The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-20

the grand stand Play was finally started
with a aew TALL Each player should be
made TO pay for the ball he threw over the
stand
Pitcher Kcrwan, of the Springfield Club,
was all kinds Of hero yesterday in the
game against Providence. He struck out
eight visitors, and would have shut PIovi-
dence out but for Bannon 'serror, which tied
the score In the ninth inning. In the last
half OF the ninth, with the bases full and
two out. korwan lined out the hit that won
the game by a score of TO /.
The Louisville team was not allowed 10
use TIE visitors dressing room at the Polo
Grounds In New York yesterday. They had
To- engage rooms at a nearby hostelry and
walk to the gIoun DIS In uniforms This action
on the part OF the New York management
was due 20 the breaking of several panes OF
glass and a general turning over of the
room when the Colonels were there last.
Here is what an admiring critic of the
rhioagos has 10 say: The Chicagos may
not lead the LEAGUE In any department Of
play, but they have all other teams bea ten
a block iE the matter of style. They travel
like lords aad ride in open carriages to and
from the grounds Open carryalls are
good enough for Boston, New York and
Baltimore. nut Chicago gives all the trim
nings OF tie -four hundred"
There are several infalible tests Of
the fevcnsh condition OF fan, AMI when
man commences TO figure on the aver
ages he is entitled to the rank of S2-degree
rooter. TIE batting average of a bau
player is obtained by dividing the number
was at bat Thus, II Tom Brown had four
swipes at the ball and baEged three hits
his days average would be 100.
Baseball enthusiasts generally pick ont
the heaviest hitters, and would like to see
a team made up with those men. Rut
there are weak bitters who also look well
on "a team Here is club selected by
Rem MulfJrd, jr., with the batting aver
age: First base. Lyons, 1876; second base,
Mailman. 2o6; third base, ClingmaD, Is6;
sbortstcp, q. Smith, 1876; left field, Lally,
PSI; right field Pickering, .246; center
field, Tannehills ga: catcher, Murphy.
ia; pitcher, NcJames, 10Y.
After the game at Eastern Park yes
terday one of the st. Louis pla yers way
laid Umpire Carpenter under the grand
herei'' growled the player. Carpenter
who is snail and boyish looking, peeled
off his coat without delay and said coolly:
"Well, start right In, OLE mani There's no
bod y to interfere,' The player left In a
hurry. Some OF these toughs of the diamond
will find out some day thatlittlc Carpenter
can handle his fists pretty cleyerly, as he
is said to be an expert boxer. New YORK
Sun
1t would perhaps do no good to print
the names of the Philadelphia players
charged with not behaving themselves as
well as they should, but It would be I'M
fair to inen like Orth, Wheeler, Fifield
Boyle, Nash, Delehanty, Cross and sew
eral OF hers not to make the fact known h at
they have been doing their full duty to
the club all season. and are not included
among those now being watched by the
clubs dcte ctive p Philadelphia Ledger
This must mean that Lajoie Cooley,
Clements, nowd, Taylor and few others
are having a bird of time
Louis Kramer, of this city, at one time
president of tie American Association,
solved the probletu of how to squelch
rowdy hall He just lifted the principal
ness he suspended him, and his down
fall proved warning to others. II mat
ters Gome to the worst, President Young
should resort to heroic measures. II two
or three OF The banner ruffians were taken
| by the nape Of the neck and the slack of
| the trousers and tossed outside the breast
works OF reputable baseball it would have
| healthy effect on the others Cincinnati
| Enquirer.
Poor old Sockalexis! Once the pride
| OF the Cleveland baseball public, pushing
| the heavy hitters for batting honors
| and running neck and neck with the idol
OF the soubrettes, Bill LANCE, for the
| favors Of the fair faus, only the pedestal,
| is now lacking to make good cigar store
| sign o. tile medicine man. Fire water is
| the cause alleged to have first put him out
| Of the game, and he is yet on the hospital
list. The latest rumor In regard to Poor
10 lis that he will take the back trail for q
| minor league. there to acquire that quality
| so essential In a good ball player-horse
sense Meanwhile the baseball poet must
cast about for another subject for his
| lay.
II some of the unofficial managers Will let
Capt. Joyce alone, Scrappy's lot will be a
happier one. Joyce has but one idea as
| the incentive Of an ything he does with his
| team, and he believes that the object
of MS aim is in harmony with the In.
terests of the game and the wishes OF
its patrons Ilewants to win the pennant
| or finish 81 close to the winners that they
| will know he's around. Never has a man
| worked harder to that end with less en-
| eourageu,ent since there has been a
| League team IN this town. scrappy has
| proved that he, know the game and the
| team itself shows the result of his skill. :
| New York Evening World.