The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-08
DIAMOND DUST.

Philadelphia. too, is 'shootin' the chuteS 3
Quaker Cross is playing with a sprained
ankle.
Clements is unable TO catch, havinga lame
shoulder.
A muff by Miller lost yesterdays game
for Cincinnati.
If the PhiIlies cannot beat the Baltimores
what team can?
Harley threw out three runners from right
field at Reading yesterday
Newark is now tie with Richmond for
first place in the Atlantic League.
The Washington lads on the Newark team
are putting up a good article OF ball.
Just look at Little Louisviller' They
are climbing that pennant pole like squirrels
A tail-end- club is widely advertised, but
not in the way that paw at tie box office
IL is reported that Joe Sullivan's ball
playing days are over. He is now at Hot
Springs, Ark.
This afternoon at South Side Park the
Senators and Beaueaters will shake hands
and wind up until the 31st of July.
10 the seventh, McJames, after Collins
had reached first on a single, struck out
Camel, sullivan, and Hamilton in sue
eession.
The Philadelphia Record laments because
fine ball grounds cannot win games. 1t
thinks, then, the Quaker City would be in
the lead.
Fort Wayne has signed Babb, Of the Co
lumbus Western League) team, and an eff
fort is being nadeto get Jacobs, ofthe Lou
isville club Both are infieldcrs.
Delahanty has failed TO make a hit in his
last five games. He has also struck out five
times IN these five games, but has walked
Go first base eight times on called balls.
McJames did not pitch a bad game, and
his support in the field was all but per
feet. The sad story S told in those la Sc
hits that never arrived on schedule time.
Matt kilroy and Mark Baldwin will be
the opposing pitchers in todays bail game
between the Richmond team and the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania ineligibIes in Phila-
delphia.
1t would seem that Lush is minor
leaguer Thursday he made two singles
and triple II Billy had only batted that
way w'lle here he would have been a great
favorite.
outiieidel Stahl, whose fine playing in
night field, is well remembered during the
Boston series at National Park, is on the
hospital roll and may not he able TO play
for several days
Jack Suvetts has been sent TO his home
at Ashland, Pa, with orders to train off
IL pounds. Selee wants him to return
70 tie Beaneaters weighing not an ounce
over 200 pounds
The Senators and Quakers PLAYED better
In the field than the other league teams
yesterday, making but enc error each,
while BROOKLYN played the poorest, being
guilty of eight errors
Twenty men left on bases is a remark
ably large number in game in which the
score resulted to 2 But such was the
case between Cincinnati and Cleveland
clubs, last Wednesday.
Arson hs,5 sprung the latest innovation
In b eoball wearing apparel in a gar
ment for his men which looks more like
q bath robe than anything else 1t is
called a ball-pla yer's Overcoat.
"Scrappy'' and "Patsey'' are tied for
sixth place What a time 'twould he If
the pair of kerry Patchers'' and their
'Indisns" and Giants should run alnuek
while bracketed in the pennant list.
Inspector OF Empires Day has sent a
circular 10 all players, warning them that
be will uphold his staff in preventing un-
gentlemanly conduct on the diamond He
adds. however, that he will foster Iegiti-
mate coaching.
President Nick Young SAYS in regard TO
Tie protest filed by the Washington club