The times., 1898-07-11
DIAMOND DUST.

The Colts today.
Is Doyle missed?
Root for a victory.
weyhing will pitch.
At home until July q
Get into eighth place. boys.
Get your eye on the ball. Andy.
bunt is cy Swaim's bette noir.
It's FIVE and five with the Orioles.
MCGUIRE asa manager is success
The Orphans are playing great ball.
The Reds are about due for slump.
Anderson is. once more bridegroom.
Get a move on yourself there, Myers.
August should find US in the first divi-
How will Bill Joyce and Jack Doyle
mix? @
Farrell will be back in the game next
week.
Dineen is rapidly developing into star
twirler.
Wagner is said to be the wag of the
Senators.
Keeler is without a peer as guardian of
right field.
selbach is hitting with mis- accustomed
Tom Brown is said to be a success as
an umpire.
Rietz has been doing some timely hit
ting of late.
Take him OUT is the familiar cry of
the fool fan.
Anderson makes a cracking good initial
sack guardian.
Are the ladies harbingers of i'll luck
to the Senators?
One of Ebbet's friends should take him
aside and tell him something.
Don't we come pretty near TO having
the king of second basemen?
Encoura cement will help to win more
games than abuse or criticism.
The New York players are now engaged
in throwing bouquets a "Scrappy Bill.
The time honored custom of 'tAll up
in the seventh is still followed at Nation
al Park.
If Wrgley continues his present fine
work he will soon rank as the king of
shortstops.
If Freedman don't succeed in killing
the game in Gotham. then it is an i'm
possible feat.
Since Mcclure assumed the manage
rial reins. the Senators have won nine out
| of the sixteen games played.
Jack Doyle worked off that same old
speech when he reached New York;
| am in fine trim and glad to get back in
| the game
| Five of the twelve men now umpiring
| in the National League are handicapping
| the game fully as much as the war.-Bos-
ton Globe.
| 1t was no wonder that Brooklyn didn'
| turn Anderson adrift without gettinl
something for him. He's werth every dol
| lar of the $4,000 that Washington gave fo
! him.
| Earl Wagner's squad seems to be regu
| lar "tumblers of top-notchers' this year
They have taken three out of seven from
| the Bostons, five out of ten from the Bal
timores, two out of four from the New
| Yorks and three out of four from tn
| Cincinnatis.
| Some one said that the winner this yea
would have to have 10 games won to ge
| the pennant That guess is wild. TIL
club that wins an even hundred game
| will be a winner for 107 is 20 per cent o
| games TO be played and it does not seen
likely that any club will reach that aver
age, as the second division clubs are play
ing high-class ball most of the time TIL
| club that wins 102 games will have an av
| erage of 60 per cent, and that will seer
big at the end and none of them will b
| Every one is important and the club tina
fights hardest against the weak clubs wi
be the winner.-Cincinnati Commercial
Not only are the Senators batting i
winning form, but they are playing tn
game in all respects in a manner tha
brings them victories. "Old Reliable
Jim Mcclure so far seems to be the onl
leader the Statesmen have had who ca
get the right sort of work out of hi
men. Mcclure and Farrell are two @
the nardest-hitting backstops in the bus
| ness, and with Mack on first and tn
Duke behind the bat in every game, tn
| club gets the full benefit of their stead
hitting. And maybe the captain ism
| playing first base a little. Who said h
was too slow? If he keeps up the goo
work he has done so far, you'll have
admit. that there are other Tennys.
] Sporting News.