The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-03
DIAMOND DUST.

the cilt-edge variety.
st. Louis is about the only club Phnadel-
phia can trade with.
Ned Hanlon is trying hard 20 secure
Catcher Ryan from Syracuse.
Billy Lush accepted nine out OF ten
! chances yesterday at third base.
Doyle has returned to first base, and there
is more confidence among tie orioles.
Elsey, left felCer fer Richmond, nIuffed
four flies yesterday He caught three
At Detroit the other day Wilmot, OF the
Minneapolis, was put out Of the game ana
grounds
Rattan, who is playing short for the
Athletics, accepted all Of twelve chances
yesterday.
Pirate Davis had his eye on the ball YES
terGay. making three singles, with 4 total
OF four bases.
Bid McPhee is unable TO make the East
ern tnp with Cincinnati owing to a badly
sprained ankle.
The rnillies will have to get a move on
if they expect 10 make up the ground they
lost in the West
All the clubs that protested the transfer
OF the st. Louis games TO New York with
drew their objections.
HaEma1 snd HaTleyplayed with st. Louis
yesterday. Mailman failed TO get a hit aud
made two errors in the field.
Harvey Smith played second base for
Toronto yesterday. His score was one
run, one hit, one assist and one error
Arthur TWINS team has at last worked
its way out of last place ia the Easter
League Wilkesbare Is now bringing up the
rear.
Dahlen s not with the Chicagos. The cut
he received in the game Sunday Will keep
him out Of the game until the Colts get
back home.
The Chicago journal says that there is
well-described rumor that Tim Hurst is
TO be let out. He will 20 to the Western
League II Uncle Nick lets him go.
Not a National League team played an
errorlcss game yesterday The total number
Of misplays made was 90 of which the
Senators had an even half dozen.
President N L. Young has settled one
question in dispute He says: The New
York-St. Louis games are legally trans
ferred. Two clubs protested, but with
drew their protests, makingit unanimous
Bridget Donahue's think tank must
have been hunting the airshlp yesterday
when he was caught in a trance by the
smuggled ball trick. The Hibemian back
stop does not often take d handin game
OF that kind
TomI1y Dowd, who was snapped to
Philadelphia by st. Louis in exchange for
Haiman and Harley, it is said, refuses to
go to Philadelphia, and is holding out for
stake money. Philadelphia refuses 10 ray
an ything, and Chris On der Abe declares
that he will not.
Charley Reilly is in a condition to deny
that tobacco will ever take the place OF
lettuce Is salad. When he was hit in the
jaw by that ball from Mcclure he swal-
lowed a small plug of the weed. The tab
leau that followed would not make very
pretty living picture.-Cincinnat Post.
lone year ago. said President John T.
Brush, IF there had been any intmatiun
that PIttsburg would have parted with Jake
Beckleyt the Cincinnati club would have gone
the limit to secure him. He has always been
my beau ideal of a winning player, and in
capturing hin think we have done we'll"
Clarence Baldwin known in the baseball
world as KID Baldwin, once a famous
catcher, has been taken TO Cincinnati hos
pital as a charity patient, hopeless wreck
from dissipation. Many efforts to assist
him in reformation proved futile, and now
a chronic ailment promises to shortly end
his life.
Adam RothfuSs, catcher Of the Newark
team, while running to first base in a re-
cent game, was struck in the jaw with
ball thrown by Shortstop Heine, of the
Hartfords. Two of his teeth were Knocked
out and others were loosened. He was car
ried from the field and several doctors at
tended to him. Hisnjuries are serious.
1t is claimed in New York that after the
game Tuesday, which was given to New
YORK by Umpire McDermott, the Pittsbug
players went into the New York clubhouse
and smashed several windows. Orders
were at once promulgated by the New York
club barring the Pirates forever from the
privilege of dressing in the New York
dressing rooms.
They tell me that Beckley cannot hit
whispered Earle Wagner, in confidential
way, when he reached Cincinnati Weren't
"they" cruel to tell him that? Eagle
Eye not only lei the Redsin hitting in the
Senatorial series and scored four runs him
self, but he drove in two more, and his sac
rifice figured in another. Fortune was kind |
in putting Beckley on the road to Cincin. |
natl Cincinnati Post.
Louisvillians doubtless rejoice that Fred |
Clarke was not traded for Gene Demon |
treville; for Clarke, old boy, won the first |
game at Philadelphia by cracking the ball
over the fence with two Colonies OH base
No player in the League has been the sub
ject OF more proposed trades than Clarke
not that he 1 6 the most valuable player in
the League, but because the old selling rep
utation Of Louisville still clings to that club
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