The times., 1898-09-26

the man who started the game isn't being
hit sayagely at all. / don't know why
this is So any more than ! know why
such-and-such a club can drive such-and-
such a pitcher from the box, while an
other club can't hit him at all. l only
know that / have tried IT, and that it is
So"
There seems to be but one way of pre-
venting rubber necking by ball players
who are doing bench duty, and that is
to dig q cellar under the grandstand and
keep them there.
Phyle, the phenom pitcher, who was so
puzzingly invincible In game with the
Senators last week. was exploded by the
Orioles, who knocked his delivery all
over the grounds.
When you hear ball player say he
wants to get away from the town where
he is playing it's a 2QTto-1 shot that he
has been a failure as ball player and is
expecting his release.
Umpire Andrews gave Bill Everett, the
much swelled-head first baseman of the
Chicago club, a three days sentence as
a punishment for too much talkee, talkee
of vile and ungentlemanly character.
President Muckinfuss has announced
that Tim Hurst would continue another
season as manager OIL the bTONUS- I'M
managed to keep the salary list down by
fining the players, and of course he is
o. K.
THE June bug club from the Mill
Creek Slashes is one of the most con-
spicuous failures of the season. They
went with reindeer speed until the home
stretch was reached, when they quit like
tired mules
vague and underlined rumor, clad in
mysterious innuendoes comes from the
Queen City, that Buck Ewing will be re-
tired from his present position as man.
ager of the Red Legs and will be sue
ceeded by George Tebeau.
The one thing Charlie Carr needs to
make him a finished artist is aggressive
ness. When he acquires the Tucker art
of blocking men at the base and standing
base runners who try to run over him on
their heads, he will be all right.
The Senators have given the Orioles
more serious vexation this season than
has any other club in the league. Wash
ington has won more games from Bal
timore than from any other club except
St. Louis Heretofore two and three
games were the extent of our annual
winnings from the ex-champions.
During the last Cincinnati-Louisville
game PeitZ, of the Reds, made a vicious
attempt to spike Kittridge at the home
plate II this human brute could be
given large dose of his own medicine
it might do him some good in the way
of teaching him lesson on humanity.
Buck Ewing is quoted as saying that
he will trade or sell any man on his team.
AS a dispenser OF cast-offs and misfits.
Buck is an artist. Outside of Corcoran
and McPhee he has no one on his team
that would command any sort of decent
trade.
When the 'tMeandering Mikes" from
Cleveland were here they played a game
that was brilliant in all the departments
At Baltimore and Philadelphia they play
ed like town lotters.'' Both system and
science were lost or forgotten, and their
exhibitions were disgraceful to that great
organization. Yet, such is baseball.
1t looks now as though Jake Morse and
Tim Murnane would be forced to make
some after-season explanations of how
Boston lost the championship. They
might get some valuable pointers from
our genial Cincinnati friends, Messrs
Milford Weldon, and Zuber.
What Watkins lacks in quality, in the
personnel of his ball players, he will
make UP in quantity. He has simply de-
pleted the Western market of all material
suspected of ball playing abilities, from
bat bag carriers to ticket takers.
1t looks as if there will be a general
shaking up of the teams for next season
as spirit of trade and transfers is ram
pant in every organization. And even
at this early date it may be reasonably
predicted that all the teams will be
strengthened, andy that the public will
witness better ball playing next season
Ytap baf0rp
Today at home and in Baltimore to-
morrow Wednesday is an off day and on
Thursday Scrappy, and his gang of de-
moralized recalcitrants will be here and
we won't do a thing to them; then a
little excursion to Brooklyn and Phila-
delphia, and return home, where we play
an engagement with Boston club, being
our last home game, The club then
closes the season with New York, end
ing Saturday, October il5
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