The evening times., 1897-12-01
AROUND THE BASES.

| The report that the Pittsburg club viii
| play Sunday ball next season is denied ,D
vigorously that the question seems set
| tied.
W. p. Carpenter the National League
umpire, who was arrested the other lay
at Portland, Nc, for assaulting a fellow
workman. was arraigned i'll the municipal
| court, pleaded guilty. and was fined $40
and costs, wliici. he paid.
(, All rIniors TO the effect that Joyce would
not be retained as mana ger o ( the New Y Jrk
| Baseball Club next year have been setatrest
| by President Freedman, who states posi-
| tivelS that joyce viii remain in the posi-
| ton which he filled SO successfully this
year.
The PIttsturg team will very likely 10
| its spriLE training in Alabama, and wDl
| make a trip through Western League cities
| for exhibition games. Every player on
| the club pay-ron viii be taken, and Wat
kins i:uw r,as two pla yers for almost every
| position on the team.
Littl. UIricn, 1.-The gra sshopper, y who W as
! once d Red for brief period, and who
| fingered in New York for a few weeks.
was sort of diamond Wandering Willie.
last season. He covered short success
lively for the Athletics Lancaslcrs sna
| Richnond>, and rahked fourth among
Atlantic Leaguers in fielding in that posi-
| ticn.
Yeagcr, the new pitcher secured by Brook
lyn from Lancaster, is ninth In the Off
| cial batting averagesof the A tlanfic LeaguA
| He Lla yet ill sixty six gaines, and secured
| percentage of .335. Yeager al.o stole
four bases and made one sacrifice hit.
Burns and Hannivan. formerly Of Brook
| lyn. follsw Yeager, with an average Of
.333.
Charles Ellsworth Miller has spent three
| years Of his pla aying life in Cincinnati. He
has pla yei in that time 316 games, gone tn
bat / ~ times, scored 277 runs and made
| 474 nitS. Ills batting average for the
| period is .32l. and ye1 in the face of Il ma g
nificcnt showing of that SORT, nobody
wanted him at the late Qua ker conference, ;,
| for the simple reason that the impression Is
out that he isn't willing pla yer.-Cincin-
nat! Post.
George Davis has scheme for a post-sea-
son series OF games between the lead
| ingcluos. Theplanis to play twelve gam IS,
| four in each city involved, in all of viii II
the home team would figure, playing ea::,
oftheOther teams twice at home. The win
ner of the series would win n worlds cham
pionship pennaDt and 80 per cent of ne
receipts OF the series, the second team 80
| per cent, and the third 20. OF course, .he
home team would be handicapped by hav-
| ing to play two games each of the two da vs.
they arc on their own grounds, but 1t would
| even up by the end of the series.
j,
that the players have something to say
about the increase in games. Their Con-
tracts run from April l . to October 3,
| just the period the schedule will call for
championship games, but then they usually
| had the first two weeks In October to them
selves. Their argument will doubtless be
| that the League clubs received little or no
| revenue from their spring or fall exhibition
games: whereas, under the new rule, the
| revenue will be in the proportion of 81
| to 1872, or an increase of 16 2-3 per cen t.
| They may demand that their salaries be
Increased in a like proportion, and, if
they do, their claim will not be altogether
unjust.
| George ,. vanderbeck, manager Ct the
Detroit Club, was sued for $25, 200 cam
age because he trespassed ON william Cor
don's property in order to get balls which
went foul. Judge Donovan cha -ged the
| Jury that If baseballs, horses or anything
else trespass upon the premises Of any
| person the person so injured is provided
with a competent remed y at law. Dut has
| no more right to seize and retain baseball
/ than he has horse: that II Gordon ad
| tai ken two Of the defendants baseballs and
| refused to give them up when reOues sAeti to
do so, It was the right and the duty of
| vandcrbeck to la y .he facts before :nagis