The times., 1898-06-13


be said to be in better position 10 play fan
drawing ball than at any other time this
season. The team has been strengthened
materially during the past week, and
there IS a strong hope in the hearts and
souls of the local devotees at the horse
hide shrine that the Senatorial aggrega-
ton win land good place in the first di-
vision at the end of the pennant- grabbing
contest.
On Monday Brown was superseded by
Doyle as manager, and the advantage of
having manager who wears the uniform
and who plays active ball over one who
merely sits upon the bench and does the
Naval Strategy Board act has been ap-
parent ever since the change was rung
The dapper. doughty, daring little captain
has more than sustained his reputation
during his regime as manager. and great
things are expected of him. His work
on the first fortress is of the gilt-edge or
der and there is seemingly nothing TOO
hard for him to have a go at.
There has been a decided change over
the spirit of the dreams of the Senators
lately, and they have won eight out of the
last thirteen games played. They began
the last week well. but toward the last
they had a streak of the hardest kind
of hard luck. with the result that the
week ended with a record of so per cent
made-they won three games and lost an
equal number.
third ,,ofpt of the diamond for co,,,o
little time has been a somewhat weak
side for the local team, but there is every
evidence that a remedy has been found
for the deficiency. Myers was signed
during the last week to cover the point
formerly played by Wagners namesake
and the Washington boy is doing the
work of his life. In his first game with
the team he had but two chances, but
he accepted both of them like a little
man, winning golden opinions as a conse-
quence. He has been on the fence here
for some time, holding out against the
piratical efforts of COMFY Mack. of Mil
waukee, to cabbage him and his little
mitt. He has practiced with the boys
mornings for a long time, and his addi-
ton to the team is hailed with delight by
the local fans. His batting also has
helped the team greatly, and he is, all in
all, valuable man.
The Hon. ]. Earl Wagner now wears a
seven-benign smile as a consequence of
the hope which now shines out of the
heart of every enthusiast here, and in
which he has a large share, and there
will be lots of fun for the baseball public
of the Capital City before the season is
over if he realizes half the aurora borealis
dreams which now beset his waking and
sleeping hours.
Manager Watkins, of the Pittsburg
club, had his chest measurement mate
rally reduced during his short sojourn
here. After the purely accidental victory
of Monday afternoon, which went his
way, he strewed the pathway of his play
ers with "con" bouquets of variegated col
ors, reserving for his own lapel an i'm
ported exotic that bore the fragrance of
past professional era when the game was
in an embryo state and he was enjoying
the honors that attach only to the real
thing" Watkins declared that anything
less than four straight victories from the
Senators would be considered a humilia-
ton by himself and his hosts of friends
that his club was SO vastly superior to
the Senatorial aggregation in all the de-
partments that go TO make up a strong
club that comparisons were simply odious,
and he induged in other diaphonous pipe
dreams characteristic of minor league
magnates, that, in a vaudeville sense, We're
amusing. The facts of the situation are
that the Watkins puddlers have been trav-
cling with speed beyond their endurance
and have reached the highest pinnacle
that 1t is possible for them to attain and
will soon strike toboggan that will land
them in the push at the tail end where
they really and truly belong. They were
the easiest proposition the Senators have
yet encountered, and we are sorry that
they could not have remained longer with
us. Fattening their batting averages up
on MERGERS pitching. which was their
openly declared purpose, resulted In a hy-
dropathic injection of 'anti-fat" which
has seriously impaired their professional