The evening times., 1897-08-28
DIAMOND DUST.


Cleveland stands alone in the 800 per
cent division.
1t now lopks as though Baltimore will
win the pennant.
Over eighty Eastern League games have
beea postponed up TO date.
Chris Fulnler, the old 4 Association catcher,
| is now rnning a saloon at Tamaqua. Pa.
Shugart mad fifteen chances yesterday.
lie missed one and that misplay lost the
game.
Dclehanty's sister / S reported dying,
| and the great hitter left last night for
| Cleveland.
Johnny C'Brien has signed a Provi-
| dcnce contract. He will greatly strengthen
Mana ger Murray's aggregation.
Lancaster, OF the Atlantic League. dropped
| two games in succession by one run each to
Norfolk after winning twenty-one straight.
Baseball critics who have seen the
| Syracuse team play lately, say that Second
Baseman Eagan is putting up splendid
| game.
| Reitz's fielding was a feature at Balti'
| more Yesterday. He accepted twenty-one
chances in the two games and most OF
them Were difficult.
New York is going to be dangerous
| factor in the race. The Giants are now
only 80 points behind the Orioles, and
they have been pla wing fine TALL of late.
Tom Tucker is getting little sparsely
settled about the Uranium, and when his
| cap blew off the other day he made
dive after il like a player jumping for
line fly. Cincinnati Post.
Those Were two great games at Balti-
more Yesterday. Vaughn's error in the
| first game was the only one made by either
side dur Hg the entire afternoon. There Were
iE all 165 chances, OF which 1874 were ac-
| cepied. This is probably record.
Gus Hahn, a young left-ha nder, who
| is doing the star twirling for the De
| truit team. iu the Western league. Will be
| IN demand among the ma jor League mana
gers, when the drafting season sets IN.
Hahn has great speed and a deceptive
| drop bail
| Oliver Patruccio Teheau predicts that
! Pickering will prove fixture in one of
| the oator gardens of the Spiders. Pick
ering is faster in the field and on the
tases since he left Louisville. the climate
| or the liqrid Of which town failed to agree
| with Pick"
| Another knockout is reported. In the game
at Kansas City Sunday, Flynn, the Indian
| apolis sEortstOp, was hit near the left
temple by a swiftly pitched ball, and was
completely Knocked out. 1t was some tiIne
before he revived, and, suffering intensely,
he was taken to the hospital
Dunklc, the new pitcher, was out prac-
| ticing Yesterday. He has terrific speed
| and looks as though he should be able To-
| hold up his end in the League. He may
pitch against Pittsbarg toda Y. -Phila-
| delpEia Record. This is the young man said
| to have been signed by the local manage.
| nient.
There arc more strong hitting pitchers
| in the League this year than at any time
| in the history of the game. Mercer, Swain,
Klobedarz, Orth, Friend, Hawley, Dono-
| hue McDermott, Breitenstein, RGsie, Meekin,
Dwyer, Fifield and Joe Corbett are among
| the twiriers who are handy with their
| tats. Joe Corbett is one of the best
| hitting pitchers that has entered the ma iUr
| League since the development of Jack
| Stivetts, and Win Mercer's batting, coupled
with his base running, will make him a
valua ble pla yer in the major League when
| the cunning exits from his diplomatic
| right wing.
81 believe I'd rather carry scrap iron
| for the same money than umpire a bali
game,'' says Tommy Corcoran. There is
no vocation in which there is less sym
pathy or charity than in base ball. 1t must
| be awful for an old ball player to listen
| to the abuse he has to stand from those
| he once chun.med with. There is an Illus
| tration OF tie heartlessness of some play
ers. That umpire's pla ying days are over,
or he wouldn't be an umpire. He is trying
| to earn a living, and bis old comrades
| won't let him. Could picture more true
| to nature he painted than that life sketch
of an umpire's troubles?
If Fat Tebeau ever said an nything in his
life that was deserving OF the highest com
men 1dation, it is the following: 1.-The bad
language used by pla yers on the field is not
| half so bad as that which we hear from
some occupants of the bleacheries and the
grand stand 1t is an evil which prevails In
every city. But the greatest evil of all is
the attempt on the part of the spectators
to rattle visiting teams. III admit that IL
| has been done in Cleveland as well as in
other cities. 1t is a nuisance, and does no
good The other day when young Magee
was pitching all was quiet for four innings
Then the bleachers began their yelling and
kept it up at intervals during the game.
1t tiidn' { do a bit of good, for the Bostons
| didn'c score a run during the game Yet
some Of these howlers thin K they're actually
helping the home club to win games by their