Evening star., 1897-06-08


Donald Parson. 800 New Jersey avenue
southeast.
base hall Notes.
:. Weather permitting. the Senators and
Spiders will have another try this after
room at National Park. Silver King win
probably pitch for the home club and 'Cy''
Young Is about due from the visitors. To-
day 10 ladies' day.
Bright days are ahead for the Washing
ton base ball enthusiasts. improvements
cannot be made In a day OF a week. but
they win come. and before the season is
much farther advanced at that.
tucker had seventeen chances at first
yesterday and accepted them all without
an error. At least fourteen Of these
chances were exceptionally hard. owing to
the erratic throwing of the infielders, De
Mont being the chief offender.
II Earl Wegner can be persuaded to take
the management OF the Washington club
there will be no kick coming from the local
followers of the game. In a hundred differ
ent ways Mr. Wagner has demonstrated
that he has a nose" for base ball, and, be-
sides his energy, he will have the respec:
| Of the players.
Billy Lush made quite a record in Satur-
days game for the Torontos. He had
three doubles and two singles. eight
chances at second. with one error, and
stole four bases. Billy will soon be back
in the hig league again If he keeps up that
lick.
The reconstructed st. Louis Browns will
be here tomorrow. and the series should
prove an interesting one. The Browns are
quite different aggregation now than
when they started out. The Baltimore pa
ball.
The local game is now posted on the
blackboard out at National Park, and the
latrons favorably commented on the inno-
NyQ i'm Nha hot vnf fo yh<a
continually asks what is the score can now
be referred once and for all to the black
beard.
Forty-one thousand six hundred specta-
Saturday. while $500 were at the New
Haven Harvard-Princeton contest 1t Is,
indeed, the national game.
The Cincinnati management wants Han
Ion to transfer one of last weeks postponed
games to Cincinnati Unless Brush with
draws his objection to the transfer Of that
extra Louisville game to New York tie
Baltimore transfer will not go through.
Anson may be getting old. his step less
srringy, his joints not so supple as Of yore.
but his eyes and brain are unimpairei.
For all that. he knows more about playing
the game than the other men on his team
combined. There are at least seven less
valuable players than Uncle Ad. among
the Chicago Colts
There Is another Indian in the business
Rockford. ILL.,, has signed one. His name is
Buck Heart. He Is a catcher. He Is Car
| Isle Indian.
Wallace has sent Jimmie McGarr TO the
minor league ranks. The Cleveland club
has asked the other league clubs to waive
claims to "Chippie."
Billy Hallman says he thinks Tommy
Dowd will have his troubles with the Phil
bs Sc at the Philadelphia Park Is one of the
hardest in the league. When the sun Is
out it shines in your face, and when 1t isn't
| the place is awfully dark" says Billy.
Ty0rr he,
deal better team now than they were when
| they had their stars The gang of mis-
| fits" and cast OFFS have won two out uf
| the last three, and one Of their victories
was from the champions.
Here is the contrary way base ball fig
| ures act: The Cincinnatis never have much
trouble with the Chicagos. but have the
hardest work of the season with the Pitts
bGrgs. On the other hand, the Pittsburgs
can do little or nothing with the Colts.
Last season the Pittsburg team won only
one out Of twelve games from the windy
city crew.
George Keefe, as everybody in San An
tonic already knows. Is the same George
keefe who v as the most famous south-paw
pitcher In the National League a few years
ago. He played with the Washington team
and won many hard-fought game. He
pitched too hard for his own good. how
ever. and his arm went wrong. Then he
came south. and, undismayed by his mis-
fortune, turned his attention to slugging
other pitchers. He has now won his second
fame as one OF the heaviest and most re-
liable batters In the minor leagues.-San
Antonio Times.
Manager Watkins of the Indianapolis
club has. according to the newspapers on
that circuit. tie best behaved team in
the Western league. He has informed
the indianapolis players that only Captain
Motz Is authorized to question an umpire's
decisions. and all others must keep their
mouths shut and play ball. If an umpire
fines them the fine will be deducted from
hnf~ low
out Of the game the club will fine them
$25 each. Watkins knows how to manage
team and keep players from being OBJ
streperous.
story they tell in Pfttsburg about the
pitcher with the lurid nickname. Pink"
Is a twin-that is, he has a twin brother
and is his brothers twin. When the chub-
two peas in or out of a pod. Their names
were sorted out, and then to make sure
their given titles wouldn't play battledore
with their personalities two ribbons. one
pink and the other blue. were tied about
the elbows Of the infants. Unless some
body surreptitiously changed those ribbons
Pink Hawley Is Pink" II the substitu-
ton occurred. why. he's not Pink at
ALL hut Blue Hawley.
Won der Abe has declared in several in
terviews since his arrival in the east that
less he can dispose Of his park. and with
unblushing effrontery fixes value OF
$25O.00O on his base ball holdings. He does
not own a foot Of ground in Sportsman's
Park. The property belongs to the Lfndell
estate. from which the Sportsman's Park
and club. the corporation which owns the
st. Louis club and franchise. leased 1t for
term Of ten years at an annual rental
OF 1880. The only interest which Won
der Abe has In any real estate in St Louis
or anywhere else, except the burial lot
In Bellefontaine cemetery, on which a life
sized figure Of himself stands. Is an equity
of YedemntfOn As his 10 dod for
10000. 1t is virtually mortgaged for that
amount, with the guarantee Of local trust
company as additional security. Chris can't
or personal. until the mortgage or bonds
against 1t are paid off.-St. Louis Sporting
Times
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