The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-18
DIAMOND DUST.

Roger Conner is playing first for his
Waterbury team.
Lajoie has already made seven doubles
and three triplets.
McGraw and Jennings have not vet
failed to bat safely in game.
One Chicago has no more
Griffiths. -Cleveland plain Dealer.
Omaha made ten runs in the first
inning of d recent game with Kansas
City.
Washington provides four of the nine
players on that typical team of weak
lings.
Elmer Smith has batted safely in four
teen straight games, making twenty.six
hits.
But txenty-one hits were made off
Pitcher Hughes in the first four games
he pitched.
Three of the first four defeats of the
Cincinnati's were sustained with Hill in
the box.
Bergen is hitting in splendid style. No
one in the club is meeting the bail better
than he.
Sam Thompson failed to make hit in
a game Wednesday for the first time this
season.
"Chick" Stahl hasn't had an assist in
twenty games. They have respect for
that arm OF his
Young Roach, formerly of the New
England League, is catching in all the
games for the Hartford club.
Any member of the Cincinnati club
put out of the game for making a kick is
fined $25 by the Cincinnati club.
"Hawley violates the pitching rule
every time he pitches ball. He steps off |
the rubber and goes up in the air, too,'
says Tim Hurst.
All Princeton is happy because "king"
Kelly has found it possible to join the
team. Kellys presence on the team will
add greatly to its prospects of victory in
the games with Harvard and Yale.
Manager Hanlon tried hard to get
Lajoie for Doyle last fall, brit could not
fetch it, Boston Herald. There is not a
single player on Hanlon's team for
whom the Frenchman should be traded,
says Philadelphian.
Wagner and Smith of the Louisville
Club, were each fined S. by Manager
Clarke, tor sleeping until 10 o'clock.
There was meeting of the players and
The management at hotel, and Wagner
Ind Smith failed to appear.
They are hard losers out there in Gin
,innati. After St. Louis won that twelve
ming game Harry Weldon gently init
mated that it would be a'good thing to
bench Charlie Irwin for few games
Until he recovered his confidence.
81 think the umpiring this season is
he worst we have had tor a long time"
aid Muggsy McGraw. ''The umpires
rave made great many mistakes. Our
riders are to live up strictly to the
ules. 1t is hard to do it, but guess we
will have to come to it,"
Manager Clarke of the Louisvilles, says
he championship will lie between Balti-
more and Cleveland; Bug Holiday says ,
t will be between Baltimore and Gin ,
innati; Tim Hurst says the Baltimores ,
re in a class bv themselves; Joyce says r
; will be New York in walk. =
Arson is taking life easy these days, |
III Iits HUI llldue up HIS NllHu DIS 10 L
That he will do in future. Although Il
he reopening of Mussey's billiard hall
nay find him part owner he will say =
othing on the subject. In speaking OF :
he Chicagos he refused to give his opin- :,
IN of them as team, but he said, They g
ave not won tie pennant yet" 6
1t is said that Baltimore is trying to Il
'ade Nops and Pond TO Brooklyn for V
nderson. Hanlon wants to play Kelley g
first base, and Anderson in the out i
eld
The Cleveland Building Trades Coun- |,
i is sending circular to labor organi. p
ltions all over tine country charging il
rat the president OF the Cleveland Base o
all Club insisted on employing nom D
Mon carpenters and painters at his y
leyeland Park, and asking union work v
'gmen to keep this fact in mind when ft
he Cleveland appears in their cities. n
In very poorly Contested game of il
aseball at the Union Street grounds HI