The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-09
DIAMOND DUST.

And now New Workers call scrappy Ball
Joyce His Highness.
John L. Sullivan will umpire game at
Waterbury, Conn today.
New York and Brooklyn were the only
Eastern clubs that won yesterday.
Comiskey's star pitcher, 1sbel, recently
held Minnea polls down To thee hits.
GEORGE Cuppy has Teen nursing lame
wing He has not pitched for SIX weeks
Billy Hamilton leads the League in stolen
has es, with thirty-three, one ahead OF
Lange.
The Philadelphia Records Cincinnati cor
respondent has started the cry of umpire
against Hurst.
Jim Corbett has been secured TO play first
base for the Athletics against Richmond
next Wednesday.
Pat Meaney, outfielder and pitcher, and
jim DAILY, outfielGer have becn released by
Scranton to WilkesbarIe.
KeeIer heads the outfelders, with "A iieId-
ing average OF 9S1 Pop Ansnu is aigh
roller among the first baseInsn, with 1872.
George Decker, Of the Chicagos, is thr at
ened with concnssion of the brain, the result
OF being hit on the head with pitched ball
hy Frazer. of the Louisvilles.
The Toronto wfkesharre Eastern League
games for next week have been transferred
to Toronto, two games TO be played Monday,
Oragemen' s Day, and one on Tuesday.
Newcas.Ie no longer has circh on the lead
in the Interstate League. Toledo Is d
r., rAIo s.s
between Dayton and Youngstown is ver5
pretty one.
Earle Wagner is very kind when he says
he Reds will beat out Baltimore, iIot lie
also picks out New York AMI Boston to
finish ahead or Cincinnati. Well, the
Reds will make a fight for it, at any rate -
Cincinnati Post.
Arlie Latham is irving to cover secOna
base for the Mansfields, and he is having
a catch-ae-catch-can time of it, In one
game he missed three out of five CHARGES
and then went n and accepted ten chances
without a slip.
The name OF Al Mauck has almost passed
from baseball memory. Uncle's ex-twirier,
however, Is still on earth. At Des MUlnes
ne figured as the pitcher in a l to o vic
tory over Quincy Verify, there is some
virtue left IN old arms.
McPhee's testimonial fund is swelling
daily, and by the time the game takes
place-the 2stb-it VIII run up into thou
sands instead of hundreds of dollars. A
more deserving player never lived. and
every lover of honest srort should add his
or her mite TO tbs, good cause.
Pitcher Charles Pittenger, OF Hagers-
town, has been signed 10y the Pittsburg
National League Club, and viii report for
duty today He has been pla wing ball for
five years, and is reasonably good pitch
er. He has won sixteen out OF the eight
cen games he has twirled this season.
..Thore Is only one case that I can re-
call where PLAYER was sunstruck and
died from the effects OF it," said Elmer
Smith to VIII Locke the other day. THAT
was Andy Mexican, the Pirates old first
baseman, who was also a member Of the
ST. Louis Maruons. He was Knocked out
by the sun in Pntsburg one day and was
not seen on the diamond again. He died
In less than Il month.
The freaks of fortune in baseball are
attested In the case OF Gene De Muntrc-
vile and Joe Corbctt. De Montreville was
but $3.50 batsmanin the Eastern League,
but he suddenly paralyzed the critics and
set the form players awry by continu-
ally lighting on the shoots and twirlers
In the big league till he is now acknowl
edged one of the best natural basemsn
in the business. Joe Corbett, the other
case i n point, was farmed out to Scranton
by Ed Hanlon last summer, and the East
ern League bitters dallied so freely with
Joe's curves that he was set down as a
failure 10y many of the players. Today be
is the winning pitcher of the Grizzlies.
IL keeps Col Pringle, of Pittsburg,
very busy telling Uncle Nick Young what
a bad lot Of umpires he has on his staff
Poor Dan Campbell came In for roast
after his Smoketown debut Listen: ~ Mr..
Campbell, OF Phila delphia, was a terrible
failure He made one bad decision that
resulted In the Clevelands getting three
runs This was one cause OF defeat. An
other cause was the weak hitting OF the
Pirates at stages were a good hit would
have counted, and the third cause was the
very poor judgment used in the seventh
inning by the local batters." Still there
have been occasions when Col. Pringle has
overlooked the faults of urnpires. When
Mr. Betts-called Beats in Cincinneti-used
q sandbag on the Reds a couple Of years
ago, and called Ewing out after he scored
the winning run, the Pittsburg philosopher
forgot to chide Uncle Nick for keeping Belts
at work
Joe Kelley and "Muggsy" McGraw were
the targets for most Of the wordy missiles
from the crowd Of kidders and joshnrs.
Umpire Burnham once told a story I'm the
Enquirer about Joe Kelley carrying
looking-glass in his baseball cap, Sc that
hecould arrange his hair and keep his bangs
In position. Stub Brown, when he Joined
the Reds, brought stories along with him
to the effect that Kelley not only carried
a little mirror in his uniform, but pocket
comb as we'll These stories were nottaken
seriously. but q little incident occurred in
yesterdays game that seems to confirm
the story that Joe thinks pretty well OF