Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-21
The Diamond.

this trip.
THE rain is vetoing ball games with vengeance
this spring.
AREApER-They play at home from May
until MayH
HARVARD has shut out four teams without run
ana two without a hit.
TIE home team are expected to arrive in the city
this morning in great shape.
THAT Brockton will Join the New England Base
ball League Is an assured fact.
IF the we,ther is only hne to-day there win be
lots of fun at Exposition Park.
COLUMBUS has already been picked as the winner
of the estern League pennant.
RAIN prevented the Columbus Milwaukee game
Of the Western League yesterday,
kid" BALDWIN has been given notice Of his
release by the Spokane Falls team.
WARDS boys are in the pink Of condition and
hitting the ball as no other team Is SO far.
LON KNIGHT has drifted out to the Pacific
Northwest. where he is to umpire games this sea-
son.
TIM MuRNANE wired from Washington that most
Of the players there have predicted ta-end place
for Captain Comiskey's Reds.
WARD says that the Brooklyns need not worry
not worrying about Brooklyn.
BILLY SHARsIG has been trying his hand as UNI
pire for the University of Pennsylvania in Phila-
delphia but with poor success.
THE New Orleans club declines to give Pitcher
Callahan more than s75 per month, the limit, and
Callahan won't play for that amount.
mean nothing. + wager Captain Comiskey will
get good work out of this Cincinnati team.''
SHoRTsToP JENNINGS is batting IS heavily as
any player in the League. Since the season opened
he has been averaging two and three hits to o
game.
The players are; J. Sweeney.P. Grimes. g. Clarke.
Miller.
DR.. sTUcKY will continue as President of the
I.O announced Intention
withdrawing his resignation to one Of the directors
yesterday.
Hnd . sesierday snd the
and Kansas City.
YOUNG Mr.. Meekin. Of Louisville. wants to keep
tinues that side wheel delivery Of his all the season
he will tear his arm loose from its socket says the
Cleveland Leader.
HARRY TAYLOR announced to Manager Chap
man before the season opened that he did not want
the captaincy of the Louisvlles 1t was only by in
sisting that Manager Chapman got him to captain
the team last year.
THIS is the first year that either Harvard or Yale
was beaten in Philadelphia bv the University Of
versity Of Pennsylvania and Princeton will be
played at Princeton April Is.
THE Rochester Club has decided that one day in
lar dates will be Is free as the air. These days viii
JIMMIE PEOPLES, the ex-ball PLAYER and UNI
pire, is said to have left Columbus suddenly after
borrowing several hundred dollars and buying
goods on credit from a number of merchants there.
According TO dispatch, Jimmie left Columbus
owing over 81, 900.
THE Lowell club expects to secure Arthur Whit
ney manager. The club nave Whitney
manager manager and player. but will be obliged
to pay for the latter than the former. The
management does not look upon the rule as to the
salary limit as restricting it in the matter of a
manager.
DR.. STUCKY received handsome ivory bat from
New York City yesterday. The bat Is almost as
large as those which the players 1t is pres
ent from Mr.: Gutzsel who promised Dr.. Stucky.
when the latter was in New York at the League
meeting that he would send him pres mt ii the
Louisytlles won the first observation-disclosures.
MARK BALDWIN had a horrible nerve while In
St. Louis He told Joe Campbelli THE Cincin-
natis the poorest team in the association
than they were last year, and the Browns ought to
have a picnic with Them Young Mr.. Campbell
believed him and promised 'Cincinnati pie'' to all
the Mound City cranks Instead of that they got
soup.-1imes-St1r.
LoUIsvILLE's contortonist pitcher. Jouette
Meekin. is also twirler by accident. Three years
ago he was the New Albany Browns star catcher.
One day, In a game between the Deppens and the
show up. The manager persuaded Meekin to go into
the box. Though he knew nothing of curvtng his
great speed alone enabled him to pitch good
year was pitching in the Western League.