The evening times., 1895-09-18
TO SEE TaE SCHMELZ MEN
English Cricketers to Be Present at
To-morrow's Philadelphia Game.
notwithstanding This Mornings Rain
the BridegroOms and Senator's
VIII Meet This Afternoon.
tspecial 10 The rimes.l

/ issued an invitation TO OxIOrd ana Jam
| bridge and University Of Pennsy lvanta
cricketers and the members of the various
| committees to witness the championship
| baseball game at Broad and Huntington
streets on Thursday afternoon betweeI
| Philadelphia and Washington, and Georg
8. Patterson, on behalf of the cricketers
| has accepted the Invitation. 1t is expected
| that the party will consist of about fort.
| people, and the visiting Englishmen vii
| have a chance OF seeing how a ball II
curved, something they know nothing about
| The rain of this morning will not stot
| the game at National Park this after
/ noon. 1t will be called at 4:15, as usual.
| Mercer will again try his hand agains
| the Brooklynites. They seem to be ablt
| to make no beadway against him, and
| he will try hard to have the Senators mari
up another victory against the visitors.
You2g. Dc Montrevile, who did so wei
| at short yesterday, will play that position
| again to-day.
Yesterdays was the first game Boston
| has won from Baltimore this year. Up to
date the Orioles have won ten out of eiev'
en- To-day the twelfth game of the series
will be pla yed. Hoffer is to pitch for Bal
timore and Dolan for Boston.
1t is said that President Brush is aftel
Pitcher Sexton, who was tried by Boston
and found wanting. Sexton is now with
the Providence club and will be signed by
New York for next season.
Ansou may win his bets that his Colts
will beat Freedman's Giants, but he Will
hardly win the $3.50 he bet early in the
season that Louisville would finish better
than Washington or st. Louis.
Phladelphians are still groaning because
they did not get Carsey, Orth, Taylor,
Lucid, McGill, and Smith into good pitch
ing fix early in tue season. They say that
they would have landed the pennant sure
il they had, and it looks good deal as
though they are right.
The Washington club is said TO have Its
eyes on Frank Connaughton, OF the Kansas
CITY team, with the idea of pla lying him at
short. SAYS the indianapolis Journal. j.
Earl Wagner will make no mistake
in securing Connaughton for his team.
1t was the epiDon OF many people that
Boston made Il serious mistake when IL
let him go. How nicely he would I'LL In
there now, with Lowe and Mccarthy on
the hospital list.
Harry Davis, of the Pawtucket, R. l.,
team, has been signed by New York He
is to go on first base, and will begin work
on Saturday. He is said To be fast
PLAYER whom several of the big league
managers have been dickering for.
Jack Doyle announced yesterday that
he W i'll not be with the New York team next
year.
A Philadelphia paper says that Out
fielder Hill, whom the Washingtons are
reported To have secured, is nn great shakes
He is a nice thrower, but his fielding and
batting are light"
Colts Hutchinson and Ryan say they are
season is over, and there will be No slip-up
this time.
Mack has offered to trade sugden and
Cross to New York for Doyle.
According to an unofficial table of per-
centages for forty nf the heavy hitters,
Selba ch stands thirty sixth, MCGUIRE fortieth
and Cartwright forty-nintb.
Young De Montreville put up good game
at short yesterday. and it is possible that
he is now a fixture with the Senator's
1t now looks as though there would be
close to 200 percentage points between
washingto and the club that finishes in
ninth place in the pennant race. The wash
ington people are possibly going on the
principle that a real hide-raising walloping
is no worse than any other sort of a wallop-
ing, so far, at least, as baseball goes.
The Cleveland team treated Buck Ewing
and his braves to another scalpinS yester-
day. Twice out of twice at them in this
series have the Spiders given the Reds
this dose, and each time by the score Of
7.to0.
The Senators went down again yesterday,
but there is much to be thankful for that
the Won der Abe crowd went down also.
and they went down much harder than our
fellows.
Tomorrow the Senators go to Pbiladel-
phia to take another shy at the Quakers:
The Spiders will probably be beaten for
the pennant, but they will keep right on
coaxing flies into their parlor.
The Coionels fairly butchered the Browns
yesterday. McDougal, the Browns new
man, pitched coed game, Notwithstanding.
Breitenstein played center field for the
Browns in the game with Louisville yes
terday. His crippled knee made him move
around slowly.
New York got game from Philadelphia.
but Pop Anson, in order to make sure of
his Colts, went the Freedmanites one bet
ter, and threw Phtsburg down twice
Brooklyn and Chicago are tied for fourth
place to-day. 1t now looks as though two
Western clubs are to finish in the. first
division
The Sun baseball. reporter, now wtes
the Orioles in Boston, telegraphed his
paper last night that the Baltimores
realize that Cleveland's great pitching
strength may yet enable the Spiders to beat
the Orioles out of the championship, and