The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-17

praises of a winning twirler were sung
from sea TO sea. He pitched in the time OF
keefe and Garrison, OF Radbourne and
Mullane; he knew the tricks of all these
great pitching masters and he improv ed
them well Instead OF owing fat anu
feeble; Terry grew stronger as the years
went by The new pitching rules did not
kill him as a twirler They proved the
finish of keefc and Clarkson, of Calvin and
GetZcin, but Terry mastered their intri-
cacics and never pitched much better ball
in his life than ne did last season As a
pitcher, Terry never ranked with such men
as Radbourne and Ramsey a batter,
as an all-round player and as a gentleman,
off and on the field, he was the peer OF
any pitcher who ever lived. Terry is
nearly forty years of age, tall. handsome
and digHificd. Years ago an Eastern paper
remarked that Terry need fear nothing
even if his arm did give out, for he was
d handsome man and a position behind the
glove counter OF a dry-goods store would
ever BE- open to him. The Adonis of the
diamond, however, will not have to sell
gloves or ribbons when his baseball DAYS
are done, for he has not played ban all
these years for nothing
Elmer Bates is getting to be sarcastic. He
says. "Scrappy Joyce has already protest
cd Lynch, Hurst, Enslie and Sheridan, the
four crack-a-Jack umpires on Mr. Young's
staff. He will attend to O'Day, Mcdonald
and McDermott as soon as possible"
If somebody doesn't head Baltimore
Off pretty soon the League race for first
place will lose interest The Orioles at
inf ha1 Of nj
phia, their nearest competitor, while St
Louis, which occupies last place, is 63l
points away.
Theo. Breiten stein is not the only old
timer whose pitching arm is full of kinks.
Annie Ruse and Jouett Meekin are not yet
in good FORM The promise is made that
Brett" will be all night in June. He is
certainly very far from being all right at
the present time.
Looking at the pedigree of Callahan,
the Colt who pitched so much better
bah than Sir Phil Ehret in Chicago, il
is discovered thatinstead of being young
ster Call" is enjoying his second time
on League earth. He is discovery of the
late Harry Wright
Hickman, the young pitcher of the New
Castle club, whom Washington is said TO be
after, struck out seven men, gave four bases
on balls. made wild pitch, hit two bats
men, made three safe hits, had four assists
and two errors in game on Saturday
against the Mansfield club.
The latest baseball yarn is good thing
1t accuses Pat Tebeau of building little
banks OF earth along the base lines, from
first to home and home to third. The
idea is that a rolling ball, especially a
bunt, will be kept inside the diamond and
prevented from turning foul.
Dad Clark, the Reds old terror, is not
with tine team this trip. Scrappy Joyce
says the reason is that he already had
more pitchers with him than he can use.
Another report is to the effect that Dad
and the clubs president have had flare
up" and that Dads release is for sale.
Wanted-One set Of diagrams of the earn
ed-run rule for use in Chicago. The scorers
in one instance, at least, allowed q stolen
base to figure as factor in crediting one
tally earned.-Cincinna Post Thanks to
President Young's explicit instructions,
there are twelve methods for scoring earned
runs in use ncw.-Pittsburg Press.
Manager Tommy Dowd has been relieved
of his position as Official head of the st
Louis team. Saturday Baltimore walked
over the Browns to the tune OF 20 to 3.
Mr. Won der Abe, it is said, con sidered
Dowd responsible for the slaughter, and
after the game retired him. ItisannOunced
that Louis q. Phelan, a relative of Won
der Abe, will probably manage the team