The morning times., 1896-08-05
DIAMOND DUST.

| Tenth place.
Et tu, scrappy! .i
| Gliding tie gutter
AT the Hub today ..- -.
Scrappy BIZ and his fnew) band turned
| the trick.
Howdy. st. Louis and LouisviIle-we
| are right with you.
| Mercer. McJames and German are the
| three pitchers on the IMP.
WHATS the use of kickin,Aain,t we used
| to tenth steenth, or any old place?
One more deal and Louisvilie can't
| keep them away from the tail end.
Duke" Farrell hit the ball for keeps
and fielded bis position without an error.
The Senators left New York last night
and Will arrive in Boston this morning
at S O'Clock ..
Mr. Wagner is with the club on the tIip,
and says he will not leave ii for the re-
maiBder of the season.
Mercer will pitch this afternoon. The
| good-lookiDg boy is peculiarly effective
against the eN-Champions
Talk about the irony of fate-how about
the schmelzites losing to the Joyceitcs
at New York yesterday?
The changes in baseball are many. joyce
signed German for the Senators and yester-
day lie batted against him.
Pitcher Flynn, who was thrown"in. far
good measure on the joyce deal, will
report to the club while il is absent.
Joyce will play third base permanently
for New York and Davis will play short
stop after Stafford returns to the team
The Senators earned four OF their five
runs, which is evidence that they hit the
ball together when they hit-it at all
Scrappy Bill and his tnew) band will
be up against the real thing this after.
noon. They play Baltimore at Baltimore.
1t is more than probable that Tim Keefe
will become n member of President Pat
Powers staff of Eastern League UNI
pres.
1t is like recalling dream to think about
the first division honors we claimed last
April and May or until the theatrical sea
son closed.
kid" Gleason made three errors at
second yesterday. He should play better,
sandwicbed in bet tween such men as Joyce
and Beckley. -.a-,-..s.- ,t...,,--. b..
"shied" is the latest addition to the
vernacular OF Eastern baseball writer's
Threw" is almost obsolete.-Chicago
Times Herald.
The Schmeizites would have won yesfer-
day had they given Lester German proper
support utGfndU ids ndu tIiS udhulCdp 10
contend with all season.
Crooks is on the hospital list by reason
of an injury he received in shtiing to second
and not on account Of bis weak back, as
is generally supposed. q,
Statistics show that the veteran pitch
ers are winning more games than the
youngsters right along. The latter, are
more often brilliant, but for consistent
ball the seasoned twirlers surpass.
Manager selec telegraphed to Won Der
Abe the other day asking what his price
was for Dowd, who is playing very
creditab second base for the Browns. The
reply was that DOwd was not fOfrsale.-.
New York has seven left-handed bats
men in Beckley, Van Haltren. Davis, Tier
nan, Gleason, Joyce and Dad Clarke. Such
an array of south paddle htters is calcu-
lated TO appall the stoutest heart ed
pitcher.
For a "has been'' Joyce Is playing n
great fielding game since becoming Giant.
In three games he has not made the
semblance OF an error and 1t will. be
noticed that he is hitting the ball right
on the trade mark. =.
oh, well, Washington has so many adj
vantageS that other cities do not possess
that it would seem rather hoggish to want
winning ball club. In view OF our
numerous other blessings We should be
resigned to'a tailend team.
Boston has pur released the release OF
Second Baseman McGann OF. the Lynch
burg (Va) club, to take the place OF Bob
Love- who is injured. McGann playeS
second for McCloskey's Louisville Mus
tangs a short time last season. g..
Just how appreciative the fans of Cincin-
natl are over their winning club is evil
denced in the following paragraph. The
ball that Irwin drove over the fence win
ming the game from Cleveland Monday.
was incased in gold leaf and presented to
him in "a basket of flowers Wednesday by
Cincinnati "fans. "'a,n 49,
President Charley Napoleon Byrne. of
the Brooklyn Club, has completely reeov-
cred from the recent accident that almost
cost him his life. While driving rin''the