The morning times., 1896-08-06
DIAMOND DUST.

Same old story.
Gliding the gutter.
scrappy aud his (new, band lost also.
Get at 'em today, scrappy Bill ami your
new band.
Baltimore is at the top and will come
very near staying there.
big BIZ Norr, OF the New York World ,
calls The Senators The beheaded Washing
TONS
There is a shootin' the chute arrangement
adjoining South Side Park in Boston, and
the temptation was too great for the sena-
tors TO resist.
The New Yorks were in tenth place for
four months. One good thing about IL,
the Senators won't stay in the position
that long.
Johnny O'Brien made TWO home runs
in two consecutive days. Cool boy,
johnny! Keep up the lick ana perhaps
st. Louis won't pass US after all.
The crank who is ever dreaming in
des cent dreams said: Just wait until
next year" He said no mere, as lie
was buried underneath pile Of bricks.
Perhaps Jimmy McJamcs has g victory up
his sleeve and will let il out this after
noon. Let us hope so, as a teating every
day is nothing short OF horriblethis weather.
Capt Tom Brown is ways warmly well
coined in Boston Tim Murnane sa VS. Tom
and Scrappy are The most popular Of all
the players who visit the Hub with other
clubs. They played with Boston in for
mer years.
Wasiingtonians are all up III arms over
the sale OF Capt. Joyce TO New York.
The loss Of Crooks and Rogers was bad
enough, but this last transaction caps the
cliinax.-Boston Herald.
Manager Irwin has gathered together n
hustling nine. now that Jake BeCEley and
Scrappy Bill Joyce are in playing form,
and 1t is well known that Kid Gleason IS
not Chesterfield on the ball grounds
Brooklyn Eagle.
La Chance, the Brooklyns' first base
man. is 4 remarkably clever boxer. He
can fight at Te pounds. He should join CO.
miskey's crowd.-Kansas City Star. Yes,
or rtacklc Tim Hurst for the league Champion
ship.-ClevelaDd Plain Dealer.
Horace Fogle OF the Public Ledger has
started boom for Comiskey as manager of
the PhiiIes. Corney is doing almost too
well III his own vineyard TO 90 wildcatting,
looking after some other fellows fig trees.
Commercial Tribune.
Beckley and Joyce have greatly strength
ened the New York team. Yesterday
these two pla yers did the bulk Of the bat
ting for New York, Joyce ma king four hits
while Beckley made three. Joyce also
put up great game at third.-New York
Evening News.
Phil Knell has been released by the Fort
Wayne Club, subject to the approval OF
the Cleveland league team, to whom he
was under contract. Kncll was famed
to Fort Wayne and won seventeen out Of
twenty-tw ogames. ina king the Fort Waynes
champions OF the Interstate League. He
was released TO reduce expenses, being too
high salaried for the Interstate League.
Scrappy Bill Joyce's work was revela-
tion 10 those who had seen him play last
week with the washingtons. He is putting
his whole heart in his work, and his batting
and fielding yesterday were beyond the
expectations Of the most rabid among his
Gotham followers. Beckley, too. was u
tower of strength in fact the four leaders
OF the visiting batting order was quartet
hard TO beat.-BrcosIyu Eagle.
According to the latest statement Of the
figure crank, Jesse Burkett still leads tie
league batsmeD, but his average is but
five points above the 400 mark. Hoy leads
the league in sacrifices and Lange, the big
ChicagUaD, has stolen the greatest number
of bases. 1t is Jennings, of Baltimore,
who is now close after Burkett, and his
average is 401. Dahlcn, of Chicago, is
next with ass, and Delehanty is only enc
point behind him. In fielding Cuppy leads
the pi itchers. wilson is sixth. Young seven
teeDth and Wallace thirtieth. Tebcau is
seventh among the regular first basemcn,
Childs twelfth at second and McGarr second
at third.
Has Mercer. indeed. lost his cunning?
The following are sone of the remarks
made around The Times bulletin board yes
teriay afternoon while the Washington
Boston score was being posted by innings.
Hope they losc;'' .'st. Louis will pass
'em next Mercer might win:" scrap
py could always beat Boston, Il am
pulling for New York 10 heat Baltimore
today, amt your You bet / am;' II
hardly think Washington will win another
game this season." Wonder who they have
in view for third base in Joyce's place."
1T looks like we never would have good
club In this town." Something always
happens to break 1t up when it Gets
start" Washington has scored again.
There goes the ninth inning" 'five TO
-four in favor of Boston," II told you so,
didn't To- so did L." $50 lcng."
Phil Geier, the catcher secured from the
FAN River Club by Capt. Nash for the Phil
adclphias, is Washington boy and learned
the rudments of the game on the vacant
lots around the city. His father is Center
Market dealer. Young Geier was pupil
of DeMontrevile's in preliminary practice
prior to the opening of last season and again
this spring. He played with Norfolk last
season and gave such satisfaction that he
was wanted again, but lie accepted bet
ter offer from Fail River of the New Eng
land League. He is stockily built
youngster and bids fair to grow large. DIS
he is only twenty years old. He was con-
sidered the fastest throwing and headiest
backstop in the New England organization,
and Capt. Nash thinks he has secured n
great prize. He will join the Phiilies on
the l 9th instant.
In the management of Baltimore. Cleve-
and and Cincinnati the one-man Idea
prevails to a greater extent than in any
II the other clubs of the League circuit.
Harry Won der Horst had the Baltimore
club for years before Ianlon Joined his
forces, and what did he do with it? II
merely held respectable position in the
association race, thanks to the energetic
endcavors of Billy BarDie. When Hanlon
came along Won der Horst had sense to see
hat HanIon knew more about baseball in
a minute than he Won der Horst knew in
q year, and consequently Han!on was given
! free foot Frank De Haas Robson. Of
Cleveland. thinks too much of the eo1d
hngs Of this life to bother abo1t the de-
tails of a ball club, and consequently he
gconcernngthe professional
,r playing end to Tebeau.
Business Manager Pulliam. OF the Louis
Vile Club, remarked Friday night. when
he heard OF the row at Cincinnati between
Killen and Umpire Llily: THE Ieagre
will have to stop these suuabbles on the