The times., 1897-04-26
DIAMOND DUST.

Bud Lally, the Cincinnati "sure thing
Will umpire in the Western League this
season.
II the weather is favorable In New
York tins afternoon, 900 or more
people Will witness the game.
Mrs Cleveland witnessed a game between
the Tigers and the Pennsylvania State Col
lege club ar Princeton Saturday.
slow ball,worries the New Workers
KID Carsey made monkeys OF the slug
gers in Saturdays game at Philadelphia
Shortstop Jennings manages to get IN
an error or two every day, and yet Manager
Hanlon Says Hughey's arm is as good
as ever There is a niger in that Ralti-
more wood pile.
Gus weighing is pitching winning ball
for 'Nap poieon" McCloskey's Dallas, Tex,
team But it is like dreaming to think
of the once great twirler selling his services
to country club.
With the sli ightly built Mercer and the
bercUean Rusie ptted against one an
other in tomorrow's game at New York
it will be something of a biograph repro
duction OF the pavid-Goliath duel.
The New Washington games will
be shown by innings and every play Will
be made plain at Kernan's this afternoon,
also tomorrow and Wednesday. Score by
innings OF other games viii also be
chaiked up as fast as they are telegraphed
When Scrappy Joyce and Manager
Schmelz shake hands at the Polo Grounds
this afternoon and exchange the ''courte-
sizes of the season, the water in the keg
will gurgle and then freeze. on, how
those two boys DO love one another!
st. Louis has great catcher In McFar-
land. New York might set trap for him
baited with the long green. Won Der
Abe has price on every player on his
team and if Freedman should only offer
enough coin he Will get the man.
Those prognosticators who have been
placing Jimmy Rodgers "Colonels'' at the
tail end this season are entitled to another
guess. The Colonels are fast fielders and
cracking good hitters, and If Jimmy can
develop team work, they will hustle about
five clubs in the league.
Roger Connor always states In the winter
that he will not play ball again. Yet
when the bluebirds begin TO whistle the
'.Waterbury Watch ticks tight along to
the place from which he draws his meal
ticket money during the season He was
one of the first of the st. Louis players
to report to Manager Dowd.
Tommy Tucker has regained his batting
eye and is playing the best first base game
of his life, so avs the reports from Bal
timore of the games between the Orioles
and Beaneaters. Talking Tommy who
is a great favorite in Washington, will be
seen for the first time this season at Ma
tional Park next Thursday afternoon.
o. P Caylor consoles the Metropolitan
fans over the loss Of three straight games
by Joyce's Giants to Stalling's Quakers
by saying that the season is in its .'mew-
ling infancy" "MewIing infancy" is good
and we Of Washington will not forget the
original expression should the Giants take
three falls out of our Senators in the series
commencing this afternoon.
The festive Latham s playing shortstop
for Columbus and is mixing up lightning
stops and double plays as was his wont in
his pristine days with Comskey's famous
Brown Stockings. Like squirrel the
Dude can't be kept ON the ground, and
only the rankest sort of prejudice will pre-
vent him from holding a regular position
or short.
1t is said that Meekin's arm is not in
good shape. But this is no news. There
has been lot of lamp chimneys in JOS
wing since the strain of pitching every
other gamein the Temple cup seriesagainst
Baltimore in 1895. Rusie was able to
stand the punishment on account of his
great strength, but the New Albany boy
has never been the same star twirler
since the trying ordeal.
Charley Luskey, the well-known North
east Washington boy. signed with the Ashe-
Vile, ~ C, club and has gone to that IA
NOUS health resort for the season He will
be used as a catcher and change out
fielder. Charley Petty, who pitched for
the Washington League club In 1894 and
par5 uf 1895, has also contracted with
Asheville. The Tar Heels willplay clubs.
from Georgia and South Carolina cities
during the summer.
Jack Crooks is playing phenomenal
game at second for Tom LOTUS "Dis-
csvers.'' at Columbus But Just as soon
as the king gets good and solid with