The evening times., 1897-07-05
DIAMOND DUST.

Cincinnati.
Dr. Harvey Smith, of the Torontos. does
not play Sunday ball.
Dick Harley is hi' ting the ball these days.
Yesterday he had two singles.
Tom Brown was overcome with the heat
yesterday and gave way to wrgley.
Cartwright made home run drive one
day last week with two men on bases.
Hannavan, who W as released 10y Brooklyn.
is play ing a fast game with the Lancasters.
This morning only five clubs in the
League have a percentage better than
SEQ.
Toronto is now fourth in the Eastern
League race, with a percentage of .519
points.
The Philadelphia acontingentin the Browns
have livened up the team work to a great
extent
Pitcher Treadwefl, recently released by
Detroit. has been signed by Springfield Of
the Interstate League.
Bad pitching one day, weak hitting the
next and poor fielding the next fit isn't
one thing it is another.
Eagle Eye Beckle yiscrowding Pepper
BILL Schriver closely for the rank of the
heaviest hitter among the Reds.
The management OF the Norfolk Base ball
Clubh as released Clausen and signedP itcher
Brown, who was with Lynchburg last
season
Grey, on whom many League magna.es'
! eyes are resting. made two singles, a double
and a triple yesterday. He had two errors,
however.
o'Rrien is hack in the game. His injury
is no. yet healed up and greatly interfered
with his hitting, not being able TO firmly
hold the bat.
The Hinton pitching gun Will never take
any salary away from the twirling corps
of the great Diamond Army. tits sitnply
an impracticable novelty.
Umpire Sheridan gave Hawley all the
warning necessary about Illegal delivery
finally he gave Connor his base on great
Jump from the rubber by Hawley.-Chicago
Post.
Sockalexis may be transferred 70 the
throne loug occupied by McAleer, king
OF the center fielders. lie wants to I'LL
the vacancy in center, and Tebeau will Try
him there.
jess Tanuehill, who was rated as a Won
der early in the year, has figured in pumer-
Gus displays OF daylight fireworks recently,
and in his credit and loss account loss now
has the bulge.
Louisville lis evidently proud OF her prod
Ucts The frontispiece OF her score card
is adorned with portraits of Mary An,ler-
son, a Thoroughbred, bunch of tobacco
and bottle of booze.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says CreGier
| i 90 rphd for minor lesguecompany. Per
haps the Western League clubs couldn't
take some OF the conceit out of the National
Leagucrs. Detroit Free Press.
MY hoy. was tie cap made for you"f
| asked Tim Hurst when Major Hook first
came TO lat wearing the roomy headgear
which lent bit of comedy 20 his detut.
| Better have a couple of reefs taken init"
We ale out foI the Temple Cup, now"
| said Capt. Tebeau, Friday. I'VE nave
eight good pitchers, four great catchcrs
and tine best team of batters Cleveland
mas ever had. From now on we expect
| to play winning ball."
Al Maui has left Baltimore and is prac-
ticing every day with the PhIllies. He re-
| ports that his tickle and mysterious salary
| wing is Improving, and that he will return
| to the Orioles whenever he believes the
arm is in working trim.
Manager Donovan has once more in
| structed his players to run out all hits,
whether they look to be out or not.
| Donovan always sets this example himself
and it seems strange that he has to cali
his players attention to it.
Talk about rooters, that crowd at Clevc-
land is entitled to the di poma. There are
| not many of them, but they make up in
noise for what they lack in numbers, and
tile language used is not the choicest by
any means-Pittsburg Gazette.
1t is rumored among the players of the
Philadelphia and Boston clubs that Gus
Schmelz is in the employ of the New York
| club as a special agent to scout the minor
| leagues in search of phenoms. He is also
said to be the scout of the Wagners.-Cin
| cinnati Post
Mccormick, of Chicago, recently made six
hits for a total of eleven bases. He divides
with Lajoie the honor OF ma king the second
best record of the season. The best record
was made by Joyce at Exposition Park.
when he made four three-bagg a total
OF tw elve bases.
Pitcher Cannon, Of the Rochester Eastern
League team, who, with the manager and
eight players, was indicted Y the las tgTaBd
jury for Sabbath breaking, was convicted
of the charge. The case will be appealed.
Pending the appeal the club owners will
discon' inue Sunday games for the summer.
There are whispers heard in the W.st
that Ton: LOTUS woald not sneeze down
chance to get Clevelands franchise.
Columbus is outdrawing the Forest City
nearly four to one, and conditions exist
that make the Buckeye capital better
League point than the city on ErIe's
shores
Earl Wagner, who is now commander
in-fhief of the Senators, is looking the
country over for a first-class pitcher,
and he will either buy or trade If he
thinks he sees what he wants. His motto
is to make deal whenever he can strength
en- his team. The Washington club deserves
to be well up toward the top of the second
division if 1T plays up TO tie full ability
of it's team.-Wa shington Correspondence
Pittsburg Dispatch.
When Jack Doyle took downtown
train after the accident a. the Polo grounds
Monday evening raw oyster was tightly
bound over his injured eye The ball player
took seat at an open window and as the
result OF violent sneeZe the oyster was
loosencd and fell out OF the window. ..Stop
the trainl" shouted the Holyoke boy. My
eye has dropped out ON the track!'' 1t was