The evening times., 1896-05-14
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND.

Louisville has won another.
Chicago lost great eleven-inning game
TO Boston.
Lucid says he has more speed this year
than ever.
Boswell, the ex-senator pitcher, is doing
good work for Columbus.
Pitcher Eyler Will probably be farmed out
10 the Atlantic City team.
Gilroy pitched an excellent game against
Lynchburg yesterday. Bowerman caught
Hamilton no longer leads off the Boston
batting order. He has been displaced by
Bannon.
Cartwright is hitting the ball hard and
regular. and is striking lis old sure-thing
fielding gait.
By losing TO Louisville yesterday Brook
lyn dropuel down and tied with Washington
for eighth place.
Catcher KeCk, who was signed amid such
a flourish of trumpets by st. Louis early
10 the season. has been released.
The LouisviIlcs have played twenty-three
men thus far in the few weeks OF the
twenty.
Louisville papers are throwing it into Nc
Gunnigle already. Says one: Manager
McGunnisle is business from the word go.
His trick of not giving out who is going
10 pitch until the last moment keeps all the
twirelrs working. All the men seem tc
have already taken shine toward Manage
McGunnigIe."
What difference between Harry Did
dlebock' S incoming to st. Louis and his out
going from the Mound City. A brass band,
dozens of cold bottles, baskets of flowers;
red lights, speeches and other agreeable
features marked his entree. cold turn
down, street car ride to the depot, and
not soul to see him off was the way he
turned his back on the st. Louis chief
Killen, the big pitcher of the Pittshurgs,
fortified himself against the vocal as.
saults OF opposing Goa chers, and thus
takes no chances on getting ratified. Killen,
the story goes, carries two pieces of cotton
with hlIn. Just before he goes in the box
he stuffs the cotton in his ears and he is
deaf to the worlds The coachers can do
and say what they will, but it has just about
as much effect on Killen as throwing putty
balls against stone wall.
Pitcher keenan,, of Toledo, seems to be a
marvel for nineteen-year-o boy. He
has never lost a game, and usually holds
the opposing team down to from three to
five hits.
Did any one ever hear OF a "Y'' battery
before? Pawtucket can boast of Yerkes and
feager. 1t is to be hoped that neither
one will"yump hi syob," after the fashion of
Yon Yonson.
Bob Allen, the great Philadelphia
shortstop, who was hit in the face by a
pitched bail two years go, and retired with
partial paralysis as the result, is said to
have entirely recovered and to be anxious
to get back in the game. He is now in
the banking business in Ohio.
Detroit would undoubtedly like to get
into the National League. While the City
of the Straits would make good town for
the major league, yet it is questionable
If Vanderbcck viii not make more money in
the Western. 1t will take long time to
build up team in Detroit tina would draw
well at home or abroad.
1t begins to look as though Hawley was
drifting into the has been" class. He
weakens at the end of a game with sur
prising regularity.
In reply to the criticisms of Manager
Barnie's action in playing in New York
the games scheduled in that city and Hart
ford. after declaring tha I they would either
be played in the latter city or not at all,
Mr.. Barnie says: II consented to play nv
Hartfordteam atthe p olo G rounds this week
only because the other Atlantic League
clubs requested me to. 1 did not back
do wn on account Of the attitude of Freed