The morning times., 1896-06-29

iE mild sort OF way and as homcly as
| Jack Crooks would be with half his face
| painted blue, says the Cincinnati CONNER
| Clal Gazette.
| The Baltimore papers are sore ON the
| Senators for the bad heating they gave
! their pets Friday and the close heart
breaking game they held them To Saturday.
| Tie Bdiumoreans want everything to
| come easy. but Joyce's men are not
gratifying them this season. As the SEN
| ators have Sin more games To play with
| the Orioles. of which they Will win three
| at least, IL is not reasonable tu presume
| that the papers over there will get into n
| good humUr with us this year.
| As a rule ball players in ina king purchases
| buy the best articles and don tquihble ever
the cost This was exenplified by Capt.
Joyce and silver King in Boston the other
| day when they went into "a leather goods
| store To purchase locketbooks. Ball p!a yers
have Il weakness for fine leather purses in
| which TO store their 'priDceIy salaries" The
clerk spread out his stock and "SCrappy''
| and SILVER selected books OF real ALI gator
at SO each. Then Silver sped Il lady
purse that struck his fancy and he made no
ad"over separating himself from 81 80 that
he might send II as Il present 10 Mrs. Kin &
at ST. Louis. The amount of $3.50 is not
very much money. but il is whole lot ~
pay for three little pSckethooks.
Robert Woods, a dar k Complexion ned
young man who came into baseball prnmi-
| nencc through his catching on the Inde-
pendent team. at Findlay. Ohio, who is now
with Indianapolis. was responsible for :be
defeat OF the Detroits recently. While he
didn't do IT all alone, he broke all batting
records and had the honor of chasing six
OF his comrades. besides himself, over the
plate. Men have been known to make
home runs with three on bases in the past,
and Woods not only duplicated the inter
esting feat, but in the very next inning
with bases full again. he slammed the bali
out FOR double and a trio OF brown-leEged
HoOsers galloped in front Of him. Batting
IN seven runs IN two successive innings
is trick that is apt 10 be placed alongside
Paul Hines triple play unassisted. for it
is q baseball rarity and will hardly be
spoiled III fast company for many moons
A prettier example of what kind of a
hitter Burkett is was never bad than on
Tuesday. The first time up be Smashed
a pretty nit in between the second baseman
and first baseman. When be went to bat
IN the second inning the fielders moved
over TO the right TO play for him. Burkett
grinned and planted one directly over the
second base bag, where neither the second
baseman nor the shortstop could reach
it; Then the Louisville fielders were
miserable and moved back toward left
In the fourth inning Burkctt varied things
by making rs pretty a bunt as ever was
seen and easily reached first. This time
the Louisville fielders thought they had
him. and played close in on him for another
bunt. But instead of bunting the great
hitter waited until he got ball to his
liking and then be sent il just over the
heads of the infielders. He certainly Is a
great one.
The travelling expenses of ball club
CARRYING the average number of players is
about 500 day says Manager Schmelz.
CiuhS generally carry as many as fifteen
men and sometimes more. Seasoned, we'll
balanced teams like Baltimore, Cleveland
ana washington can get through a trip
with thirteen or fourteen PLAYERS but
LOUISVILLE mas had as high as twenty on
the road. Railroad and sleeping car
fares, hack charges, hauling baggage, hotel
bills and the many other extra items that
lS1 1r rim th,. fnt ts.I
to 81 oO every day. In fact, club owners
are glad TO have the travelling expense
account so light. OF course tins amount
does not include salaries and is only :rn
ordinary item iii the great aggregate of
expense OF conducting q club through a
season. The opinion prevails that there is
only returns a legitimate profit on the
money invested and risk taken. That is,
granting that everything is ia avorahle. But
let hard luck set in, such as bad weather.
INJURY TO valuable players and a losing
club and money disappears as easy as
water runnin. through tin gutter. Ii
is risky business and men without nerve
should beware of Investing their money in
such way
While the Senators were playing Boston
attention was called to the fact that there
wasn't siEgie Eastern-bom or raised
payer pay T on Joyce'S ciuh as 1t stood on the
Mercer. Mcclure, Cartwright. Crooks
peMontrevillc, Joyce, Selbach, Brown and
Abbey. all or whom Were born west of the
Allegheny mountains. Cartwright and
Hier,er narrowly escaped seeing Tue light
on the eastern side, having first opened
Their eyes at the base of the range on the
sunset side. Tom Brown was born in
Eng and but came to the States at an early
age with his parents who settled i'm
California and he is therefore classed
as Westerner. Joyce, Crooks, De-
We're born i'll the Central States in or
bordering on the great Mississippi Valley.
Hardly another club in the profession could
as was played against Boston that day.
or the other Senators King is from the West,
German halls from Maryland, and Rogers,
Lush and McA.ey are" Down Eas terners."
Jimmy Med ames is a regular reber' from
Dixie, South Carolina being the State of
his birth: Like all Southerners, Jimmy is
ever ready for political argument and can
hold up MS end In manner attesting
In the past and at present