The evening times., 1897-07-01
DIAMOND DUST.

hcGinty is the name OF the latest umpire.
Jimmy Rogers will join the Cincinnatis.
Stafford accepted all of twelve chances
at short.
George Mahoney is now on the farm ut
Portland, Me.
Geiermade mise Table sho wing atseCond.
He is scarcely fit for the infield.
Left Fielder Elsey, of Richmond wanted
TO whip Man ageI Wells on Tuesday andi is
now looking for Job.
Tucker 1 s out of the game with very sore
hand, which was the. cause of HIS poor
sho wing the day previous
DeMontreville must have felt real lone
some yesterday. He was the only regular
on the enfield. He put up great game.
Tony Mullane and Bill Terry are said to
be the handsomest pla yers in the Western
League, with the odds in favor Of Mullane
Umpire Hurst doesn't apparently like
Billy Joyce. lie states for publica ton that
Joyce doesn't cover enough ground 10
plant reranium in"
Buffalo is after the services of Pitchers
Dunn, OF Brooklyn. and Horton, of Balti-
more. Manager Franklin is endeavoring to
keep his Bison team in first place.
Cooley was thrown out twice trying to
steal second. Dicks head-first slide Just
suited Demont. The Washington shortstop,
however, seldom gets foot-first slider. -
Philadelphia Record
Dey got run.
OATS honest. Sees
De Phillies one,
washinton tree.
Philadelphia Record.
Notwithstanding their handicap OF
broken-up infield, the Senators played a
magnificent game in the field, wild throw
by Mercer being the only misplay charged
against them.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Brooklyn is after Miller, second baseman
Of the New Castle club, the leade rs in the
Interstate League. Hickman. of the same
club, whom Washington was dickering for,
is wanted by two Western League teams.
Boston is after another college pitcher,
johnson, released by the New Castle, Pa,
team. Charley Camel practiced with the
young twirleT and thinks he is a second
Lewis. Johnson studied law at Kalana-
zoo.
keep on making ''his mark for Cleveland.
few more such performances as the late
fall OF Louisville and Chicago and second
fiddles will be provided for ICY" Young
and Cuban" Cuppy.
Gus Schmelz is fishing for an interest
in the Eastern League. AS financier he
is entitled to q rating in class A, but In
active management he has played too
many times on the G string of the harp of
theory.-Cincinnati Post.
Baltimoreans are filing few stars off
the halos worn. by the champs. Twice
within week have they been typographi-
callv posted in their own prints as quit
ters' Possibly it would be nearer the
truth to say that they We're outplayed
When Hartman, the giant third base
man of the Browns was in Pittsburg, he
was presented with a diamond pin, and the
next time he went to the bat he drew a
box of Wheeling stogies-pOsstbly the an
tidote needed to bring him back to earth.
; "when a team. is not hitting the ball
and the opposition pitcher is making mon
keys OF the best Of batsmen,'' remarked
Manager Ewing, 1.-THE game is bound to
look SLOW TO TIE spectators Lou Sdn
work with any ginger unless you get a few
runners on base.
al Reach and Col. John L. Rogers are so
worried over the failure of the StallDgs'
playing administration that they've hurried
out into the woods looking for phen1ms
themselves. After sizing up Paterson's
outfit, they concl .ded that there Was loth
ing there good enough
'.Bascball's outlook from a financial
point OF view is Eot the lest this year."
said Frank Bancroft. ''St. Louis, Chi
cago. Philadelphia ana PittsbuIg-foar
OF the best t-pa yisg cities in the cir
cui.-haye teams that are Cead to the
world. That puts, quite a Gimp in the
season s Joll.''
When Louisville stunned Jack Warner
over TO New York sleie wssn't the faint
est ripple ON the baseball waters. The
old deuce in the pack of League i'a cks-ops,
however, now ranks ace high and the