The evening times., 1896-08-18
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Herald.
Robson and Hart have been singing the
the duet, II Don't Want to Play in Your
Yard" fol SO long that a general howl for
them to shut up is heard from all over the
land.
The constant shifts and changes of po-
sition in the Louisville team remind one
OF game OF checkers, though contiuu-
ance of these moves will never result in
landing the Colonels in the king row.
Mr.. Lynch does not entirely depend upon
his salary as an umpire. He has an outside
venture that nets him considerable money
in the winter time. Mr.. Lynch and partner
are the lessses OF an opera house in Meriden,
Conn.
According to report Jack Crooks may
retire from the diamond this season and fol-
low the horses. He will not drive dray
or hearse, but is thinking seriously Of
accepting an offer to work in Dooknaker
Fred Fosters book.
Al selbach can throw quite n distance
with his left arm. So can Win Mercer.
Ono of the best ambidextrous players was
oh ubh III buCot- A<pu'o oioN 49,
who could use his left as well as his right
with equal accuracy II throwing.
"A ball player who leads a temperate
life should be good for actual service till
his fortietb year. will say, however,
that the players In these days take better
care of themselves than they used to do.
and nine out OF ten of them save their
money" says uncle Anson.
Lally umpired at Cleveland yesterday,
and, strange, to say, had no trouble.
From the way he roasted both the Pirates
and Spiders in Cincinnati 1T was to be
presumed that the players OF these two
clubs would have IL in for him when
they met him away from Porkopohs.
Eddie Burke's release from the New York
club was the making OF him. Eddie had
too many friends of the order of good TEL
lowshp on his staff in Gotham. Good feL
lowship and baseball don't mix. and that
was the advice Buck Ewing gave Eddie
when the little outfielder signed with the
Reds.
William W. Kirby, acting treasurer OF
the Providence Baseball Club, was awaken
ed at O'Clock yesterday morning by a
burglar in search of the receipts of Satur-
days game. The burglar was leaning over
the bed, with a weapon in one hand and
rummaging the pillows with the other.
Kirby feigned sleep until the burglar turn
ed aside, and then got his revolver from
under the pillow and fired two shots at him.
The thief fled, taking Kirby's gold watch,
valued at $50, but failed to get any OF the
ST. 900 in cash which was in the house. 1t
l.a,tln hi
Burkett, the batting champion, is quoted as
saying: Baseball is a peculiar game. Try
as man will, there come days when he
cannot play the game in a manner to please
himself or the spectators. Some days sou
can walk up and smash out the ball safely
every time you come to the bat, while other
times yeucan't n'tkecpitawa from the fielders.
II is the same in fielding. The best of play
ers have few off ays in the season, when
it seems that they can't play well at all.
Our team was n bit unfortunate Saturday,
but We will make up for that later on"
McDermott, the pitcher recently purchased
from Louisville by Cleveland, has the ap-
pearance of a man who might be great
pitcher He is well built ana appears to he
be possessed of great strength and speed.
MCDeTlINUb Has III uiS adj
ity as u twirier and expects to do some
good work for the Cleveland club. In Louis
vile he says he was badly handicapped by
the wretched work of the other members OF
the team, ami for this reason could not make
good showing there. He is anxiously
awaiting an opportunity to pitch for Cleve-
land.
THE clean game of baseball has been
injured by the Temple cup series,' says
Jim Hart Of Chicago, .in that 1t makes
the players desperate. The incentive Of
gathering in from $500 TO 81 900 each at
the end of the season is too much for
the players, and they will do things to
WIN games that they would not think
of doing under the old order OF things,
when position was what all We're striv-
ing for. Before the Temple cup series
was inaugurated one did not hear of
rowdies as much as one does now, and
it Is the scarmble for a slice OF the Tenn
pie cup money that makes rowdies cut
of ordinarily peaceful players. have been
advocating the abolishment Of the Temple
cup series ever since its Inauguration and
shall continue to do SO. 1 am not opposed
to players making extra money, but do
not want to see the game suffer through
their doing it, and that Is what has hap
pened. ever since the Temple cup was do
mated"
John B. Foster says in Sporting Life:
"And Washington let Joyce go. Now,
what in the world was Earl Wagner think
ing of? Under Joyce's management the
Washington team played the best ban 1t
had played for years. Along came Jus
Schmelz, who is all right, but he probably
had new code OF signals, and it busted
the Toys higher than Gilderoy's kite. S othe
WagDers chose to let Joyce and ball play
ing go. and retain SchnIelz and signals
| 1t may be all right, but IL were going
to pick a manager / should pick one who
| was a bah player and let the other fellow
handle the cash. From now on Washington
will libebcautifrlly walloped lwish Brook
lyn might have got Joyce, but under all
| circumstances suppose t was out of the
| question Oliver Tebeau had great ad-
miratoD for the Washingto on third haseman.
He used totcll me lots of good stories about
him, and has said many times that If Joyce
ever got the opportunity he could make a
winning team"
STANTON ABBOTT DEFEATED.