The evening times., 1896-07-15
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND.
case of too much BreItepsteIp.

A case OF too much Breltenstein.
To make IL worse, Philadelphia won.
Ii begins to look as il 'Our Prides'' had
slumped.
Brooklyn also took a coat of that Pitts
burg whitewaSh.
1t was clear and 11O in the shade at st.
Louis yes terday.
"Shootin' the chute?' Well, say, don't
We know how to do 1t?
Cincinnati is winning on nerve and con-
fidenCe as much as anything else.
When it comes it arrives in a bunch. In
other words, when it rains it pours.
Baltimore has farmed out X estcrto Scran-
ton, and will Join that club early next week.
There is harmony in the Louisville Club
now fur the iiTst time in over two years.
The victories over Boston so plea sed
Won der Ahe that he remitted Meyers
fine of 500.
Cincinnati is having it easy on their own
grounds but Just wait until they strike
the road again.
Pitcher Lucid, recently released by the
Phila del phias, is now reporter ON one of
the Chicago dailles.
Rhines will soon be able to pitch for
Cincinnati again. He has been out Of the
game since May 20.
There is something radically wrong, and
it behooves MIR. Wagner or someone else
to inject Some ginger.
The chute was in good shape yesterday
and the Senators could not resist the
temptation to take ride.
That 10 to o beating Connie Mack's
Pirates gave the Senators seems TO have
taken all the sand out of them.
Hughey Jennings, of the Baltimores, is
pushing Jesse Burkett, of the Clevelands,
for the batting honors of the League.
There will be hot time at Cincinnati
| Thursday, Saturday and Sunday when the
Baitimores play Bucks Astonishing Braves.
ending of bad beginning of the West
ern trip they had better brace up pretty
| quick.
Kostal, who pitched for one inning for
| Louisville yesterday, Is Chicago boy,
| and has never played in a professional
| League before.
II the Senators do not soon take a brace
many of their patrons in Washington will
| lose that high opinion they had of Capt.
| Joyce's aggregation.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick ~
For particulars note the Senators record
on tile Western trip-Two games won out
or seven played; percentage, .2S6.
AS The Times has had occasion to say
before, the Senators need pitchers. The
club is batting and fielding all right but
game after game has been sacrificed
In the pitchers box.
Jesse Burkett deserves success. For an
| hour before game he is out on the diam ond
| batting as long as any one VIII pitch TO him.
| He smuggles boys through the gates TO dc
| the twirling.
| Catcher r obinson had portion of the little
finger OF his right hand amputated at
Louisville yesterday. That member was
| injured some time ago, and there was dan
| ger of blood poisoning.
The Senators don't believe in half way
| doing the thing; when they take notion to
take beating they get ready for a good
| one. Witness Pittsburg and yesterday e
proceedings at st. Louis.
| Wbyln tho Spidorc op6 nrioIac 1-oro
ping each other up the hack, the Reds
sailed silently into first place. judging
from the way they are playing, it'll De .
pretty hard task to dislodge them.
The entire baseball public will SYM
Of his brother Henry, pitcher of the Ha.
gerstown, Pa, club, and most proinis-
ing player. Herman played two gamei