Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-02
BASE BALL GOSSIP.
What IN Going ON of Interest to the
National Games Patrons.

National Games Patrons.
The Sporting Life. which has been an
tagonistic to the local base ball manage
ment, this week exonerates the Wagners
from the charge Of making wholesale trans
fers of games, but adds: What the WASH
ingtGp public justly objected to was having
the transfer policy rubbed In too thickly.
1t was bad enough to have over half a
dozen dates transferred, but to add a couple
more transfers to this number at a critical
time when the team was hanging over Ii st
place by the eyelashes, for no reason ex-
cept purely selfish and ignoble financial
considerations. was more than the Wash
ington public could stand" The paper
then goes on to say that the attendance
has fallen to beggarly 500. AS a matter
OF fact the attendance has been q thousand
when the Washingtons returned from their
western trip, and before the two games
were transferred to Philadelphia The peo-
pie were Disguised with the Door showing
OF the team. which has since showed that
II can play ball equal to the best.
Some base ball alarmists have tried to
create a sensation by asserting that the
league will discipline the Wagners for
transferring two games to Philadelphia
without the consent of the necessary num-
Der of clubs. The consent of every club
was secured but that Of Boston and Brook
lyn.
The more this transfer business is stirred
up the more 1t is seen how every club has
mad a hand in it. The fact of the matter
is the league was ''out for the stuff" this
year and no one club Is more blamable than
another.
Philadelphia and Baltimore will play An
sons men at Chicago instead Of at nome.
The Boston Herald Is Of opinion that
the Wholesale release in Washington was
simply to effect a saving in salaries" This
| is about as intelligent as the usual out-of-
town criticism on Washington manage
ment. There has been no wholesale release.
Inc washington correspondent of the
sporting Life says that the recent shifting
or positions in the local team has greatly
strengthened 1t. The impression had been
created by that and other writers that
nothing had been done to strengthen the
club. but that all efforts had been in the
| other direction.
The papers are full of the socalled signing
OF Ely and Snyder by the Washing ton
CLUB: The matter really SINNERS down to
the fact that they have been reserved by
that club under the national agreement
cincinnati has exchanged Pitcher Mike
sullivan for Hoy. Jimmie Caravan will be
relieved from regular duty and put on the
list as the all around substitute.-Pitts-
burg Chronicle Telegraph.
seven Senators had their heads cut Off
Tuesday. Those who received the notices
were Mcguire. Stricken, Hoy, Radford, Es-
per. Maui and Stephens.-Western Ex-
cnange The statement is absolutely false.
Manager Schmelz would be a fine manager
to release a lot of them before he saw them
| play and he hadn't seen the team play this
season until last Tuesday.
Inn keefe has been engaged to coach the
harvard team next year. He says he will
nave entirely new material to work upon.
Plttsburg ball patrons think that II Con
ME- Mack had not been laid I'D 80 long
the boys would have been much nearer
Boston now.
The Springhelds did not get vickery after
all as he will play with the Philadelphias
Tor the remainder Of the season.
k1ilen struck out nine men the other day.
the greatest number any Pittsburg pitcher
mas struck out in a single game this sea-
son. previously four was the most Killen
famed out in a game
stick to your decisions" President
Young wrote to Umpire Hornung in his
| letter Of instructions, IF 1t should be The
! means OF your losing what little hair on
your head you have left"
flayers get credit for hits down south
that X made on league grounds would find
oushelderS camped under them waiting for
the ball to drop. 1t doesn't take much of a
drive to get ball over either of the fences
at Chattanooga, while In nearly all the
otner cities, save Mobile, 1t Is not tmpos-
slpie TO send flies over the right or left field
fence - ~ so
Beckley. Lyons and Bierbauer are the
only flttsourg players who have not miss
ed game this season. For Chicago. par
rott Is the only player who has not missed
game: for Cincinnati Smith: for ST
Louis. Quinn and Brodie: for New Yors
burke: for Philadelphia, Mailman: for Bos,
ION, Nash, Duffy and Mccarthy; for E,.lti-
more McGraw. Shindle. Kelly and Tread
way, Tor Washington, Hoy The Cleveland
brooklyn and Louisville clubs have not a
player VINO has played in every game.