The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-22
BASE BALL.
Gossip Relative to the Ever Popular Dia
mOnd.

Gossip Relative to the aver Popular Dia-
mOnd.
Louisville leads the big league in field
ing.
The position at short on the New York
seems to be fuller than ever.
Pitchers Viau and Sheoron have been re-
leased by Cleveland.
The Boston club is willing to release
Stovey to New York for &, 600.
Amos Rusie. for the first time in his life,
is suffering from sore arm.
Dairymple, the old Chicago fielder, has
signed with Spokane Falls.
Pitcher Woodcock, of Providence, r. l.,
has been secured by Pittsburg.
Pickney is undoubtedly the best third
baseman the Browns ever had.
The Washiugtons have been making a
great record for themselves on this trip
Long John Reilly is still III harness and
playing the game of his life for the Orioles.
Charley Briody, the old Cleveland
catcher, died recently at Lansingburg
N. Y.
The New York club has an advance
agent before the team doing its advertising
Hamilton, OF the Philadelphia, leads the
league in base running with record Of ten
stolen bases.
With Hanlon at the helm. the Baltimores
will be well up in the race at the end Of the
season.
Chamberlain has been christened the
cool collected never sgy-die by the Cincin-
natl crarks.
President N e. Young says the present
Boston team is the strongest ball team ever
organized.
1t was the perfection of fool management
that released Hardie Richardson from the
WashingtOrs.
Manager Selee, of the Bostons, does not
favor the twelve club idea He thinks
eight clubs are plenty.
1t looks as though time never will tell on
Cliff Carroll The old man is playing q
greater game than ever this season.
The Brooklyrs have stolen more bases
than any other team in the country.
Wonder if Johnny Ward mas been giving
the boys private lessons.
All the Illinois 10 y teams except jack
sonville and Joliet are TO try the Sunday
championship game experiment.
The false prophets who foresaw disaster
ahead for the Bostons because there were
live old captains in the team have taken to
the woods.
Burns, of the Brooklyns, was the first
league player to be fined this season. I'm
pire Hurst clapped $40 on him at Philadel-
phia.
Arthur Irwin is said to have the refusal
of the services of Bayne, the young univer
sity of Pennsylvania pitcher, after the col
lege season Is over.
Arlie Latham has had more chances than
any third baseman in the league. This
would seem to give black eye TO some oil
his dude enemies, who say he is ''shirk
err
Rusie, with his 81, 900 contract, is pitch
ing very minor league ball II he keeps VI
such it will set the teeth of the New YorA
directors on edge to pay out $1,000 every
month for such twirling.
George Van Haltern has resigned the
management of the Baltimore club anc
Waltz will endeavor to fill the place
| Sleepy Bill Johnson has been released.
Long, Boston's short stop, played re
markable game at Cincinnati May 6, in
| fourteen-inning game, putting out five, as
sisting fourteen times, and had but ont
error
E. F. Lawrence. released by Chicago
has signed with the western league anC
been assigned to Columbus. He will prov,
valuable man there. b. j. Hengle has
been suspended indefinitely.
GlaSSock accused an umpire OF having
''tacks" in his brain and was fined s25.
the umpire had said that to Jack ht
| wouldn't have been far wrong. for jack!
brain isn't certainly of the size to contain
| nails.
The following men will captain the east
ern league teams: Sam Wise, Rochester
Jack McGlone, Troy; Jay F'aatz, Syracuse
Leo Smith or Sid Farrar, Providence; DGl
Stearns, Buffalo; Harry Lyons, PhiladeI
phia; Dan Shannon, New Haven: Mix,
! Leblanc, Binghamton; Bobby Wheelock
| Elmirs, and jim Fields, Albany.
Pitcher George Meakim has been re