The evening times., 1896-08-28

was The fact that in the eight games played
tie winning scorein four Of them was sevep..
runs, In two othen was nine runsand In tEes
remaining two ten runs
Washington's three victories over Gin
cinnati will be recorded the surprise Of
the season. Cleveland Plain Dealer
'.HooioO' awley will rot p:tcliin WASH
ington again this season. Au rev0ir. Pink;
may you winter we'll and come to WASH
ington for your usual spring clearing.
The washington Clubnow hast twenty s. play
ers under contract including several dead
'uns.''- Piitsbarg Leader. Lively enough
for the Pirates.
New York is limiting at an exchange OF
Rusic Tor Mercer, but washingtoni,n can
not see it---Exchange Nor will Wagner
make trade.
(. Washington has new second base.
man in George wrigley. of Roanoke. He
may make Jack O'Brien take brace
Cincinnati Post. And Jack has taken
brace. ~
Now. Hawley, shake that Senatorial
hootioo and win today. Pittsburg Leader.
Pink was not equal tu the OCCASION. There
was a balloon ascension in the eighth in
ming and Ha wiley went up in the air.
When Nash bought Lajoie" from Fan
River. Manager Marston OF that club said:
You are paying me 81 800 Tor man who
you would not sell for $4,000 after Ire
pia VS. out the season with you" Nash says
$4,000 could not boy Lljoie today.
Charlie Snyder had an Interesting day
II f.c.. rr.
jumped ON Phil Knell in the last INNING.
;irai won n game. The crowd blamed IL
on the umpire, and some Of them wanted
TO lynch Snyder. Police escorted him off
the grounds. I'D"
Elmer Smith and j axe Stencil, the Pirates
pair OF star rielt.ers, ioired tie club yester-
day. They are yet on the hospital list. Int
hope 10 tie able TO get in the game IN a
Jew days. They occupied the bench in uni
form yesterday and Looked with impaiience
mixed with sorrow ON the defeat of their
comrades.
The Louisville Club has so many dis
abled players OH its team that Manager
Mc.iuDnsic seriously contemplates en-
gaging an ambulance TO convey them 10
and from the games. In spite Of their
cripple condition, however they are play
iDegreat ball and are liable to take game
from any club.
When the possibility Of tie release Of
Dumping Mcmahon was hroached, Frank
nwyer said They had letter rot let
him go. McMahon is reliable man His
arm may not he in the best shape ipst now.
but If Raltimore drops him there are lots
of other clubs that will grab iHm and Ia ke
the chance that Ee'll oome tack good
Washington. the clu br la uhas been roasted
for allowing joyce Ia 90 To New York. h.s
settled CinciDnati's test chances for The
pebnant by taking three games from the
Reds. That will row make Schmelz tia.
heroin the Ca pitai City Tor a while al least
Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tie players are
| se>iBg the credit and Tom BROWN Is get
, ting scod work out Of them.
Says tie New York Herald: Young
| Rogers is absolutely the freshest .baI
player OH earth. How hc managed TO come
! through the late hot spell without the ai,i
| OF n refrigerator is a puzzle. With the CO.
| operation OF the only pianO-legged pia yer
in the League. George Sawdolf Miller. he.
| did enough howling, chattering and shrick-
| ing to bring on paralysis OF the lungs. Mr..
Rogers proper profession is that qf acting
Wild Wafnpuni. the Indian Slayer with Tia.
Wild West show
james Owen Oconior Holiday is the
| latest. THE Bug has taken to dramatic
recitals, and he gives limitations OF john T.
Raymond in a manner that would create an
| active demand III The egg market. During
one Of the Bugs The re- millions in it,
4
eye over the new candidate for Thcspian
honors, and declared: I've an idea that
| somebody hit me OH the neck with Il bat
| whileI was asleep in Boston. IN mention
! no names, but I've my suspicious who did
| it, Cincinnati Post.
| The Western can rightfuliy 5c called the
league for the aged. The st. Paul bis
| patch says Why IL is tina; some I.coijle
| refer to Glasscock as the old man is n n.ys-
teFy. He is only thirty-fivc years Of age.
| younger than either Comiskey or TwitcheiI,
and scores of others in the Western League.
Those Minneapolis people who yelled anI
danced III the grand stand. and Elade i, IN
hcarable for the ladies yesterday, are re-
| minded that the bleachers afford place
| for war dances, and the ladies have soin,.
rights chgentlemen are bound Ia respect
st. Paul Dispatch. These fellows were
something like crowd OF yelling. horn,
blowing. rattie-twister Baltimor, ans at ii
recent game in this city. - '-'
Pat Tebeau net long since said that h..
| did not care SO much for a pitcher who
makes these great strike-out records II
indicates, he argues. wildness on the part
| of the twirler. An amateur hatsman is
inclined TO strike at anything that comes
| along" said Teheau. land Us a result sot,lc
| or these 'sky-rocket' pitchers strike out
| fifteen or twenty men in a game without
! putting the ball over the plate. Now against
| eXperiencedbatters most Of the 81 rikcs made.
| by youngsters would he called balls for thu.
| Old fellows who wait and make the pitcher
| put 'em over, "r go down to first on four bad
| ones. Occasionally you find cne of these
boys develop into phenom. when they get
so they can control the ball.
] President Wagner, OF Washington, 81 vs.
This man Smith, If given. Il chance, viii
make the people forget that any such per
son as Scrappy Joyce ever PLAYED here
To this Harry Weldon remarks: "Just no w
Smith, the University OF Pennsylvania ma n
who took JOyce's place, is the most talked
| OF player on the Washington team. If a
vote OF the citizens wer etaken tonight he
tween Smith and joyce, the former. on tn.
head of what he did against the Cincinnati
team this afternoon, would carry itby 100
to !. If the work he did in both games to
| day In fai r criterion, thea the Washington
| club is to lie congratulated on having one
OF the greatest finds of the year. Smith
had ten chances in the two games and &C.
cepted them all. He was called on to MAKE