The evening times., 1897-07-22

I went 10 D9U the OtUeT udy ic'
member your logarthms Lace out CO
sine, tangent Or any other old trigonometry
line that will fall safe" And Dowd made
q splendid hit.
There is tendency among certain elc
:nent of tie patrons Of the game to hiss a
player whenever such players work is
not to their liking. 1t Is needless 10 say
that such demonstrations are most dis
couraging to The team, and they do not
have the desired effect on the player
for whom the chastising is intended.
The year 1901 is now set for the abOli-
ton of the twelve-club league and the di-
vision Of the major body into two eight
club organizations, one composed OF Sun
day pla ying clubs, and the other to be made
up of those against playing ball on that
day. The ten-y year agreement among the
rragnates terminates at the end OF the sea-
son of 1900.
During the progress OF ball game at
Barnitz, Pa, the other day, John Ecken-
rode, OF the Centerville Club, in sliding to
a ba Sc, struck Newton Wilson, of the Bar
nitz Club. near the temple with the heel OF
his shoe Wilson was unconscious for
time, and HIS face is badly cut. Wilson is
not ou. of danger, and the doctor Is afraid
OF serious results.
Boston has lost seven games In the West
and has won five, leaving seven out OF
nineteen games to play. Manager Selee
started out with the intention of taking
eleven cut OF the nineteen. To carry out
this idea Boston must win six out of the
next seven Can it be done? Certainly,
- gc n,
might be called winning streak.
Here is what critic says OF Washing
toms pitcher: MERGERS pitching isn't all
in his arm. There is big lot OF 10 in his
head. He has the assurance OF a police
court lawyer, and the pluck of game
prize fighter In short, he's one OF the
greatest" And the Chicago critics make
the same language apply to Griffith as
well as To Win Mercer.-Chicago Post.
Pittsburc dispatch says that Uncle
Arson will not be on the Chicago Club next
year. This, he declares. is authoritative.
Anson had n ten years contract with the
Chicago Club at a salary and percentage
of profits This agreement runs out Oc-
tober 80 next, and will not he renewed.
The ownersof the Chicago club have respect
for the old mans loyalty. but believe that
sentiment has cost them dearly in recent
years. They will drop ii for cold business
and get another club handler.
Chicago women fans have the fever very
had. The Evening Post says that just
why Catcher Clark, of the Baltimores,
should be 81 generally disliked by some
patrons of ball Mt the West Side Park is hard
TO fathom. He is a conscientious worker
and cannot be blamed for the frothing tao
tics of his brother players. During the
last OriOle-ChicaGo game one ind g1iant fe
male occupant OF a box called out: 'Oh,
you mean thing. I'd like to run my hatpin
right through your neck" And all be-
cause the hackstop called upon the pitcher
to get him, and make him hit the ball.
Forecasting baseball results should be
rated as extra Hazardous. The Baltimore
News, for instance, tried its hand the
other day and said: Though the unex-
pecteG often happens, tits hard TO see how
Cincinnati can lose to Washington, or Boston
TO Pittsburg. Neither is it likely that
Louisville will get even che game fTotn
New York" There wasa case of punching
false tips. Cincinnati did lose to Washing
ton, and Boston dropped one at Pittsburg.
while the Louisvilles got three out of five
from New York And while all this was
was going on the orioles dropped two outof
four in Uncle's hat at Chicago. Cincinnati
Post.
There was a whirling, revolving knot Of
men aroani the plate, all talking at once.
A phonograph would have ha d its works
clogged in catching the conveIsa ton, but
a bIief idea might he reproduced d.
J.Muggs McGraw-You
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Umpire eDonali-That'll cost you $40,
you little -, i
J. Much wolf Kelly-I think you are n
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Mr.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dollars, you
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Uncle Adrian-Play ball, you stripe-legged
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And the game went on.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
John b. Day, chief of umpires, paid his
first Official visit to Chicago yesterday ard
obtained clear idea OF the mistakes of
Umpire Jack Nc Donald, WHO appears unable
TO give fair decisions on strikes and balls.
Nr. Day has a sinecure position critics say
IL was polite wa Y the League had of giving
him so much money. to make him chief OF
umpires. Yet the veteransays that the uryi-
pirins thisseason has been bctterthan ever.
a rnalizp tha thprpic al wa Is some ono f.,