The evening times., 1897-08-24

there late this fall, after the Regular season
closes. Tel wants Manager Bancroft "
| take hold OF the scheme with him, bat
| Banny up 10 date has not consented. The
| Selee- Ra nie combination, which is going
| to make a trip through the country nj -er
the season closes, gave Ted the chilly mitt,
and he is now trying to get even ty ar
| ranging rival attraction. 1t is likely hat
| bancroft will Join Ted in the enterprise
! Cincinnati Tribune.
President Franklin has been Offered the
| St. Louis Club franchise and says he will
buy iSpTovidine he can get it cheap enough.
An opening VIII probably be made for him
when thepresent w elve- club a greeineIt ex-
| pires three years hence, and il ISL I at all
likely shat Buffilo will have a National
League team until that place is made. =
Dad Clarke celebrated d mis- re- tura to Greater
New York by night carousal, according
to a special dispatch in the Cincinnati En-
quirer. The erstwhile Giant aud President
Pulliam had some words and as a conse
qucnce Dad was fine d a nd did not lea We Goth.
am with the other Coloaels. In the course
OF his remarks Dad told the president that
he wast3o goodtJplay ball with an South
ern or Western clut,s; that he belonged in
Jne East, ald that he would get back, even
though Joyce had seat him to the land of
the Bourbon.
Ii Capt. Ewing had 1t all to say, Dele
hanty would he wearing Cincinnati uni :
form before the season was over. That
an effort will he made to secure the narl-
hitting Quaker before next season there
is no doubt, but IL is hardly probable that
the Phiiq6elphia management Will pat
with him Deiehanty is, in Ewing's opin-
Ion, one of the greatest ball players in
the League. His hitting would help tie
Reds out a great deal, and he is also 4
fielder above the average. One thing is
certain-at least one hard-hitting odt-
fielder will be secured for the team OF '9s.
They are having merry time In Phila
delphia. Read the Records tale Of Woe
1.-The so-called stars on the team are not
giving their best services at all tines
owing to the bad hours kept Only the
night before three members of the team
are reported to have spent the night in
station house as the result OF a drum ken
ride in n hack, and other stories of recent
midnight carousals have reached the ears
of the management. Fines seem to have
no effect IN the action of the men and
players usually sober and reliable are
gradually falling into the ways of the
disorganizcrs."
great deal Of speculative gossip is
vending it's way from the mouths of the
fans over the f act that Mercer, Washing
nscrack pitcher, has held repea led private
conferences with Anson at the Arlington
Hotel since the Chicago chief and his clan
have been in town. Both Anson and Man
ager Brown deny that a deal of any kind
is on hand, but just why Mercer should
hold 80 many confabs with Anson brings
abouttalk, and some of the wiseacres are so
bold as to remark that transaction for
Mercer is Matching. Certainly Mercer and
Anson are not SO enamored of one another
that they delight I'm each others society
severaihours at q time. Washington Special
in Chicago Chronicle.
Charley Irwin IS prGbabl Y the only player
on the Cincnnati Clubs pay roll who is
not pulling foI Boston TO win the pen
nant IL the Reds can't. and their chances
are slim Charley, too. has good reasons
for his staLd. He says: why should any
member of the Reds pull for Boston?
season with visions of the Temple Cup
floating around In our minds, every Que
of the Boston players told us Just as soon
as we reached oheir grounds they would
do everything IN their power to keep
us from finishing second. They kept
their word and pla we'd faster ball against
us than they did all that season. Now, why
should or any other member Of the team
hope for the pennant to go to the Hub 1
don't care who wins it, but am not for
Boston," Cincinnati Tribune.
Capt. Ewing is satisfied with the work
of the team in Philadelphia. After today's
game he said: .'If we do as swelleverywhere
as we have done here I will have no kick
coming. When q team takes two out OF
four games on foreign grounds and with
only one pitcher really Ia condition, no one
has any fault to find. BY the time we
open up i'm Washington on Monday Dwyer
will be hack in forms Franks arm is bet
ter than ever itswas, but his lame heel
is giving him a great deal of trouble. By
that time Breitenstein will have regained
his old strength and lEhret know is now
as good as he was carly In the spring.
Breitensteins work in Fridays game was
surprise to Iney He pitched a renarka-
bic game, although he was still weak
from his recent Illness. l Will not make
any prediction as to what he viii 90 in
Washington. butd viii say that We viii
hold our own. not only there. bnt on the
entire trip. -Js Ed Grillo In Cincinnati
Tribune.