Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-24
The Diamond.

THE Reds to-day and tomorrow.
BEcKLEY is the greatest frst baseman in the
business.-C -COtuier-J0Iu11t.
WARD and Corcoran make double plays with
wonderful precision and quickness.
DAN BRouTIIERs failed TO get a hit in the series
between the G Giants and Brooklyns.
1T may be that the Western League will lose all OF
its good players If 1t holds on to Gcnins.
SANDERS, of the Louisvillcs, has taken his degree
civil engineer at Vanderbilt University. Nash
willie, Tenn.
THE Cincinnati and Cleveland teams played an
exhibition game at Cincinnati yesterday, the Reds
winning by Ito L.
TIE Tarentum and Mansfield County League
teams will play at Mansfield tomorrow. Mansfield
club Will have some new players.
J. TRICKY BRUSH is not employed in a very land
able work just now in helping the W Western League
to violate the national agreement.
TOMMY QUINN PLAYED third base the other uay
and had ruI base hits, put outs, 10 assists and
error. That certainly is good enough.
..JEEMs'' MUrRIE has organized an amateur
ball nine in Elmra. n. Y, and has called them
.'Thc Mutrics.'' Jim says they 'the people. -
HARRY LYONS. late of the Athletics, is to Join
the Giants and probably play center field. He was
time.
PRESIDENT SoDEN says that there has not been
any cut down of salaries of the Boston players hut
several of the men have been asked what reduction
they won. consent TO.
THE Allegheny county law students will cross
bats with the Washington Young Mems Christian
Association team in Washington to-morrow. Ster-
rett and Best will be the battery for the Wash
fngtons.
A WASHINGTON writer saws: ..Paul Radford is
playing L winning game just now. lie is the only
man who can play right on the local grounds and
is not afraid OF the sun. His hitting is also up to
the mark
UMPIRE MAHoNEY, who resigned from the staff
of umpires in the National League account of
Ill hea ih has entered the service in the New Eng
land Representatives. 10 improve his health,
Here is a paradox.
THE NJ Verners defeated the Osceola ball team
Yesterday by q of 10 4. The features of the
game were The pitching OF Hess for the NJ Eerners
and Gerdies. OF the osceolas. The winners would
like to arrange a game for the Fourth, Franks
town Echoes preferred.
MATT KILaoY is still in hard lines. He signed
with the Athletics, and the next day the Quakers
gave couple of gasps for breath and quft, leav-
ing the rhilies in possession of the field. \ ew
Haven expelled by the Eastern League, which
is now an eight-club circuit.
STRATToN is quite sick. He is down with fever
and has not been well since he left tn Eastern
10 his home AT Taylorsville. 1t will be week and
maybe longer before he will be able to pitch,-
Co1Tfer-JournGL
TIE Brooklyn Eagle says that complaint is made
that several OF the Bostons play dirty ball, and
cautions them to bottle up their tricks. The Eagle
ii no word OF caution or condemnation for Joyce
who, right in Brooklyn, has been guilty OF the
dirtiest Kind of ball paying.-BostoR Herald.
SPEAKING of the Eastern League. the Philadel-
phia Press says: ''But whether the League lives
or dies, IL will be remembered as having among its
members one of the most original men ever con-
nected with the game in the person of President
kuentsch, of Syracuse. His suggestion to take
lew Haven's percentage and divide IL among the
weaker clubs was an inspiration Of genius