The evening times., 1896-08-06
BALTIM0RE IS NOW FIRST
l.ss
Leads Buck Ewlng's Braves
By a Narrow. Margin.
M'FARLAN STILL UMPIRING
Schmelz's Senatorial Aggregation Re-
ceives the Distinguished Consider
alton of Ren MulSord's Versatile
Brnins and Sam Crane Pays Atten-
tion TO Manager GUS whiskers.

es incited Umpire Lally TO pick that quar-
| rel with Killen, so That the latter could be
put out of the game.
Jake Virtue, who was stricken with
| paralysis at SPhifrdelphia the other day,
has received a liberal purse from the Cleye
land players. Virtue needs money.
Joyce lived up To his sobdquet of"scrap-
py' yesterday--Joyce lets no grass grow
under his feet when he has a kick coming
iz-SchmelZ tugs at his whiskers and whis-
pers, Where am ] 'at?' Baltimore Herald
1t is estimated that John T. Bush will
| clear $50, 900 with his Cincinnati team
This season. IriS the first time in years that
Western club has much more than cleared
| expenses. And only iSst year the Western
clubs We're gwen just one more season 10
| live or die.
Phil King and Harry King of this city are
now at Asbury Park. They are playing on
the ball team in~that place. Phil covers
second and Harry guards the initial bag.
Both men acquitted themselves in fine style
yesterday although their team was de-
feated by the Atlantic City club
| 1t is strange how ball players drift to-
! gether in the profession. In 1870, Joyce
and Van Haltren played with the Brooklyn
| Players League team, and now, six years
| after, they are with New York. ShiDdle
and Griffin played with the old Baltimore
Association Club and are now with Brook
| lyn. hta ss-e
President Crane, of the Atlantic League,
was slated for disbarment from the Polo
| ground Tuesday, but the powers that be
| recoDsidered. 1t will lie remembered that
the Atlantic League expelled the Nets,
which were controlled by the New York
club, and Crane has lived in expectation NJ
| retaliatory action.
Every timea deal is made by whichpla yers
| ttts inta a f,llt
diately rearraDge their signals for fear that
players let go will give them away. At the
present rate, Washington will exhaust the
| supply before the season is over. The Sen
| ators have been compelled TO change theirs
| half a dozen times MISUNDERSTANDING Eagle
| This is a missatement, as late information
| is to the effect that the club never had any
| signs.
.Uppre McFarlap is still ON the League
| staff. Mac said yesterday that heswas
I waiting for an assignment TO go East.
| Said he: Il have made up my mind in the
| future 10 stay in the game no matter iiow
disgusting the tactics resortcd to, and /
| will maintain discipline. j know that i
can umpire good ball" McFarlan has
many friends n this city who would Exc
| to see him remain in the game. He IS
good umpire. HIS trouble is his d is
| position 10 quit the field when the players
become very rowdy. Louisville Times.
The treatment the umpire was sub
7 Jected to yesterday was disgusting in the
extreme. Belts umpired a good game. tile
best he has ever done in Louisville. and was
entitled to some consideration from the
+ crowd. The minute Louisville began 10
lose, however, he became target for the
yilest abuse from a band of rooters that
| sat Immediately under the grand stand.
He was called every name in the vocabulary
of profanity. II was cowardly, disgracerul
T,..-
countenance such conduct.-Louisv vile
Times.
An old trick that is seldom accom-
plshed now was worked on the Pirates at
Louis vile. Pink Hawley was advanced
| to third on DoDoyan's hit 10 left Clarke
threw the ball in TO Clngman. who passed.
| il 10 Rogers The latter made as though
lie had thrown it to the pitcher. Fraser
| took his place in the box and told Belts To
watch third. Hawley was ten feet off the
bag, when Rogers passed the ball unnuticed
| to Clingman, who touched His Pink
l. Ship out. The latter looked very fool
ish. Imagine Connie Mack's feelings. He
was standing on the coaching line near,
| looking at everything except the right
thing the ball.
Where are all those toughs you have
when you pla y in Cincnnati?' a gentleman
asked Pat Tebeau as he sat under the
grand stand at Sportsman's Park yes
terday. I've been looking at the Cleve-
lands play for five years, but / never
yet saw them play the dirty, fonlmolthed
ball read about. What do you do to
keep your toughs quiet?" ''Well,' said
Patsy, I'VE are worse here than any
where else, because this is our town.
Jack Connor and myself belong here, and
we take licenses in st. Louis that we
would not take elsewhere. The reason
you do not see any trouble here is that
you are not trying to rob us out of the
chanlpionship."-St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Charles Comiskey says he can't under
stand DenZer, the Saints star pitcher. He
says: II have managed ball teams all my
life and developed all sorts Of players, but
confess that cannot accountforthat man
DenZer. He is mystery. He is beyond
my comprehension. / simply know that
without any especial care on my part he
has developed suddenly into the star pitcher
of the Western League. Last year he was
anxious to be given chance, and Tried
him, and he did fair work. This spring
allowed him to pitch few games and
thought might let him go into the box
occasionally when we had soft thing
Before knew 1t I had wonderful
pitcher on my hands. He has surprised the
baseball world, but has surprised no out
slider as much as he has surprised me. I
will not be surprised now to see him do
| anything. What he will do next year 1
cannot begin to say.r-Kansas City Times.
Sam Crane puts 1t this way in the Com
mercial Advertiser Poor Washington and
poor Gus Scbnelz! What terrible setback
that was for them yesterday In less than
week after making deal which caused
every Washington crank to shout MUIR
derI" the club which was so fortunate TO
get Joyce goes over them and gleefully
s.truns 'em down. No wonder Gus looked
disgusted and detected when that tenth In.
ming gave the New Yorks the winning run.
1t was most barro wing experience for
Gus to sit through such game. The deal
was most unpopular with washington en-
tbusiasts, for Joyce was deservedly popular
there. 1t was simply because Joyce and
-Scbmelz could not get along together that
the former. was letigosS Schmelz found his
authority oyerriden by Joyce, who con-
sidered that it was his management that
gave the team the wonderful spurtit took in
the SPRING Wiien Gus reassuined the man-
agerial reins the teams downfall began.
Gus.and his cohorts will return to the
Capital City like Coxey's army. Gus will
go home by way Of back streets, and
the players will notbe greeted with brass
band, tbatis sure. Bill Joyce did not figure
to any great extentin winning yesterdays
game. He was there, all the same, and was
as much pleased as Gus was disgruntled.
Bill was magnanimous, however, and al
though he look ed over ex ultantly at Schmelz
after the game yet he refrained from rub