The evening times., 1896-06-05

Maui will PROBABLY pitch today.
McCauley will not he able to play before
the Fourth OF July.
Enslic has good voice, but he frequently
makes bad use OF 1t.
Its simply a disgrace TO President Young
and to the entire League to have characters
ike Keefe and Weidman acting US umpires.
-Pittsuurg Dispatch. Especially Kcefe.
Billy Clingman is playing a great third
base. The Louisville fans still want. but
now for shortstop. The Pirates thought
they got the best of the deal when Cling
man was traded for Boyle and Wright.
Some Louisville people also thought this.
If Billy keeps up his present good work he
will lead the third basemen.of the League
this year.-Louisvillc Times.
The Cincinnati Reds are in bad way for
pitchers. owing to their particularly bad
luck in losing the services of Rhines and in
the hitting of Dwyer by pitched ball.
Manager Ewing has sent for Pitcher CAST
right. an old-timcr, and Bert Inks, recently
released by Philadelphia, Will probably be
given a trial.
George Haddoch has given up baseball and
gone into the real estate business at Dor
chester.
Is it possible that Breitenstein is going
the way of all left handlers? He has been
battcd very hard of late.
Anson says that he has no favorite
pitcher this season. So even your uncle
has discovered that they are all long shots.
The Louisvilles have sent Holmes home
till he fully recovers from his lame ankle
he was injured more than he thought he
was, and will probably not reioin the
team till its return home.
The Boston players to a man declare as
untrue the paragraph published in a local
paper to the effect that Tenney is more
popular with the public than with the
Boston club. They say it is doing Tenney
an injustice, and that he, too, wants
an emphatic contradiction of the state
mcnt.
Manager Mack is surely having his
troubles. When pitcher is in form then
the field goes up in the air.
The Boston club is securing good patron
age, but critics are harshly talking of
the parslmony of the management in re.
fusing to expend a little money In posting
the scores of other games upon a black
board for the benefit of patrons. This is
method of economy that had not been
conceived by the Cleveland club as vet.
kinsiuw is not yet In condition to catch.
He says his arm is hardly strong enough
to staEG the strain.
With Mercer, Maui, King and German,
the Senators have pitching staff that will
hold the opposition beneath the double
number limit as regards hits With capa-
BILE support at the bat and in the field this
pitching staff would win many a game
Baltimore American.
Cleveland is again in the lead.
Ausoh HAS ieiedSeu MCbriuc anu heluy.
Decker will cover left field regularly.
Arlie Latham has gone from the National
League, probably forever, and his name is
already as seldom spoken as that Of Buff
inton Or Fred Dunlap. Yet in the passing
of "the dude" there goes one of the
strangest and most original characters of
baseball, and one Of the greatest drawing
,r<lo g.,
who is now man well on in middle age,
has ever held position all by himself as
the most absurd comedian and the most
spontaneous humorist ever seen on a ball
field. No other player ever equaled him
as an entertainer. Mike Kelly equaled
him as humorist, hut Mixes sallies were
not as loud as Arlie's, and only the people
right behind him could realize their pur-