The times., 1898-09-14
DIAMOND DUST.

Go out and see Arthur Irwin and the new
phenoms
Pepper Rietz will keep that infeld as steady
a clock.
Watch little Casey and tell US if you don't
think he is corker.
The Boston players only contributed s35 to the
CANCEL benefit
Pitcher Donovan is on the hospital list, and
will probably not be able to play ball for a few
days.
OF the cobwebs that have afflicted vision too
long.
1t will take day or two for Irwin and his
team to get used to the schoolhouse. Then they
''are off,
Notwithstanding they are little shy on team
work, they will give Patsy and his nomads a
lively argument.
dent enthusiasm, will cheer eae hearts of the
fans and bleachers today
There is danger of Buck Freeman losing his
grip by stage fright The more excited he is
the harder he will hit the ball.
The batting averages of the New York team
have taken woeful slump. Only two men on
the team have passed the 300 mark.
An enthusiastic fan and friend of Irwin is
willing TO bet suit of clothes that under
Arthurs management the Senators will land in
the first division next season.
A friend who has been attending games Of base
there is thoroughly aroused. Several leagues
VIII be established next season, ii is said.
Gilbert, the Senator's outfeder, played
his first game with the team at Weehawken on
Sunday He made one hit, one assist and con-
tributed two to the string of nine errors made.
This has been tough season on ball players.
Scarcely day passes that do not hear of
some player fainting from heat or exhaustion.
The Senators have escaped these caloric calami-
ties They have not worked hard enough to be
overcome by heat.
Buck Ewing declines Frank Selee's challenge
10 play nine games of ball for purse of $2, 500,
winner TO take GO per cent and looser 40 per
cent. alleging as his principal reason that il is
prohibited by baseball law. This reverence for
baseball law upon the part of Buck comes in
the nature of a sudden conversion.
gentleman" picked up ladies' brown
poeketbook at National Park containing a small
amount OF change, some cards and valuable
papers. He was requested by Mr. Wagner who
saw him pick it up, to leave it at the Office
knowing that the owner would soon return for
ii, but the finder nonchalantly walked out with
out doing so. The loser-a lady-soon returned
for the lost pocketbook but the finder had
vamoosed Mr.. Wagner has taken the necessary
steps to locate the gentleman
Jake Morse, of the Boston Herald, thinks the
wholesale transfer Of the Cleveland games will be
hurtful to baseball Under the circumstances
surrounding that club we do not think SO. When
large city like Cleveland refuses to support
pennant- winning club like the Spiders. a club
that would and ought to be the pride of any
city, then we think the owners are justified in
protecting their financial nterests-whch are
large-and play elsewhere, and no one will blame
them. Therefore, the game will not suffer.
The statement that President Puliam would
prefer charges against "Ducky'' Holmes for abus-
ing Major Hughes upon the ball grounds at Louis
vile is denied by that gentleman. In an inter-
view he stated ernphatically that he had not
preferred charges against Holmes in connection
with the Major Hughes incident. He furthermore
says he never had any intention of SO doing,
he has no desire to pose the Purifier OF the
League that honor belonging exclusively to
John Brush Mr.. Pulliam further declares that
he is done with League politics and will never
serve another committee.
The brilliant correspondent OF Sporting Life
from this eity-judging from the character of his
communications-would size up well with some
OF the war correspondents of the yellow journals
who never write facts. Week before last he an
nounced that 'sJud Smith had left for parts un-
known" that the talk of Arthur Irwin manag-
ing the Senators was cali bosh;'' that Bob Ems
lie would likely be employed and other state
ments equally as ridiculous and untrue. In his
letter published last Saturday he still insists
that Arthur Irwin has only chance of 40, to