Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-19

| ball. Gumbert saw the ball coming and
| Thought tine ball was a curve and walked over
| the plate for It, The bail shot in and hit him
| over the left ear back OF the temple. He reeled
and fell on his face and lay there for about if
teen seconds Ewing and Arson picked him
up and carried him to the dressing room. He
| was not unconscious. He laughed and kept
saying I'm all right" He was placed in a
carriage, and when be arrived at the Eastman
House he was in semi-conscious condition.
Drs. Greenway and Holland were summoned
| and attended him.
| Base Ball Notes.
| Ex-Manager Trott says he has good paying
business now and he does not intend to make
any more efforts to establish q ball club at
Newark, N. ]. 81 was up in Newark some
time ago" be said, "to organize club. and now
If they want me they can come to me-
A. McGann, the left-handed pitcher who did
satisfactory work for the Winston On. c. club
last season, has received an offer from the
Memphis club of the Southern League, which
he will probably accept.
The st. Johns College team Of Annapolis will
play the C. A. C. nine in this city April 80.
| The reason that Philadelphia was SO eager to
trade Louisville Delehanty has leaked out.
| That player broke his collar bone at the close
of last season. The disocation was badly set.
and Delehanty may be handicapped for life
Courier Journal For cripple Delehanty has
been putting up remarkably good game in
| the south.
| The salary limit Of the Missouri and Kansas
League is 5000 per club per month.
Charley Hoyt thinks Al Spalding is entitled
| to front place in the front rank of lucky men.
At the Hoffman House a few days since he said:
| ''If A. q. Spalding were on a desert thousands
| OF miles from habitation, and it should begin
to rain, somebody would come along and otter
him an umbrella"
This is the first season that the Boston league
| team failed to report March Is.
Cub Stricken would make a much stronger
| second baseman for New York than either Mack
| or Bassett.-BoSton Globe.
| Manager Barnie had his men out twice yes.
terday at the Bolton street grounds and they
showed up well in practice. They have been
| invited and accepted the invitation of the
| Catholic Library Association to make their head
quarters at its hall during their stay in the
| city. The base ballist will also have the use of
| the library gymnasium. ,Ne,cS.
| John T. Brush would like to start club at
| Indianapolis, provided he can find a manager
| willing to put up half the capital needed.
| Anson's new second baseman, Pipp, is said to
have turned out a rank counterfeit in practice
| at Hot Springs.
Dave Coughlin has arrived in San Francisco.
He will play shortstop for the Oakland team
| this season.
Comiskey and his Cincinnati team will be
the first Sunday attraction at st. Louis, April
| II.
Brodie has not yet signed with St. Louis.
There is hitch about the salary.
Billy Nash has gone to Charlottesville, Va.
| he thinks that Boston cannot lose the pennant.
| Providence ana New Haven got frozen out of
the Eastern League. and their places i'll the cir
cult go to vastly inferior cities The Eastern
League will realize this to Its cost before the
1 season is over.
william Waltz. director of the Baltimore
| club, recently said: "Our team will cost US
| SAP .0G0 this season. We had our men signed
before the consolidation took place at Indianap-
| oils, thus causing an outlay that wouldn't have
been necessary ii we held off till the war was
| settled
! The Boston management have done nothing
| so far In the way o.: fixing up a place for their
| 2o-cent patrons for this season according to
the new order Of things in the league.
The Chicago cl2b is figuring on buying the
| ball grounds at Hot Springs.
George Haddock has telegraphed President
| Charley Byrne that Brooklyn must agree 20
| his terms, which are not unreasonable before he
signs a contract or goes south to join Wards
men.
Dupee Shaw claims that he has most of the
crystal ont of his arm and will be in condi-
ton soon to accept advance money.
A New York business man entered the Office
| of Director Talbot OF the New York club last
! Thursday and astonshed that official by order
| ing a dozen season books. He said now that
| the base ball magnates had settled all their diff
| ferences his interest in the game had returned
and he looked for a very prosperous season.
| A pessimistic critic believes that the enemy
| of base ball in the Kentucky legislature 10
fighting the game because it keeps people from
drinking.
The continual talk about cutting down the
salaries of the leading players will result in no
good to the game.
some cruel folk have titled St. Louis aggre-
CATION 1.-THE Shoulder Bounds
Jimmy Wolf says he has not signed West
ern League contract. as his terms were not &C.
cepted. He may go 70 the Pacific coast.
phiiadeiphis offered Louisville $1,000 for
Browns release but few DAYS ago.
Manager Powers does not intend to work
King and Rusie very much in the box in the
practice games.
The highest saIaried man on the Cleveland
team is Pitcher Davies.
| So far the Chicago club has lost every exhi-
bition game that it has played.
Ollie W. Evans, the Columbus clubs new
president, was short stop of the Steubenvilles
| back in SO.
Ruse's contract, with his own az well as his
fathers signature, has been received by Presi-
| dent Day.
President Temple has ordered Pittsburg's
| eighteen men to report to Manager Bucken-
berger at 10 am March 30.
Walter Burnham has taken another tack He
believes the Eastern League could easily handle
| q twelve-club circuit.
New York talks Of signing Long John"
Reilly az an emergency man.
Each one Of the league teams is carrying
along some dead wood which viii DO turned
adrift before the season is over.
The directors of the New York club have met
and Messrs. Spalding and Day shook hands and
| buried the Ratchet, which was raised in the
Richardson shindy.
President John B. Day has arranged with the
two colleges interested TO play the deciding
| Yale-Princeton game at the Polo grounds
June 10.
Joyce refuses to obey Manager Wards orders
| to report for practice with the Brooklyns in
the south. He says he 10 having sufficient
practice ct Hot SPRING.
Tommy Quinn, the catcher, Of Braddock has
egned Tor the season with the Western League.
He win receive 500 month. He expects 70
80 70 oatifeenia club.