Evening star., 1898-08-09
Base Bali Notes.

Mr.. wagner cannot get the manager ne
speaks of too soon. The club as a whole is
a good one, and Il shrewa manager will
luckly demonstrate this fact.
Nearly $4,000 saw four games played by
the National League clubs Sunday. Gin
cinuati had the banner crowd u, 464, while
Chicago, with $500. had the smallest.
While the Cleveland Washington series
now being played in Philadelphia might not
have drawn large crowds at National Park,
it is almost certainty that the attendance
would have been better than that in the
Quaker city.
Jake Gettman is in hard lines for young
player just out from the minors. With
captain like Tebeau Joyce or Ewing to
coach him he would be of the wonders
of the league, but he will have to pick up
all his knowledge as 1t floats into him as
long as he is Senator. Fleet as the wind,
a sure catch and a good batting eye, the
material is there and only latks proper de-
Velopment.
The Washingtons will return home We'd
nesday and a series with the Louisviles
will begin at National Park Thursday. The
Colonels are playing the game of their lives
just now, and as the Senators are about
due for a little brace the series should be
worth turning out to see.
Jack Stivetts is not with the Bostons.
Jack has been sent TO his home in Ash
land, Pa, by Manager Selee. Manager Sc
lee said yesterday that Stivetts was of no
more use to the Boston club and that he
WOulu De tTdueu TO 81. Louis II he was WILL
ing to go there. Stivetts does not like the
idea of going to St. Louis. 1t IS probable
that he will be released outright in a few
days.-Cincinnati Commercial.
One of the Smith Center boys writes to
his home paper that when the news came
to the Chickamauga hospital of the de-
struction of Cerveras fleet one of the nurses
commenced to read it out loud. He had
got as far as the statement that the Brook
lyn had been hit forty-fiye times, when
lever patient, a little ont of his head
shouted. Great - Who pitched for
Brooklyn?"-kansas City Journal.
Hans wagner worked a new trick on
Michael Angelo Grady during the Giants
sojourn in Louisville. Ed Roth tells about
1t so: Hans was at bat. with Clarke on
third and one strike on him. 'Si' pitched
a slowboy, which a ten-year-old amateur
could have caught. Wagner stepped for
ward toward the plate and knocked Gradys
glove down with the handle of the bat
just as Mike was reaching for the ball 1t
never got into the glove, of course but
rolled to the stand Clark scoring and
Decker, who was al first getting to third
Umpire Gafney refused the claim of in
reference, not having seen just what hap
pened, he explained, although he believed
something irregular had occurred as he
admitted afterward."
Straws indicate the current of the stream
little incident on Friday night serves to
snow how hard fighter and loser Captain
leoeau Is. some time during Friday morn
ing. IeDeau mad made an engagement with
Stanley Robson. secretary and treasurer
OF the Cleveland club, to accompauy him
TO willow Grove. After supper Mr. Robi-
son looked and inquired all over the Con-
tnental Hotel for the Cleveland CAPTAIN
but he could not be found. The next morn
ing when he met him at breakfast he asked
Tebeau why he failed to keep his appoint
ment and he replied that the previous
days defeat had robbed him of all pleasure
that day, and he could find satisfaction in
nothing but an early retiring, and hes ac-
cordingly went to bed at o o'clock. With
a man whose soul and heart is in the game
as Tebeau's is, is it any wonder that he is
a winner Wonder if our captain would
break an engagement because he suffered
defeat?-Phladelphia Times.
President Brush played a joke On Presi-
dent Robson during yesterdays game
which caused the latter several minutes of
real worry. The Cleveland Washington
score stood > to / in favor of Cleveland on
the score board. Mr.. Robson was tritle
chesty and was calling the attention of
Presidents Young and Brush to the fact
that MS team could win whether they had
a nome or not. Mr.. Robison's boasting was
suddenly checked when the score boy
marked large up for Washington in the
seventh inning. Frank De Haas frowned
ana bit his lip, while the other members
OF the party gave him the merry ha ha In
the next inning four more runs were nut
on the board for Washington, and Mr.. Rob
1son gave a short dissertation on how
eastern crowds rooted for eastern clubs
and what a severe handicap it was for his
team to play on neutral grounds in the
east. While he was bemoaning his teams
tate the score was changed the and the
! being substituted by ciphers. Then Mr..
robson did not know whether he was in
.ne rlght OF wrong. 1t developed later that
MI Brush had bribed the score boy To fy
the score so that it would appear that
washington had pulled the game out of
the fire.-Cincinnati Enquirer