The morning times., 1895-07-14
Departmental Learne Notes.

partmentai League Notes.
The Bureau nine continue to hold a good
lead in the championship race.
The Soldiers and Sailors miss Merrilrs
/ good work at second base.
Billy Bolway adds greatly to the strength
OF the Treasury team.
Gilroy is doing some splendid catching
for the infantry nine.
Horen has come to the conclusion that his
place is at the type case.
Capt. Havens should keep Montgomery
in the outfield. He is too stiff for third base
Pop Kellar has great hitter in
Buchanan. He is good fielder, too
Tubby" Dickinson is quite ladies' man.
They say he wears thumb ring.
Manager DickinS. OF the Army and Navy
team, finds a couple OF new men every day
There are few second basemen who can
play the game like Capt. Barrows.
Gray's finger is again all right and he will
| cover third for the Pensioners this week
Fitzgerald is filling Eddie Fuller's place
in the box very acceptably.
The Letter Carriers made thirty-four
| errors in the last three games.
HennesSy has made several difficult
catches in centerfield this season.
Montgomery raped out two home runs
I 10 succession in the game Friday.
/ The Bureaus a re making a mistake by
!
Phil Wisner is the only man who can
/ be depended upon TO throw straight 10
! first base
! 1t would be good thing for the Letter
! Carriers if they had about niue Frank
/ RebstockS.
Umpire Belts is a man they all seem
afraid 10 talk back TO. He is a good man
/ TO have around.
The Printers have at last changed around
] f4lRf
/ just where they are.
! Harris and Leach are the new finds"
! Of 'Tubby" They Will both do; that
/ is about all
Jim Sprigman saw his team walked away
! with by the Bureaus He has not been
/ out 10 the park since.
Thornberg has the reputation of being
! the LATEST man in the league.
"Trilby' Gleason rapidly improves with
his work in the box.
Riddle would make a good umpire
! Can Belote secure his services. Well,
1 should say not
The Infantry boys are just longing for
! another crack aJ the Bureau team. They
! promise to teach them thing OF two.
Eddie Fulleris suffering with bone felon
on his thumb and viii be unable 20 pitch
/ for several days.
The league officials should consider
services of two such umpires as Messrs
Belts and Sneeden.
SweltZer, of the Government Printing
/ Office nine and Bernard, orthe Bureau team,
! are each credited with thirteen strike outs
IN one game.
Doc Kleinschmidt is, beyond a doubt,
! the best outfielder in the league and with
the stick he is one OF the few who can be
! depended upon.
oP4 tim ID,
/ be given a cot on the field if he wishes
to go to sleep during the next game.
Mills, OF the Treasury team, has dis
| tinguished himself as a successful ''bunt'
hitter. In the last game with the City
| p office nine, he reached first-baSe four
times on "bunt' hits.
Royce Hough, the Pensioners big short
! stop, is rapidly gaining the reputation Of
/ a great infieldcr and heavy batter
! Keep it up Royce.
''Nimpo" Jones is laid up with a bad
! spike wound In his left leg and will be un-
able to cover second base for the Com
missioners for several days. With both
! Fuller and J Zones off, big hole is made in
/ Bob Barr's team.
That Fourth of July game" is becom-
! ing the pass word among the Infantry
| boys. The memory of that game, like the
third-base pla wing OF Patsy Flaherty Of
! the old Louisvilles, Will have eternal life
Capt. Jeager denies that there is any truth
/ in the rumor that the. Pensioners have
disbaDded. He says, on the contrary, that
! his team was never in better condition and
! is willing to meet any nine in or out the
! Departmental League.
If the league needs another umpire why
| not secure the services of O'NeiIl again?
| Belote may look from now until doOms
I day for an umpire, but he viii not find
man who knows the ropes better than
| O'Neill.
If Manager House could get Leach, the
Bureaus crack third baseman, who is a
member of the Infantry, and play him al
! short, what an infield he would hayei
just think of Stewart, Winkleman, Leach
and Wisner together. Why they would
| have no need for an outfield.
Cropley, the Bureaus new find has
proved himself valuable man to his team.
He seems to be able to play any position
on the field and has a batting record that
ought to carry him through. The champions
don't make many changes, but when they
do, you can be sure the change is for the
better.
Both the Letter Carriers and the Post
office Department teams appear to be on
| their last legs. 1t seems singular that out
| of all the mail handlers in the city there are
not nine men who are able to play ball.
| Unless some improvement is made in these
teams very shortly, the officials of the
league will undoubtedly take some action
in the matter. The way they have been
playing the game OF late is simply miser-
able.