The morning times., 1896-07-07
DIAMOND DUST.
The Senators won in a walk.

L ut SeudUOIS won III d Walk.
Hawley cannot handle a wet ball.
The Senators will leave for Pittsburg
tonight.
Ah, there, Chicago and Bostoni We are
after you.
Hassamaer aud KiDslow have been re-
leased by the Louisville Club.
Hawley has lost every game he has pitched
against the Senators this season.
Capt. Joyce and Johnny O'Brien called
at The Times office last night.
Mr. F. c. Ballette is doing the business
part for the Pittsburgs ON the trip.
The Senators are toated as the best team
of walters at the bat i'll the league, except
ing Cleveland. u- ...-.-...
Many league eyes are already fastened
upon F,ifield. the successful young pitcher
of the Detroit Club.
MauIs arm is coming around all right.
"Smiling AL showed a lot or speed ID
practice yesterday.
Connie Mack played good first base.
But Connie can play good anywhere. He is
that sort OF ball player.
Inks is the Berry Wall of the diamond.
Ryan OF Chicago and Al Maui are his
rivals hila delphia Press
1t was appropriate that Capt. Joyce's
friends gave him an umbrella. 1t was
an umbrella sort OF an afternoon.
This will be ladies' day at the park and
the band Will play. Come On, girls, and
cheer "Scrappy" and his band TO victory.
Crooks and Rogers departed for Louis
vile yesterday afternoon, and viii play
their first game for the Colonels today
against Boston.
parachute" and on the second ballHawley
pitched TO him lie flew to first base on u
hot drive to short r,.- yg.r
Ed. Hanlon has nothing but kind words
for the Senators, whose team work and all
round hustling will put them in the game
clear To the finish, he predicts.
Today will be the last appearance OF the
Senators at National Park until their re-
turn from the long Western trip, when they
will open with Baltimore July 81.
Hawley wanted to quit in the third on
account of the drizzle and the poor game
he was pitching, but Hurst Inade him toe
the scratch and take his medicine.
Jack Doyle is shorter in stature than any
first baseman in the major league. Wash-
ington Post. Except Teteau. Sporting
Lie. Except Jimmy Rogers Of Louisville.
Mr. Will Locke of the Press and Mr..
Alexander Z. Moore OF the Chronlcle-Iele-
graph, are Il pair OF Jolly good fellows
doing the newspaper end OF tie Pirates
short Eastern trip.
Next to Philadelphia let-down. Cincin-
nati's good showing has been the sur
prise of the season. n.-PhiladeiphIa In
Quirer. How about W ashington line show
ing? Sporting Life.
Umpire Emslie speaks from intimate
knowledge acquired by ltng service IN the
league when he says that President Young
stanus by his umpIres always, and is the
only real friend those hap!ess ofnclals nave.
1t was q little wet during the first five
innings but fittshurg wouiu not have OBJ
iected had they held the lead 1t was a
case of, whose OK was gored and the WIS.,
Itors rurnisne1 the bullock Oh this occasion.
Kinslow gives promise OF being valuable
acquisition to the club. HIS catching Is
rirsu-rate and batting timely. He is active
for big man, and there were many favor
able comments on his work--Louisvule
Correspondence Sporting Life.
To Roger Connor has been given the
herculean task OF getting together for ST.
Louis a championship team Tor next season
Stirred by tile success OF Captain Ewing
with a team that two years ago was
travelling in the st. Louis stakes, Chris
V on der A lie has decided that EwIng's old
side partner can do just as well with the
Browns.
While on the subject Of the Cleveland
rowdy yiSm a { Louisville on Friday last, why
don't some OF the writers who abuse the
Cleveland men tax breath long enough to
remember that perhaps If the Loulsvilles
had not resorted to the unsportsnanlike
trick Of deliberately playing Tor darkness
there would have teen NO occasion for the
subsequent row with Umpire Weidman.-
Sporting Life.
Writing from Boston to the Sporting Life
Jake Morse says: Mercer pitched the
game after having pitched Saturday, and
was extremely effective. Joyce,stwo home
runs were a feature. The Washington
captain acquitted himseif nneiy. be mas
shown great improvement since lie was last
in Boston. There is an entire absence or
most obnoxious way he used to have about
him. Joyce has many friends here and all
were glad to see him do SO finely.
in the firth inning that won him the.
appreciation OF the entire audience. Tim
may make errors, but they are always OF
the head and not OF the heart, and ne can
!
man in the world. He fights his battles
alone oD the diamond and asks no assist
ance from the public or police. The tow.
headed IrfShinan is the QuiDtescenCe OF
grit and determination.
R. Writ Washington and Pearson F.
Marsh, two well-known young men ABOUT
town, accompanied the Senators TO Pill
the ..double header on the Fourth. 1t
was the first time the boys had Travelled
with a ball club and were part OF the
party, and they Thoroughly enjoyed the
novel experience. They became very much
attached to Capt. Joyce apd instead OF
sight seeing in the evenings they pre-
ferred remaining around the hotel to listen
told by Scrappy and his band. They will
accompany the club on the next trip to
Boston, and SO great is their enthusiasm
for the Senators that they bid iair 10 be-
come the Hi, Hi" DiXwells OF the Capital.
Mrs. Brown and little Miss Ethel accom-
panied the club to Philadelphia. Mrs.
brown is an expertscorer and keeps strict
account of each game in regular Ie-
porter's score book. Tom says his better
half can discover more defects in his play
in one game than an official scorer can lind
in a week and that his error column in her
book looks like 1t had been peppered with
small shot. Toms Is happy little
family and tot Ethel is an autocratic
queen of the hOuseh old. She is
vivacious miss Of scarce six summers
and her pretty brown eyes snap as she
issues her orders that none dare disobey
except at the forfeit Of her favor. Billy
Lush is her chosen cavalier and to the
others when he is around she gives the
marble heart. She is very defcrential to
Capt. Joyce ordinarily and calls him Mr..
Joyce with the grace Of drawing. room
princess, but should "Scrappy" attempt
10 handy words with her she .relegates
the .Mr." to the rear and calls him "Bill''
with q broadness and abandon that is
charming and that never fails to bring
smile to the stalwart captains face.
"I am glad to be with Washington"
said Johnny O'Brien to The Times man in
tho nlavaraf drp aRtD groom eSterQay