The evening times., 1896-06-22
ALONG THE BASE LINES.

Pittsburg is getting very close TO the
Senators.
Monte Cross did not handle ball at short
yesterday.
New York has recalled Pitcher Lampe
and farmed him out 10 the MetropoltaAs.
Should Philadelphia lose and the Sen
ators win the latter will be in fifth place.
The WashingtOns should win two out
of three at New York sure, if not all three.
Kinslow was behind the bat for Louisville
yesterday. His work with the stick was
all right.
The Cape May team will play the opening
game of the season with the Camden A. A.
on July 4.
Something is evidently wrong with Glenn
ents' throwing arm. The Baltimores stole
thirteen bases on him Saturday.
1t was great pity that Washington Iost
on Saturday. The Senators would have
been in fourth place had they won.
Z. Anson thinks Pitcher Doheny of the New
Yorks is going to be a good one, with a
little more experience in League company.
Curt WEIGH, one of the greatest fielders
who ever chased u fly, is at his East
Liverpool home wreck and broke. He
traded his vocation and health for fire
water.-LouisviIle Co urier-JourDal.
"pucky' Holmes of the Louisvilles has
nearly recovered from his injury. 1t is
doubtful, however, If he will be able o
take part in any of the games for Wee;
after the club returns. Lately he has been
doing some practising.
Third baseman McGraw, who was ill with
typhoid fever early in the sea son, and who
has been recuperating at Old Point Com
fort, is gaining strength daily, and will
probably be able TO rejon the Baitmores on
their return from their next Western trip.
Mana ger Irwin of the New Yorks is after
John j. Cotter, the Columbia College first
baseman, who is playing with Newport.
He telesraphed TO Cotter Saturday to get
his release, and he would give him place
on his team at once, but Cotter is unable to
go, as the Newports will not release him,
and they, being under protection, he is un-
able to act.
Ward was at the Brooklyn-New York
game, and said that there was no truth
IN the rumor that he was to manage the
Quakers. Il have contract with No. IL
Pine street, and there shall stick" said.
John. This is where Wards shingle hangs
out, and there is little doubt that he in
tends to stick to the profession which he
has adopted.
Clark declared that Freedman was a
bird, the greatest man on earth. They
can talk about the boss said Dad, "but
tell you when he says get out of the
grounds you might as well move at once.
he soaked me for S10O last fall, and l
let 1T go. What's the use of going I'M
against this man? 1 had high old time
last year, and 1 guess 1 deserved what 1
got.''
Tim Keefe has received his release. This
is as it should be. Every consideration
was shown Mr.. Keefe this year by Presi.
dent Young, but he utterly failed to sat
isfy the clubs. Protests against him must
nave been numerous. Mr.. Young appears
not To have secured competent successor
in Campbell, who has not the backbone
Indispensable to a first-class man.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
McGraw gets letters from every city in
which there is a league team, some from
friends and Others from strangers. One
he received Wednesday was from a young
lady, whoinclosed some wild flowers which
she had plucked from the tops of the
Rocky Mountains. She was a stranger.
but her kind letter made an impression
on the recipient, and he cherished those
flowers. How touching!
There is lady living just north of the
grounds that occasions as much Irritation
to the baseball directory as a mustard
plaster on the roof OF the mouth She will.
not allow ball player to enter the grounds
under penalty of trespass, but when foul
balls or home run hits drop into her back
| yard she sends the ball to the ticket office
| by her boy, and the secretary is compelled
to fork over a quarter Burlington Hawk
eye.
| In the third inning Wednesday Umpire
| Lynch called Wilson out on some very
| dubious-looking strikes. O'Connor made
some comment to Tebeau on the style of
Mr.. Lynch's umpiring and was fined $25..
Il wasn't talking to you, Mr.. Lynch" said
Jack, II was speaking to Pat" Then Te-
beau stepped up and criticised Mr.. Lynch
for filming O'Connor for a remark that was
not addressed to the umpire. WELL" said
Mr.. Lynch, "he gets $25 anyway" "You
| can fine him $125 IL you want to-, replied
| Tebeau, land we'll pay it for him, too. ,,
President Young's failure to take official
! cognizaace OF the charges, repeatedly made