Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

! Cincinnatians everywhere are pulling for
the Reds. and II will be a grand thing for
the game generally II she takes the nag.
How would the Queen City's championship
team of 1882 look alongside Of the gang
which BuCkerinO Ewing is so splendidly
handling today2 For instance. there were
Charlie Snyder and Phil Powers, catchers,
and they were good ones, too. Snyder I'M
doubtedly being the peer Of any man who
ever stood behind the plate. VIII White
and II. Mccormick did the pitching. while
Danny Stearns guarded first. bid McPhee,
second-where he is still today-old lbick
Carpenter third. Charlie Fulmer short and
Joe Sommer, Little Maccullar and Harry
Wheeler in the field, with those two kraut-
eating counts, Gotlieb Lun and Rudolph
Kemmler, as substitutes.
But how about the League race as a
whole? Cleveland and Baltimore are neck
and neck for second place, and while both
have lost ground to Cincinnati, they have
held their own so far as each other are
concerned. Boston is still in the fourth
hole, but apt to drop into the sixth before
the sun Of next Saturday night goes down,
Selees Bean Destroyers have been treated
with excessive rudeness on this trip, and
they little resemble the crowd OF giants
who use to come out into the west from
the region round about Dorchester bay and
whale the supreme prune juice out OF every
thing that dared say them nay. That grand
old fossil, Uncle Arson. with his lin and
cutters, Is barely aDlG 10 nOlu MS OWL,
while the Piratical Pittsburgs dogs his foot
steps like the Nemesis in a dime novel.
The Philadelphia have been acting like a
lot of Camelbacked dray horses, and when
they win a game II so unnerves them that
they lose the next eight: Washington pulled
a ten. story brick building onto herself when
she let out that beautiful child. called Jack
Crooks. and New York. st. Louis and Louis
Vile still continue to quarrel among them
selves over the tail-end honors, with the
Falls City aggregation having almost a lead
pipe cinch.
A Minneapolis paper says that BILLY
Kuehne has at last struck his gait. and is
playing good ball and hitting we'll. Billy
is slow to get in condition, but when he
does round to he is as good as any third
baseman in the league" Well, l should say
Billy is slow getting into condition. | saw
him trying in Columbus, O., fourteen years
ago, and he's been hard at work at 1t ever
since.
Thomas jefferson Hickey's league, I see,
Is unfortunately humping against the shoals
Of adversely. Quincy has thrown up the
| sponge, and it Is doubtful whether the
association can be kept together much
longer. A natural consequence of once
electing that prize base ball bunco steerer.
Dave Rowe, to the presidency.
Bert Meyers, the Washington lad. who
has been playing a steady game at third for
Won dor Abe. is the latest victim of one
of Chris sledgehammer epigrams. Bert is
q plump, we'll built chap. On failing to
make a hit in one of the games with two
Browns on the bases, Chris, who couldn't
find any fault with Berts playing and was
sore because he didn't bring in the desired
hit. said: "Shust look at him. lie walks
like a Observation-Disclosures Post.
Dan Mills rubs it in SO: Cheap. broken
down or cast-off ball players will hear some
thing to their advantage by addressing the
Philadelphia Base Ball club, limited"
Joe Campbell says: players who strut,
fret, pose and puff in practice ofttimes re-
semble the Thespian who strikes calcium
light attitudes in motel corridors and is act
ing so hard during the day that his his
trionic talents are exhausted when the cur
tain ascenGs. This sort of player. who
shines in practice and who ceases to scin-
tillate when the game begins, is what j.
Earl Wagner calls an actor and a record
player"
Ed Delehanty's record at Chicago last
Monday was a wonderful one. He faced w.
Adonis Terry five times, and made five
hits. -Four of them were home runs and
the other a single, and yet the Quakers
lost their seventh straight to westerners,
for Chicago pulled out 8 to 8.
Parson Nicholson isn't so ministerial
looking today as he was a few days ago.
lie, blocked saint Kraus at second up in
st. Paul the other day, and had two teeth
Knocked out in celebration of his successful
trick, Both the Parson and the pugilistic
Kraus were taken out of the game, which
Bert Inks won for st. Paul, 7 to 5.
Dan Brouthers is worth something like
$4,000, and will soon celebrate his list
birthday. Still he thinks he is good enough
for the Western league. and is begging any
old manager to hire him. Git out, Dan,
you are a was
If there were about eighteen more Gin
cinnati papers some good manager might be
gold-bricked into signing Billy Earle, the
little abnormally formed catcher and played
out all-'round ball player, for a few days.
lavished on him by the Cincinnati journal
lists this season and still he has gone down
the pike to play with Maysville.
If the National league lays down. to
that brilliant ruffian OF the ball field, Patsy
Bolivar Tebeau, somebody ought to go right
off and start another brotherhood.
mike Kelly never lost any sleep when
the newspapers shot tObasco at him for his
playing says Tom Brown. "Kel muffcd
a fly in right field that lost the Chicago
Whites a game years ago, when the only
and original $40, 900 beauty was playing for
Uncle Arson. The Chicago base ball writers
wrote their stories in a gas stove, to judge
from the sultry deal they gave Kel the
next morning, and when Mike reported at
the grounds Ansc asked him if he had read
the Tribune, which was sorer against Kel
than the other papers, Kel read the roast
and had a reply to make to it. He never
was caught without an answer. 'Anson,'
he said to the old man, I know why this
Tribune man roasted me. You see, Cap, he's
jealous of me. He has a girl who is stuck
on my manly figure just the same as the
rest of the girls. She told this Tribune
reporter what a fine looking fellow | was
and he got back at me for mufhng that
fly yesterday. That's what a ball player
gets for being pretty"
Baltimore's pitchers have not made a par
ticularly brilliant showing of late, in fact
they have shown extreme weakness and the
champions have been very lucky to get away
with the last three or four victories, -Balti-
more Herald.
Bals2, P~equigney, Darby, Mccarthy, Deyer-
eauX, Zeis and Pace are among the ex-
Western association players who are on the
coast out of a job.