The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-14
DIAMOND DUST.

STAFF of empires.
Wallace continues to field his position
In errorless style.
| Fall River has released Third Basemal
Kuhns, late of Pittsburg.
BID McPhee will be able to get bacI
into the game next week.
Cuppy warmed up sufficiently to pusl
the Bostons closer to Cincinnati.
| Delenanty made bit each time up IL
both games -nine in all -yesterday.
| Delehanuy has a batting average of .42s
and leadsthe League by good margin.
Hart was liberal in his passes yester
day, and in most cases runs resulted.
Delehant, mad but one chance in eighteen
innings. McCreery had a similar score.
Manager Selee, OF the Boston Club has
signed pob Allen to give Long a needed
| rest.
Stafford had twenty-five chances in
wo games yesterday, and accepted twenty.
one of them.
ioffer won game, and chances are II,
has been reinstated in the good graces
OF Sin Edward Won Hanlon.
There are more Clarks in the league al
present than ever before. Louisville has
two; New York, two, and Cleveland. one
Seymour failed to do the trick at Gin
cinnati yesterday lie gave six bases 81
balls, and they were very costly, too
Mccormick accepted all Of ten chance,
and u. Smith took car of twelve grounders,
missing one chance, at Chicago, yes
| terday.
| Pitche; McDennott was yesterday given
his release by the CIevelands. lie has done
fairly well, but the club has plenty of
| pitchers without him.
/ Washington does not draw well any
/ where. How much heavier Wagner's
| purse would be If he would have a fifth
pace club, he alone can tell.
| TIE Philadelphia players are still doing
| missionary woIk foF Joe Sullivan. In Cir
cinnati they collected $50 toward a purse
| to senI Sullivan 10 Arizona. Sullivan Is
now NJ the Episcopal Hospital in rhila-
| delphia.
New Haven, Wilmington, Portsmouth,
! Va, and bridgeport are ready to take the
place of any club in the Atlantic League.
| The ruisor concerning the Athletics drop
| ping out was denied yesterday at the league
meeting.
Manager Selee said that his club would
Win out OF the 8 games TO be pla yed In
the West. The Bostons have now lost four
and won one. This means, If the prophecy
is TO be fulfilled, that they must win cut
OF the next IA.
Umpire Tim Hurst figures II out this way:
"A lot OF bum players, who can't play the
game, are responsible for most OF the UNI
pres troubles, and their managers prob
ably listen To them and believe them No
wonder our hfe is tough ONE
The biggest surprise OF the season has
been Furnished by New York, and every
well wiSher of the game is glad CT The
Giants success. With New York In the hunt
fer the flag il Means considerable more
money for every club in the League.
JACK Taylor, while coaching in Gin
natl made SOME personal remarks at Dam
mann, who was pitching. The Reds pitch
er threw the ball at Taylor's head and a
little Marquis of Queensberry exercise Lee
tween the two was only avertcd by the
other players interfering.
Boston is encuuntering unexpected re
verses in the West. But the Beaneaters have
demonstrated that they are almost unheat-
able on their own grounds, and when they
T., home for the long series OF games at
the finish they may be expected to make
good their losses.
Pittsburg Is strengthening its team after
tie fashion of The Senatorial management
A pitcher VIII play the outfield and catcher
VIII play third base. This is the cheapest
sort OF getting good results, but the chances
are that Smoketown fans are indulgent
cranks, as they are in Washington.
BIZ Dahlen Is far from being well. His
wounded leg was lanced and the bone was
scraped againyesterday 10 remove affected
portions. This means an enforced idle
period for the little shortstop that the
club may feel. Hesides, Dahlen's condition
is really dangerous. Blood poisOning Il
not an Improbable result.
Mere ugly stories are coming from Gin
cinnati New York correspondents say
that the water given the New York players
was SD dosed with acid that it made them
sick. They also say that the ground on one
side of the plate was dug up, so as to
prevent New York's seven Ieft-hand bat
tiers standing firmly at bat.
In the eleven-inning game at Scranton
yesterday Clyraer and Gilboy, OF Buffalo.
and Beard Bonner and Massey of Scranton,
played extraordinary ball. The Scrantons'
outfieid Ind not putout nor an opportunity
TO make one, and up to the seventh inning
Beard and Massey had made all but two
OF their putouts. Scrantons Won bye TO ).
A couple of brief years ago there was a
Wild scramble among the Leaguers 10
land Pat Meaney, keystone twirlpr
Patricio, however, was seized with trenr
bling Of The knees at the thought of life
in a League city, and refused all offers and
baked all efforts to transfer him TO Paila.
delphia. Pats greatness has all oozed
away. He has just dra wn his release from
Wilkesb2rre.
One OF the New York papers recent V gave
away the reason why Dad Clarke is not
pitching more games for the Giants
Dad is great poker player, and is more
than his salary ahead of the game, his vic
Tins numbering almost every player on the
payroll. When" Dad pitches they even I'D
on him by poor support. Joyce knows this,
and refuses to take chances Baltimore
Herald. This is simply ridiculous
The only member of the New Yorks who
won the league and worlds championship
in 1889 now pla ying in the National League
is Mike Tiernan. Ewing is manager of the
Cincinnajs Bill Brown and Pat Murphy
have sunk into oblivion; Keefe is un,pir-
ing in the Eastern League; WEIGH is run-
ming a saloon in Holyoke; Ed Crane is
dead; TitcoT1b has retired: Connor is pIav-
ing In Fail River: Danny Richardson is in