The evening times., 1896-05-22
ALONG THE BASE LINES.

Brooklyn's team batting average is .2s7
and New Y ork' .270.
Ole Pop Arson will never win the pen
! nant with his present aggregation.
These are days when John 7. Brush and
William Ewing smile softly and look CON
tented.
Cartwright tput outsixteen men at Chicago
yesterday.
Ely has rounded to in fine shape and the
clever shortstop owns greater part OF
Pittsburg at the prese mt time.
Big Bill Clarke put up Il good game for New
York at Cincinnati, but the club could not
win.
Lave Cross had fiUger broke n yesterday.
Syracuse has signed Catcher Keck. late
of st. Louis.
McCloskey has been offered the manage
ment of the Q uincy, III, team.
Clements was sent TO bat in Turner's
place. That seems odd. Both are left
hand batsmen, and Turner is suppose d TO bc
slugger.
Pitcher Hart of st. Louis had Gine assists
in recent game, the seasons record for a
twirler.
Norfolk in the Virginia League, has resur-
rected George Wood.
Capt. Ewing has Il crate of new bats for
the boys to carry with them when they
start for the East.
President John 7. Brush will be member
of the Cincinnati party when it arrives in
Washington next Monday. Z.
During the dckering season last winter
Freedman could have made deals by which
Hamilton. Mccarthy and Stivetts would
have Joined the giant band. Then there
were other chances for plastering up the
vulnerable spots in the New York armor by
an output of cash.
Umpire weidman was one of the best
pitchers in the big League, pitching for
Detroit in the famous eighteen-inning to
game at Providence, that Radbourn won
with home run. He can't umpire that
well.
Ex-Secretary Harry Sterne declares
acknowledgement no W by the fastest
team that ever pla yed bah here in my time.
Irwin outclasses Latham, and every mem
Der OF the outfit seems keyed up to the
championship pitch. The Reds are play
ing grand game and deserve the success
they have achieved"
When Creighton, Neb., plays baseball at
Sioux City again Sioux City umpire will
be engaged. Umpire Reef, who superin-
tended the last game, did not give satisfac-
ton, and when he left the grounds found
nearly 200 hoodums waiting for him.. He
sprinted for his hotel amid a showerof brick
and cedar paving blocks torn up for ammu-
milton. The crowd followed and were be-
ginning to break in the windows in search
of their victim. when the police took hand
and quelled the riot
Jennings lost yesterdays game for BaIti-
more by making a three-base wild throw.
Egan ofsyracuseis playing a very brilliant
fielding game and hitting the ball hard for
the Eastern League leaders.
kid" Gleason, in a letter to his brother
Ike, who manages the Camden team. offered
TO trade places with him. The latter wired
back. mot on your life''
There will be no need to build another
cantilevar pavilion IL the Philles keep on
losing Philadelphia Record.
Cincinnati made five runs Off Taylor, in
Cincinnati, on Tuesday, after two men were
out. simply because he allo wed the coaching
OF Catcher Peitz to rattle him. Up to that
time Taylor had pitched magnificent ball,
but under the fire OF CINCINNATI s catcher he
gave the next three men bases Oh balls and
the next three made hits,
This is what Manager shettsline OF the
Phillies said just before the first Pitts
burg defeat:
II don't know. We started out so strong
that we thoughtfor while we could knock
any pitcher. but we dropped off gradually
until yesterday we made only two hits.
That is about as low as we can 20, and
look for steady Improvements, because
we are bound to get started some time.
II can't account for the sudden change
among the bitters There was time when
any kind of left-hander could win from