The sun., 1898-02-17
DIAMONDDUST.

Ed lIanlon, manager oi the Orioles,
I has sent out contracts for the coming
season to the sheep of his flock. The
three new ones, McJamc>, De Montre
Vile and McGann, didn't wait to be
asked, but signed some time ago. and
received the usual advance" There
will not be many changes in the salary
list. The veterans Will receive the same
liberal salaries that satisfied them last
season. Brother .Joe' Corbctt and
BoWcrman, it is thought, will get a
raise on account of their good work last
season.
Tom Brown says: "Wnh two umpircs
in one game each will have twice as
much confidence, and this increase of as
sllrancc ought to make them twice as
competent With an umpire on the
bases, standing over Il player, there will
be scarcely Il chance for an argument
from the base runner when he is called
out The adoption Of the double umpire
system is sufficient remedy for the abu-
sivc PLAYER, and believe that next sea-
son will be productive of more harmony
and fewer kicks than any previous year
! in the games history
/ One OF the players who made the trip
t, Frisco with the Baltimore and ALL
American aggregation just after the
close OF the regular season last year
says: "Dlhcn was the bright particular
star Of the whole outfit. The score
cards had been printed beforehand, and
they read, See HugI,ey Jennings, the
greatest OF all shortstops' That made
Dahlen come to life, and his playing put
Jennings in the shade. why, ont in
Frisco the people forgot all about .Jen-
nings. 1t was all Dahlen. lie played
all around the Baltimore champion"
C"lunbias Varsity and freshman
baseball teams have some forty candi-
dates, most Of them men who have
gained experience either at their schools
or at college. Some high expectations
will not bc realized, however, as Carter,
Tale'S phenomenon of former years,
will not be able to pitch, because his
spare time will DC spent coaching Yale
Alleged inside news about Vncc Nick
YounsS schedule says that Chicago will
probably open the coming National
League season ut louisville. Cleveland
1T st. Louis, Iittsburg at Cincinnati,
New York at Boston, Brooklyn at WASH
ington and Philadelphia at Baltimore.
Dummy Hoy and Wagner will fight it
out for the position Of ccntlr,li"ldrr on
the Colonel's outfit.
William Joyce, captain of the New
York Baseball Club, has arrived in New |
York city from the South, and will re- !.
main here until his team is ready to 90
to the spring training quarters at lake .
wood. Of course, he can see no club but .
the Giants in the 1893 pcnnant race.
Garlic" Latham is candidate for a
position as Il National League umpire.
If he should be appointed and give his
nimbh wit half the play which he did
when ON the diamond his presence would
attract hundreds OF additional spectators
to every game in which he handles the
Indicator
J. Earl Wagner, president of the WASH
ington Baseball Club thinks that the
New iorks will win the pcnnant this
year. 1t is not always best to hazard a
guess he says, "bccausc after the sea-
son is over may be laughed at, but at
the same time will predict the teams
to finish as follows:-Ncw York, Bali-
more, Boston, Washington. Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Brooklyn, Chicago, Louisville,
st. Louis and Philadelphia.
Speaking of McGann, Baltimorp's new
first haselnan. ''Scrappy" McGraw, OF
The Orioles, SAYS: "McGann may be all
right and again he may not be. In IA
minor league there are few who can hit
The ball harder and oitener than George
Carey, but with the BaItmorrs he was
nervous. Every time nc went to the bat
his hand shook from nervousness"
Now that Tommy Tucker has gone into :
The Western League to manage the
Omaha team several major league clubs
ire just beginning to think how sorry
hey are that they did not secure Tommy
when the Washington Club placed him
N sale at a remarkably small price in :
order to make room for Jack Doyle. As t
, first basenan Tucker is equal to the
lvcrage league player. Because Wash
ngton offered him for $500 the rest Of
jhe clubs concluded lie was Il ''has BEEN" !
when as a matter of fact it is doubtful il ,
he Senatorial management would have !.
ct him 60 had Doyle not been secured, t
'Of the champion White Stockings
which Anson captancd in 1856, that
year being near the half way mark III
he veterans Chicago career" says a
'hcagoan, "only one, Jimmie Ryan, is
'till doing active work on the probes .
'ional diamond"
Prospects for strong baseball team to i
rprsent Harvard University, are as \
isnla as ever. :
SELF DEFENCE. :,