The evening times., 1896-05-20

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Cant. Adrian {. Arson, who has through
all the wears rested silently under the tue
If ..the big Swcde." arises to correct that
impression of his nationality. The Ansohs
are English, rossihly of Danish dcsccnt
hundreds of wears ago. but long settled In
America, and old Grandfather Anson, father
pr the captain. looks like Down East
yanEce, The family has resided in New
York and Michigan. and finally at Marshall
town. Iowa. Mrs. Anson is German, a
Miss FiegcI before marrying the captain.
According to the way some of the new
York papers argue Rusie is the only tiliS
needed to put New York at the top. Com
piling and cOIdensing their statements we
lind that Rusic would give the team nerve,
would make the weak batters hit, would
make the rielders play better ball, wouid
make the other pitchers pitch, would make
the baSe-runnCrs run bases. and so on. lie
should draw u salary OF SO ,Oeo per season.
There is too much red tape in this system
IF averages. says Capt. Joyce or what
value for instance. are these fielding aver
ages? Some of the best fielders show up
poorly in the tab kept on their fielding.
When see errors tabled against Il player |
know he is working. If Arlie Latham was
4 huStling fielder he would cut sorry fig
urc in Nick Young's tatlcs. The only tiG-
ures by which a player can be judged are
Hose that dcfine his base-steaiing and bat
ting"
Dexter's work behind the bat is almost
phenomenal. as ball players are judged.
Here is what Manager Shettsline of the
Philadelphas said of him yesterday: Here
was Hill pitching ard Dexter catching
;wo country kids compared with old Leag-
1ers. They were unused to each other and
had never seen the Quakers play, yet they
stepped in and made monkeys of my men,
who make other pitchers quake whenever
hey come TO bat. can't understand it.
Dexter is one of the greatest throwers
ever saw.-LouisyiIle Courier-Journal.
Doyle's absence hurts the Baltimores.
Latham has been Internationally released
by the st. Louis club
You fined me SO for nothing" said
Mexican. That costs you 50 more" said
Lynch.
Dad Clarke got little angry at one of
Lynch's decisions and objected. That
would have cost me S25,'' said O'Connor,
and Lynch's reply was: at costs you $40
uow.''
IT is reported that the Browns under Man.
ager Connor are pa ying a fast game. They
introduced the ht-and-run play severaltimcs
n the last two games and worked it sue
cessfully.
"Scrappy" Joyce Of Washington plays
second base very much as he did bird with
a barrel of errors He ma kes more mispiay VS.
than any other infieldcr in the League, butts
a winning balltosser just the same Chi
cago News.
Fisher, Cincinnati's pitcher. ought to feel
proud and happy. Not many pitchers ever
had nine runs recorded against them in the
first inning and then won their game.
Should Hamilton lead the League iu
base-runnng this season Long should be
given n great part of the credit Hamilton
is fast as to his feet and Herman is fast as
10 his generalship. AS soon as Hamilton
reaches first base he goes down on the first
ball pitched. Long ''unconsciously" inter
feres with the catcher and the base is
ST olen.
The Philics are after AlltruCk, an anna
teur pitcher of Cincinnati. He is regarded
as first-class man among the players in
Porktown.
Umpire Sheridan has the oldest voice ever
possessed by League umpire. He cannot
ma ke the crowd understand what he means,