The evening times., 1896-10-10
NO EXPERIMENTS OR FAILURES.

| that he wonld like to have Nichol for the
! Tigers. In addition to drafting Michel, the
| Phiilies scared Fifieid, Thomas, Burnett
! and Knoll. 1t is an easy matter for the
Phiiiies 10 keep Fifield and return the
other players to vanderbeck as the price
for the crack pitcher. II Nil not be sur
prising IL Nicol plays in Detroit next year.
Mil lwaukec Exchange.
Hereafter, according to President Byrnc.
Nick Young viii act as clerk TO the national
beard, ana the reason il was voted to limit
the membership of the roard to foGr was TO
avoid Tie, as Mr.. Young viii not have q
| vote.
Jack Carney has played 132 games this
season. lie has accep, ed /, ,iaG chances
with twelve errors lie has made. / 76 hits,
and has batting average of 33O.-St.
Paul Globe. Carney is tie man for the
| Senators
The Fittsburg club, which has been barn
| storming for teu days past, returned homo
| yesterday. The members tell an odd story
| OF an ufnpire's revenge against kicking play
| ers at GAINESVILLE, Ohio. The players had
| fun with the umpire aud kicked worse than
| they do 10 League game. II CHANGED to be
| that the official was a local politician Of
some fame and had influence. That even
/ ing Mcssrs. Stencil, Lyons and Horton,
VINO had been enjoying themselves on TIE
street, Were arrested for disuricrly con
| dnct. They were fined 81 aud costs The
players found out tn at their arrest was f.i-
| revenge and pleaded until the money was
returned. The publication Of tnc affair was
aseyerepunishmeut tothe men.
games" sa Us TebeaU, doubts the hon estyof
ba seball IL Is the little fellow who sits all
day long watching the ticker in some
poo.room, and who occasionally buys q 90
cent combination, who cries hippodrome.
This little fellow cannot hurt the game
and in spite of his howls think these
Temple Cup games good thing. This fei.
low does not patronize the game anyway,
and SO he cannot hnrt it" But just the
same. it would be as well 5 not 10 doaway
with the Temple Cup games If the league
would substitute something TO take the
place OF tn EN-. Purses for teams finishing
first, second and third in the race with no
post season series would be just tn g thing
Fortunately, up 10 this time, the Temple
Cup has been won so easily tina the man
who has suspicion all the time has been
SuutiCiitU DuJ sCiut tliIlt pi dbOtutf u
will be Necessary 10 play the fun series OF
games and then look out for no wI.-Cleve-
land Press.
Some scrib.s OF sporting proclivities seem
to consider it their duty to feed the credG-
lous fans with sensations during the fall
and winter months. They have written
Cleveland and Louisville out of the Lea que
and Detroit aud Buffalo in ON numerous oc-
casions. Even Wiley Davis swallow cd the
recent PIttsburg bait, and when he arrived
in Knoxville this week the Tennessee squir-
rci-hunter told the natives that the chances
Were excellent for the League 10 take iu
Minneapolis and Indianapolis and go it
next year on a fourteen-club bas!si There
is just about as much chance for the cou-
summation OF the latest proptec from Wash
ington that the National League has re-
soived To take Chris Won der Abe by the
cafe his franchise and put the Cleveland
team in the Mound City. 1t takes the posses
sion of brilliant Imagination TO conceive
such n plan. When the Hoosicr amalgama-
ton took place the builders put the twelve
club Lelgue on too firm legal fouudat ion
to he disrupted in any such manner. der
Bcss President has doubtless Offended his
brother moguls by so many outside fliers.
which have Transformed Sportsmeu's Pars
into a regular Vanity Fair, but he has them
legally sewed up, even if the desire was
strong to inform him that his room was
preferable, to his cOiDpany-Cincinnati Post