The evening times., 1897-08-24
DIAMOND DUST.

Poston wins right along.
The Brooklyns are crawling away from the
Senator's.
There is likely to be one or two new
faces on the Philadelphia team this week.
..BIly'' Hamilton has stolen over fifty
bases and has scored over loo runs this
! season.
Povideuce win release several OF the
present team as soon as acceptable sub
stitutes can I've found.
The Colts claim to have been robbed of
two games IN Washington. baltimore Her
. aid. Thisiscertainly an ante-autumndreain.
The Michigan State League has ''gonc
up for good. The star players of the
f.aguA have been grabbed by the Western
League.
| Pitcher Gear. who has been doing bench
duty for Cleveland the greater part of this
season, has signed to play center field for
Kansas City.
The Reds cannot equal their record made
on the last Eastern trip last year, when,
afser winning one game, they lost eighteen
| In succession.
L
| liking for Kelly, the new umpire IL says.
Kelly would be good man for the series
| with the Reds"
The Providence club was extremely anS-
| ious to secure Jack Stivetts, as well rs
| George Yeager, but Manager Selee could
no. see his way clear 10 allow the big
fellow to 60.
Cincinnati has come far from making
the houe record this year that it did iii
| 1856, and consequently its percentage is
| onrderahly less at this time than IL was
year asro.
yale" Murphy is TO coach the Penn
| sylvania boys next spring Bob Lowe
viii coach at Princeton, Clarence Smith ut
Harvard, and Yale viii probably depend
upon hor.;e talent.
Another Ewing has come upon the ,iia-
mond. lie is a pitcher, and halls from
wapakoneta, Ohio. lie pitched game
for Toledo the other day, and the Spring
fields 20 only four hits.
Nick Young's swing around the circuit
has not developed any sensations as yet
Baltimore Herald Iti wonder that one
did not develop in Oystertown II is fun
OF all sorts Of old things
Lange Hamilton and Keeler are having
hard race for the base running honors OF
the League. The Postonian hasa slight leai
at present. but the Colt and the Oriole will
keep him hustling to hold it.
McMa1on, who was once on the Senators
roster and now with Wilkesbarre, was
Knocked insensible by a pitched ball yes
terday at wlkesbarre. The physicians say
he is in "A precarious condition.
Morgan Murphy claims that the pitchers
box in New York is short, and that this
fact accounts FOR the effectiveness of
the Giant twirlers. Morgan may be right,
but would not other pitchers be sim
ilary effective.
Callahan, the Chicago pitcher. Is said
to be the fastest runner ever in the league.
Several members Of the Chicago team are
willing TO bet he can heat Billy Hamilton,
Tom Brown or any other League player in
q 100-y ard dash.
Washington has SO far not won game
from Cleveland, and st. Louis has not won
one from either Cincinnat or New York.
The greatest number OF games won by one
club from another is the ten credited TO
Boston against Pittsburg.
Theodore Breitenstein, Cincinnati's great
left bs nder, has the following To -sayof the
pcnnant race: I'VE have al good chance
for second as anybody else. don't think
that Boston will figure In the wind-up.
To me it looks like Baltimore To win, with
New fork and Cincinnati fighting 1t out for
second place."
Chris Won der Abe must have an exalted
n Of of has obon ot
weehawker. der posi- president Ielc-
graphed Manager Hallman on Saturdaythat
he had fined Kid Carsey $300f for leaviDgthe
Browns a month ago He added that il
Carsey pays the fine ne will allow him tC
pitch for st Louis the balance ofthe season.
The changes in the cast of chara acters Of
the comedy enacted by the Senators this
season are more numerous than any other
team in the major League. Nine players
and a manager have been released outright
and three new sample lots signed. -Balti.
more Herald How ungrateful. The Orioles
have woE pennant after pennant at the
hands of the Statesmen.
OF the recent Cincinnati game in Cum.
berland Rer Mulford writes: An amusing
feature OF that runaway game wasthat the
Reds crossed the plate too rapidly for the
local scorers to keep correct account, ami
they gave out two fewer runs than were
actually scored. In one inning Vaughn,
who hac been forced out, fingered between
the bases and kept the Marylanders |
dodging around until their tongues hung
OF t.running him down.
The Lancaster Club, of the Atlantic |
League, has established new record for |
victories. Yesterday they de-
featedNorfo'k, and this m sde theirtwcntieth !
straight win Baltimore's record in the Ma !
tional League Is eighteen straight, made In !
1894. and this has never been surpassed |
smce Lancaster 's streak lis all the more re- |
markable from the ract that the Atlantic |
race has, up to the present. been very |
close one, the teams being pretty evenly |!
matched.
That hustling little native of the En- |
erald Isle. Ted Sullivan. is here. Ted,of .
course, as usual. has a scheme. He Is |
u the opinion that a team of ball players
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