Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-24
DIAMOND DUST,

OIAmoNO OOSIs President Nimick, of the Pittsburgh clubs l talks about selling out to broker and two business men for $1OOOOO Anson Is said to have had line out fer Catcher Doyle, late of Canton, O., anG grabbed by Columbus from Louisville Alexander Jones, the Homestead Pa.). left-handed pitcher, didn't go to Columbus after all, but has been signed by Pittsburgh. Washington is said to have made arrange | ments to buy Con Murphy, Syracuse's skillful but mouthy pitcher, at the close of | the season. l The Boston management has signed. Pitcher Healey, formerly of the Indianap-' | olis, and he will report as soon as his. | mothers health will permit. The Won der Ahe- -Byrne war was dis | cussed and settled at a special meeting of the American association held at Phila- l delphia Saturday, September 14. The Boston profits of this season, even ! should the team not win tEe championship nor play profitable worlds championship | series, will be about one hundred thousand l dollars. Washington has released Carney, it's Eastern League experiment at first base | and right field. He could hit, but was l thick of head, could not run bases, and was | not much of Q fielder.
 The agents of the Cleveland club are gun ming through the International clubs for 1 two tielders, a catcher and a first-baseman, l who are good as the present men in field | ing and can also hit the ball.
 According to tho Pittsburgh papers l (rather scaly authority base-balD the | brotherhood-Jo Johnson scheme has been | gwen into local hands and preparatory work is being done on it.-Chicago Tribune. ] There isn't club i'll the league i'll better l playing form than the Chicagos. How they
 ever lost three straight games ill Washing
 ton is thing that only shows what queer | turns the game is apt to take-Boston | Herald.
 | Jack Chapman has agreed to take charge 1 of the Louisville team next season and will | take eight new players from the Interna- 1 tional League with him. Hecker, Brown | ing, Tomney, Wolf and Shannon are to be | released.
 President Hewitt, of the Washington 1 club, declares that he has no intention of dropping out of the league at the close of 1 the season. So declares President Brush,
 ofIIndianapolis. So if Cincinnati and Brook
 lyn come i'll it will be a ten-club league.
 Mark Baldwin says: 1T like playing in 1 the association much better than playing in l the league. The salaries and treatment
 given the players are greater and better, l and there is moro genuine fun and good
 fellowship among the players. ."-Sporting | Life.
 |. From New York comes the news that A. | l.. Johnson, of Cleveland, the alleged head
 of the ball. players combination, has agents
 working among the players of the associa-
 tion clubs, offering them membership in the brotherhood of ballplayers. If this is true
 the plot thickens.
 Anson said to the Boston reporters: "If
 Boston or New York is to win the league
 .pennant it will be New York. Both it and
 Chicago are stronger than Boston. If the
 season was about eight weeks longer
 know who'd win, and it wouldn't be either
 Boston or New York"
 Andy Cummings, once the most skillful
 of short-stops, and whom Glasscock re-
 placed on the Cleveland infield of 1S19, is
 now serving sentence in the Frankfort
 (Ky) penitentiary for chicken stealing.
 He was great player in all departments,
 but a confirmed drunkard.
 One of the Cleveland papers clamors for
 the purchase by Cleveland of Nicol, of the
 Cincinnatis, for S1, GOO, as he IS for sale.
 What folly. Radford is a better man than
 Nicol in every way. Cleveland wants bat
 ters-Browning, Burns, Griffiths-if tho association is to be drawn on.-Chicago Tribune.
 The penalty for refusing to play sched- uled game as Won der Ahe did, is expulsion | from the asSociation.-BoSton Globe. Just
 so, but the .assoclation wants Won der Ahe worse than Von der Ahe wants the asso- citation. It might expel him if it could steal
 his players, but the law of the land pre-
 vents that.-Chicago Tribune. !. Five Cleveland players have come to the front so rapidly within the last year that it would be difficult to name the leader. The conspicuous five are O'Brien, Zimmer, Te-
 beau, McAleer and Beatin. Stricker, too, :has played strong, sharp game in contrast with his work as member of the associa-
 'tion club.-St. Louis Globe e-Democrat.
 Wherever there's baseball the sale sys-
 item seems to push itself. It has got into
 the California league, the San Francisco
 ;club having just taken Charley Sweeney the once great Providence pitcher, anc
 Whitehead. catcher and general player,
 for First Baseman Powers, given to the
 Stocktons.
 Just think of Mutrie's meeting Rain-in-
 the Face Glasscock, One-Feather Jerry and
 old Hiawatha Hines with hand me down
 blankets, discarded beads and Coney Island
 clam-shells to purchase their goodwill
 while they gently kicked their passive forms
 all over the newly-turfed face of the Polo grounds. Horatio Mutrie, thy name is
 Dennis.-Boston Globe.
 At Toledo the other day Cushman, the ; left handed pitcher of the Toledo club, received liner from Fielder Campau's bat
 full on his pitching arm and small bone
 was broken. He will play no more this sea- son. In the same game Umpire John Bren- nan called out old George Shaffer, once well known in league circles. Shaffer struck : him and was arrested.
 John Richmond contemplates reappearing
 on the ball ground. This man was at one , time a popular pitcher, but an injury to his , arm compelled his withdrawal from the feld.-Philadelph Press. The man re- ferred to lives in Philadelphia and is an ex- , shortstop and outfelder. John Lee Rich 3 mond, the once great left-handed pitcher ot f Worcester and Providence, is doctor at l Conneau, O., and will never play ball again There is remarkable similarity between the Kansas City and Cleveland teams. Both
 started out in the spring as though they in
 tended to cut wide swaths in their re . down inst