The evening times., 1896-06-17
BASEBALL NOTES.

Manager Irwin has signed Pitcher Cronn,
New York amateur of much promise.
BUrkett has an eagle eye nowadays. He
made four hits off Cunningham yesterday.
First base has been one of New York's
weak spots ever since Connor left that team.
Louisville is after Pitcher Kiobedanz, of
the Fan River team of the New England
League.
Outfieder Ches, who jumped Scranton
to play With the Hornellsville club, has been
released.
Seeds, who is doing such phenomenal
pitching III the Atlantic League, is a Doyles-
town, Pa, lad.
| Stocksdaie won his game yesterday, the
| Petersburgs defeating the Roanokes by
score OF 8 TO 6.
Jones of Brooklyn figures very promi-
| nently in every game. He comes pretty
near being the find OF the season.
Mercer holds the pitching record of the
| season. He has won fourteen of the sixteen
| games in Which he has pitched.
Washington is as well fixed for pitchers
/ as any other team in the Lea que, barring
possibly, Cleveland Philadelphia Ledger.
| The pace Shor;stop Corcoran started with
| was evidently too hot for him, for of late
he has dropped off considerably in his field
| ing.
New York may give Pitcher Cogan. of
| the Paterson team. a trial. Cogan is said
| to be one of the best pitchers in the Atlantic
! League.
There viii be trouble among the Sena-
| tors soon. King is beginning to share
| Mercer's popularity with the ladies.-Pitts-
burg Chronicle Telegraph.
Malarky was not equal to the emergency.
He had the Portsnouths shut out yesterday
until the last inning, when they hit him for
four runs. The Richmonds got but two hits
Il have stronger team this year than at
any timein ten years. Luck has been gainst
us, and I'll bet we will finish as good as
| fourth" Is the optimistic forecast of Uncle
Anson.
Tebeau, Ewing aud Joyce are getting bet.
ter work out of teams that never claimed
to be stars than all the managers in the
business. excepting HaDlon.- Philadelphia
Telegraph.
In opening the new Washington press box
| Mr.. Wagner has estab abiished an irOnclad and
long-needed rule, providing that only the
baseball reporters of the city morning pa
pers, the Associated and United Press and
the necessary telegraph operators shall be
admitted. Correspondents of out-of-town
report the games by wire. are admitted by
card iladelphia Ledger.
A National League manager vino wishes
to strengthen his team by drafting players
from some of the minor leagues would have
pretty hard job. as aiority of the best
of the minor leaguers have strings attach
ing item to some club in the ma jor LEI que,
The staff correspondent of the Phia-
delphia Press says: "A conference between
gnF.f n III
| was held and it was decided thai tomorrow
should he Ladies Day. SO that the female
patrons of the game might not be dis
| appointed ut not receiving their regular
ratiops of free baseball this week The
waythe MEMBERS ofthe gentle sex are takin q
to the game is surprising, and what is even
more so, is that the Senators have now
got the crowds worked up to such pitch
by their good playing that this city holds
about as choice an assortment of Take
Him Outs as any city in the country In
previous years the fans rooted for visiting
clubs as much as for the home players, but
success has changed all this.
THIS year Chicago. Pittsburg and New
York are in the second division while Phil
adelphia. Cincinnati and Washington have
advanced to the first division The latter
club has made the greatest advance of any,
and it is the first time that Washington
has ever had so good club. and the man.
agcment are to be congratulated. Manager
Sciimclz commenced to strengthen his team
last fall, and was extremely fortunate in
picking up SO fine shortstop as De Mon
treyille has proved to be. Sbortstop has
always been Wasliington's weak spot. Last
year they tried seven or eight different
men, all of whom were failures. Rogers has
proved to be greatutility player. playing
second or third base in fine style. filling the
gap during Crooks absence from the team
The entire nine. from Tom Brown and Capt
Joyce down, are playing championship ball,
and would not be surprised to see them
finish better than sixth.-Boston Globe