The evening times., 1897-08-03
DIAMOND DUST.

Twenty-Five straight from the Phillies
| is Baltimores record.
Stencil stole four bases yesterday with
Boyle behind the bat.
BID McPhee cleared S., 500 at the ben
| Gift given hiti last week.
Jesse burkett has passed Socka lexis
| and is again leading the Indians in slug
ging
The Scranton papers say that unless
tine attendance picks up the team may go
| up before the season closes.
Fling ont the flag Of victory,
The new with Joy proclaim,
Winnie Mercer pitched in luck,
And the Statesmen won game.
Manager Cushman lost all his money in
! Jackson bolstering up the Michigan League
club, and will now return to Milwaukee,
| The Sentinel.
| The Philadelphia man agement having laid
off Sam Thompson without pay, the big
| right fielder says he not in hurr TO get
| back in the game.
McGann, who was frost at second for
| Boston last year, is playing fast game at
first and hitting hard for the Toronto team
| In the Eastern League.
When Dexter recovers from his injury
he is booked to go to center. Wagner short
| and Johnson second 1t isdoubtful W hether
Wagner can cover short as well as Star
ford.
II the Senators can take one OF today's
two games all their sins will be forgiven
Baltimore Herald. The Baltimores have
been doing al the SHINING against the
Senators.
Shugart, Ike Reilly, will break into the
big league during 1897. It is extremely
doubtful if nc viii strengthen the Phila-
delph;as IN any particular, as he is irregular
in -and-outeT.
just after the disastrous eighth inning
OF the first game yesterday somebody In
the stand asked Mercer what was the mat
ter ''Oh, nothing much" replied Win;
"just weakened in the eighth"
In the Falls City they say that Still
Bill Hill has been spoiled by too much
flattery. While he is on the bench the
swelling is going down and he is learn
ing the lesson hat there are Others,
Some surprise has been manifested that
Frank Selec has not tried out Hickman,
threw "A feS x-rays on Charley boys arm,
found kink or two and sent him home to
rest.
Herman Long was compelled to quit
under fire in Quakerdon. He sprained
Ills ankle an accident that may send
Bostor well into the bunch, for Bob Allen
isn't Long by several degrees. .-cincin-
natl Post.
These young men-StrausbeTger and
SchrecoHgost were the battery Of the
Shamokin, Pa team yesterday. They lost.
Dut who can ten that they may some
day have their names enrolled with those
of McGraw and the o'Briens.
According to at least one leading New
York paper, the New York team would
never have won tine g3me from Brooklyn
Saturday but for flagrantly unjust deci-
sion by 0'Day. the result, SO the paper
declares, OF bulldoZing tactics on the part
OF Joyce
If Donnelly will take care of himself and
play tall ne will fastly strengthen New
Yorks infielu. Excepting Collins, Wallace
| AMI CiiIgu an, there is no; better fielding
third baseman In the profession than pom
| nelly when he is all right. and for awhile
last year h1 batted over 400 for Baltimore.
Tenney is 10y far the best first haseman
in the League. lie is strong in every play.
besides he has tie Intelligence 10 guide him
i'm his work. There is no violent wind ex-
hausr a bout the Young man. but he goes right
| along, getting everything coming his way,
and never overlUoks the fine points of the
game.
Nothing couldb be moTeeloquentof the state
OF baseball mere when It is said that only
z, 600 people gathered on Saturday TO see
the Bostoas play, il there were that many
ON the grounds. Washin gton is tired of a
tail-ender The club is in eleventh place,
and that is enough for the people here
Washington dispatch In Boston Herald
Herman Long said on Sunday: I'VE stood
lot or this last trip. and have mar scd the
young men who went ont of their way to
injure soiLe of our players. They must
all come to Boston once more, and YOU can
look for lively times IL they try IL any
more. The boys must defend their rights
ard we will give every club just as good as
they send when they come to Boston.
Early in the season Earle Wagner made
the prophecy that Baltimore would fal
to land the flag this year IL the Champions
had nothing harder than the Washington
mob they would keep on winning pennants
until Joe Kelly became grandfather. On
several occasions this year the Senators
have dropped dead W hen they had SEEM
!ngly secure leads on Baltimore. Cincinnati
Post
An interesting game was played on Sun
day afternoon at Indian Run X v, recently,
bet ween the local team and a team from
Portsmouth Ohio. The rear cad of the viii
lage church, frame building, lis used as
backstop for the catcher. At the end of
the second innin G. with the score to q,
the minister came around the corner, an
uounced that preaching was about TO begin
and requested that play be suspended. The
umpire accordingly called the game, and
the players anil spectators filed into church
The services lasted an hour, and after
church the game was finished, Indian Run
winning by score Of 4 to 3.
The fact that Joyce has decided to play
recalls the fact that Manager Hanlon tried
very hard to secure Joyce from Washington
early in 1895 to play first base for Balti-
mere. Brouthers had committed such
breach Of discipline that Mr.. Hanlon would
not put him back on first, and henever was
satisfied with Carey's work. Mr.. Han
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