The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-02
DIAMOND DUST.

SO far, &c seems, PlttsDufS mas Hidue Ho
| mistake in purchasing Koffmeister.
The BaItimores have beaten the Phla-
dciphia team twenty-one consecutive games
Owner Wagner should have secured Pick
cling, recently sold 10 Syracuse by Louis
Vile
If Sc. Louis keeps on winning as regu-
Iariy as they have been doing altman VIII
be crowned king of Sportsman Park
Cincinnati will no doubt recall Pitcher
Phillips from. Indianapolis next season.
He is doing the star work OF the Western
League this year.
Mark Baldwin, who is now pitching for the
Carnegie Athletic Club, was hit hard on
Saturday by the Atlantic City team. The
Camegies were defeated 4 TO l..
Harvey Smith made four hits in two
games Gu Saturday at Toronto, the Canucks
winning both games from Scranton W ogner
is now playing short, Lush center and Nc
Hale right The Torontos are now in
third place.
The Orioles are once more ChirpinS.
Every member is again confident OF win
ming the rennant this year, and hardly
any contingency by which they can lose
is imagined. The confidence is not forced;
il is innate, and SO deeply is 1T rooted In
the breasts Of the three-time winners that
the ultimate result or the race is hardly
ever talked of. Exchange.
Another story on Tim Hurst by Frank
Bancroft $ MS fellows: Down at Cir7inpau
the other Gay Tim was umpiring. Cooley
started and ran ia to make kick. He Is
,hr b hcrr he n bt hriY
Tim met him down by second and said:
Now that you've come this far, just keep
on walking along the grass to the bench"
and made him getout orthe game.
The Torontos are now second in the East
ern League, and have a fighting chance
for first place The Wagners, W no own
the Canadian team, viii scarcely weaken
that club. as it is drawing large crowds.
They are making considerably more money
at Toronto than in Washington, because
they have a winning team. 1t would be
unwise to take any men from that club.
"There are players who are so afflicted
with overwhelming ideas of their own irn-
portance,. says Philosopher Billy Barnie,
that they really in1ure their own effect
iveness, and cannot give a team their best
bothered with an insane thought that II.
they were footloose several managers
would get killed in the rush to secure their
valuable services. They are woefully mis-
taken; that is ALL"
Washington is hunting for fast base run
ners The management processes to be-
lieve the reason the club wins so few games
is because tie men are so slow on the
bases Two winning pitchers and better
batters and fielders would also improve
the Senators, has been sarcasticany re-
marked When a team gets into the habit
Of finishing last or next to the last nothing
but a change Of management does much
effectual good Chicago Post.
Pittsburg friends of Jake Stencil, now
with Baltimore, but long a valued player
on the smoky cityteam, say he has a record
which eclipses that Of the great Delehanty.
Del made nine bits in one day, but
Stencil is credited with making thirteen
hits in thirteen consecutive times at bat
1t was in 1913, when Stencil led the league
in batting. He made five of the thirteen
on Saturday in Pittsburg off Pitcher
Duryea, Of Washington; four off Young
the following Monday in Cleveland, and
four off Cuppy the next day.
In reply to the question: (which Of the
two teams do you like for the pennant,
Baltimore OF Boston, Capt Ewing said:
81 believe the Baltimores have the better
chance At least, they played better ball
here than the BostOns Had we played the
ball against Selee's men that we did
against Hanlon's we would have made the
same kind Of a clean sweep. 1t strikes me
that the Bostons are weak in the pitching
department. II they don't get another
pitcher to help out Nichols, they will have
their troubles. There are some great play
ers on the Bostons, but they must have
pitchers to VIM
There was one very noteworthy feature
in the second game, and that was the very
foul language used by Stallings, the man
ager OF the Phillies, to one of his players.
1t was in the ninth inning, when the bases
were full, with Fffieid on third. long
fly was knocked to Tannehill and Fifieil
did not score on the throw Stallings ran
out to Fifield and in the 10 udest kind of a
voice called the vilest kind Of names. The
hlackguard was Kissed, for all the ladies