The evening times., 1896-09-30
BETWEEN THE BASES.

The Louisville players collectively are TIE
smallest i'll the League.
-Four straight is the Coloucls' best record
ef consecutive victories this season. 1t
has happened twice.
Louisville made new record this year.
winding up the League season in three diff
ferent cities -Pittsburg, Cincinnati and
Cleveland.
Cuppy viii be all right for the Temple
Cup games, and will take his Regular turn
in the box. which means little tough luck
for P.ltimOre.
What's the matter with a series Of
three games between the winner uf the
Temple Cup series and the winner of the
Free Press Cup series?-St. Paul Dispatch.
Hill lost string of six gaines thre,.
different times for the COlOncls this year.
Altogether he has lost twenty-siX gaines.
winning eight. Fourteen of his games
have been lost by one run.
Cincinnati is said to be making eyes
ut Outfielders DUNCAN and Burnett, of the
Delroits. Also at Jack Glasscock, who be-
came rejuvenated This season with st
Paul in the Western League.
Pickering is queer hitter. Every time
he strikes at the ball he works every muscle.
i'll his body, and presents the appearance Of
d flying Dutchnan. He would get more
hits If he didn't try to kill IT every nme.
Billy Clingman, the Colonels' third base
man, has had hard time getting a Ma =
tional League standing. He has been tried
by Il number of teams, but has never stuck.
He has played u good game with the Colo
Iels.
The two games with chicago at Cincinnati
were again postpored yesterday, on ac-
count of rain. Today being the closing
date, the games viii then be played If po. !.
sibie. The last game of Chicago with Cleve
land is off.
Connie Mack is quoted as saying that
lie has much better thing of il in Nil
waukee than lie had in Pittsburg. He
will be the manager. i'll fact. as well as III
name. in the Wisconsin city, something
ne never was in Pittsburg.
Byron McKeown. the millionaire owner OF
the Washington, Pa, team, has kept nearly
all of his players for next season. He
VIII play ball next year. but will not have IA
team III Washington. McKeowu and Capt.
CurTan are after the Saginaw team.
Capt. Duffy now confeSses that he las
not been in good form This year. He said
he worked too hard in the spring and train
ed too fine. At times he would feel so
worn out after a game that he wanted to
lie down Immediately after reaching
home. II had taught him rich lesson, by
which he will profit. and lie hopes to be lii
the pink of form in 1897.
Financial Agent Pullian. OF Louisville,
was asked if he knew anything about his
being made club president. He cvaded
the question. Asked if he would accept
such a position, he said: We'll, I'm not
running away from a good thing Mr.
Pullan will look after the interests of the
club this winter. He says he will not en-
gage In journalistic work or anything else
The st. Louis Browns are to be thoroughly
reorganized before next season. Manager
Dowd will go out i'll the field and the whole
infeld Will be changed. 1t is proposed
to sign four new men for the infield posi-
tions. The batteries will be strengthened
Breitenstein and Mcfarland will no doubt
be retained. Parrott. who has been kept
for his batting, Will probably be traded
iff for better first baseman.
Cleveland correspondent of Sporting Life:
l wonder If some of the puny-minded
writers OF baseball who have overlooked
no opportunity to abuse Capt. Tebeau will
now give him credit for landing his team
III second place against odds that would
have swamped u less plucky captain and
manager. Honestly, l do not believe that
the Baltimores would have finished bet
ter than fourth il Hanlon had the adverse
conditions to contend with that ontinually
surround Capt. Tebeau.
Washington started in at q tremendous
,i'p. "uu ioi many WEEKS Hclu It's own rlSnI
Well. Then came tumble. and the team
Went rapidly down the ladder Mercer
pitched good ball until tired out by over
work, after which McJames succeeded hini
as the winning twirler of the nine. AL Maui
w3s disabled. King and German pitched
well, but unluckily. The revival of King
from baseball tomb of three seasons dura.
tion was one OF the surprises Of the sea-
son. youth named Norton pitched sew
eral games at the finish and did very well
Chicago Times Herald.
1t is rather strange fact that ball
players who have long careers on the pro.
fessional diamonds, almost without ey
ception, lose their interest in the game as
soon as they themselves are no longer
actively Identified with it. VIII White n
brother OF the Deacon. was for years one of
the greatest pitchers in the country He is
now a resident of Buffalo. Notwithstand-
ing that he has the means and opportunity
TO take in all the games, he scid last
spring he had not seen more than one or
two OF them in several seasons. Hardie
Richardson. who was a member of the Big
Four seems to be similarly disposed, and
not long ago said: II have not seen a ball
game since l retired from the diamond.
l have no idea of seeing une / have
lost all possible interest a man can have
In the national game. When I Quit I
quit for good. ALI the sport l have any
thing to do with is bird-shootirg With
the gun l have had good SUCCESS re-
celved letter from my old room ate,
Tom Brown, the other day. Tom was
the best roommate I ever had He wrote
Inc friendly letter. and When started
to reply TO it 1 actually did not know what
club Tom was with"