The times., 1897-08-11
DIAMOND DUST.

Inc Bostons have placed the bali over
their short leftfield fence twenty-ninc
times this season. Baltimore has made
ten four r-baggers, and Cincinnati four.
If there is a deal on between Boston
and Brooklyn whereby the former may
secure Kennedy, the Bridegrooms' best
pitcher, the Boston management is silent
on the matter.
All Leaguers are alike. They are willing
to take the best OF IL" with a satisfied
smile and wink. but one shade the worst OF
it, and they go into the air like keg of
gunrowder touched off with lighted
cigarette.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Umpire Timothy Hurst, who at la seball
game In Cincinnati last week, hurled beer
glass into the routerS' stand, badly in jur-
ing spectator, reported 20 police head
quarters iii that City yesterday and was
told 10 appear for trial in the police court
Wednesday.
Chris. Won der Abe told Lucid last Sat
urday that If he did not win the game
be would lay him off. He fined Grady
last week for spraining his ankle. Grady
had been laying off with the sprain for
several days. Chris. plastered on a $50
mt inc EOb bcllSf.
Take no stock in the stories that the
Eastern teams throwing games to Bos
ton and Baltimore. The East doesn't like
the West in anything, but pulls ''air.
hr6kes' and dishonest boosts" are DIS rare
II baseball as diamonds on the great Ameri-
can desert.-cincinnati Enquirer.
New York paper says: "The Colonies
need catcher to help Wilson out. Bal
tirnore needs a pitcher in its race for
the pennant. To an outsider, it appears
that Maguate Pulliam would make ten
strike If he could trade Dad Clarke
for Bowerman, the fine catcher OF the
Orioles
Tie old Philadelphias and old Athletics
played benefit game for Bobby Mathews
yesterday They Were old-timers for a
certainty. The Phillies Were defeated
The Athletics had Larkin, Stricker, Knight
Bradley, Fusselbach, Zinn, Coleman and
Green. The Phillies' lineup was Cork
Hill, Nelson, Bastian, Carman, Fulmer, Knox,
Harbridgc, Lovett, Kilroy, Henderson and
Whitaker.
A rcoter with q taste for statistics has
brought to light the fact that lS1 ex-
Leaguers are now pla ying in the more i'm.
portant minor associa tons. OF these, 81
are in the Western League and 46 more
have found positions in the Eastern
League Thirty-three discards figure on
the roster of the Atlantic League, while 20
more play in the New England and inter
State organizations
Tie rnagnates are to blame. They make
rules to govern their players on the field.
And when the umpire enforces these rules
he imme edi1tely is accused of being in n
conspiracy against the team, whose play
ers are punished and his position is jeopar-
died. Let the magnates see the faults of
their players as they see those Of other
teams. Let them mete out punishment to
the offending players OF their own teams,
.nd rowdyism will STOP Cincinnati Times
Star.
The Brooklyn team is in the pale OF
shadows, and every member has u case of
rattles. President Byrne and Manager
Barnie have added to the general nervous
ness by threat to shake out some Of the
members The trouble is they can't bat
The mistake wasmade when the ylet Tommy
Corcoran and Richie go Yesterdays
Evening World. And this after winning
three games from Washington. This morn.
ing the writer of the above ought to call
himself out for batting out of turn.
Another baseball player got ON his
musce' yesterday. 1t was James Rogers,
tie ex-S Senator. Atthe game of the pring-
fields at Wilkesbarre, colored rooter by
the name OF Jackson guyed Rogers who
retaliated by calling him names. After
the game Jackson approached Rogers and
made lunge at him. Rogers struck him
two terrific blows, and he went down in a
heap, with a badly cut face, and, it is
feared, u broken leg. An angry crowd
gathered and Rogers was hurried away to
avoid further trouble.
Manager Barnie, Umpire Emslle and the
Brooklyn players say that the language used
by Doyle TO Gorbett was something unheard
Of Ed Hanlon, manager of the Baltimores,
said after the game that he would have a
talk with Corbett and Doyle He said that
he could not understand the proceeding, as
Corbett and Doyle have been close friends
all the season and room together As Han
lon is nnthingif not diplomatic, he will un-
doubtedly smooth the matter over So that
the team will not be torn to pieces by in
ternai disSensions. New York Telegram
The trouble that unipires have had this
season does not go to prove that the um
pires position is rnore-of O sinecure under
the new rules than ever before. While the
rules give the umpire more power, the
handlers of the indicator seem to have
more trouble than ever. The principaIrea
son for this is that the magnates have not
given the umpires their moral support
When an umpire enforces the rules on
players he Is Immediately protested by the
club that gets the short end Of 1t Is it q
wonder thnt umpires weaken under such
continued attacks?- Baltimore News
"a man must be a thug and stand all
kinds of abuse to umpire for the Baltl-
| mores,' says Umpire Tom Lynch. ''They
want everything the way they see 1t; and,
, too, they have grown so arrogant over
| their success in the past two years that
they imagine they own the entire game
In acting thus they will give the sport a
| lasting black eye, If not called down good
| and hard. The blacklist for about half a
dozen men might be q warning to ths
| others, and give the patrons of the sport
proof that the game was not for the ex-
| elusive benefit Of the Tebeaus, Doyles and
McGraws, but for young men who do the
| best they can on the field in legitimate
way. The day Of the bulldozer should be
q thing Cf the past, and the sooner the