The evening times., 1896-07-24
BASEBALL NOTES.

st. Louis is doing quite well at pres
eDt
Tebeau is giving tie League the merry
La ha.
Charley Hasting las not made rase
lit since joining Pittsburg
Cincinnati, Baltimore and Cleveland are
having the prettiest race in the Leagues
history for the championship.
Catcher Warner, recently released by
Louisville, will probably sign with New
York.
Pitcher Wilson, of the Clevelands, whom
the Bostons let go as being no good, has
Won thirteen games for the CIevelands so
far this season. He has lost only three
Jimmy Rogers is n help TO the Colonels
where they most need it-at the bat.
Jimmy's hits are hard and timely and his
fielding is in the nature of revelation TO
the Louisville fans.-Pittsburg Leader.
Charley King was disabled by a liner in
the first game at Cleveland, and Lester
German pitched a really creditable game,
but the Senators couldn't hit Wilson.-Cin-
cinnati Post.
''vot DIT you do; blay nine pins nit
yourself?" said Chris to Tacks Parrott
after Tacks executed a grand stand fall
while chasing Gene DeMontnville's two
bagger in a game at st, Louis tie other
day.
Under the lines Baseball lois are
easily shattercI,'' Tim MurDane writes
Hugh Duffy has lost his hitting power
Tom Mccarthy is scarcely mentioned these
do - &c
failure in Philadelphia
Tie Boston Herald says: There is no
doubt that the great Improvement seen in
the batting and fielding of Tom Tucker
is due to his not going on the coaching
lines, as lie did last year,
Fred Pfeffer has separated his face from
his russet-tiuted mustacl!e with u Ponce de
Leon effect. Sans the lip ornament, Fred
looks as young as Johnny Foreman, and
Bill Lange calls him Master Fred, the
Boy Wonder.
Umpire Mcfarland is twenty-four years
old, and he has removed morc pia yers from
the game than any of the other un pires.
If lie chose he could write after his name
A. h, from the Washington University,
and LID. of the Lee University Law
School,
McGill's failure with tile Phjllies this
season is said to have been due to Dan
Bronthers, who would call the Kid down
whenever lie tBrouthers) made a poor
play, trying to blame it on the pitcher.
The other pitchers on the team, too, did
not like Brouthers.
Anson's southpaw, Friend. is one of the
rough gems that is beginning to sparkle.
Pbosphorescently in the center of the dia-
mond, Friend watches his bases like a
hawk. and, being left-handed, lie has an
advanta yes over the right-handers in throw
ing TO bases. He is fair batsman and fast
se-runner.
President Young is being severely criti-
cised for reaprointing Belts on his staff
of umpires. The sPittsburg and Phila,lei-
phia papers are Outspoken in their Com
ments on this action Somehow Baltimore
is the only city in the League where Petts'
appointment meets with any degree of sat
isfaction.- Herald
The Louisville Times says: "It is said
that Manager McGunnigle las his eye on
Lajoie, the heavy-hitting center fielder OF
the Fall River club. Lajoe las a batting
average of about 400. KlobedanZ of the
same club is eo1d enough for the big
League. For the sake of the score cards
it is hoped that both names will be kept
off the League list.
1t looks very much as if it would have
been wiser for Frank Robson and Tebeau
TO have quietly settled up their differences
with the League, and attended strictly to
baseball. All this worry, annoyance, and
uncertainty is, without doubt, affecting
the play of the Cleveland club. Smart as
Robson is, he is plainly overreaching him
self in this matter.-Baitimore Herald.
Philadelphia North American: 1t was
Henry Chadwick who gave utterancc to
the statement that baseball has not i'm
proved scientifically in the last ten years.
Frank selee, manager of the Boston team,