The evening times., 1896-09-25
BETWEEN THE BASES.

Piitsburg tried Pitcher Horton yesterday,
and st. Louis did the young IN an up brown.
S'ivetts has total batting average OF
.49o, and leads the Bostons in this respect.
Pickering has hit for at least one base
in the last seventeen games played by the
Lousvilles.
McGraw ID ade one error in the first ten
games lie played with the Orioles. In the
last five games he has made ten errors.
Farrell is catching regularly now for
Washington. He has not had an error III
sixteen games and only three passed balls.
Emerson Hawley Will be mama ger OF the
Pirates during their barn-st Orrning tour
through Pennsylvania. Unless there Is
a thaw sone OF these travelling troopers
viii experience the sorrows OF manage
ment.
Lets get through one season before we
talk about the next" is Manager Ewing's
doctrine. and no condolences are violated
i'll saying that it is not popular with the
fans. william Buckingham would make
a hit by getting move on
Back up. there, back up," yelled
Miller, when there was play on third base.
What's that yelled a grandstand occu-
pant; do you think you're working on
the dump" and there was a general
laTgh, III which Miller joined. / Pittsburg
CoinnIercial- Gazette.
Burglars entered Catcher Zimmers resi-
dence AT Cleveland, aud, while one of the
inuuders took Zim's SEQ gold watch and
$50, the other covered the ban player and
hts wife with his revolvers. The nfiing of
the clothes ended, the two burglars backed
out of the house. As they reached the out
side door the spokesman SAID: so long.
Charlie" So long," responded thinner.
According to Manager ManninS. of the
Kansas City team. whose business reia-
tions with President Hart place him Oh
terms of comparative intimacy with that
gentleman. Leon woners vii lie drafted
by Chicago at the close of the present sea-
son. VOTERS has demonstrated this year
that he Is one of the most heady pitchers
in the Western League. Grand Rapids
Democrat.
Two OF the most promising twirlers in
the busiIessarc Jimmy Nc am es and George
Lewis. The latter appears every inch a
hal!-player. and handles himself well in
the box for a youngster. II looks as
though Manager Selee has drawn a prize
in this young man. McJames does not
act like a ball-player He has a rather
clumsy way of handling himself Like
the proverbial bcdbug. however, he gets
there Just the esame.-Louisville Times.
So Connie Mack has retired from the
League. This will he sorry news 10 the
Cleveland fans, who are friends To a man
of the attenuated eX-Pirate. No baseball
captain of a rival club, with the exception
of Anson, ever received the warm, fricndly
greetings accorded Connie by the Cleve-
land crowds We Will miss him sadly. The
Prtsburg games will no longer possess the
same degree of attractivencss without the
presence of the only man on earth whose
bones stood revealed without an X-ray ap-
paratus. Cleveland World.
Little Eva" Laugc slumped as badly
in hitting on the late trip as Dusty" Mil
Ter, and lie confessed. Taking the whole
team through, and sizing up what all the
boys did, / must admit that / was as re-
spOusible as anybody for the slump hatted
about $50, or something like that. on the
trip, aud it viii kill any team to have a man
who has been hitting up near the top fall
like q rocket 1t iBsures three out where
there was chance for only two, and gen
orally dcmoralizes the other hitters''
Pitcher John Mcmahon, of the Balti-
more team. was arrested yesterday MORN
ing for using his pitching arm on two port-
ing chaps who had been assailing the habits
of Shofistop Hughey Jennings. The row
grew out of discussion over the Temple
Cup series. Wagers were beiEg made.
McMahon was trying to assure the party
that the Baltimorcs would this time win the
cup. Two men. however, said that if the
players did not stop the riot GUS and diss-
pated way in which they had becn living