Evening star., 1897-06-07

Reach, Rogers and article 13 of the ma
uonal agreement seem to conflict The lat
ter forbids the former farming out their
players after the beginning of the cham
pionship season. but the Quaker city mag
mates farm their players out without the
least consideration for base ball law.
1t is pretty hard to have two games post
poned by rain. but there is consolation in
the fact that the CiEcinnatis got out OF
Baltimore in far better shape than the Bal
timores got our of Cincinnati At the last
writing all the Reds were present and &C.
counted for, and only one game was drop
ped in the monumental city, while the Bal
timores let three fall bv the wayside in
Cincinnati. and went out of town with
change.
The Australian ball players were inter-
ested spectators of the opening game of the
series between the Colts and Orioles. 1t
was the first time they had ever seen their
adopted game played by National League
teams. AS Kelley and Jennings were or
der ed from the field for constant wrangling
and kicking at Umpire Hurst's decisions,
the foreigners had an opportunity to see
the worst well as the best feature OF
the American paStime
The Boston Traveller has the following
to say of Tucker in a recent issue: Now
as a lover of the game, 1 would like to
ask If you don't think Mr.. Selee has show
ed poor judgment IN taking Tucker off of
first and playing Tenney in that position?
While We all admit his skill as bail play
er. he has no license with Tucker in that
position. and 1 think your readers will
agree with m. that as an earnest, con-
scienticus player Tucker is the peer of
any first baseman in the league today. AS
to his batting, he did not do thing to the
fall in the first game with the Phillcs. and
1t was his bat that saved the Bostons
shut out In Baltimore. Tucker is very sem
sitive. and to do himself justice you mus.
let him understand that the manager has
perfect confidence in his ability.
When the Phillies won their first game
naf: ,rrt,
straight defeats. a well-known member of
the Philadelphia stock exchange who is
decided crank on the subject of base
ball. won the neat little sum of S26JO on
the game, and pulled himself out of a
hole. 1t has been his custom during the
season to make bet of s. with fellow
broker b,s,! on nearly every game. When the
streak he succeeded in doubling his bet
every day. He was enabled to do this
owing to the fact that the exchange boasts
any number of base ball enthusiasts On
the tenth straight defeat he was out Just
a2.o60. the amount to which that original
little - bet had grown. It took some tall
huStI1ng that day to secure takers for this
amount. but he stuck to it, and finally got
DIS money up on a quantity of individual
bets. 1t took nerve, but he won out and
now he says he is through with the Phi,lies
forever.
slang expression 1t was coined by Cap
tain Anson of the Chicago Base Bali Club.
ana promises to meet with great favor
Just before yesterdays game was called
man who confessed that he was a base
ball crank stepped up to Captain Anson
and told him how to win the champion
ship.
What you ought to do" he said, '.is to
put Callahan in center field and let Lange
hold down third base. Everitt is a good
pitcher and he ought to be given a show in
the box. Then if l was you. I'd change
Ryan to shortsto2 and put Mccormick be-
fol
III bet you new hat you'll win the PEN
nant."
When the man got through talking Cap
tam Anson scrutinized him closely and
hnaliy eJaculated in a tone of disgust:
Say, what gear do you ride?"
The expression found favor with those
who heard it and before the end of the
game it had become popular-Chicaso
Times-Herald.
Wonder if Tommy Tucker will turn out
to be as big find for the Senators as Jake
Beckley has been for the Reds? Tucker in
Boston was like Bechley in New York
There was trouble among the Boston play
ers last year and the year before. 1t is
said to have been a sort of little tempest
in-a-teapot war about religion. A base ball
team Is the last place in the world that a
casual follower of the game would look for
any differences in religious views, but sucl
was said to be the trouble in the Boston
team 1t eliminated in Tomm;e Mccarthy
aSsaulting Big Stivetts in the Gait House
in Louisville. y few years before that
Tucker assaulted Manager Selee in the. di-
rectors' room under the grand stand at the
CincnEati Park. fuckers position with
the BoStons has not been bed of roses.
Who knows that once more. free from en-
barrrassing surroundings. but what he ,rill
play the game he used to for the Balti-
mores? Eagie-eye BeckIey has sho vn,
since he Joined the Reds. that he only
needed to get to i place where he would be
given proper encouragement to do good
work. The same may hold good in Tuck
er's case. There was a time when Beckley
and Tucker were making a head-and-he head
fight for the first-base honors of the league
They may do it again.-Cincinnati en-
qurer.