The evening times., 1897-06-10
DIAMOND DUST.
Burkett is back again at left.

Burkett is back again at left.
Vaughn has been sent home He is not
| ID condition to play.
-Four errors in one inning is Fittsburg S
/ record for the season.
Boston has already shut out Pittsburg
| two times this season.
Pop Smith, the old Boston shortstop, is
now with the Hornellsville, n. Y, club.
The Washington club has kissed the tips
| OF its fingers 10 Gus Schmelz. -Pittsburg
| Leader
Lally, who plays left for the Browns
does not look TO be the fast player he IS
toCted to be
Louisville is after another left-handed
pitcher and a shoTtstop who is said to be
the best in the minor leagues
Tommy Tucker is starting out well with
Washington, his batting being right up to
the standard. Philadelphia Record.
The changes in the st Louis team are
almost as numerous as those in one OF the
departments "protected"by the Civilservice.
4 team Of MeXicans calling themselves
the Topo Chicos'' are playing in St Louis
and the West. They are said to be good
players.
Scuthsider Esper, who wore the Sena-
torial toEa two seasons ago, WIZ prob
ably toe IN the box FOR ST. Louis today.
Charley ha> been pitching good han lately.
Umpire Lynch says that most OF the
umpires troubles come from the managers
who sit on the bench and urge the players
to scrap. often to square the poor work
OF their teams.
Anson wants to bet 81 900 that Boston
VIII beat Baltimore in the penuant race or
that Boston viii win the championship.
Uncle mas been pruphesying BaltimoIe's
downfall for years
George Smith, the Shortstop of the Brook
lynS, laid Oft last week on account Of
painin his back 1t hasnow been discovered
that one of his ribs was broken. He viii
not be able 10 80 in again until next
week.
Morgan Murphy is not only catching in
his old time brilliant form, but he has COM
menCed to DC a little OF the biting busi-
ness that counts in run-getting. MoTganiS
the only actor ia the Cincinnati trade OF
four to two who still wears a st Louis
uniform.
Quite a number of clever Dick Harley's
friends from Georgetown College were
present at the game yesterday and ap-
plauGed him when he came TO the bat in
the FIRST inning Harley was the only St
Louis player to work Mercer for his baSe
On rails, which he did twice.
Perhaps the secret of DeMontreville' sue
cess as a natural batsman lies in the fact
that he is never without a bat in his hand
while the team S in practice. He is for
ever ans etenally bunting and swatting
the bal. ll.-Phiiadelphia Record. Lately how
ever, the young man has been weak with
the stick.
Umpire Sheridan has a voice that re-
sembles the noise made in a boiler fac
Jo~v- He seems 10 tear his decisions out
by the roots, and, striking the atmosphere,
they are shattered into thousand pieces,
and roll Off like receding thunder. He is
firm, however, and appears TO have good
eye for balls and strikes.
Gus schmelz has resigned the manager
ship of the Senators Did thing go wrong
on this team, Gus was blamed He had
his troubles making a winning team out of
the material Wagner provided him with
However, the abdication of Speaker Reed |
would not have come as a greater sur
prise than did Schmelz's resignation CHI: |
cago Post.
The WilkesbarTe Baseball Club received a |
big shaking up yesterday. Fielders Shar- |
rott and Belts and Second BaSeman Odd |
well were released. BOttenus, late of Roch- |
ester; ShOlte, OF last years Richmond team, |
and Brett oflast years Texas League, have |
been signed. Manager Powell Will also re-
tire as player The runner that the team |
would be transferred to Hamilton, Ont, has |
been denied
Pitcher Lawyer Sullivan has been the
rounds. He began pitching in 1888 with |
Washington He has since swung around |
the circuit in matchless fashion. Chicago |
had him in 1890. Since that time every
team in the League, with possibly one ex-
ception, has had a try at Michael He
has pitched for Boston, baltimore, Cleve-
land, Cincinnati, st Louis, has had two
engagements with New York and two
with Washington. Verify Mike is awonder!
And STILL as the years go by, the cry
arises: who is the successor to Kelly,
Ewing and Rennett?" 1t seems odd that
in these days Of the big mitt and the scien-
tific game no catchers can be found TO
equal the backStops of few short years
ago. The equal Of Kelly or Ewing as
reliable backstop, as a trainer of pitch
els, as a batter, as a base-runner and
as general jollier of a team does not
live today Farrell in his present form
comes nearer the mark than any of them
If the Chicago team could only get
good players Managers VIII not sell good
men, nor Will they trade except on basis
that ruins the trading club If Anson
could only beguile Delehanty and Jack
Doyle this wayi Del in left, DOYLE alter
mating behind the bat with Kittridge,
would give the team walk-over for the
nag Two red-hot players can mend the
Of any team Give Louisville Nc
Phee and Jennings, and how soon would
he Colonels flutser Up alongside Baltimore?
Present Washington with Young andLange
and where would tie Senators land all
An honest heart beats beneath the waist
'oat of President Young, and the rawlings
II the mob over the umpires rarely dis
urbs his geatle spirit. ''Uncle Nick" once
Intpred himself, and not hing ago 10