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First Games of ‘he ‘National League SWING UP THE AWELYE CLUBS Cincinnati Looks to Be the Pen- nant Winner. BOSTON IN SECOND PLACE Next Friday the first game of the Na- tional League for 1898 will be played, weather permitting, and with the opening of the season so near at hand the usual “sizing” up of the twelve clubs composing the major organization is about due. From a Washington standpoint the prospects for a successful season have never looked more promising, the war scare being the only cloud on the horizon. In discussing the rela- tive strength of the different clubs in the Na- tional League the different base ball writ- ers generally select their home club for pennant honors, and thereby weaken their arguments, For this reason Washington aewspaper men are unbiased, as the Sen- ators are just a few chips shy of being champions, but we have hopes, and the na- tional game is so uncertain that we may have these gay expectations crystallize into good, hard facts. The Senators can be put in fourth place. They have big chances of going higher and cannot slip below that position. The pitch- ing staff of the Washington club has all the earmarks of being extremely strong in Mercer, Amole, Weyhing, Dinneen and Donovan, while the catching staff is the best in the big league. ‘The strength be- hind the bat will prove a larger factor in winning games than many people, who do not read the game between the lines, can imagine. Mercer and Weyhing do not need the headwork of our great trio of catchers, but the other members of the pitching corps are young, and while their work was exceptionally good last season, they did not have the support, both behind the bat and in the field, that they will get from the Senators the coming season. Take Dinneen as an example. He has all the curves in a pitcher's repertoire; good speed, and a cool, shrewd head on_ his shoulders. With Farrell or McGuire back- ing him up and knowing all the batters as they step to the plate, it is almost a fore- gone conclusion that the slugger will have a hard time placing the ball safe. Amole nad good coaching from Robinson of the Baltimores, but his stay within the Oriole camp was short, and Farrell and McGuire will continue his instructions. Hestlwork will play a prominent part in the Senators’ games the coming season and will land them many victories. Looking the Wash- ington players over critically, it will be noticed that there is not a dullard among them. In the matter of base running, field- ing and playing the game between the lines it is believed that there is not a stronger aggregation in the National than our own Senators. Their ‘ht weakness in batting and pitching, as mpared with three other clubs, will about land them fourth. . The club that will carry the champion- ship banner next fall looks very much like the Cincinnatis. Manager Ewing has been building up that team for the past three years, every season getting better, and it looks as if he had'abont plugged up every weak point developed in the aggrezation last year. Other clubs have been strength- ened since last fall, but none so much as the Ewingites. Their infield belongs to the old class styled as’ “stonewalls,” the Bos- ton four being the only quartet of infielders that are in their class. Their outfield has been strengthened in every way. It is stronger with the bat, better in the field and on the bases,'and.the letting out of Hoy will help the ichib. No matter how gcod a nan Hoy may be, he bothered the other men on the-teant on account of his disabilities. The felders on both sides of him have admitted-they were afraid of col- lisions, and tn, the matter of quick change in signals many shrewd plays were lost. Behind the box the club will do very well, but in the pitcher's, position the Cincinnati club has been wonderfully strengthened. With the backing the Red Legs will give him, Hawley will win 75 per cent of his games, if not more. Hill should prove a wonder, and everybody knows what Brei- tenstein and Dwyer can do. As a utility player Steinfeldt gives promise of being a wonder an@ McFarland and Holliday in the same capacity fortify the club all around. For second place the Boston club has the best chance. The Beaneaters will fall short of first place, but by a very narrow margin, so small, in fact, that luck will play an important factor. Boston has been basking in the sunshine of the lucky god- dess for some years, and it looks as if Cin- cinnati is due for a little of this encourage- ment the coming season, just enough to en- able it to land the flag. Nichols, of course, will be signed at his price, as without him the club gets out of the class of probabili- ties. Manager Joyce's New_York aggregation should get third place. Many writers have tipped this club off for championship hon- ors, but the old fault of a poor start will handicap them. Around about the first of July the Giants will hardly be in the first column, but when they commence to climb they will forge to the front with their usual rapidity. First place will be within hailing distance, but two strong propositions, Cin- cinnat! and Boston, will head them off, and the games lost at the start-off will look like Mountains. Joyce’s pitching staff is won- derfully strong, and without it the aggre- gation slips back to almost an equality with St. Louis. Give the Cincinnati club the New York twirlers and the Red Legs would never be headed from the start to the finish of the season. The fifth place in the championship race belongs to the Clevelands. Manager Te- beau can talk championship prospects ali he has a mind to, but the Indians look weaker as the seasons flit by. Cuppy is out of it; his arm will have to be given a year's rest, which leaves Young as the main standby. Young is not a Rusie and will not improve; in fact, he looks as if he is due for a slip backward. With the Brush resolution enforced, considerable of Cleveland's strength is taken away, as the aggregation will have to play clean ball and lose many games through trying to be gentlemen on the ball field. In placing the clubs, the question of just how big a slump the Baltimore club will take the coming season is a hard one to solve. Discord has broken out in the ranks, worse, in fact, than last year, and the dis- contented men are so good in their posi- tions that they cannot be replaced. The breaking up of the great infield of last season will prove another extremely hard handicap to overcome. Another defect that will show itself before the season is a month old is the loss of Jack Doyle. Bou- quets are not thrown at Jack because he is a Senator this year, but simply at his personality. The |Oriele aggregation at three distinct times last season gave all the indications of quitting, but the ener- getic, indomitable will,of Jack Doyle kept them down to the grindstone, so that they got the Temple cup se: and lost the flag by an eyelash. The ecru f department will be weakened, nson is thinking seriously of quitting the ZBame and signed this season only atthe earnest request of Manager Hanlon. ,Robby knows his base ball days are numbe: and he would like to quit at a time when he ts classed as a first-rater. The club will not finish higher than sixth, and may gova great deal lower. Ro 2 Brooklyn should. Es in_the seventh is timore out of the leal of Brookl; place, and may sixth position. A iccess: Is Local College Athletics. A series consisting of three match races | Jecided ‘The Catholic University base ball has been arranged between George W- | tg now at Norfolk, where they went to play against als. Orton, formerly of the University of Penn- sylvania and Theodore McGirr, formerly of Georgetown, the first to oceur at George- town May 7, the second at New York at the games of the N. ¥, A C., on May 30, the Norfolk, expected to return to the Scie “Want” ads. in The Star they bring answers, a Coat sity —————— and the third at a place and time to be ‘univer- seventh place. The new men from St. Louis will not strengthen the club a@ little bit, and Delehanty and Lajoie cannot play the entire game themselves. The entire outfit, with these two exceptions, is a body of headless players, hitting and fielding the ball like fiends when things are coming their way, but quitting like the yellowest canine when a grueling fight is on their hands. - ‘Ths Phillies shoald keep their weather eve on the club located at the western end of the state, Billy Watkins’ Pittsburg Pi- rates. It is all guesswork with this club. On paper the smoky city club loo! oe fully weak, but not more so than the Ba timore club did four years ago. Watkin: Pitcher Amole, has had great experience with championstip clubs, and he may prophets by the champ van and Davi . but this def« through a blind following of Watkins directions. There droves of players who can perform wonderful work under instructions, handling kill off the ay up on side of Dono- ation looks head- y turn out a The St. Lou da t three pos i z to the Chicago and 1 with the St. Louis club a favo: for tenth place. The cago ¢ is in a bad ition. If Anson secures the reins of control he will have to o ize almost a new club, while the players under Tom Burns have already Tim Hurst win more started in to do as they pled will keep his men at work and but the Browns’ in y weak. The Louis- ncy look worse than iast year, and that is saying a great deal. One of the new Senators the thousands of local Amole,-a striking liken companies this article. Amole be professioval career as a base with the Wilmington, Del., His work was of such ho will please is “Doc” of whom ac- Hanlon of Baltimore having a large staff of farmed out to the Re several months at the season. The run of hard ‘luck that over- took the Orioles, in the matter of sickness and injuries on the field, compelled the Baltimore manager to recall “Doc,” and his work was so good that he finished the season in Baltimore. When the trade of McJames, DeMontreville and McGann for the three Baltimore players was first broached, Manager Hanlon offered Mr. Wagner the pick of either Nopps or Amole, and the Washington magnate selected the latter. He has the better of Nopps in bat-. ting and watching the bases, to say noth- ing of a physique that will outlast the Baltimore southpaw by several years, bar- ring unlooked-for accidents. Amole hails from Pottsville, Pa. He played with ama- teur and semi-professonal clubs around bis home in his earlier days, having handled a ball from childhood. Amole is a wiiling worker and can be counted on to pitch two good games a week, and in a pinch even more. Warm weather is not :1eces- sary in his case, and it is expected that several of his best games will be pitched during the month of May. Albert Mott, the Baltimore correspond- ent of Sporting Life, has the following paragraphs in this week's paper that should interest the Washington “fans:” Doyle is with Washington. Jack Saun- ders wanted him for Louisville, and he will be awfully disappointed. Jack will have just about time to teach those Washing- ton boys how to play ball, if they can be taught. If they cannot Jack will have them enlisted, and on the way to Cuba by the time the Season opens. Our McJames has not started out well as a pitcher. Wonder how Washington's Amole is doing? All our people will be watching the early part of the season, in curiosity to learn how that famous trade ts to pan out. DeMontreville is not making hash'ef the bali, but he {s known as a good batter, y. He appears to be fielding ali The practice that the Senators have gone through with so far this season clear- ly demonstraies that there will not be a backward player when the season starts next Friday. The older men of the team can be said to be in the “pink of condi- tion,” Capt. Brown's stitch in the side having disappeared completely, while Wey- hing and Mercer have come around ail right. Of the younger group of Senate the greatest improvement over last y. can already be noticed. Gettman has more confidence in himself, and, while batting well, handles himself in the field in a way that makes it a pleasure to look at. Wrig- ley is also playing with more confidence, both at the bat and in the field, and should materially improve over last season's work, when he played almost every position on the team. Tommy: Leahy has been holding down second in recent games and doing it well, although, of course, he is not a Reitz. Tommy still has nis batting eye with him, and this ability strengthens his hold with the local management. The three or four bad days in the early part of the week were unfortunate, but did not throw the men back the least. Should the cool weather continue into the regular season those clubs that went away down south will be the most seriously handicapped. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Chi- cago, the four clubs that journeyed to the extreme south for spring practice, have not set the base ball word afire with the game put up against strong opposition clubs, and, with the exception of the Red Legs, have yet to demonstrate that their Ted Sullivan, the manager of the Du- buque, Iowa, team, has decided to let out Clarence Proctor, the young local player who has been practicing at the park with the Senators. Proctor received a letter from Ted during the week saying he woy!d send for him later on. statement is tanta- mount to a release, and all the profession- als in te city are willing to wager con- siderable money that Proctor is a better ee )Mertz’sCongress > ’Tooth Brushes, ¢ 25 cents coming player, he has yet a consideralio distance come before getting in.» the Natfonal Glass. O'Hare was se- lected by many wiseacres lad) fall as a coming player, but hiv work this spring has been woefully weak, both in the Geld and at thy oat. Brodie or Harry Davis ikely supplant him in the Pi- garden. PLAYED FAST BALL. —are the best Te 4 / e and the maki s in, or we give you a new t ‘) A Vv ‘ i jors Hit Hard, Fielded Well Were Quick on Bases. The weather yesterda ‘ternoon at Na- tional Park was pleasanter than for the last week, and as a result quite a large gathering of spectators was on hand to witness the game between the Montreal and Washington clubs, the letter winning by 16 to 6 The Senators hammered the ball hard, making 18 hits, and off of this umber of ‘safeties 16 runs were scored. ‘this aptly illustrates the difference be- tween the team of last year and this se . son's aggregation. All manner of chances | / were taken on the bases by the Senators, | /) The Senst a ‘The brush at 25 cents ts the or peer of any brush at any Price nothing ; Lasting the men being very quick on their feet an. | aac getting every base possible out of a nit or | Sack 4 misplay. ) 4 Captain Tom Brown led the team at the | \ 5eh bc. eal ios Soeil bat with three singles and a double, two |) 25S 50C- and $1.0 ttle, of the hits being to the infield, which the |S x captain again beat out in his well-known | ( speedy style. Selbach, tman » x Myei 3 and Wrigi¢ d two its | ( a "fe nd ail were of the clcan, snappy | > 1 lertz’s x order. Outside of Wrigley, the Senators | ( put tp a perfect fielding gam: Jos- | 7) hy > 4 Seeker erie -se1Q Modern Pharmacy, ators’ short stop ha such | a ‘ briiliant ball the past week up-up | X llth and F Sts. will do him good, as it looked as if he | /) 4, » couldn't miss anything eth r eS ee Jake Gettman made a play in the sixth | ——— 7 inning that will be talked about for some | S¢@@@GG60¢@¢eq00GCCc00C00G0-9 months by the “fans” wao were lucky enough to see the play executed. Elsey hit a line fly to right center that had all th ear-marks of be! for two or three ases. Captain Bre n playing j over toward left center, and, seeing that he could not reach it, 3 Fettman | to take the ball. Jake started after the sphere with all sail set, and just as the ball was shooting by him about a foot from soe and ground he shot out his right hand, the ball stuck to his glove like sealing wax. The contact of the b ly threw the right fielder off his feet was bent almost double, but he self nicely, and siands as the he hat wi » duplicated more than once at Na 5 : The Montre ment and ’ does not look to be as strong “A Word to the W ise. You cannot afford to buy a bicycle without examining our line. There is a tendency ester team that played here Thu want of practice no doubt accounting for , we the loose play. The men seemed to be to cheapen quality in most able to handle the ball when once they got : 3 hands on it, but they were slow when bicycles to compete with hould Lave been fast and ov when they should have been de . sorly ade ate. The more prominent of the players cheap and poorly made are Bannon, the ex-Giant; , the ex- 4 Cleveland boy, wheels. who can hit as our own ey; , the third baseman, who has been No so with Columbias. for fast company the past three and Elsey, the th s spring w the } Prices Guaranteed. The Canadians have had litt far this spring, and will no © of holding their own in the ern League by the time th John Heydler umpired another good game B evel 1898 Columbia and lost but few points in the conte: G inless. ......$125 John is getting his eyes in good trim by xear Chainless > these practice games, and wiil no doubt ~ . . be in good form for the first game next 1898 Columbia Chain Friday. The Senators and Montreal line up again at National Park this after- noon at 4:15, and as the weather is get- ting warmer a good-sized crowd will doubt- less turn out to see the contest. The Senators will go to Richmond for a game next Monday with the club represent- ing that city in the Atlantic League. The Washington boys will leave home Sunday night, the outfit having a spick and span appearance on account of their grips and clothes being just out of the shop. The Virginia blucbirds are a fast combination this season, and with the advantage of a home umpire the Senators will be doing themselves proud to pull off a victory. teams will Whitels oa. cvccccses S75 Columbia Models 40 and 44s. ci. cccsces 1898 Hartford. . $1898 Vedettes.. .$35 and $40 :) so Or “Meet me at Pope’s.” HIS HEAD THE FORFEIT. The Terrible T Must Wrestle for a Big Stake. “If you, my favorite wrestler, are de- feated by a Christian while you are hence, your head shall pay the forfeit.” Thus spake the Sultan of Turkey to Yousef, “The Terrible Turk,” when he gave him leave to travel in foreign lands for a period of three months. Next week the big wrestler will be in Washington. Manager Kernan has secured the big fel- low and every night rext week and at the metinees he will be on exhibition, and show a sample of his prowess. He has of- fered a purse of $100 to any man he can- rot throw in fifteen minutes, and two or three locals will try hard to earn the money. Next month he wrestles Ernest Roeber for the championship of the world. Yousef does not speak a word of English, but expresses bimself through an interpre- ter as being highly pleased with America and especially Washington, which he con- siders the garden spot of the world. Capital Yacht Club. The yachting season for the Capital Yacht Club is opening auspiciously. ‘The Pope Manufacturing Company, 817 & 819 4th St. N.W. a Kr dies* are Sailor. W sole D. C. agents. fleet has been augmented this spring by | B.H.Stinemetz several new yachts. The last to enter 1s SIS the Coyote, £ steam launch owned by. Mr. | |, Pa. Aw _ Eugene Peters. The Coyote is now at New | 7237 1a. ’ York, but will return to this city after a trip to Florida. She is a twin-screw, schooner-rigged Steam yacht, 86 feet in length and 30 tons measurement. Mr. W. J. Aman has entered his hand- some naphtha launch, the Princess Mae. Mr, Charles F. Karr has purchased a sloop, 35 feet in length, that will compete for racing honors. . A. C. Rauterberg is fitting up his sloop Greyhound with a gas engine as an auxiliary. Mr. Rex Smith has entered his sloop, the Startle. The club houseboat, the A¥k, is now at her moorings, off the foot of 8th street west, and several of the yachts are receiv- Ing their spring overhauling. The officers of the club are: Calvin C. J. Norris, commodore; Dr. Chas. A. Davis, vice commodore; Ernest C. Ruebsam, sec! tary; Dr. Arthur C. Rauterberg, treasurer; Frank C. Townsend and Alfred Doolittle, measurers. COMING RACE MEETING. HOME DYEING A Pleasure at Last. No Muss. MAYPOLE SOAP No Trouble. Stables at Benning Filled With the Best Horses in Training. The third spring meeting of the Washing- ton Jockey Club will open at the Benning track Monday afternoon. The meeting will be under the license and auspices of ths Jockey Club, the governing turf organiza- tion in the east, and with good weather it will undoubtedly prove the most successful in every way in th2 history of the locai as- sociation. Every stable at the track is filled to overflowing with the best horses in training, and as they are still arriving many of them will be forced to stable at the old Ivy City track. There will be not less than five races each day, and the meeting will continue daily until Saturday, the 23d instant, when the WASHES AND DYES: At One Operation - . ANY COLOR. The Cleanest, Fastest Dye for Soiled or Faded Shirt Waists, Blouses, Ribbons, Curtains, Underlinens, etc., whether Silk, Satin, Cotton or Wool. Sold in All Colors by Grocers and Drugeists, or mailed free 15 cents. Address, THE MAYPOLE SOAP DEPOT. FT ee Strest, Hew York.