The evening times., 1897-07-23
DIAMOND DUST.

The Browns gave the Senators quite
scare in the ninth.
Korwan, for whom Anson paid Brooklyn
$500, has been released by Chicago
Baltimore is now tie with Cincinnati.
with Pos,on "a points away, and still
winning
Another one for the eleventh place club.
But then they played the absolutely last
team.
Times Reader The regularly scheduled
game decides the bet. which " as the last
which Cincinnati won
The Senators draw their salaries much
better than they do a crowd They are
great attraction on the / q and 18th
The Senator'S hold one record, anyway.
They are the only team which has scored
four bone runs in one game this season
After Lush. Smith and Nortcn reached
the Canadian farm the ToIoEtos began
tO play winning ball. The Senators have
not.
II il said that the Washington manage
uient is trying 10 dispose of ex-COlonei
o'Bnen.- Baltimore Herald Yes; Just try
Ing.
adelphia part Of last season. has won tue
name OF ''Mertes the spiker" in the Western
League.
Brooklyn was long while in getting
to work at Cincinnati, but the six runs they
scored came like a thunderclap from
clear sky.
The Chicagos Won yesterday and they are
about the same number OF points away
from the Senators as they were yesterday
morning.
Cape May lost the first OF the seashore
championship to Atlantic City yesterday by
q scorc-of to 2. The Atlantic Citys made
five runs in the last inning.
In the eleven games that the Clevelands
have played with the Eastern clubs on the
present trip, Tebeau, Childs, Mexican and
Wallace have each made only one err.
Pitcher Hill, the left-hander of the Lou
isvilles, was given months suspension
yesterday. In the meantime he will draw
no salary This is a penalty for breaking
one OF the club rules.
1t was not known last night whether
the Ids and q's,'' as Earl Wagner calls
his team, had been strengthened. There
the Senators come home.
The Washingtons are not good Toadsters.
The story about coming down the pike on
q rush does not in any way refer to Tom
Brown and his cutters earl Wagner's
appella tom. But then when they come
home things may be different.
Arson took a neat fall out of 'Scrappy"
Bill and his gang OF southside batters.
1t is not known whether the water was
drugged, or whether there was a sand
hole on the other side of the home base
The New York papers win tell the story
of the game in their own manner
Whenever a manager permits the public
to size up player by putting him in the
game he sometimes gets his opinion OF the
mans ability badly shattered. All over
the circuit Wrigey is praised for the good
work he is doing. yet Brown does not think
heis a ball player.
Robert Matthews, theold baseball pitcher,
was yesterday sent from the Maryland Gen.
eral Hospital, Baltimore, to Spring Grove
Asylum. Atthe hospital DR.. I. p. Lilo yd said
Matthews was suffering from organic brain
trouble, not paresis, and that he could live
for long time yet. Matthews seems strong
and healthy.
All this talk about Shortstop Wagner
being drafted 90 by Washington from To-
ronto comes to naught, because Wagner
refused to 20 without raise In salary,
and is now with Toronto. Irwin tried to
force him to go by laying him off without
pay, hut the player threatened to give away
farming" secrets, and Irwin had to re-
instate him Springfield Union. This was
one attempt to strengthen the Washingtons.
It's good entertainment, by the way, to
hear George Lachance explain about lost
games. "Pourquoi we lose zis bataile?"
says he. "Hai Eat ees easy-n'est pas
difficile for re explanation. We lose be-
cause We are nine large, beeg fishes, vat
cannot hit be gIos balloon wiz re bedslat;
re Colts gay win because zey have slug
gaires, re grand biffsticks, an Ze marvel
Gus, tres marvellous direction de la grand
captaine, Monsieur Anson. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
-he National League has now an ex-
ccllent opportunity to discipline Pitcher
Hawley for striking an umpire. The pitch
er deliberately Knocked Sheridan down.
TIE League cannot permit such conduct
any more than it can gamblers to run the
games. 1t stopped the latter by expelling
certain players, and who have never been
reinstated II they handle Hawley in .
similar manner, which they should. there
will be no more fussing with an umpire.