The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-19
Baseball Notes.

q. T. Done.
B. +. Graley.-No.
w. W. d.. No. 3. No.
c. n. W.-We do not know.
". FL. Grimm. e. Mcekin. 8. Davis.
Harry Curtis.-In both instances Il Is q foul ball.
Pitcher Bert Inks says he has retired from the
diamond.
Including Tuesdays game the Lancasters have won
fifteen straight.
Meekin will pitch for the New Yorks against the
Louisvilles to-day.
Joe Jaeckels, a catcher hallins from Cleveland. will
Join the ST. Louis team In Brooklyn.
The Pittsburgs defeated Atlantic City at the latter
place on Tuesday by a score OF 8 to /.
The NATIONALS wtii play the Howard A. nine a.
New Y~orker.-The washingtons play here on Sept.
81. but there is no League game on Oct. 8.
1t will be Ladies' Day at Eastern Park to- day. and
the Brooklyns will entertain the 81. Louis team.
id. E.-Joyce first anne into prominence as third
1890.
ra Tss S1s ssa %srs p1 Sssssn ; Ss Isshu on ir "a. TSr sss9 on
O score OF Z to 8.
Manager Long of the Reading Club has refused an
OF Carey and Garvin.
m r5sslse eis s1srGTs S Ct sSs A.l. as,s League ea has recon- sns
Bowen to the Philadelphia Club.
wilmot is an undoubted improvement over Holmes.
until Herman has been tried there.
Although less than seven weeks remain Of the end
OF the season. Washington has not played at home
VIII CiLiud v LAS iulCuBO play tu AZ BALTIMORE.
!. H., BROOKLYN. The Brooklyns won the cham.
pionship OF the National League IN 1890. 9. He got
the field.
1t is reported that the Washington Club has secured
new pitcher from the sunbury Club Of the Central
recommended by Umpire Kelly.
Eleven tie games have been played IN the Atlantic
SIX such games, Athletics in four. Norfolk and Paser.
son In two. and Hartford and Reading in one.
Patrons OF the Polo Grounds have never seen better
Boston and Philadelphia series Just ended. 1t Is to be
hoped that President Young wifi keep them here.
which It would he pleased to Mi with amy any club
Offering a suitable guarantee: Aug. 81 and ]2. and
walsh. $50 West Thirty.SiIth street.
The Eastons would like to hear from all teams In
Connecticut; teams Offering suitable vusrantees AMI M
having inclo.ed grounds preferred. Address Herman
q. Lustig, s27 East Twenty.ifth street.
Fourteen League players have stolen twenty-five or
m Tssis1 oa ne. as follows ~ ks ing az Hamilton, 40;
Cooley. s6; powd. selbach. and Herman. 20.
The crusade against r%owdyiam on tho ball field.
principal newspapers In the various League cities. il
they Will continue To condemn kicking and - tough
mugism" the game will soon DO ~ clean US college
sports.
George shoeh: who has faced all the great League
has never had his equal. 'pRasie i n q ciSs. ali III Sr h hIn,.
self" says shoch. HE has a world o. speed. ni,yste.
we will ever see his like again"
It Il pretty well Understood that Manager BarnIe OF
tho B~roOklyns will have new players to supplant
l%.hchnnce, Caravan, George Smith, Shindlc, Grim.
and Burrell next year. All OF these men have been
guilty OF dumb" playing this season. Young
hustiers can give better satisfaction than the present
team.
Tho value OF the wire mask was well illustrated I'm
yesterday'a game at the Polo Grounds. In the sixth
inning. with Mash ut the plate and both Catcher War.
ner and Umpire Lynch close behind the bat. a vicious
foul tip struck Lynch's mask squarely In the middle
and bent the wires so far in that they had 10 DO
been unprotected he would have been u ut subject Tor
q Hospital.
Tho Louisvilles have a reward In store for thom n
they continue their good playing. Before tho season
opened they signed al agreement with their club
ohicinls TO the erect that II they nnish ninth 81, 900
VIII be divided among them; for eighth place tbey
VIII receive $1,000. and for seventh notch they wifi
get $1,000. AZ they stand u chance OF coming i'm
sixth and pockotihg $4,000. they may fare better
than tho Temple Cup teams.
II will not bc surprising n the League magnAtes. Mt
their annual meeting next November. vote to abolish
tho Temple cup serleH. Several OF them believe that
rowdy ball playing and kicking at tho umpire are due
principally To tho desire or ths players TO gt into tie
series and pocket the receipts. This year, for the nrst
Zine ON record, tho players who will contest for the
cup VIII be still under contract. as their services 10
their respective clubs do not legally end until Oct, lb,
II has been said IN certain quarters that the magnntns
Will take all tho receipts from exhibition games
played between oct. 2 and oct. 10. and that they will
also got y percentage OF the Temple Gun receiut.. uut
this Is not generally believed.