The morning times., 1896-08-11
soUrHERN LBAGtE GAMES.
DIAMOND DUST.
At Baltimore again TO-DAY.

At Baltimore again today. {.
Anyhow, they didn't shut us out again.
Jim Stafford's arm s nendiDg rapidly.
He expects TO rejoin the New Yorks in two
weeks.
There are others. Patsey's Spiders are
shootin' the chute. o@''
scrappy Bill was In the game yesterday
1t is a habit he has.
Tomorrow the ''reorganzed'' Senators
will meet the ''rejuvenated'' Quakers. And
a battle royal It should be.
Buffalo seems to be the dark horss In the
Eastern League pennant race. The Bisons
are now fighting with Rochester for first
honors. ----,---
The veteran pitchers OF the League are
winning the majority OF the games this
season. The youngsters have not panned
out so well.
John B. Foster opines that Center Fielder
McAleer had more TO DO with making the
Spiders pitchers effective than any other
man ON the team.
Only one more game with Baltimore.
Sound the hew gag and beat the tom-tom.
A nd that the agony is SO nearly over, let US
put on holiday attire and speed the parting
pesti!ence.
Strange, but since Joyce has Joined New
4
ity OF the games played. Scfappy Bits
successor as manager OF the Senators has
had no such luck"
II Artie Irwin were dropped from the
New York pay roll and Biii Joyce appointed
manager there wouid still lie some chance
of the Giants finishing in u respectable
position. Cleveland Press. ...-
When You have a good thing, keep II.
And when you have "a winning ball club
let 10 disturbing influences into the fold.
This, aneBt Schnelz's Joining the Senators
ON the Western trip That proved SO disas-
trous. "Nuf ced."
John NJ. Ward picked up 'Scrappy"
Joyce when he was rough one. and his
polishing process on the BruokIyn Players
League did joyce world of good When
''Scrappy Bili'' joined New York his pre-
ceptor said: "AEior 'scrappy BIll, he is
Worth 1ta, his weght IL ip gold" d'"-fittseurg
That was q great gafns ,e3 that Jimmy
McJamcs pitched against Boston, Thurs
day Nichols had but very little the best
of it. The. yirginian is probably the best
young pitcher OF tha .season and in
winning team would be- wonder.-Cin-
cinnati Post.
Manager Gus ScbmelZ has few more
irons in the League fire, and there is a
transfer. The Senators have offered TO
exchange Charley Abbey, the outfieider.
and Catcher McAuiey for Colonel McCreery,
but Manager McGunnigle isin a deep brown
study. and has not handed out his ultima
tum to the press.-Cncitnati Enquirer.
The Washington ladies' who patronizc
baseball are 40 enthusiastic set, and as
supe rstitious as they arc enthusiastic. When
the club is losing at the ginning of the
MI IN .f ON
seen to rise solemnly and turn around
from left to right before resuming her
seat. Ifby chance one happens 60 get mixed
in her dates and turns the wrong way,
the crowd shudders and cries, with one ac-
cord. 1.-The other way! the other way.''-
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
1t would be safe to say that the two
most important minor leagues-the East
ern and the Western-averag sc, player for
pla yer, older men than the National. The
reason is simple. Old stars from the big
League have been dropping down, while
the blood taken int the big organization
has been of the youngest. While men OF
such age as MuIane, Hutchison, Giasscock,
Brouthers, Bassett and so on are playing
by dozens in the lesser lea CUES, there is
no excuse for calling these organizations
nurseries OF budding genius" So says
W. A. Phelon, Jr.
Baseball operators sometimes have their
troubles in sending copy for correspond
ents. Especially is this so when the
knight Of the key sent to dispatch the mat
ter happens to be q non-enthusast. George
Willis, veteran operator in balloon, re-
marked to Ed Nestlake the other day,
that he once saw green operator, whose
knowledge of baseball was nil, try to send
report OF game. 1.-The copy read:
Stencil hunted safely said Willis, land
IL that operator didn't send it 'bunted safe
ly to first I'll give up my vocation. An
other time he gravely telegraphed: Brett
enstein blew to Smith, st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Manager Hanlon, has earned the graft
tude and confidence OF the rooters by the
way he squelched the Washington man..
agement in the way of the McGraw Of
fer. McGraw Is one of the most popular
players that ever wore Baltimore uni
form, and.a terrible howl would rend the
sky If he should be allowed 10 leave the
team. Hanlon's talk shows that he has
never entertained any such idea. He has
good man at third now, and kno ws better
than to make needless change. Donnelly
is pla ying fast bali n the iDfield, hits the
leather at critical times when hits are
badl y needed, and knows how TO take care
of himself when once he reaches the ip-
itiai bas.-Pittsburg Press. .-.a
Manager Captain Scrappy Bill and his
tnew) band made monkeys of BIooklyn
yesterday. And to think! Oh, well, we of
Washington, as The Times has said BEFORE,
shouldn't want everything. We have the
city beautiful of the world. the tallest
monument, the most artistic sRickey"
mixers, the Grandest Capitol building.
super-superb streets and the prettiest girls
that. every swept o dreamy eye lash
over the peaches and cteshtnof a cheek such
as is only known to tits @lme. Then why
should we begrudge Raines-1aw-ridden
Ne W York the single boon of Serappy Bill
'ven though he was torn from US as un-
expectedly and as rutblessly as the tiger
kitten is entrapped from bis Bengal mother
or the jungle!
!, Suggestions are, floating around that
Washington may secure the services of
Nash, who is not having therasiest sort
of time with the Philadelphia manage-
ment 1t is even said that one of the
possible zcomhiDatacns. will be the ex-
change of Mcclure and Nash.-Cleyeland |
Plain Dealer. In order TO arrest this. para |
graphs travel AROUND the circuit 1t Is |
stated here that Mr., Wagner repudiates 4
all stories involving The, trading or sale
of sJinf MtGuire "Tfiere rs rot r.ehuugh
money ia the, League 70 buy Jim !" says