major league teams that I have not seen at work this season, writes Tim Murnane, and that team being little changed from last year I think I have a pretty fair line on the bunch in both leagues. I still like the Philadelphia boys for the American League championship. To win a championship the manager jmust know the temper of his oppon- -fy -nts, and b "ZZ- fr 8 sltsnw t iff" times and reverse the system of play when some club has mapped out a strong defense. Bill Reid, the old Harvard catcher, once said: "I could write many interesting things about college baseball, but I seldom take a chance of that kind for fear that I might in some way reveal our secret about stopping Yale's hit and run game." The club made big money on the trip. American Association News. Minneapolis is drawing better than any other city in the Association circuit. cir-cuit. George Tebeau was in Philadelphia last week looking for players. He secured se-cured Infielder Brashear. Minneapolis is now coming with a rush and promises to be right up In the running in a few more series. President Gear is making plans for putting in a thorough system of tiling at Association park in Kansas City. Pitcher Claude Elliott has improved about .7.- per eel using a slow ball witn his Manager Leonard of Columbus believes be-lieves that the team-reduction rule Is needless, and that team managers should be permitted to be the best judges of their own necessities. The fans of Minneapolis must not lose sight of the fact that the man accent on the "the" who was re- iitijUi Miiii There is nothing like having something some-thing on the other fellows, but, if clever, the other chaps will fathom your secret and turn it against you. The Chicago Americans are up to all the tricks of the trade, and will win many games by good head work, but they are too weak ia the infield to win the first j rize. The game is getting to be more of a gamble each year, for it takes the winner to get the money, and there is a lot of luck in picking up young talent. Even the minor league men are scouring the country from Maine to California for players, and the independent in-dependent clubs can often outbid the strong minor league clubs for players who care to take a chance. This makes it hard for the small clubs, who must remain at a certain limit, to live and pay expenses, andthe man anxious to remain in ball tied to a minor league loser for more than one year has yet to appear. National League Notes. fvyrr lee Pitcher of the Washington American League Club. sponsible for licking the Minneapolis team into shape was Walter Wilmot. George Tebeau writes that he has gone over the Association circuit, as well as the Western circuits of the National and American leagues, and that good ball players are not to be had at any price. v In the Three-Eye League. Cedar Rapids has a new catcher in Ryan. Decatur has a new first baseman in George Kuhn of Green Bay, Wis. Rock Island signed Pitcher Hoag the instant he was released by Joliet Pitcher John Desmond has been released re-leased by Decatur and signed by Dubuque. Du-buque. The Rock Island club has decided to farm Pitcher Clark to the Waterloo (Ia.) club. The work of Hess at short for the Rockford team is bringing all kinds of praise to that young man. Rockford has taken on Bert Hull, who played on the Illinois university team last season, and is using him in the outfield. Jacobson, the Decatur left-hander, sustained his first defeat May 28, and that, too, in a game in which he struck out fifteen men. Dubuque turned the trick. Chicago critics say that Joe Tinker is worth two Dahlens. St. Louis has released and Pittsburg Pitts-burg has signed catcher Weaver. Manager . Hanlon has offered to trade Sammy Strang for Elberfeld. Mathewson and McGinnity are fairly fair-ly invincible on their own grounds. Dick HaHey can paste the ball for keeps when a shaky pitcher is up before be-fore him. Ed Abbaticchio is playing- a great game at second for Buckenberger's Bostonites. Tenney does far less kicking now as Boston's captain than when he was a mere private. Mike O'Neill of St. Louis is suffering suffer-ing from a sore arm, and to that is attributed his recent defeats. Pitcher Milton, whom Pat Donovan offered to Cincinnati and Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, is doing well for Omaha. American League Notes. Monte Cross is certainly a wonder. Pitcher Gibson has made good and Jimmy Collins is happy. Buck Freeman is going after the tionie run honors again. Outfielder Hemphill of St. Louis is Jaid up with a bad ankle. Washington critics object to the benching (t "Ducky" Holmet. |