The morning times., 1896-09-01
DIAMOND DUST.
Two games this afternoon.
Mercer was the ma tcr OF me W0,Il Id b.

Two games this afternoon.
Mercer was the master OF the would b.
Run-A wa y-CoIts.
BDrkett, Jennings and Dclalianty are
having great fight for the honor of
| leading the League in batting this year.
II is the question whether Cincinnati OF
Cleveland will ira vel to wa rd the rear faster
that will settle the tight for second place.
Louisville upheld the honor and the glory
OF the entire West last Thursday. The
Colonels were the only wild and wooly''
team to win Il game.
Anderson's twenty-onc put-outs out Of
twenty-scvcn at first base for Brooklyn in
the Louisville game III the Goth inst. is TIE
record Of the season.
Joe HorDung, long and Well known as
the old Boston left fielder. is said to I've
one OF the most popular umpires on the
Eastern League staff
There is some little consolation in the IN
dsputable fact that if we can't win the
pennant we can trounce the pennant
misunderstanding Press.
The Bostons certainly started the Gin
cinnatis on a We creased tobogRan-
Cleveland Plain-Dealer And the Senators
pushed the gool thing along.
You may come up To my house tonight
To klobcdapz after he had made his home
run yesterday. Boston Herald.
John Clements, the Quaker catcher is
seriously i'll with typhoid fever. but his
physicians think that with his strong con
stitution he will pull through all right
Old Jack GlasscOck Is putting up Il great
game at second base for st. Paul He
had ten putOuts aud five assists in last
Thursdays game beside making three
hits
Umpire Hurst displayed a great amount
OF nerve when he walked Hughey Jen-
niugs out OF the game in the first inning
the other day and in Baltimore too But
it is n habit Tim has.
Howard Earle has been suspended in
definitely as manager of the Wilkesbarre
club, and William Goeckel, the famous
former first baseman OF the Pennsylvania
University team, who is well known in
college baseball circles in Washington, has
been signed TO succeed him.
New York's new manager. ''Scrappy''
Joyce. is certainly getting good work out
of the team, which augurs i'll for the Cleve-
lands and Cincinnatis when they Gene
along. a nd President Freedman a nj \ rthur
Irwin away, too. Chicago Chronicle.
AL. Maui has been carried on the salary
list of the Washington team for two
years, although he has been of little
use to the club. Still, be is too good a
man to release. aud will be retained in the
hope OF brilliant future work-Chicago
Times Herald.
The exhibition of temper which Tebeau
displays toward his players during a game
often calls dow on him the severe censure
of the crowds. In one OF the late games in
Baltimore he gave Cuppy a severe call
down. and was thereafter greeted with
manifestations of displeasure by the spec
tators.
Lange certainly laid himself liable to
indictne mt for robbery by the catches he
nailed off the bats of DeMont revile and
Farrell Wee Willie is without doub
the king Of outrielders. There are others but
for batting. base running, run getting and
care OF the frontier, he is in a class I'LL
by himself.
or course Uncle MS made a kick when
Setback scored the winning run by an eye
lash in the eleventh, but, under the circunl-
stances. he would have objected to Shsri-
dams decision had "AF' Eeen safe by IA
mile. 1t was hard game to lose by SO
close a margin, Il nd :"Uncle" had to blow
off steam somehow. and the umpire was
the most convenient mark.
Alvin PietZ of Cincinnati, in a letter to
Buck" Ewing, requests the captain OF the
team to use his influence to have him ap-
umpires- Alvin says in his letter: II am
familiar with the rules, and noted for the
way enforce discipline. should like to
tackle the Cleveland team the first day,
and If don't control the game something
will drop"
Clarence Childs, the clever second base
man of the Cleveland team, who is an old
Baltimore boy, purchased house on Sat
urday and presented it to his mother The
10 tod on ,o
Monroe. Mr.. Childs is looking out for the
rainy day that sometimes comes TO baseball
players. He has not ''seen better DAYS"
but he means TO see them in the future
Baltimore News.
Ask Nick Young who saved the honor
of the national league in the dark. DAYS
OF 80, and he will tell you with pride
that Arthur Soden was the only man in
America who was prompt in the call for
help. II had wired Mr.. SOden for So 600
and got the check the next day, when
the league had debts to pay and could not
hold them off another day. / always de-
pended upon President soden when i'm
trouble is the way N. E. Young spoke
of the Boston man the last time. Pitts
burg Chronicle.
Charley Luskey, one of the best Of Wash
ington's small army of Eall players, has
signed with the Portsmouth club OF the Viz
ginia League for the balance of the sea-
son. He will be used as a general utility
man, as he is good catcher Ind outficlder.
In a letter to The Times Charley says Ports
mouth expects to play Richmond for the
cup, as his club il now in the lead on the
second half of the championship schedule,
Richmond having won the first. Charley
says he is well pleased with the Portsmouth
management and that he will take advan-
tage OF the opportunity Offered to rise
hieh in the buSineSa.