The evening times., 1897-05-20
DIAMOND DUST.

Baltimore continues to outluck the other
club.
Manager Donovan is leading his team
In base running.
Pitcher Callahan played third for Chi
cago yesterday in fairly good style
Marty Hogan has signed with Da yton
and replaces GreeHwald. who will catch
Joe Kelley and Hily Hamilton are having
u race for the base-running honors OF the
league
Wrigley again demonstrated Yesterday
that he knows a thing or two about the
game.
killen has been defeated but once this
season. The Senators put him out of the
game
Cross has been playing third for the
Phillies, and Billy Nash is warming the
bench.
Lange has not hit this sea son TO any de-
gree, although he is fielding in a marvellous
manner.
Mercer is not in good form. He is far
from being steady. Something seems to
be wrong
ever, and daily he S patterning after his
SO record.
TRULY, Ansou's old second haseman. has
been released by Kansas City and signed
by Rockford
Fat Donovan has moved into the 300
division at Fittsburg, but Dick Padden
has dropped out.
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from Louisville. In the two games the
Colonels sC oTed but one run.
Chick Fraser. of the Colonies, is a gen
erous fellow. He has given more passes to
first than any other twirler in the league.
Despite the Leagues transportation COM
mittee, New York and other clubs con
tinue TO travel by so-as-y yOu-please routes.
st. Louis received a shake up and won.
Probably the same results would follow
if the Senators were shaken up a little
bit
Wedage, of the Norfolk team, is quite
q third baseman. III the last two games
he had seventeen chances and missed only
one.
Hart not only pitched n great game for
St. Louis yesterday. but made clean
home run He was steady with men ON
bases.
The Cincinnati Post says that Herman
Long does not bring up in the rear among
tie shortstOps, for De MontreviIle is a few
points below him in fielding.
From the way Medicine Man Sockalexis
has been batting the ball since the season
opened it is very probable that the red
skin leads all the heavy hitters.
Hercules Burnett, of the Detroits, is too
strong lie was fined 500 for asSaulting
Umpire Ebight. Fred Lake drew a like
plaster for hitting Umpire Frank Graves
Sheridanis doing poor work if the PhiIa-
delphIa new spapers are to he relied on.
Yesterday .he decided Lajoie out on a foul
strike, when he was hit with a pitched
ball.
Joe Sullivan may never play ball again.
He is in bad physical shape, and the Gin
Cinnat players made up purse to help
him home. He came to Cincinnati with the
Quakers
Lester Germans showing against the
Boston and PittSburg teams, shutting each
team out for the last four innings without
a hit, would seem TO warrant asst gning The
Maryland boy to pitch full game.
Assaulting the umpire has been a too
common practice in the Western
League, and proinissory notes calling for
expulsion have been officially issued by
the directory of that organization.
Usually a cast-off does well against
his old club, but those Orioles laugh at
preccdents, and gave George Hem
mings an awful slathering, while the
Colonels failed to make a run off Jerry
Nops.
Walter Brodie, the former Oriole. and
Jake Stencil, the former Pirate, who
changed places this season, are close to
gether in their batting averages. Brodie
has ,302 and Stencil .293 according to the
latest averages.
There is woe in the camp OF the Pirates
Accident has robbed them of one Of their
greatest stars. Denny Lyons finger was
broken by one OF Annie RuSie' 'sinshoots, and
it will be six weeks before he can get
back into the game. Harry Davis will play
first
Win Mercer is hearing the music Of
the Back Number Orchestra. He was
put into the box at Cleveland IN the
ninth to hold the Indians down, and
they took two lovely raven black scalp
locks and won with one hand out. -CinCin-
natl Post.
President Andrew Freedman is out of
his element as a aseball man. His policy