The times., 1898-04-25
DIAMOND DUST.


Win we get three out of four?
Is Rusie on the road to Hasbeenville?
Giants and Beaneaters play here this
| week.
Catcher Clifford has been released by
| Tim Hurst.
Brown got the worst of it on that de-
cision at second Saturday
Dineen's first trial in the box was far
! from a success.
Reitz and McHale will probably take
| part in todays game.
La Chance is putting up a fast game at
! short field for Brooklyn.
| Hughes and Breitenstein have made
! the first records for 1898.
| The Browns appear so have dead
cinch on that last place this season.
Ryan is developing into one of the
| heaviest-hitting catchers in the League.
Jake Gettman is putting up fast
game of ball, both at the bat and in
! the field.
Arthur Irwin has signed the veteran
! Arlie Latham for his Toronto team.
'Lath' will prove a drawing card, no
| doubt.
| 1t is said the Sullivan, one of New
York s reserve pitchers, win be loaned to
! Kansas City this season and that Parke
Wilson will go with him.
That scene at New York shows where
| the fault for rowdyism is in baseball
| in the crowd which has egged the play
ers on. Baseball fans are the least
| sportsmanlike sports there are and New
| York evidently leads in the lack of
| craftsmanship ,Union.
IF the Washington club keeps this
young Snyder, the Canadian catcher that
| they have signed, you viii see one of the
| greatest throWers the league ever had
said Umpire Ed Swartwood. 81 never
saw his equal. He can stand still in his
| tracks and by awrist motion snap the
| ball on line to second base
Tony Mullane, the veteran pitcher of
the St Paul club, is no longer Saint,
] Comiskey having disposed of his services
to the Omaha clGb. Mullane is probably
| the oldest pitcher in point of service in
the game today. 1t has been over twen-
" years since he began playing pro-
| fessional baseball and he seems good for
many more. The reason Comiskey wished
to sell Mullane was that Tony has been
disSa usned with st. Paul for the last
two years. saying the fans of that city
did not treat him as he deserved.
Now that the great second baseman
| viii be on hand TO knock down base hits
around second sack there is little uneas-
mess about the makeup of the Senator s
infield. Leahy wiz be moved up to
| third and then the inner circle will be
| composed of Doyle Reitz. Leahy and
| Wrigley. This combination looks pretty
fast on paper, and there is little doubt
| but that they will be rapid on the field
| when they have had enough practice
| together to enable the men to get some
team work. We will be handicapped for
| a couple of weeks yet. but after that
time you must look out for US, because
we are going to be in that first division
! or | miss my syljpcs -.GportiDnr
Emerson Hawley, the Reds new twirler.
signs himself Emerson p. Hawley. What
the initial p. stands for but few people
know. The story is that the Reds Haw-
ley once had twin brother who looked
so much like Emerson that they could
not he told apart, and that in order to
distinguish them one was bedecked with
a pink ribbon and the other with a blue
ribbon-hence the name Pink applied
TO the Cincinnati twirler is well known.
Hawley is authority for the statement
that the initial p. stands for Pink-that
he, with the pink ribbon, was christened
Emerson Pink Hawley, and that the twin
brother, who now is dead, was chris
tened Elmer Blue Hawley Thus is an
other interesting link added to the his
tory of great twrler.-Cincinnati Post
Fred Tenney, the Boston first baseman,
says: Pulling away from the plate is
perhaps the worst fault that can handi-
cap batsman, and it's so hard to throt-
tie this habit that many players with a
good natural eye for hitting have been
spoiled by the nervousness and fear of
| being hit. If Il batsman watches the ball
closely on an inshoot, for example he
can figure on how much ground he has
to break in order to steer clear of
slow ball or how far TO duck his head
out of range of a high one on the inside
But when he becomes to ratified as to
shrink away back clear out of the box
the pitchers will take advantage of his
weakness and will crowd him away from
the plate at every opportunity"
1t is said that Oliver Patsy Tebeau
has instituted a new rule umpire drill.
He gets O'Connor, Burkett Powell and
Childs up before him like n class of
schoolboys. Now, then" says Tebeau,
there are two strikes on you Jack
The pitcher hes just tossed in one four
yards wide. You have started TO first
but the umpire says you are out on
strikes. What do you say?" You meas
ley -'' mo, you don't say anything
of the kind; go 10 the foot of the class.
What would you say, Johnnie?" 'Scuse
me, you stiff, but ] t'ink yuse slightly
off your base" Nit; that isn't right.
either. Jesse, tell the other boys what
to say Begging your pardon, Mr.
Umpire, and greatly regretting the i'm
perative necessity of entering an-an-''
objection; go ahead" "Of entering an
objection; nevertheless-neverthel
what TIL can't say it" Can right, you
will all four stay two hours after prac-
tice and write the words 'rowdy BALI
200 times on the hotel slate