The evening times., 1896-04-06


west League will have n prosperous season.
The Pbiladelphias lost their first game
of the season NJ Lynchburg on Thursday.
Van Haltren complains of pains in his back
and chest, as result Of the sudden change
OF climate.
Cotter, of the Manhattan College team,
formerly played with Georgetown College
and Atlantic City.
Al Gumbert took pains to keep in good
condition all winter and the result was
luat he made a splendid showing in the
first game he pitched for Brooklyn.
Gray Is discontcntcd on the Cincinnati
team, as lie thinks most OF his play ying will
be on the bench and believes that his forte
lies in all-round value to team and his
batting.
Billy Eagan, captain of the Syracuse
Eastern League team, left his home In
Camden yesterday TO join the nine at
Paterson.
The Southern Lea que has been reorgan-
lied with six cubs-New Orleans, Mobile,
Montgomery, birmingham, Columbus, and
Atlanta. The season will open on April
16, and each club will play 1U5 games.
New York opened the season in Gotham
on Saturday with a victory over the Man
haitian College boys by the score of 2 to /.
The Yale Law School team has tenn
pnrarily disbanded and abandoned Its
Southern trip owing to the unreasonable
weather.
Manager Milligan spent yesterday In
HaZleton conferring with Markic. Milli-
gan's inability to interest the Reading peo-
pie in a club has had a depressing effect,
and an effort win now be made TO get
Chester to take the vacant place.
Harry Dddlebock, the Philadelphia news.
paper man who Iorsook Journalism to be-
come Chris Won der Abe's manager, is
having a warm time of IL in st. Louis.
1t threatens to be hotter still, for Mr.. Did.
dlebock has got into the habit of thrash.
ing the Mound City reporters for adverse
criticism.
The salary list OF the New York club this
wear, according to President Freedman, viii
he nearly $50, 900. Thiscoupled with 500
| Coo rent for the Polo Grounds and Man
| haitian Field aui other necessary expenses
| will make IL necessary for the club TO put
ont more than 1000 before any profits
| can be counted.
The manageme Mt of the Orange a C. il
| having trouble in securing players. The de-
| fcction of the eX-Iale men Carter, Eeall
| AMI Redington was uncxpec cted, and their
| places will be hard TO fill. An effort ma be
made to have John NJ. Ward play second
| base and captain the team during the
| summer months.
Six thousand people saw Louisville and
| Detroit play a thirteen-inning tie game NJ
| Louisville yesterday. The game was called
| In the first half of the fourteenth inning,
when Louisville had scored one run, had
| one man on second, and one out. Score.
! Louisville-Runs, .; hits, s; errors, z.
Detroit-Runs, 3; hits, 13; errors, u.
Over 5000 persons witnessed the second
| practical illustration OF handicap base
| ball Yesterday in Cincinnati, the contend
| ing mines being the Cincinnati league and
| Mobile teams. The former put out four
| men In al inning to the latter's three, yet,
| notwithstan ling that, Cincinnati won easily
| by a score of 20 to 8.
No club now in existence has, or that ever
| was in existence had, team with 50 many
| all-round pla yers on it, and, in the event o T
| n hot race in which many casualties INA Y
| happen, this will be an important factor a nd
| n great advantage to the Phillies. es.-Phila-
| delpha Ledger. Yet without team work
| the Q uakers are not in the hunt.
| Here is clipping from the Rockford, Ill,
| Register of fJune11, 1870: For catcher we
have A. c. Anson of Marshalltown, Ia,
| who, though but eighteen years OF age
| weighs 1S5 pounds, AMI certainly for pluck
! and nerve can safely be pronounced 4 No.
I /. II. Is good batter and runner and has
| that Western endurancrthat will enable him
! TO hold Fishers hot shot If anybody can -
| II now is an easy matter to figure out
! Anson's age.
| II will be worth the price OF admission
| this year TO hear Jennings ani McGrIw con-
! versng in Latin with Jack Doyle during
| the progress OF game. They can call
| Tin Hurst hOrse-thief, highwayman and
a dogkennel bouquet in Z dead language,
| aud Tim don't know a word about II.
| Whereas, II Dad Clarke or Patsey Te-
beau attempted it in their East Troy Ameri-
can alive language, Mr.. Hurst would be on
| m n minnie