The evening times., 1897-06-07
DIAMOND DUST.

The Colonels will try Charley Dexter at
short.
What has become Of the Players Pro
tective Association?
Bauie still maintains that Mcmahon is
as good as the best of them.
Won der Abe says he viii spend large
sum Of money to build up bis team.
A week or two on the bench would no
doubt 10 young DeMontreyille world of
good.
Ia recent game with Columbus
Bert Myers made two singles, a double and
triple.
Cincinnati cranks are beginning to be
lieve that they were gold-oricked on the
Breitenstein deal
The Colonels are slowly sinking to the
bottom. The young-blood pitchers could
not maintain the gait.
Stahl's good work, both with the stick
and in the field, has aided the progress
upward Of the Beaneaters
selhach Will probably he seen In left
garden for the Senators today. He has en-
tirely recovered from the mumps.
IL
form in exchange for Joe Strauss and
O'Meara, who 20 to Grand Rapids.
Uncle Anson is not satisfied that Decker
is steady enough to play first base regu-
larry, and viii alternate with him on this
trip.
Adonis Terry was batted off the rubber
by the Columbus the other day. A total of
twenty bases Were made off him in five
innings.
This day one year ago the Senators had
percentage of .519 points They stood
sixth, and had won twenty games and lost
nineteen.
Jones, the Colonels' new pitcher, is a
miner, and has been twirling for the Knox
vile team, which gave Wiley Davis and
Bill Hill to the diamond.
Third Assistant Secretary of State Grid
Ter is an ardent admirer of the national
pastime. He saw the Indians scalp the
Statesmen on Saturday.
Bot Fitzammons was billed to umpire
game OF ballat Maspeth yesterday. He cid
not appear, and riot vas prevented by the
diplomatic efforts of the manager.
The child of the Forest (Cty), Socka,
lexis, uses good judgment at the bat, his
one weakness being an inclination TO reach
after wild pitches-a fault with most young
sterS.
Gus schmelz offered wrigley and King
for Bill Hill. His Whiskers" has cor
rugated nerve that is GneXcelled in the
League, bar Muggsy McGraw.-Louisvi Vile
Times.
Poor Lo'' SOckalexis has become hard
eGed to the funny breaks of the fans. Some
body called him a Cbinaman on Saturday,
but he only shifted his chewing-gum, bunted
and was safe on first.
New York now has two clubs on its black
llst-Putsburg and Louis isville-and these
viii not be allowed TO use the DRESSING
rooms reserved for visiting players Both
teams are charged with breaking the win
dows in the room.
Arlie Latham is doing great work for
the Mansfield team. when he joined the
club IL was last in the race, and in about
three weeks time he has landed his men
in firth place, only few points behind the
Sprfngfelds. which stand fourth.
Talk ran the other day to ballplayers
with curvature of the props, and Tim Hurst
observed: "'Well, l notice that every time
I'm measured for trousers the tailor yells:
b. L. 1 guess that means bow legs"
Critics are having a few lines OF sport
with Earl Wagner. Not long ago the
Washington mogul declared: mo amount
OF money could buy DeMont" Now he is
using the lad for bait, and has him tagged,
bound and waiting for biie.-Ren Mulford
in Cincinnati Post.
More than half the men now pla ying on
the st. Louis team are ne W men. Big Roger
Connor, Dowd. Sullivan. Parrott, McFar-
land, Myers, Breitsenstein and Others who