The times., 1898-10-12
DIAMOND DUST.

| Tom Browns work in Philadelphia was so rank
| that Lajoie told him he was as crooked at a
watch spring for which NAP" was suspended for
| three days.
The Chicago World of Sport says ''wagner
| made a mistake when he dropped Tom Brown. "
And now, who has been doping the author Of that
| paragraph?
| The football season will soon be upon us wi h
its attendant college yells and broken limbs.
| The outlook for many interesting events was
| never better.
The League magnates should lose no time going
into training for the annual fight next month.
Barring few pounds overweight, Andy Free
man is in splendid shape and feels confident
that he will be able to train down to the light
weight class and take John T. Brush Jim
Hart, the latter preferred
Spring and Summer seemed to be disposed 10
linger in the lap of Winter, and the wind up OF
the ball be accomplished without the
aid of oyercoats
Jimmy McJames will graduate as a sawbones
next Spring, hut will stick to baseball for the
present, the people in Docs locality are in a
distressingly healthy condition.
The "benching" of Wrigley seems to have done
that youngster some good. Since returning to
active duty he has played brilliant game. II
Zeke would settle down to business exclusively he
would develop into star.
Joe Corbett seems to be endowed with the
same brand OF egotistical assumption that aifiics
his brother jim. His demand for s. COO for the
season and transportation to and from San Fran
cisco is sample of his gall
Catcher Bergen, of the Bo ton Club says: TT
gives me the cholera morbus to have those report
ers with bum lamps who sit in the press box
tell us players how to pay the game. What these
guys don't know about baseball is plenty
The most demoralizod aggregation in the Ma
tiona League is the New York Club. Discipline,
team work and good order have been thrown to
the winds. 1t is every man for himself M
bination, hence the inglorious finish OF the Giants
this season
Ball players who require o. two months
of the most important part of the season to get
into shape viii not he in it next Pay viii
not begin until PLAYER is in shape TO earn his
money and a reasonable time only viii be allow
ed him to get into condition
From a legal standpoint Col. John /. Rogers
takes issue with Messrs. Brush and Robinson with
reference to the proposed transfer OF the Cleveland
Club 10 st. Louis, claiming That Won der Ahes
interest in vested right. Th2 consensus Of opin-
ion among lawyers is that Col Rodgers is in er-
Tor..
Buck Ewing and DUSTY" Miller not
upon the best of terms. DUSTY embraces every
opportunity to show his disgust for his manager.
Buck saws wood and says nothing, but is bid
ing his time Some day Dusty will hear some
thing drop and when the smoke clears away the
Red right fielder viii be found among the debris
Sporting News is prolific in Imagination with
reference to Washington Club affairs. Am ng
other bad breaks it crticises Mr.. Irwin for try NJ
out his Toronto youngsters this Autumn instead ot
next Spring, and thinks he has committed great
blunder. Sporting News is about as competent
to advise Arthur Irwin how 10 run ball club
as it is 10 give divine points on theology.
There arr rumors current to the effect that
Charlie EhbittSs, OF the Trolley Dodgers Is on a
still hunt for a competent manager, and the
names Of George Tebeau and Connie Mack have
been mentioned. Ebbitts has some good talent on
the team and in the hands of competent man
ager the Blo5klyns ought to make a good show
ing next seassn-
The New York Morning TeegraPh-Freedman'
official organ-is authority for the statement that
''the president of the New York Club IS going
to rehabitate his team with the very best ma
teria that money buy" This means that the
HOLSTERS and baTnacles must go and the infis
ion OF new blood into the club. II IS believed
that Bill Joyce is slated for release.
Charley spink, publisher Of Sporting News, is
anxious to make his paper the official organ OF
the big League, it is stated. The League very
foolishly invested several hundred dollars per an,
mum in an alleged official organ which fastened
itself on their bounty for several years beifre
they ascertained they had been gold bricked, and
will not in all probability take any more chances
in that direction.
Jim Murnane is a trihe baloonistic in his
views He saws: Those SIX games between B0s-
ton and Baltimore three in each city, viii draw
the largest crowds Of the season, and should the
championship remain undecided until the last
game at Baltimore 100000 people would be
small estimate Of the attendance al these games,
or in money about $50. .0o0. = This wou2d-mean an
average daily attendance OF 1866 for each game.
Tins wheels have slipped their usual rusty cogS.