Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-09
Gossip of the Game.

In anticipation Of playing a Sunday game
at Cleveland there is game scheduled
| today for the Senators. The players will
be taken excursion to the lake re-
sorts today, resuming the battle tomorrow,
with Mercer in the box.
Donohue held the Brooklyns down to
three hits yesterday, and yet lost the
! game Who said hard luck?
Down went the Orioles again yesterday,
! and they seem unable to check their los
| ing spell. Four straight defeats are rather
! tough for championship timber. Talk
| about playing for the Temple cup has been
abandoned, and the birds are now hoping
| they won't get pushed out of the first d.
| vision.
| ZIP, bang. We slipped a cog yesterday
| and landed in eleventh place. Thank heav-
! ems the Browns aIe an effectual barrier
against slipping out of the altogether.
When all the circumS tanceS are ConSid
cred, PIttsburg is doing extremely well in
| holding position in the first six. The club
| is batting under 800 but, thanks to its
pitchers, wins almost as many games as
| it loses.
| The Shamrocks defeated the Lyceum
| team of Alexandria at River View yester
| day, by the score of ~ to !. The game was
played for purse hung up by the A O. H,
| Delehanty is the first league player to
reach the 100 baserhit mark. He passed
| it on Tuesday.
Vile at Chicago raeently,is the youngest
player ever signed in the National League.
He is but seventeen Years of age.
| The Louisville Ease Bali Club has signed
| Second Basen,an Clark of the San Antonio,
Tex, League team, Yho viii report Satur-
| day. H.
A report is out that Chauncey Fisher
will soon be turned ,adrift by the Brooklyn
club. Wonder If the Brooklyn enthusiasts
| will get their hind legs and howl as
much as some OF the Cincinnati cranks did
when Chauncey was released by Ewing.
| A Chicago base ball historian says:
| "O'Donovan Rosa Donahue is the oiliest
| young man in the league. He has a blar-
ley that any son of the old sod would en-
| Wy, and gets away with more incendiary
| repartee with umpires than any catcher In
the circuit, but occasionally he meets his
| match. Timmys stronghold is to make a
| quiet roar to the Judge A few days ago
he went up against Tim Hurst and it was
| a case Of Greek and Turk. Hurst called a
, strike and Donahue said: You flannel
| mouthed Indian, who told you that you
| could umpire? The same guy that said
You could catch, you Kerry Patch Turk
| retorted Hurst, and the Irish agitator beat
a retreat to the backstop'
Had Umpire Sheridan been here Tuesday
night he would nave lad a splendid oppor-
tunity to get good and even with soma of
the very players who tried to knock him
out of his job as league empire by falsely
reporting that he was drunk. Sheridan
could have reported to Manager Hanlon
tudt lOuT OF I'VE OIL MS players NAG more
| liquor aboard than they could stand. He
| could, had he been mean enough TO have
| gone into the Switching business. told of a
drunken orgy over the Rhine, in which
some of the three-time champions we're
prominent, and he would not have been
lying, either. Some of the very players '. he
were mean enough to lie about Sheridan
| the last time they were here made an in
spection of the red lights Oh the other side
of the Vine street canal bridge Tuesday
night Those three straight knock-downs
at the hands of the Reds must have hit
the champs hard" They took it so badly
to heart that they drowned their sorrows
In drink.-Cincinnati Enquirer
The reported transfer of Shortstop AL
Wagner to the Washington Club only
serves to strengthen the now general i'm
preston that the Toronto club is but a
farm of the senatorial organization. If 1t
should be found possible to prove this
charge, which was made originally by tie
Springfield and Syracuse clubs the Cana
) dian club will find itself subject to heavy
fine. and may possibly have all the games
; which Ii has won thrown out and besides
! be compelled to give Mp LUSH Norton ard
. Smith. who are supposed to have been Dor.
rowed from Washington. Toronto fans are
already much disturbed over the prospect
and fear If the three players mentioned are
. taken from the team that it will he so Sc
riously crippled that 1t Will stand no show
. to win the pennant. 1t is not certain tina
! Wagner will consent to play with the cap
ital city aggregation, as he wants a larger
! salary Dy I'D d mOnth tnan ne mas De2n re
ceiving at Toronto, and this Washingto;
| is not prepared to give, although both Buff
falo and Syracuse stand ready to pay Wag
: ner that sum in addition, and to do it IN,
! moment he get his release from To
| ronto Manager Rowe said to ar Express
| reporter the other day that he considered
| Wagner as one of the very best shortStop
| in the business, and that he could not I'M
derstand Irwins motive IN keeping him OIL
! the bench. He added that he would lik
to have Wagner forothe buffalo team, sn'
hoped to get him. HE certainly would b.
an improvement on Sullivan whom it ma.
be noticed was not played in yesterday
| game at SyracuSe.-{suffaib EXPRESS