Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-04

whose league career was supposed TO nave
ended. up TO Sunday. August INST. ineia-
sive. Maui has the highest percentage OF
games won, leading KID Nichols, VINO
has placed more victories TO his credit
than any other pitcher by over 100 points
DIAMOND DUST.
Now for the pennant
Root long and all the time.
Second year In fast league. pennant
boys.
There are two or three Richmonders
going higher.
More hot shot along left-feld fence now.
All the rooters help out in Rooters' Row.
Two games tomorrow everywhere in the
league
Norfolk is trying to get out Of last place.
Beauty Bishop will have chance TO-
morrow at his old side-partners.
Tommy Hess has been a valuable man
10 Richmond this season, even on the
bench
Ralph Seybold leads the league in home
runs, and is still getting them.
Vigneux and Hess will take turns In
catching this week.
Sporting Life says Norfolk has become
the Atlantic League pudding.
Frank Sparks will pitch Tuesday. and is
after another record.
Pete Childs, second baseman OF the
Hartford club. has a record-seventy- Eight
chances without an error
Seybold and Hargrove are conceded 10
be the most brilliant fielders in the league;
Hargrove the greatest thrower.
II is reported that Jack '-ockman. ex-
Richmonder. now with Reading, will go
TO Brooklyn at the close OF the season.
Denny Long Is after the extra Boston
pitcher. Hickman. and hopes TO bring him
to Richmond.
Hartford has promised TO turn down
Lancaster, as it did Reading.
Lancaster thinks Cal. McVey is hitting
1920 He is a good hitter, but not that
good.
What can Lancaster say to the record
with Richmond? Wells beat Rim 10 to s.
Manager Watkins says that Pitcher Kill
len has no bad habits whatever, but is
entirely too lazy 10 make a winning
pitcher.
Although Dunn and Grim have each
played over thirty games neither play
er has made a hit which has Melted
more than one base.
Catcher Heydon, Of Reading has caught
1873 championship and exhibition games
this season. For one stretch of twenty
John CANCEL, who was turned down
early in the season by Pittsburg, will re-
join the Pirates as soon as the Western
League season closes.
The Norfolk club has released Catcher
George Fox, Out-Fielder Saunders, and
Pitcher Donnell, and has signed Jimmy
Cleve, late of Allentown.
The Chicago club realizes that Ii made
a mistake In appointing Billy Dahlen
captain OF the team.
Nichols, the superb. the star pitcher Of
the league, and the leading twirler OF his
decade, will rank in history with Keefe
and Radboufne.
Al Weddige. Of Norfolk, who was one
Of the heaviest stickers in the Atlantic
League last season. has dropped in the
weakest class this year
Ralph Seybold is making big struggle
for the leading position in the batting
averages of the Atlantic League In the
last ten games Seybold has hit at 400
gait
Chicago has bought Pitcher Katoll of
the Hartford club, and he will finish the
season with the Windy City club AS the
Hartford team is cooperative concern,
and the players also own the franchise,
who got the purchase money?
Shortstop James Smith. OF Hartford.
Is doing such brilliant work as to draw
general interest and comment.
The Hartford team has done its very
best work OF the season since II entered
upon a cooperative basis, thus giving a
very black eye to the long-standing be-
lief that ball players cannot manage
themselves.
.Elberfeld is playing great game at
shortstop for Detroit, in the Western
League.