Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-10
Base hall Notes.

| ings.
Base hall Notes.
| Rain prevented the game in Baltimore.
Owing to the lain yesterday Mr. Wag-
| ner, with the consent of Captain Arson of
| the Chicago club. has decided to make
| this afternoon special ladies' day at Ma
| tional Park. band of music is to be in
| attendance. and either Mercer or Maui will
| be pitted against Friend.
| kittredge of the Chicagos has had but
| one passed ball this season.
Red Ehret seems to be pitching much
| better ball with the Reds than he did with
| Won der Ahe's aggregation.
| Mailman of the Philles says the reason
| Cuppy and thinner are SO successful as a
battery is because they give their signals
| in German.
| In the last two years the Pirates have
won only two games in Brooklyn Since
1s.D they played tifty-four games there
| and Won only twelve of them. They lest
| forty and tied one.
There IS only one ground in he league
| where the men are thrown out at first by
the right fielder 1t is at Philadelphia,
| where a sharp right fielder can often gath
! er red-hot grounders on the rebound and
| get them to first ahead of the runner.
If the champion Baltimores played the
same kind of base ball against other clubs
| that they play against Cleveland thcy
would not win one game d week. If they
played against Cleveland the same kind
of ball that they recently played against
Cincinnati and Pittsburg the Cleyelands
would leave here in second place.-Pitts-
burg Chronlcle-Telegraph
Fred Pfeffer said the other day that
President Freedman of the New York club
treated him like a dog while he was in that
city. He wouldn't pay me Or release me.
but took every opportunity to humilate
me by telling me that l, was a physical
wreck" =
The most noticeable thing about Cali
fornia ball players IL their love for good
clothes What players can compare with
Jim Fogarty. Tom Brown. Fred. Carroll.
Ed. Morris and Bill Lang when it comes
down to tasty dress and disposition to
JOY the best in life?
1t is highly probable that two of the
recent Brooklyn games will be protested
received by the Louisville management
from Brooklynites, who say that the de-
cisions of Weidman We're simply rank. Ac-
cording to one Brooklyn spectator, the
Louisvilles, with anything like fair UNI
pres. would have won both games. Pres-
dent sruckey will ask Brssiaent Young to
take some action in the matter.
1t Is said to be the present intention of
Brouthers. who has always been thrifty,
saved his money. and by making good in
vestments has accumulated enough wealth
to him through during the rest of his
life. to retire at the end Of the season, and
to retire with the best record made by HIM
in any season during his entire base ball
career. With that end in view ne is TAX
particularly anxious to make a good rec
ord.
George Miller, the human beagle-the
only piano-legged man playing ball, the
only professional whose flesh Is bounding
rubber--woudn't acknowledge defeat until
both teams had left him on the field. Never
mind that. old man. Get at EN- now"
We'll, let's make some more runs and
the like philosophy of hope fell from his
lips constantly. as though there was a
loaded phonograph cylinder in his broad,
convex chest. If faith is the basis of Chris
tianity. Mr.. Miller should be a bishop in
stead of a base ball catcher.-Exchange
The Cincinnati Reds performed feat
that will be difficult to duplicate This
twice in one series. and at that on the lat
ter's own grounds. The Reds are flying
high these spring days. and they were
close onto Baltimores heels during the
past week that had Baltimore lost and
Cincinnati won one more game Baltimore
would have been third.
There must be something wrong In the
Boston club. for the Beaneaters do not
seem to be playing anything like the game
they should. Reports have it that there Is
trouble in the team. and that one thing at
the bottom of this trouble is the repeated
and continual efforts of a certain Boston
critic of the game to dictate to the men
how and when they must bat 1t is fur
Their said that the men greatly resent this.
Win Mercer was in the hunt again Satur-
day He is pitcher sure enough. With
high-class team to back him up. both at
the bat and In the field, he. would come
pretty near winning every time he went in
the box. AS it is. with tail-end team be-
hind him, he wins four out of every five
games. He is the best pitcher in the
league, everything considered. The Reds
ere the only team that have given him
very not reception this season. '-Exchange.
No players created more tricks
played faster ball than Kelly. Williamson,
Burns; Pfeffer. Flint, Corcoran. ''Goldy"
and the other boys of the famous White
Stocking a
bet 800 on the game. always betting OH
their own team. of course. with outsiders.
<ei' would go to Corcoran and say:
Larry look little doubtful today; guess
were beaten" "How's that" Larry would
ask. ION, IN just bet you new hat I'm
right "Ker' would reply carelessly.
Corcoran would go in and pitch like a
horse and win his new hat, while KEEL
got his hundred
Jack Doyle's return to the game was in
the nature of a surprise, welcome it
was unexpected to the Baltimore fans. He
got right into the game, too, and played
all the week with his old-time vigor. I'm
less that ankle begins to trouble him
again, at present there being no signs of
such thing, he will so right on at first.
VIII White, the famous eye-glassed
pitcher, who was never known to hit ball,
was at bat one day. and man in the press
room remarked that White would some
DAY make a home run. There was much
merriment and one man offered to bet his
s"oo gold watch against cent that White
would make no homer on this particular
occasion. Good bet. even If 1 lose" said
the other, and watch and cent We're duly
staked Hardly was the wager deposited
when White hit that ball one terrific paste
and started around the bases. The ball
went on and on: so did White, and the man
OF the gold watch turned deadly pale.
Rounding third base. White stumbled and
fell, ffoundered around, regained his feet,
went ahead and was caught by a tiny
margin at the plate He who had put up
his watch seized his timepiece, letting the
cent drop in his excitement, and exclaimed:
Gentlemen. If 1 get out of this ground
alive shall never see another ball game!"