The evening times., 1897-09-10
DIAMOND DUST.

:
Swain might be a great attraction for
the "All-American mid winter team"
IL would be good investment II two OF
the last four games with the Baltimorcs
could be transferred to Washington.
1t cost Mercer $25 yesterday because be
sworc at the umpire. 1t is not known
whether Carpenter reported the fine.
Third Baseman Donnelly, of the New
| Yotk team, has been heavily fined and sns
pended for all infraction OF the club rules
Both Hanlon and Joyce have handled
| their teams with rare skill when their
| chances locked small. Louisville Courier
| jour ma.
Eugene DeMontrcviile, accompanied by
| his mother, will visit a sister in Denver,
Col. at the close OF the playing season.
The New ar team, of the A tlantic League,
has signed Howard vermillion. who played
first base for the Eastern Athletic Club,
Of this city. Vermillion is very promising
youngster.
The Colonels seem to be In hard luck
Some days ago 1t was a second baseman
they needed; now 1t is a shortstop. To-
morrow, probably, 1T will be pitcher. =
Louisville Exchange.
Despite Billy Hamilton's uniform great
wor for tie Bcstonians, there are occasions
when he is accused Of being a trance me-
dunn He has spells Of that sort once in =
WHILE Cincinnati Post. There are others
outside OF Boston.
Brooklyn's second baseman-electis called
bad Bgl' Eagan, in the Eastern League.
They say nc is player patterned on the
"Muggsy'' McGraw- Hughey Jennings d
der, and that he plays Oh the bag in either
catci-as-catch-can or Graeco Roman style.
When Washington was in the old Union
Association and played at what was theri
known his Capitol Park, located in the
square bounded by New Jerseyayenue, First.
r, and c streets northwest, they won the
pennan.. Baltimore also had team In the
Union Association. =
Secretary Muckenfuss, of the Browns,
has received long dispatch from Presi-
dent Won der Abe, in which the latter
says. Deny all statements that | am
here West Baden Springs, Ind.-dicker.
ing with Erush for the transfer of the
indianapolis team to st. Louis"
EIberfeld, the promising young third
baselrau of the Richmond, Va, team, OF
the Atlantic League. has been sold to the
Philadelphia National League tear. Ell
berfeld will stay with Richmond until the
close OF the Atlantic League season and
then rel.ort to Philadelphia on September
20 and finish out the seas on there.
Ii Is hin.ed that Clark Griffin, the
teams pitcher, will sCcoeed TO the man
agcment of the Chicagos. The Cticagos
won their last pennaut In 1856, and, with
the exception u an occasional spurt, have
been failures for eleven years. The old
man has failed signally to get a winner,
and The owners are becoming weary.
Frank Selee will not take any OF Bos-
TONS pitchers on that observation-disclosures
invasion. You'd better not coax any of
cur pitchers TO CO. said Deacon Bill Co
nant tc Selee the other day, in playfullt
Threatening way. There are only two I'd
want TO take" retorted that manager
Nichols and Klobedanz but one OF them
is IN business and she ether has a good
position"
Stories of Anson's retirement from the
Chicago team and general Generalization
continue L. come from the East. In the
midst OF il all comes no word of denial
from Messrs. Spaldng and Hart. The
support which Anson gave Pitcher Gnf
fitt In the first game at Brooklyn, as
compared with that accorded to Thorn
ton in the second gsme, together with the
indifference manifested, Indicate to the
local fans that something is radically
wrong with the Chicago Club. Chicago
News
III Manager Stallings, of the Philadelphia
team, continues to buy young players a.
the rate he has been going lately he will
have Small young garmy to begin with next
spring and can indulge his favorite amUse
batting order every day next seascn =" his
ment OF shaking up and changing III"
hearts content He cali present new
.Gam every game, and il one team cannot
win one day he will put In another team
the next day. He is making a collection
OF names, too. Dunkle, A Abbatitchio, Becker
and Elberfeld being some of them.
The B,ston Herald gets after the Bean
eaters thuswise: "A club out for the
pennant should never give cause for com
plant that the men do not run out every
hall. Nothing is more disgusting than
TO see men lag ON halls hit to the infield
or in the air on the suppostion that they
will he surely put out. The other day
Capt. Duffy himself Jagged on a ball
hit to right field, on which he could
have made second base with ease, and
the result was that he was put out
Players themselves are responsible IL
patrons give vent to words of disfavor
ut poor ball pla ying."