The evening times., 1897-07-17
THAT CINCINNATI VICTORY.
Gossip of Prominent Newspapers
About the Game.


The Enquirer says:
Yesterday was tie first game Silver King
has won from the Reds since he was re-
leased by them. The lead the washingtons
got off OF Ehret aad Rhines seemed TO take
all OF the hitting qualities out of the Reds.
The Senators have saved their best pitch
ers for the other two games. DR.. Jimmie
McJin,s and Win Mercer are yet In reserve.
Charlie Farrell, the big catcher of the
Washin gt0R team, looks SO much like Peter
Maher, tile Irish champion, that he has
often been aken for him. Even John Quinn,
the manager OF Peter, once accosted Far
rell on the street under ths impression that
he was talking 10 the Irish champion.
That Washington gang knows something
about hitting the ball.
The Senators went at the water i'm the
visitors keg just as though no story was
ever sent out about Buck Ewing's having
.'dOped it This shows how well the war
coTrespon dents travelling In the wake of the
Giants stand with the reading public.
II looked very easy TO take three straight
fIom the Senators. After three straight
frnm the BaItiHiures and two out of three
fIom the New Yorks, the baseball dope
marked the Senator's as lay downs but
the dope is very deceptive. "Play 'em
Close 10 the breast, Buck
Maybe the Senators have unioaded all
their mt in bunch. Itis to be hoped that
they haven't another batch like that Jf
yesterday up their sleeves.
Last season. the tail-enders, Washington
and Louisville, put the Reds out OF 'he
Temple Cup Series IL is hoped history
will not repeat itself this season.
The Tribune says:
The visitors rolled up sixteen runs
and twenty-four hits Had they not dis
played en- enormous amount of stupidity
on the bases they might have had as many
runs as hits
Il see you're hating left-banded now
remarked Bug Holiday TO Charley Farrell,
OF the Senators, before yesterdays game
"Yes, / made a change for luck was
Farrelis reply. 'Why, you used 20 crack
them out all right when you battcd right
handed continued the Bug. 'Oh, yes
cracked the IN out, but they always went
right at somebody. All the time that
batted right-handed I only batted above
the 800 mark one year and that wasw hen
/ was with the Boston Reds. This year
I turned around. and, while am not hit
ting the ball as lard as I did when /
RATED from the other side Of the box, IN
getting safe. a nd my average is above 800
now. There's lots of luck in batting. you
know y well, should say there wl;,"
said Holiday. II never knew player
who batted in tougher luck than McPh e.
For the past seven years he has been hit
ting the ball on the nose, but nine-tenths
of the time it always landed in somebody's
hand. Year after year it has been the
same old story with Mac. I've heard OF
tough luck in batting, but never saw it
stay so long with one player. Right be
fore he was injured the luck seemed to
have changed, and he was batting better
than anybody
''This is indeed funny game remarked
Catcher Jim Mcclure before the game
"A club signs players because they can hit
pitcher, and the same club signs pitchers
whom the batters cannot hit. The enc
gets his money for preventing the ball frcm
being hit, and the other fellow gets his
money for hitting 1t -
-Ouch,--That hurt =