The evening times., 1896-07-14

being and / retired from the game.
have been treating II steadily since and
1 notice great improvement lately. lex
ercise at the park twice every day and use
my arm easily at the start increasing the
speed of the throwing gradually. After
each exercise l have it massaged with
alcohol for an hour and l am beginning 10
notice a return OF strength L can't Bay
how soon / will be able to re-enter the
game, but If the arm would respond to
my greatest wish on earth ii would allow
me 90 join the club as quick as the fastest
train would bear me TO them. The TACT
that / might be of service to the teau at
this time and that i am prohibited f:@m
playing is more irritating than the injury
itself. l never was willing hospital s,.b-
ject in all OF my ball playing career and
it is aggravating that l am laid off iust
at the time that, l will modestly say, my
pitching is needed most. Bat it can't be
helped and l am bearing the hard luck
as patiently as possible
OF Bert Meyers return to the Won Der
Ahe camp, the Republic says: Bert
Meyers relieved Won der Ahe OF the
necessity or having Jimmy Moore OF the
Bellevile Southern Illinois League club
play third base by showing up. Further
more Bert played so brilliantly that IL is
more than proba bile his 81 90 fine willbe for
gotten by Der Boss before next pay day.
A single, Il triple, two pnt-outs and three
assists without mispay of any sort is
what is published about Mr.. Meyers and
incidentally he prancea over the pan with
two runs. Bert says he called on a friend
Tuesday night ana participated in "A game
OF hearts" which kept him up until q
O'Clock in the morning. He then slept mt
the friends house, leaving instructions 10
be awakened in time for the first gan
Wednesday. He was not called until 3
O'Clock. He says he was SO disgusted and
ashamed tlien that he did not have nerve
enough TO report at the park"
The Philadelphia Ledger pays it's respects
TO Mercer. This is what IL says: Pitcher
Mercer. of the Washington club showed
in last Sundays game at Cincinnati that.
while he may have a coed pitching arm. he
| is possessed of a sulky disposition. The in
/ cident, or rather series OF Incidents, that
| showed that Mercer will not do TO tie to in
| a tight pinch occurred in tie fifth inning.
Peitz had opened this inning with a hit.
| Dwyer, the next man up, dumped" the
! ball toward the pitchers box. Mercer ran
| for and rielded IT. Then lie turned for a
throw to second. He had the hail in time
! to cut PETIT Off at that bag, but when he
| turned around there was no one on the
| base. O'Brien, the second baseman, who
had evidently expected a bunt down the
| first base line, was over back of first base.
| When Mercer saw that O'Brien was not on
| the bag. instead of throwing To first and
| putting out Dwyer. he lost his temper. He
| took deliberate aim at the unoccupied bag
| and threw the ball with all his force at the
place where o'l'rien should have been. OF
course there was no one there and the bail
| went flying out into center field. PETIT
made third ana Dw yer second before it was
fieided in. The throw was intended as a de
iiberate and Intentional "sho w up of
| O'Brien. Mercer did IL To emphasize the
| fact that he WIS not getting proper support
1t seemingly made no difference tn him
whether his parade" OF o'Brien's mistake
lost the game or not