Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-08
~ "cREscENTs'-s7s. $50. $40.

and the amount of the receipts has not
been made public.
McHale. purchased from Toronto by Earl
Wagner, is the brightest gem in the East
ern League outfield. so President Pat
Powers believes.
Less than twenty players of the army
who were secured by National League clubs
from the minor leagues last fall succeeded
In holding their jobs until the end of 1897.
So far this fall sixty-four players have
been taken into the big league from the
minors.
Glasscock who last year led the Western
League with the stick. has not done nearly
so well this year in batting. being q trifie
sore at the St. Paul fans because. as he
says himself, they expect me TO make a
home run every time I come up. and be-
cause l don't do it they roast me-"
Manager Selee said yesterday: Il am in
favor of doing away with the Temple cup
series. / believe the clubs should pay the
players a certain percentage when they
come in first and second"
Judge Cullom must be down in the
mouth. and. oh. so badly. He bet beefsteak
dinners for ten on a side with Charles Ross
OF Ross & Fenton and Pete Daley. that
Baltimore would beat out Boston: then bet
suit of clothes that New York would not
be in the first six-that with Pete Daley,
and he had bet of 81 and suit of
clothes with Ross that Baltimore would
beat out Boston. Wonder what the judge
thinks about the Bostons now?-Sporting
Life.
coast with the Baltimores and All-Ameri-
cas-. While those two teams will play at
League Park on the 18th of October, Sir
Tim will not umpire the game No man
who has slandered Cincinnati falsely
ard maliciously as Hurst has done can
umpire on the Cincinnati grounds, is one
edict issued by President Brush, attested
by Ashley Lloyd and Endorsed by every en-
thusast vilified by the Hurstian attacks
Cincinnati Post.
There is a little side condition that goes
with that 800 guarantee put up by each
member of the Baltimore and AI-American
combination. The 500 is not for expenses,
but IL is to keep sulky and disorderly play
ers in check. Any player who fails TO do
his duty by his team, or who persists in
bad hours and Incorporate habits. will ''be
fred from the combination and his 500
will be forfeited. The 500 guarantee is
one way of making ball players do their
duty.
The management of the Temple Gun
games in this city could not have been
much worse. The representatives of the
press had hard work to obtain admission
to the ground, and even the veterans of
the box were compelled to show tickets for
seats in the press box. Telegraph opera
tors who were to send specials out of town.
were denied admission, and il was only by
some stormy talk that they were allowed
in the grounds. Selee could not have
squeezed the cards harder IL he had been
playing poker.-Boston Herald.
Earl Wagner claims that had Ned Han
lon listened to trade he pronered the PEN
rant would have gone to Baltimore the
fourth time. Il met Hanlon on my way to
Brooklyn in August" said AIR. Wagner.
Il frankly told him that his pitchers would
lose the pennant as he had but one pitch
er on his staff-Hoffer-who was seasoned
sufficiently to stand the gaff of the major
league batsmen. Cor5etf 1 also thought
a clever pitcher but he hasn't gone down
the line OF the big league batsmen twice,
which any pitcher must do to prove him.
self. In the course of our talk we touched
en- next season, and an idea struck me that
would have, in my opinion, won Hanlon the
rennant had he acted on It, / offered to
give him De Montrevile and McJames, free
of Charge, turn 'em over to Baltimore that
very day. But there must be a proyiso in
the deal, of course. Hanlon was to take
McJames and DE Montrevile, and. in
turn he was 10 give me Kelley and Doyle.
CT Kelley and McGraw. at the end of the
season. With McJames to help out Hoffer.
Pond and Corbett. the Orioles would have
filled the weak spot, the flaw in the team
that lost them the pennant. Hanlon
thought favorably of my offer, but he de-
cided 10 take a chance on his pitching ma
terial as it stood. 1 could have afforded to
part with McJames and DE Montreyille on
account Of the lateness of the season. and,
in the exchange, 1 would have secured two
men that L needed for my in and out field"