The Washington critic., 1890-04-07
DIAMOND AND RING.
What Lovers of Sports Find TO Talk
About--General Notes.

What Lovers of Sports Find to Talk
About--General Notes.
Saturdays game between the local
team and Abner Powell's team from
Hamilton was decidedly interesting
one and the home team won through
its superior batting. The manner in
which the members of the local team
lined out hits demonstrated that every
one of them had his eye on the bali.
They also played a sprightly fielding
game, and a circus catch by Bader In
the last inning was the equal of any
thing the phenomenal Hoy ever at
tempted.
To-day the boys will meet the Will.
liam's College Club and good game
may be expected. Play will begin
promptly at 4:30 o'clock. Arrange
ments have been made for better facili-
ties for transportation to and from the
grounds, and beginning to day the her
dies will run direct to the grounds.
Powell, the captain of the Hamiltons,
in comparing the Washington club with
the Baltimores said that the local team
was superior to the Orioles in batting
and base running and that the only adj
vantage the latter had wasin its excel
lent infeld.
Hill, the new third baseman, is be-
yond question the best man who has
ever covered that position for the
Washingtons. He goes for everything
and has a faculty Of keeping a base
runner pinned to the base and not al
lowing him to get long lead.off and
thus score on an infield hit
The coaching in Saturdays game was
noisy but at the same time amusing.
Gleason and Nicholas will make great
team.
The Boston Leaguers will play here
tomorrow and Wednesday.
Dunlap has signed with the Pittsburg
League Club.
Before Pickett gets out of the Kansas
City muddle he will wish he had never
indulged in the double contract bust
ness. His case has been presented to
the grand jury, and he will probably be
indicted for perjury and obtaining
money under false pretences.
It's dollars. to doughnuts that Won der
Abe did not attend the Brotherhood
game in st. Louis yesterday to see
Comiskey lead the Chicagos to victory.
The Athletic Club of Philadelphia re.
Gently made public its plan in reference
to the issuing of rain checks for the
coming season. Rain checks will now
be issued on all days which look doubt
full, and will be given out at the time of
purchasing tickets. If 1t should rain on
that day then the checks will be good
for any game, but If it does not rain the
checks are worthless. Each series of
checks will be numbered.
Healy is still with the Kansas City
Club.
Jack Crooks, the fine second baseman
of the Columbus Club, has been con-
fined to his room for the past two weeks
with a serious attack of Inflammation of
the stomach and neuralgia of the heart.
1t was thought yesterday afternoon that
he was dying, but he rallied toward
evening, and was resting easier last
night.
Tommy Warren has admitted that he
faxed the fight with Murphy before the
Occidental Club and lost because there
was more money in it.
The fight between George Dixon, the
colored bantam weight and Nunc Wal
lace, the Englishman for the champion
ship of the world will take place within
two months, the arrangements having
been completed.
A Cincinnati dispatch says: Peter
Jackson, the prohibition pugilist. made
a night of it last night in Over the
Rhine resorts, and some downtown
ones, too. 1t was 2 a. IN. before the
black champion got through, and then
he went home on the invitation of a
policeman, who was trying to settle @
quarrel in the party growing out of the
charge that one of the gang had robbed
another of $151. Jackson wasn't
| drunk, but the granite pavement hurt
his feet, and he walked softly to save
them.
Two hours before its adjournment
the Virginia Legislature hurriedly
passed law to incorporate an athletic
and sporting club, which may acquire
| 5000 acres of land, and among other
sports conduct prize-fights. The OBJ
| ject of the law may not have been un
derstood by those who voted for 1t
but the men who projected the measure
have undoubtedly secured its passage
in order to give home in Virginia to 8
brutal, inhuman and much condemned
sport. York Press. Prize-fight
ing may be brutal, but so long as there
are men willing to batter each other fol-
few dollars, just so long will it con
tinue.
All the old six.day trampers started
in 142.hours' contest at Pittsburg a
1916 this morning