The evening times., 1896-09-17

Temple Cup honors, though to make II sure
Cleveland would have to lose foar out uf
its remaining eight games.
Buck Ewing talks of going behind the
bat once more in one Of the home games
before the season closes, just To show that
he is as good Il catcher as ever.
Buck Ewing has his eye OH Fifield, aui is
said to have made Detroit an offer for him.
Fifield is one of the good pitchers OF ths
Western League who has received very
little booming.
Anson is now training Davis, a South
ern league lcft-handed pitcher, for next
season. He thinks he will prove won
der with a WITHDRAWING and hardening, but
will not use him this year.
Louis Criger, Fort wayne's star catcher.
has been signed TO play with Cleveland
next year Jack Powell, a young pitcher
whom Teheau found playing with the thi-
cago Maroons, has also been reserved by
the Spiders.
Anole. whom Baltimore has signed. IS
about five feet nine inches tail weighs about
100 To iG5 pounds and is heavily built about
the shoulders and chest. He is known rs
"poc'' Amole. He care from Coates
vile, Pa.
When Joyce removed Seymour in the
second inuiag of Saturdays game, "ty
| Didn't want To let go. Il want To stay IN
aud take my medicine said he. Why,
great Jumping Jupiter" exclaimed joyce,
'-you have taken 1-an overdose at that
| DO you want to commit su:cide?''
varney Anderson, the en- Senator who has
ha.p with Ninupan,liS returned q
| his home at Rockford, H., to spend the
winter, refusing an offer to finish the sea
| son with Kansas City. II is more than
probable that Anderson will take the man
agemcnt OF the Rockford team i'll the West
efn Association next year.
Keep your eye on that younestcr Geicr
| OF the Philles. He has been making some
| wonderful catches in that outfield. aud the
| other day nailed three Dagger Off jimmy
| Rogers. Next season he VIII class up
| with Nike Griffin and other tiptoppers.
That's Bill NcGunnicle's impression of
the Washington lad whom Nash purchaS-
ed from Fall River.-EXchanee.
The Pro videncc and Buffalo baseball
! clubs, having finished first and second, re-
| spectively in the championship series OF
| 1896 for the Eastern league pennant, are
entitled to compete for the Stcinert Cup
! in a series Of gam scheduled To he played
| on September II l9and 20 at Buffalo, and
September 23, "a and 26, at Providence
The umpres selected To officiate are Gaff-
ney and Swartwood.
The Virginia State League baseball man
ayers have decided to throw out the pro-
tested Norfolk Portsmouth game Of last
Monday, making Norfolk and Portsmouth
tied for the first place in the last half Of
the season. Tie game Will probably never
be piayed off. Nobody is champion, and
tins is the last of the Virginia State League.
which was so successful last year and such
a dismal failure this year.
Frank Griffith, the little fellow who used
20 pitch for Northwestern University, and
afterward went to Cleveland, leaviIag
that club and pitching for oil City and
Rockford, viii probably never he seen on
the professional field again. Ills arm is
! almost useless, and he has to jerk the
bah in wing. while his health is giving
away, and he writes Chicago friend That
he has developed consumption.
Treasurer Harry Won der Horst of the
Orioles presented Manager HanloI- witt
a fine silk umbrella yesterday. The f"a-
ture of tie parapline is a beautifully
carved ivory handle. The work was done
IN Japan. and is a decidedly artistic per
| .ormauCe. The handle is covered with
| grihning faces, cut in the solid ivory,
which are intended to represent, so Mr..
| Won der Horst says, the counteuanccs OF
the thirty-third degree rooters.
Manager Hanlou has secured new out
| fielder. Yesterday he concluded arrange
ments with William II. Hargrove, who
| has been playing center field for the Ports
| mouth team in the Virginia League. Bar
| grove is reported to be a'fine fielder and
an unusually heavy batter. He will re-
port at once. HanlOn intends 10 carry
an extra outfielder next season, and as the
deal with SlaGle of the Texas League fell
through, he lost no time in closiug with
Hargrove.
Chris Won der Abe, president OF the st.
Louis Browns, is defendant in a suit filed
in the circuit court at st. Louis yesterday
by Miss Annie Kaiser, who asks for S1O,-
900 dana ges for breach OF promise. Re
Gently Mr. Won der Ahe married in Erie,
Pa, Miss Della Wells, of st. Louis.
When this was announced Miss Kaiser
stated that Won der Abe had promised 10
marry her, hut the time had never been
set for the wedding.
Rem. Mulford, jr., says in the Cincinnati
Post: while the Redswerc winning they
drew praise from the sporting spigots by
the quart, but as soon as misfortune orcr-
look them this was all changed and the
:eam has come in for lots of caustic treat
ment. There is John my -Jo- j Ohm Whiskers
Anderson of Baltimore, for instance, vino
says: The only thing the matter with HE
Reds is that they are mostly all rcjuvenat-
ed has beens, and the rejuvenation was not
CO mplete enough And what can the mines
who are still swallowing Cincinna!it's dust
be tcrmed?"
1t looks just now as if the Brooklyns
were trying to finish about as low down the
League list as they possibly can, and there
are hints of 4 studied kick against Mana
ger FoutZ. Nothing can be CLEANED from
the players, but their actions toward the
elongated David speak louder than words.
None of them, with the possible exception
Of Griffin, appear to desire any conversa-
tion with Foutz, while Mike doesn't seem
to say more than Is necessary. With the
players ana managers at loggerheads,
there is no wonder that the team is shoot
ing the Chutes.-Brooklyn Eagle.
1t will be impossible for the Colts to do
better than fourth, for even should they
win Ill their remaining games and the Reds
lose all theirs, there would still be few
points lacking Boston and Chicago may
change positions, though, and Pittsburg is
still claimant for fourth place. Philadcl-
phia can hardly reach fourth place, although
should the Pirates strike toboggan