The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-16

Saturday in Philadelphia, and IL he evinces
| Here's hoping Baltimore Herald. He Ii
| all right il there be not too much expected
| or him.
The Louisville baseball club has signed
william NJ. Nance, OF Galveston, to play
right field. He viii report at Atlantic City
| "Wednesday. Nance has a batting average
| OF $50, and fielded 1913.
Louie Criger, the Cleveland's star back
| stop, has gone to the hospital witha broken
| finger Harry Davis did it in a collision
| at tire plate. That takes the little catcher
out of the game for month.
Frank selee, manager OF the Beaneaters,
offered Won der Abe a fancy price for
Pitcher Douohue, but Chris refused. The
bell baron of the Mound City has refused
four offers OF $4,000 each for Donohue.
Pitcher Dammann, the left handed "phe-
nomencn" of last spring, has been ex-
plodcd Manager Ewing has decided to
leave him behind when the team coUses
East, end roth Holiday and Vaughn VIII
| also stay at home.
George Rei,z. iIrother of the Baltimore
second bGscman, was struck on the back
of the head by H pitched ball yesterdayin
the gains between the Marquettes and the
Chicago Unions, at Chicago He has con
cusSion OF the train
Tuck Turner is certainly having n hard
time Of IL this year. He was badly hurt
while at practice in st. Louis, and in the
first game at Cleveland Zeke Wilson laid
him low with an in shoot that hit him on
the back OF the head.
The Reds are TO travel East in special
Pullraan. They willtake it al Manchester
on Tneslay night, and the car will be
sidetracked at Cumberland on Wednes
day The Reds play in that pretty little
MARYLAND city that day.
Jack Warner is the victim of overwork
and Park Wilson is not putting up the sort
of a ga me that pulls rooters out OF their
seats to veil ike Choctaws. New York
is figuring on securing Duncan, the
Springfield, Mass, backstop.
Anson will lose at least 81 900 on guess
Ing at winners and positions in the big
League race Jim Hart is In danger OF
losing to / bet made by Arson that
1.-The Birds would not win the pennant for
the fourth consecutive time.
Manager Ewing is much dissatisfied with
his pitching corps. Dammann has proved
a failure; Ebret is not to be Dope nded upon,
and RhiDes is uncertain Ewing is trying
to get Dan Daub, the old Brooklyn pitcher,
and Jot Goar, an Indianapolis man.
shortstop Fox, of the Cooperstown, N. Y.
team, signed by j. Earl Wagner for the
Senators, is n graduate of Holy Cross Col
lege Worcester, Mass, and Tommy Dowd
predicts that this latest recruit In the
Senatorial ranks will come to stay.
Delehanty is not in high favor in Phila-
deiphia. He has dropped off in his batting,
until he is considered the worst man on
the team in q pinch. Besides he is playing
a sloveuly game, according to the Phila-
delphia critics, and Is not covering half
ground enough.
Think of one player changing tail-ender
to a top-notch team. Amos Rusie did this
for the New Yorks. Freedman should get
down on his knees every night and thank
the other eleven magnates for giving him
what he never would have had-a base bali
tcam.-Cincinnati Inquirer.
A tip to Anson-draft Blackburn, the
Texas Leagrer, this fall before an yone else
gets him. He can pitch, but his fault was
In trying to think that he was a gentleman.
The Baltimore players didn't like that and
made things hot for the cowboy. &C Chicago
Post.
"Podge" Alloway has been signed by
Oliver Wendell Tebeau. "Podge" is not
q youngster by any means, and when Clar-
ence Stephens was considered the premier
amateur twirler Of Cincinnati, Peters
burg fans swore by Ailoway. Cincinnati
Post.
Newman, the center fielder of the Rock
ford, ILL.,, team will bear watching. He
has been batting strong, and his fielding
is marvellous The other day he put out
seven men and assisted twice. This man
will hardly be in the Western Associa ton
next year.
Hillary Swain Is no longer considered
a slab-s,i,d, loose jointed joke in Wash
ington. He has turned in three consecutive
winners for the Senators downing Boston.
Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Cincinnati
Post. The young nanhas not ad a chance.
That is all.
john Ward is az busy man, and has been
very successful IN his law work. The
once famous baseball general, acting in
behalf of AL Johnson's trolley company 10
Brooklyn, had an important case that had
been Observation-Disclosures company, reversed.
II was big win Tor Johnny.
II is quite probable that the League will
adopt the doubleiumpire system next sea.
son. Ithas been suggested that the players
~, e,rtiX,ds.p RI su~nk m the urnirea m nv
pretext, andthatcaptatns mustconfinetheir
protests TO typewritten statements. to be
submitted to the president OF the League. =