The morning times., 1896-05-06
DIAMOND DUST.
Pertinent Paragraphs About the Sen
atOrs and Others

ntOrs and Others
Crooks and Maui viii leave this morning
at Il:2O O'Clock for Pittsburg. Maui will
pitch in Thursday VS. game eagainstthe Pirates.
The opera bouffe of the League is fur
uished in the series now iD progress at
Bourbonville between the Colonies aud
the Giants. II Is continuous PefloFnauce
of the latest burleSqUe ana baSeDall speCld!-
ties from 3 To p III. dally. The GldntS
held the center OF the stage Monday, but
tile Colonies made chorus girls or Irwin
men Yesterday Tie Villagers, In the
persons OF the Louisville bleacnerites, acted
tbeir part well, considering the lew oppOT-
tunltics they nave had 10 reheaTse tAls
season.
Tile Senators have fulfilled all expecta-
ton at Cleveland d nj everybody Is happy
But JoyCe's boys have developed sucn u
praise worthy haDiJ this season OF exceeding
the utmost hopes OF the rams that a second
victory over 1eDeau spiders III theii o"t
web would not be shock.
Jimmy MCJames is about due 70 win, baV-
lost his Iast game 10 Brooklyn. Jimmy ana
the Senators have license 20 lose 10 the
Temple cup winners this afternoon, but
don't bet your meal ticket money that they
will You might go hungry.
That a hearty and healthy feeling exists
in the city towards the senators is mani
every afternoon at Metzerott and her-
mans to hear the returns OF the games Dy
telegraph and TO see the plays reproduced
on a miniature field. All the rooters go 10
one place or the other, and the comment
and yelling is very much like that at
National Park when the Senators are at
The Washington lady who composed a
beautiful piece or piano music and dedl-
Gated il 10 the Senators, naming 1t the
'' WIN Mercer Caprice, was most fortunate e
IN selecting a title. The success OF the club,
and particularly Mercer's great record,
made the composition very popular.
O'Connor played dirty ball in Mondays s
game by stepping over the plate just as
NcI throw second
catch DelehaGty stealing. Hurst happened
not TO be looking and Jack got Off with
the trick, though McGulre and Boyd pro
tested against allowing Deiehanty to mold
the base.
Piggy Ward, who played. or rather
made d bluff, at playing second base Tor
the Senators III "a is with Scranton this
season. and is considered one of the fastest
infielders in tue PENNSYLVANIA State League.
Minor company is Just Piggy $ size. He
still makes a specially OF tuat demoniaCal
"Ha, ha'' on the coaching lines.
Manager McCIuSkeS Viii drift ok into
Il MINOR Ira que. Like great many pbenOm
players, the big league was too fast for
Mae tut II took the louisville mana cement
"a long time tO.lind il cut. IL also cost them
good many dollars.
Capt. Joyce has thus far escaped the
matrimonial net, but 'SCrappy' is gal
Iant bachelor and is not a { ali avSFSe to the
company of the ladies. When he pla yed in
Brooklyn with Johnny Wards Brotherhood
club ne had several SweetheaTts anon 9 the
'
and on bis recent trip he put on his best bib
and tucker and made each one of his former
flames courteous call. Il must be get
ting along in years" said ''Scrappy" one
evening after he mad returned TO the hotel.
Il visited one OF my old girls tonight and
she is married and has boy big enough
| to play first base"
Doc" E. Arlington Pond, he of the
| football and college curves. put the hypO
| into Pittsburg yesterday to the extent of
8 to l. The Pirates could Cnly scratch
| five measly hits Off of the young disciple
| of ESculapuS and Galen whom the Sena-
! tors found so easy at Baltimore a week
go last Monday. But doctors have
| their off days Just ike other ordinary NOR
| tails, and probably the Senators caught
| Pond, NJ. D., at the time whe n his cere hTum
| and cerebellum were not in juxtapoSitiun.
| Pitcher Boswell, our BCzzy, he of the
| elongated legs and appetite, upon leaving
| Washington after his release signed with
| Columbus OF the western Lea que. He
! pitched his first game against the strong
| indianapolis club, winning it and letting
| the champions down with only six hits.
Good for BozZy Ma Y his appetite increase
| and bis shadow never grow less.
| II handled 80 hot grounders that Maui
| hit down 10 me at second today without
| an error said Crooks at the park YES
| terday, 'and think that sore back of mine
must be all right again / don't feel stiff
| at all as a result of the hard exercise, and
| and play the same old game
| Say, you should see my new rabbits
| foot! Beauty! 1t was sent to JoyCe al
| Brooklyn the other day, but failed 10 reach
| him before his departure for Cleveland The
| package was then forwarde TO Mr.. WagneI
| here, and he gave it TO me to deliver tC
'Scrappy' at Pittsburg. But Joyce will not
| get 1t-l am Il connolsseUr on the left hInf
| pedal extremity of hare, and ! know
have darling in the one hold a present
| Besides Joyce does not know how 10
| work rabbits foot. He wasn't born in
| the dark of the Rloon like myself What
| PlttEiluFU hnt
be plenty. Watch the score
| The king is IN splendid spirits, and /!
Jubilant that he is going to get back into
the game.
Yesterday afternoon at National Par
| Mr.. Wagner, Jack Crooks, AL Maui, an
several newspaper men were sitting il
the press box watching the District I4eaguer
play, when the converse ton turned or
| Crooks and Maui going to Pittsburg to re
enter. the game. Mr.: Wagner always re
fers to his. great pitcher as Perry wall,
on account of his fastidiouS ''get up AM
addressing Maui jocularaly. said:
We'll, Berry, you are off in the morning
for Pittshurg 10 see If that old glass arn
of yours is any good. You say it is: W
right. You will pitch Thursday, and
shall watch the score board here like
hawk does chicken. With you in GOO
shape. old sport: won't have to stay a awak
at night, but will sleep like q child. Goo
luck to you. and remember during the gam
Thursday that ] am pulling both legs of
| tnat you may WIN OUT With ease
That is the way club owner should tai
to his men: that is the way Mr.. wagne
! talks to all the Senator's. He poSsesse
the personal good will and friendship @
every man on his team. Few magnate
can have half so much said of them
Johnny Ward, the ex-premier baseba
manager, in one of the reviews he write
occasionally for the New York Journal ha
the following to say about the Washingto
club: Washington comes next on tb
record, and, strange to say, is right up wit
the leaders. But the strangest part of it
that they are whore they are, not by an