The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-18
DIAMOND DUST.

| Cooley struck out tour times yesterday.
Tomorrow Arson and bis Colts viii be at
National Park.
Dan Dau5's terms were too high for
Manager Ewing OF Cincinnati.
Bresnaban and Gottinan may get into the
game during the Chicago series.
Lancaster is setting terrific pace in the
Atlantic League. The,team has won nj
teen straight games.
Scrappy Jack Doyle has but one real
adnlirer on the Baltimore team AMI that
lis himself Boston Herald.
The Cincinnati club has only one more
home game this season, and Will have
some trouble to hold fourth place.
President Hart, OF the Chicago Club. is
JOUR- eyiLe around the Western League
circuit looking for promising players.
Capt. Griffin said after yesterdays
game iii Baltimore that Corbett's pitch
ing Wa. the besthe h ad seen this season.
AS usual, the Eastis much stronger tn ali
the West Baltimore, Poston and New
York are sure tolead the march in October.
Geier WAS put In to lat for Delebanty in
the ninth inning of yesterdays New York
Philadelphia game. How have the mighty
.alleni
Bert Myers, who covered third bag 'or
tie Browns in 500, is batting like d ftend,
getting in a single and a double and scoring
three runs in a recent game.
Baltimore has stolen more bases than any
club: Chicago, second; Boston, third. and
Brooklyn last. Fewest bases have +: cen
run off tie Cincinnati catcbers.
Why not get rid of the disturbing element
In the Philadelphia team right away, and
start TO tuild up with youngsters from the
nIino: leagues? Philadelphia Record
Jack Crooks had funny mis- hap the other
day. He went after a short fly 10 r.gbt
field When the sun got in his eyes lnd the
ball hit him squarely on the head and rolled
onto the foul ground.
Three trips East and West and a finish
in the West is one of the popular slogans
which will be heard more or less vocifcr-
ouay betw cen now and the next schedule
meeting Cincinnati rost.
The brooklyn dub has lost money this
season. When the club wsnsed to pur-
chase the release of Sheckard frotn the
Brocktcu Club for 81, $50 Manager Baruic
lcaned tie club the money to close the
deal
Manager Selee is nor meeting with much
success IN arranging TO take the Baltimore
team anc a picked crowd to California
this winter There is little money and no
glory in these transforming trips these
times
Washington is to take Buck" Freeic' n
off Arthur Irwin s hands. He is the rack
batsman of the Eastern League, and " luld
have been worth two Dowds TO the val
club. - Philadelphia Record. How do you
know?
Tom Tucker Is still bingling them out
at Washington. He has done much better
stick work for the Senators than he sid
for Boston last year. At the Hub he was
under the constant fire of hostile critics.
End ii takes an iron man to survive that
sort of warfare. Cincinnati Post.
Harry Weldon writes in the Cincinnati
Enquirer: "CorcoraE, hs compar ed to
Smith, ia as John MedGen's $4,000 Ham
burg is compared to n selling platter. Smith
is not in us class. Corcoran IL up with
the kings Of the position. Hughie jennings.
D1tler Eddie Mexican and Herman Long
are tho kind of pla yers he ranks with"
No term in the history Of the League
ever made as many sensational finishes
as tine Bostons have this year. No matter
how many they need, they manage to
knock them out in short order when IL
comes down to the real issue. PIttsburg
Chronicle Yesterday must have been an
off day with the Beaneaters, as the Sen
atoIs beat them at their own game.
Woe is HE That is Stallngs' cry,
echoed about Philadelphia today, and
sent over the telegraph wires. Four Of
The best men on the managers team are
Ia disgrace. Detectives have reported
that they have taken to drink to such an
extent that they canact play bah. staillngs
: in a qcandary. He dare not release sh IN
outright, for they would he gobbled up 50
quickly that the City OF Brotherly Love
would be blinded by the meteoric Rash #
contracts, and ne knows not how to punish
hem. Something is going to happcu.-
Chicago Post
THE MORTON CADETS BENEFIT.