The evening times., 1896-08-15


land is not playing the game"
McJames. the eighteen yea r-old twirierof
Washington, has made great improvement
since the opening OF the season. His first
game found him an easy mark, but lately
his balls have become more puzzling, aL.i
in the last four gaines. three, seven, five
aud six have been the number OF hits. One
OF these was the to game in Boston,
Baltimore News.
Cndcr the ne W wmanagementwlent the Sem
ators hit they can't field, and to the reverse,
when they field they can't connect with
the ball willie at bat. Ard sometimes. as
in Wednesdays game, they hit and field,
but fall down in running bases. Again,
they can neither hit nor field, as yester-
days shut-out evidenced. How cana club
win playing such crazy-quilt ball as that:
Champion james J. Corbctt was spec
tator, occupying a box a little to the left
OF the press stand. The big fellow has
always liked baseball, and he appiauded
some OF the many fine plays that charac-
teriZed yesterdays game Then, when
he learned tEat his brother Joe was pitch
ing for Baltimore, which was engaged to
annihiiating Washington, he was further
plea sed. Chicago Journal
1t is worth tile price OF admission Just to
hear Capt Joyce and Lieut.. Hcckley while
leading the assault OIL an umpire. Nor is
Jack Warner an amateur in steering from
tie coaciicrs' line. His grammatical style
OF observing that Two are gone" is Ger.
taiDly pleasing innovation. Next thing
we know Kid Gleason will be saying Il
haveit," and Dad Clarke may be asking the
umpire to please be q bit more CAREFUL
Boston Globe.
The western papers have an idea that
the Eastern clubs, as a whole, .'lay down"
to Baltimore toward the end OF the season
and assist them in holding the pennant
east OF the Alleghenies- The following
from. the Cleveland World is a sample of
their suspicious, which, though totally un-
warranted and wholly without foundation,
are held just the same. The World inti-
mates like this: "Will some one please
rise and explain why those Baltimores win
more games toward the close OF the season
than they do at the beginning? VIII Some
one further explain why they win mostly
from Eastern ciubs?"
or the passing OF the great Duffy, Jake
Morse relates this story in the Boston
Herald: IAN incident of the game which
excited general sympathy occurred in the
seventh inning, when. with the bases full
and two out, Capt. Duffy sent Stivetts to
the bat in place OF himself. While We
admire the courage which it took for the
premier batsman OF 1894 to make this
sacrifice, we do not believe it was neces-
sary. IL does not seem possible that this
great player, who takes the best OF care
OF himself and is still in his prime. can
be on the toboggan. The cares of the
captaincy Of losing team must be the
cause OF his shortcomings"
Bill Joyce demonstrated the fact that
he is rightly called "Scrappy'' yester-
day. When Sullivan was getting ratified
in the second game. the Giants captain
began to kick at Umpire Sheridan's rul-
ings and delayed the game as much as
possible. It's not likely that Joyce lad
any real grievance against Sheridan, hut
Sullivan must be given time to get bis
nerve, and kicking was the only way to
get it. So "Scrappy" did his best and
1t was no fault OF his that the Gothsrnites
didn't come out first. Aggressive men
like Joyce are badly needed on New York's
team.-New York Evening Sun.
This is how the Boston Herald talked
about scrappy Bills participation in
Wednesdays game, No ''has-been'' eyi-
dence in these paragraphs: Joyce made
a great sprint to the plate in the third and
grabbed fuckers fiy.-It was by the
prettiest kind OF baseball that Joyce handled
Tenney's bunt in the fifth for an out
That was an off decision OF Sheridan's
on BeckIey in the first. The runner was
safe, and Capt. Joyce had good ground
for protcst--Tiernan got a deserved dress
ing down from Capt. Joyce for his failure
to advance the runners in the third, with
none out. 1t was poor baseball.-Joyce's
stop off Long in the first was beauty.
He got the ball well back OF his bag and
caught his man at first by a superb throw"
Il remember that while was in Wash
ington at the opening Of the season Joyce
now the successful manager-captain of
the home team, who was then captain
of the Sen Dators, said to me that the New
Yorkers would be lucky to finish as good
as seventh. This was when it was known
that tRusie was not to be in the team. Other
players have told me the same thing, and
their opinions are carried out by the facts
There are NO better judges OF the respec.
tive merits Of different teams than the
players themselves, and when they express
a fear of meeting cur rejuvenated pets
matters must surely have eimproyed. Sam
Crane in New York Commercial Adyer.
tiser
Holmes of the Louisville on his return
home thus spoke of Lally's umpiring In
Cincinnati last Sunday: ~ have been in
the business long time, and never heard
of such robbery as that which Umpire
Lally practiced. was at one Of the gates
and distinctly heard an official OF the Gin.
cinnati club and Cincinnati newspaper
man tell Lally that he had better give them
the game. and Lally replied that he would
do 80. / know this and can prove it
Time and again Lally robbed us in plair
view of the crowd. When Lally called
Clarke out clarke went over TO talk with
him about the decision. He put his arm
on Lally, and the umpire smashed him ar