The times., 1897-05-03

for the members of visiting teams and some
OF the taunts hurled at the players arc
vile and insulting enough 30 make blood
flow. In view of this fact the municipal
authorities have found it necessary to
prohibit the sale of liquor ON the grounds. q
New York Evening World
The release OF Mcmahon by Manager
Hanlon, OF Baltimore, breaks up the oldest
battery In the business, Mcmahon and
Robinson. McMahon Joined the Athletics, OF
| Philadelphia, III 1889, and Robinson was
| his catcher from the start They have
never been separated since In 1890 they
joined the Baltimores together, and there
| is no question that their work did much
TO put tie Orioles where they are.
The Baltimores left for Brooklyn yester-
day afternoon, where they will play three
games; then go To Philadelphia for a trio,
and return to Washington for SERIES May
10, IL and II, with the Senators After
this the birdics viii fly Westward AMI
flap their wings around the wild and
woolly boys. They viii not play in Bal
timore again until June 2, when they
open with Buck Ewing's Cincinnati Red
| Stockings.
| Beckiey' advice to first Easements: Get
| into the habit of making every close deci-
| sion an out Don't stand there with the
ball in your hand waiting for the decision.
Return il to the pitcher as If you had uo
| doubt of the play, and take your regular
! position in the field. Sometimes an uln-
! pire himself doesn't know which reached
| the base first-the ball or the runner.
Your natural action In taking out INST
ter OF course often helps to clear the doubt
| in the umpire's mind. There's nothing
| like trying for the decision, anyway
'scrappy Bill" says Baltimore should
not have had peep" whatever that
| means, in the two games his Giants played
against them Thursday and Friday. Bill
| thinks no club has license to win from
| the team he is with He mas had that
| self-confdence, which is d big thing in
| baseball, since he branched out as a pro-
| fessionai He held the same idea when
| he was with Houston, and afterw ard with
| Toledo, Boston, Brooklyn, and Washing
| ton. sand" is worth a whole lot to a
ball player, and ''Scrappy'' has it by the
| wagonload
| Harry Csuliflower, OF this city, is play
| ing right field and pitching for the AUSTIN
| Club, of the Texas League Harry, as
| Is the habit OF Capitolisns who turn their
| talents tG baseball is proving himself
star in the Lone Star aggregation. He is
! hitting the ball at $50 clip, is fielding
| perfectly, and ON the rubt,er manages 10
| hold the opposing club 10 scattering bingleS
| When Washington sends out bail pla yer
| he is pretty sure TO hold his own in the
| company in which he travels witness,
| DeMontreville, Meyers, aIcBride O'Hagan
| Hodge, Honnegar, Gilroy, Barley, Geier,
| Caulinower, Luskey, Mace, and others that
| could be mentioned.
| Rusie aud Joyce Were discussing baseball
experiences at Willards yesterday and
| Big Amos" recalled the first game he
| pitched against Washington. ut was in
| 1894" said Rusie, and the hatteTs on the
| club ahead of Cartwright were fruit for ne,
| not a one reaching first base Ed cane up
| and l shot the ball straight over Burke
| was playing left fielG for New York at that
| time, and l can see him chasing after that
| ball now Did he get it? No, il flew over
| the fence, and l afterwards heard it killed
| a patient in the colored hospital On the
| left. Ii wasn't a chance blow, but hap
pened 20 i'e a pitch TO CaItwright's liking.
was careful after that TO hand him up
something entirely different"
Walter S Barnes, jr, baseball editor
of the Boston journal, said Saturday a { the
Normandie, that while he was In Philadel-
phia last week, prominent league official
told him that it cost $4,000 to put Rusie
back IN the game. That is, the league
paid Rusie his salary for S96 that Freed
man denied him; paid his fines amounting
to $500; reimbursed him for his costs in
court in pushing his case, and satisfied
his attorneys in full 1t is one thing TO
say that the league wanted Rusie back
in the game at any cost, but the philosophy
Of the situation conveys to the critical
observer a well-grounded suspicion that
the magnates were afraid to have that
famous reserve rule tested in the courts
of the land
The Milwaukee papers are complaining
about the work of Tom DAILY and Bert
Meyers, whom they characterize as has
been" ball players and ''shirkers.'' 1t
is not remarkable that minor league writ
ers grow critical, If not mean, at the
outset of the season. AS a class, they
are 2xA reporters who are assigned To
do game the same as street fight,
knowing scarcely anything about the
technique of the great pastime- In Meyers
and DAILY Milwaukee has d pair of good
players, far beyond their associates in the
Beer Town club, and if the small fry
who write baseball behind them had any
wisdom whatever, they would keep quiet,
instead OF making ridiculous exhibitions of
themselves in attempting to decry two
such valuable men.
Mr.. j. C. Couch, of Philadelphia, who
is a thrty-third degree baseball fan, said
at the Raleigh last night that the longest
hit he ever saw made on a field was
batted by Dave Orr. 1t was game during
the season of 1890, and was played on
the Philadelphia grounds. Phil knell was
pitching, and he loafed slow outcurve
up to Orr. Dave met il fair and square,
and the han scared over the fence, looking
about as big as pea as itsdisappeared in
the distance, An argument came up be
tween party of us in the grand stand,
and to settle it, after the game we
measured the ground TO the spot marked
by a small boy, where the ball struck IL
was $40 feet in the clear, not counting
how far the bah bounded and rolled
John Napoleon McSIoskey, sometimes
called the Cardinal Is in his glory as
manager captain and the whole thing, of
the Dallas, Texas, team. Mac has a husky
lot of pia yers corraled down in the Tex2s
metropolis, and is having good time. He
is a bigger man than the mayor, and, with
his hronchos, can go out every night and
fill up on German disturbance at someone
else's expense, and nobody kicks nor dares
make them afraid. 1t was such leniency