Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-18
NOT CONTRACT JUMrERs.

mon the Sporting Life says today editorially:
at has been telegraphed all over the coun-
try that this a wholesale contract-iumping
transaction, with view to placing the associa-
ton and the Washington Club in bad odor. The
| statement is false. The Washington Club is not
! In the COMMUNICATING business. When the
Omaha Club officially disbanded by its
| owners on Sunday last the players were thereby
released from contract and reservation. and
they would have been free to sign with any club
In the country but for the reservation OF the
entire team by the Western Association. which
sought thus To hold the men upon whom II
otherwise had no legal or moral hold. The
reservation, OF course. prevented national agree
ment clubs from securing these valuable play
ers. but left them legally open 10 entirely proper
contracts with the American Association, which
Is not party to the national agreement and
therefore not obliged to respect its reserve
rule"
SHORT BOUNDS.
Cincinnati today and Monday.
Ladies admitted free today.
Slattery played his game yesterday in style.
Foreman is the slowest pitcher we have, but
he WINS his game.
Crane seemed TO improve as the game pro-
crossed.
kerlas was rough on the visitors at times and
gave Washington the soft end of nearly every
thing.
Murphy made 10 hits, no runs two put outs
and one error.
Herman leads the league in batting.
Wool lost 800 by the failure of the Keystone
Eank. Mailman 400 by that of the Spring GAR
den Bank, while the downfall Of the Fails City
Bank Of Louisville cost Chapman Sl,5O0, STRAIT
ton -. OGO IVAN and Weaver 1850 each Cahill
ESQ and Shinnick $500. And yet there IS a
general impression that ball players never save
money.
Dowd made no hits. one run and ono put out
yesterday.
President Nick Young Of the league has de-
Gifted 70 resign his position III Tic second au-
difors Office. so that he can de ote his whoie
time to his immense base bail business.
nlattery caugh, six flies yesterday. assisted in
putting one man out and nndc a hit.
bo.tou Association Is &c Try the experiment
of charging but quarter for admission to its
games with Louisville to-day and Monday. and
II the I'll ng draws big crowd the price Will be
permanently udOptcd. The league club Is
kicking hard.
Alvord made n two-Lagscr ani one run, put
out enc man and aided in the death OF Two
others.
Syracuse played is last game at home yes
terday. but the team which Is in the hands of
the Eastern League, will play of its sched1io
Tor few days.
Mcclure record yesterday was no hits. not
run, eight cuts. one assist AMI one error
Rochester has released Pitcher Mccullough
and signed Neal late of st. Louis.
Mctluery made two hits out of three times at
the bat. bcirg hit the fourth time he faced
Crane; and he slew eight men.
Nearly every ball player i'll the profession
has ms little hobbies and cccentricities and
they are often playfUlly called .'cranks" by
their fellow players. There are three degrees
of dizziness as rated by the players They
are ''tacks, ''teu-penny nails and Tin cans.
III
Hatfield made one hit, one out and four
assists.
The crowd OH the bleGchers was very much
amused by the utterances of a man with n
black mustache, who gave gratuitous advice
to the Statesmen and tried to help the umpire
i'll his work. He was very very funn, at times
and he had large voice.
Foreman did not make a hit and had one
assist. but he struck cut six men at critical
times.
The San Francisco Chronicle SAYS: .'Smalley is
n sick man, being reduced to 14O pounds from
kidney and liver troubles. This accounts for
his poor work in the east this year. He is too
weak to stand the trip TIC this state and may
never recover" This is the young man who
played third base for Cleveland and Washing
ton.
Lehman made no hits and had no chances in
right field.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of this city is making an eff
fort to arrange an exhibition game between u
composite club composed Of men picked from
the Columbia Club, Light Infantry Association,
the Pctomacs and the Y. VI. G.. A. teams. and
one OF the leading teams OF the National
League, to take place during the latter part of
July Should the game be played the proceeds
will be devoted to the Y. NJ. c. A. athletic fund.
Manager Barnie of Baltimore, when shown
the dispatch published in last evenings STAR
announcing that Pittsburg will have an asso-
citation club next year, said: Yes, that is all
true, but l don't know how it got out SO
quickly. We wanted to keep it quiet for a
time at least Everything is already settled
and we can place club i'll Pittsburg almost at
a moments notice, as well as one in Brooklyn.
The associatiation will determine its circuit at
the fall meeting, but those two cities will be in
cluded if it is necessary to have ten clubs or
even twelve. The association is as full. Of fight
as ever. More of its clubs are making money
than the leagues. With Pittsburg and Brook
Ign the association and league would have clubs
each in Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Pitts
burg and Cincinnati"
President Won der Abe and Manager Schmelz
both confirm the statements ir the dispatch.
The Woodward and Lothrop Base Bali Nine
defeated the Pension Office Ball team yester-
day IN very interesting game by n score of 8
to D. The features of the game were the bat
terry work of Hobrook and D Hagan and the
heavy batting of the Woodward and Lothrop's
Fuller and Daily, late of the c. A. c. team,
are now playing for the Hyattsvilles. They
constituted the battery in the recent game be-
tween the Hyattsyille and the Ulympics. in
which the Olympics came out victorious.
Barrows of the Y. NJ G. AS also played for
Hyattsyilles.