The sun., 1898-05-30
SUNS Sporting MELANGE
Various Pointers Gathered From
Off the Turf.
SELF DEFENSE; OTHER SPORTS
Resume Of the Latest Happenings in
Athletics---IndoOr and Field
DOings of Interest
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
Louisville at Philadelphia.
Chicago AT Baltimore.
Boston at Pittsburg.
Cleveland at New York.
Cincinnati at Brooklyn.
St. Louis. at Washington.
DIAMOND DUST.

The High School base ball club will
play two games today at Union street
grounds. In the morning game the
Friends School team will oppose them
and in the afternoon the Tome Institute
club Of Port Deposit will be the attrac-
tion.
There is some talk of calling on the
soldier boys at duPonts when the game
OF ball between East and West Side
comes of
Big John F. says his arm is fine and
the lightning he will throw at the West
Siders will be plenty.
Eakin says that's what his hand will
be after John F. throws him a few.
Gunny, who has to sub don't like it a
bit and says.that he can play better than
any one on the team. He thinks they
are jealous.
Columbus expects to win the Western
League pennant with the addition Of
Friend and Briggs OF the Chicago Club.
Tucker is the Oldest and Sheckard the
youngest man of the Brooklyns, accord
ing to the ages given out tor publication.
Sheckard is 20 and Tucker 80.
Omaha, Chauncey Fishers club, it is
said, is about to give 1t up in the West
ern League. Des Moines may take the
place.
A newspaper man Saturday wagered
President Hart that Mertes would be re-
leased inside of six weeks. Hart took
the bet.-Chicago Times.
President Pullman says the Louisville
public will find no fault with the hitting
of Snyder. He seems to think .he has
a rich find in the new backstop.
Roger Connor Jerry Denny, Jim
O'Rourke and Jack Chapman, four of the
base ball veterans of the National League
have team in the Connecticut State
League.
Manager Selee of the Bostons, saws
that the Baltimorts are not as strong as
they were in '97 He says that they will
be lucky to get into second place this
season.
After his great playing in the first
a telegram from Cleveland which read:
Dear Bobby: Come home; we want to
hug you. The whole - town"
"Umpires ought to work for $40 week
this year." said O'Connor. mo matter
how bad their work is, it goes and if
the players say nothing the spectators
think it must be all right"
Louisville will not waive claim to
Pitcher Dammann, who has been sent to
Indianapolis, and it is thought that the
little southpaw will be seen in an Louis
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season.
1t is fact that the umpires on the
Leagues staff have been regularly
scheduled for the entire season and that
no protests against them will result in
changes until thew have fulfilled their
assignments.
When the Chicago players heard that
Manager Watkins was anxious to bet
that Pittsburg would beat the colts out
in the race, Clarke Griffith 0 ofered to bet
as much money as Watkins cared to on
tie proposition.
Tony Mullane has evidently begun the
trip on the chutes, as his release by
Comiskey to Omaha doubtless means
that the tawny Antonio has finally ar
rived at the sere and saffron stage
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Ed Hanlon likes Willis, the Yankee
twirler OF the bean eating staff. Joe Ke-
ley and Hanlon place Willis second to
Nichols in the Boston layout. and de-
clare that Rube should be worked about
three games in two weeks to be fit.
"Kid' Carsey is playing second for st.
Louis.
Clements is hitting in his old time
form for St. Louis.
Wheeler and Donahue or Platt will
probably pitch today's games for the
Phillies.