The evening times., 1896-09-07

BroOklyD, chicago, LOUISVILLE anu OF. LOUIS
clubs. 1t needs two of the remaining four
to take the series from the WashiDgtons.
Lally of Minneapolis is gaining a great
reputation for himself as a fielder. Scarcely
a game passes now that he does not cleo
trify the natives by circus catch in his
garden.
There has been no pitcher i'll years that
has come from minor league thathas made
the record OF Klobedapz. He will be given
lots OF work when the team starts ssn the
Western trip.
Anson would hold his own easily enough
Down East if he had but one good, hard
hitting catcher to relieve Donahue now and
then. Three catchers are none too many
for team tc carry.
Tom Brown, the oid-time champion base
stealer of the League, has stolen twenty
five bases this season. He has received
more than sixty passes to first base
cleveland Recorder.
Manager Nash says: Every player in
the League should respect Tom Lynch
lie is the fairest umpire In the business
and is master of the field ut all times"
Nash's opinion has a unanimous indorse-
nient
1t looks as though Cincinnati needed
the same kind of an injection as Phiia-
delphia needed. The old timers have done
well, but mark the prediction: They must
tear down and build up before another
year is over.-Philadelp phia Press.
Deputy Collector James y. Difrenbaugh
of Baltimore gave yesterday trip ON a
tugboat to Manager McGmnigle, Secretary
Pulliam, Dexter, Cunningham, and other
pla yers OF the Louisville Ba aseball Club. The
party was taken as far as Seven foot Knoll.
Lajoie, Gcier and Klobedanz are the ex-
ceptions to the rule that only one player
in 1901 fast enough for the League That
will not hold in the New England, whore
this year the average is surely two men
per club fast enough i'll swiftcr company. =
Boston Herald.
1t is said that the reason Frank and
Straus are now members of the Columbus
team instead of Minneapolis is that Man
ager Wiln,ot was Jealous of them. They
have both been pla ying good ball since
joining Columbus.
Cub Stricken is pIa wing good ball Tor
Springfield, and he is in fine form. The
middle finger of his right hand, which was
injured here early last season, is of little
use in gripping a ball, il being stiffened so
that he cannot bend il To the palm OF the
hand Providence Journal
At the request of Cardinal Gibbons the
Baltimore club has decided to employ the
l4th ofthis month which comes on Monda y
and is an open date, in ma king IA trip to
st. Charles College, in Howard county. The
orioles will play game OF ban there with
the college club, which is good team.
walter Wilmot, who has the Western
league pennant about secured, writes that
he is very, very happy, has made consid-
erablc m money and likes being a minor iega ue
manager. II he had lost, instead OF win
ming, he would have made such a howl
thai ne could have been heard in the next
county.
Boston fans will remember for many
month the closing series between the
Beaneaters and the Browns, and in many
respects it was the most remarkable of
the season. Five games We're played in
The three days, and 10 runs were scored
by the Hubites. They made SO hits and
total of l4S bases, incl uding several
home runs. Breitenstein was the only
~ hidht oi al SbO"lhE,
but even the soutbpaw lost his game.
'Louiee'' Bierbauer is still at his home
in Erie, and win probably stay there until
the Pirates get back home from their East
crn trip. His ankle is much better, but IL is
Dot nearly strong enough for linn tn get
in the game again. Even a slight step in
the wrong direction has the unfortunate
faculty of making the injured member feel
much worse, and the great second base
man realizes that care is necessary if he
wants to be in shape to play soon again.
Catcher Clarke will hardly he able to play
In any more OF the regular championship
games this season, and the club vii, be for
tunate if he can play In the Temple Cup
games. When, after foul tip had struck
his right hand in the last game on Friday,
Catcher ClarkeloOked a moment at his hand
and then quietly and without any fuss
walked to the bench, the crowd little
thought how painfully he had been hurt
The foul tip had split the right thumb, both
across sandlengthwise 1t will require weeks
to heal, and it will doubtless be fun
month before he canplay.
All the players now. in active duty with
the New Yorks will he retained, it is said,
with the possible exception of Bill Clark
and one or two others who have not come
up to expectations this season. These win
be punched and traded, if possible, for one
good man. II they cannot he exchanged
satisfactorily, they will probably be re-
leased The ci ub officials acknowledge tina.
Clark is good man on first, but he has
this year, for some cause or other, failed
TO chime. For the rest of the men, the
sure ones are Van Haltren, Tiernan, Glea-
son, Joyce, Davis, Beckley, Stafford, and
Wilson. Commercial Advertiser.
Not single solid argument has been adj
vanced in favor Of abandoning the Temple
Cup contests The charge that they induce
the players to become so jealous that they
become brutal is both libel on the play
ers and the magnates. There are rules to
prevent undue roughness, and il there IS any
truth in the charge that the Temple Cup
prompts the players to greater exertion
and earnestness than formerly, then it is
true that without the Cup the players shirk
their work The playing ofthe Baltimores,
the Clevelands, or any other team. is not a
bit more brutal today than it was before the
appearance of the Cup. Where the umpires
are competent brutal pla ying is absent.
Personal feeling is prompting the opposi
ton to the cup.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Trades Union Congress In Edinburgh.
Edinburgh, Sept. THE twenty-ninth an
nual trades union congress was opened in
the Assembly rooms, George street, in this
city, today, and will remain in session
throughout the week. Mr.. E. Convey, chair