The evening times., 1896-07-18
BETWEEN THE HaSES.

Anson's colts are sliding up The toboggan.
Roanoke hit Malarky for ten singles
and won the game yesterday.
Boyl was an easy mark for the Lynch
burg team yesterday. Fourteen singles
were made un Southpaw Jake.
Chicago has jumped into fifth place.
Fred Preffcr did not weaken Anson's team
as much Us certain ones hoped and pre-
dicted.
Robson might have the umpircs re-
strained from timing Cleveland players Tor
violation of the Leagues rules, suggests
| an exchange.
Every tine tie Phillics win a game the
QuakervlIle cranks kill the fatted calf.
There are still many wcll-fed calves alive
in that Pennsylvania burg.
Mana ger Selec was served with numerous
iniuncticns the minute he set foot on
velaDd soil. He very wisely did not pro-
test the games with Tebeau's crowd.
Catcher Fuller, who was farmed out by
Louisville 10 Birmingham, has returned 10
Louisville onaccount or that team disband-
| ing. He will lie sent 10 the farm again.
Hutchison leads the Western League
| pitchers in the matter OF games won and
| lost. He has won seventeen and lost
seven. Mullanc has won seventeen and
| lost nine.
! You seem to have struck winning COM
! bine now, Mac said rOoter to Manager
McGunnigle Of Louisville. Yes was the
| reply; there's more than that, there's har
! mcny."
Twoyoungsters who have made names for
themselves in the big League this yea are
| Irwin, of Cincinnati, and DeMontreville,
of Washington. Both are playing fine
| game.-Baltimore Herald.
The Washington pla yers are indulging too
| freely in the flowing bowl, and it is no
secret that Capt. ''Scrappe' Joyce is right
up with the hand wa son in the procession
to the bar.-Baltimore Herald.
Arlie Latham has been given notice of
| his release. Kcister, who was secured by
| Baltimore from the New Haven club, has
been farmed to Scranton for the season
He will succeed Latham at third base.
Manager Tebeau on Tuesday remarked
! TO Gleason that rotten ball playing would
insure an attendance of fully 100 at
| the next game. Gleason saw the point
| and called down some of his players.
Ely is the only man in the League who can
be said to be within 900 points of Hughey
| Jennings class, though Nckln seems to
| be Il comer.-ENchange. Senator DeMon-
treville ranks III Ely's class all the time.
The miserable work of the Bostons has
| stirred up the papers. The Globe gently
| hints: You can't make great ball play
| ers out OF second-class material no more
| than you can make a silk purse out of a
| sows ear
Mercer, the great young pitcher Of the
Washipgtons, sat in the grand stand yester-
! day. Heis dark, welldressed youthD, and
| looks more like n collegian or young society
many than n balltoSser His arm, SO he
says, is very lame Chicago News of
| Thursday.
There are a dozen deals on and new
| blood will still be infused into [ he ranks of
the Colonels. There is no fault to find with
the men on the team, who are trying to
| play ball, but McGunnigle has his eye out
for next season, and he does not propose
TO let any chances slip.-Louisville Times.
| Does Mr.. Freedman realize how much
he has helped his dearest foe this week
| by allowing mis- Giants TO win TWO games
| in Cleveland? These Two defeats of the
Spiders should go long way toward
| healing over the breach between the mogul
OF the West and the magnate of the East.
Just now the Browns are putting up a
| strong, clean game Of ball. With Brett
enstein, Hart, Donohue and Kissinger in
shape, they are BILE to give any club in the
| league Il battle for series. Three out
of four from Boston and two out of three
| from the Senators shows that they are
putting up the real article.
President Mick Young says he ap-
pointed McFarian an umpire because he
| has an honest face. Nick only saw his
photo at tthat.-Baltmore American. Presi-
dent Young had a long interview with the
youDgman last winter, when he gavehimex-
| ceilent advice. McFarlan listened, and
now he has his reward.
A story comes from the West that Man
ager McGunnigle is again bringing up his
offer OF $4,000 for Jennings, and that
| Hugh says he is willing to make the transfer
If he can get SO, 500 OF. the sum. Itis given
out that Hugh wants to build house with
the money. If he wants house badly he
had better not wait for this deal.
Chicago Post: Cincinnati will Just about
| win the pennant," mused President Hart
today. ''The Reds are playing the fastest
ball, and their constituents are giving them
| all kinds of good support. understand the
claim is made by many Cincinnati ia ms that
the team owes much Of its success to Charlie
Irwin's work. Itis true that Irwinis wen
der at third. Many is the base hit that gets
killed on its way through his territory.
But the fact remains that the club is going
pennantward, and soon, perhaps, when he 10