St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-18
DIAMOND DUST.
Bits OF Gossip About the Game
and Players.


Hanlon, DAILY, Williamson and Carroll
have but poor opinion of an Australian
rain storm. While returning i'm cab
from one of the games wheel broke
Off. and the players were compelled to
walk nearly half mile to their hotel in
their uniforms and drenching rain.
The mascot was with them. and stood
like a picture of patience out in the
road, with home plate in one hand
and three base-bags In the other. The
water in the cutters was six feet across
and over foot deep, and the little black
was unable to get over for quite while.
While the Australian tourists were in
Rome John Healy and Jimmie Fogarty
were strOlling through the Campo del
Mars one day, when they met young
on which were stamped the features of
Pope Leo XIII. "Who is that?'' asked
Healy, pointing to the face on the
medal. "rhat's Abraham Lincoln be-
fore he had whiskers," said Fogarty.
us that So" unused Healey. by golly!
l must have one of those. Lincoln
came from my state, you know, and l
can't go back on Illinois"
George Wright retired from profess
Sional base ball in 1882, but he would
probably have been playing ball to-day
had not the art of curving the ball come
into such general practice. Tim Muir
name says Wright was not only phe-
nomenal fielder. but he was also the
greatest batsman in the country for six
or seven years. The introduction of
the in-shoot and curve bothered him.
He didn't care to get hit with a ball,
and after 1875 became little nervous
when at the bat.
f New uniforms have been selected for
9the Pittsburg players. The travelling
suits will be black shirts with orange
cords, black pants, orange belt, black
land orange-striped stockings, and caps
I of the same, with the stripes up and
down. The dress suits for home games
will be white shirts with black cording,
white pants with black belt, black and
orange caps, with stripes running
around the same. black and orange
stockings, the upper half being black.
e President Davidson actually believes
his charley-horse Louisville aggrega-
ton will make matters lively for the
Cincinnati Reds the coming season.
MIR. Davidson is an elegant gentleman,
ahas no bad habits, such as hitting the
pipe, or drinking absinthe, SO there is
no accounting for his wild flight of
fancy. Can it be the air-but why pro-
long the agony. Let charity apread its
broad mantle and hide the Kentuckian
and his hallucination from the cruel
gaze of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t is not very often that pitcher will
take chances of hurting himself by do
ing a head-first slide. Reardon, twirler
with the Hamilton club, however, leads
all others. He did not wait for the sum-
mer to do the act. but the other day did
head-first slide, and is now in the hos
pital. He took 'belly buster" down
the side of Canadian hill on a bobsled,
and was badly used up in collision.
He will do the rest of his sliding in
lanyard or a haymow.
In letter published In the Philadel-
phia News Jack Fogarty says: "When
the Chicago and All-America play in
Philadelphia, about the middle of April,
Wood and will be in the game, this
being positively our last appearance on
any diamond, having already made ar
engagements for conducting the national
game in the principal cities in Austria