The evening times., 1898-10-15
BASEBALL BUDGET.

Beckley's record of twenty-one put outs
and one assist. with no errors, in a nine
inning game. is the record of the season,
and one of the best ever made.
McCreery, former Giant, now leads the
Pittsburg team in batting. Since Nc.
Creery was released by the New York club
he has been playing frst-cass ball.
The Baltimores will divide $3.50 for fin
ishing second In the League race. Had
the Orioles won the pennant they would
have divided $1,000 among themselves.
Since President Ebbetts has announced
that Mike Griffin will manage the Bride
grooms again next season there has been
kick from many of the cranks. But
why?
The work of the Philies during the past
six weeks has been so satisfactory to the
owners that with one or two exceptions
the present team will be kept intact next
season.
Cunnngham's record of ten straight vic
tories Is the pitching record of the sea-
son. Nichols pitched nine straight, then
tie, and followed that up with seven
more victories.
The Cleveland team without Tebeau Is
a dead 'un. Burkett and O'Connor are
''scrappy" enough, but they are not in
Tebeaus class as generals on the ball
field.-Pittsburg Times.
Manager Selee will sign Charles Kuhns,
the Atlantic City infelder, for 1899, and
try him out next spring. kuhns has been
sick with typhoid fever or he would have
joined the Boston team this fall.
Fred Clarke believes in the efficacy Of
skating as method of keeping in good
athletic trim during the winter months.
He is a prominent figure on the runners
at the South Side Park at Chicago
Jack Stivetts says that he intends to
| resume coal mining this winter. Stivetts
| did not like the deal whereby he was
| transferred to the St. Louis club, and
| rather than play onlthe latter team quits
! the game.
At the benefit game between the Chi
| cago and Clevelands at Chicago next
Sunday there will be a race at 100 yards
| to decide who is the fastest man on the
| team Callahan Green. Merits and Chance
will be the starters.
Manager Tom Burns justly claims that
the Chicago club has lost at least five
! games through players Dahlen, Mertes
and Everett kicking al the umpires. These
games would come in mighty handy at
this stage of the game.
On account of the knights Templar be-
| ing in Pittsburg this week, the Cieve-
lands could not find any place to stay.
They bunked out on barge on the Mo-
nonSahela wharf This is certainly rub
bing il in on the Wanderers.
Connie Mack proposes TO stick TO the
Western League. He draws fat salary
from the Milwaukee Club, participates in
the dividends earned, and, in addition, is
| exclusively his own boss. Connie was Of
| fered the managerial reins of the New
| York Club but refused to leave his good
thing.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to ten
der the Boston players a beneht Wheh
! they return home after the Baltimore
game on Saturday. All the players OF
the other National League clubs are
watching to see what the Boston owners
| will give the pennant-Winners as their
! reward for good work.
Manager Watkins had added four more
| players TO his string from which he eX-
meets 10 select a team next season. They
| are Wilhelm. pitcher and Madison. an
infieIder from the Lancaster. Pa, club;
Spike" Shannon, of the Richmond team,
! of the Atlantic League, and Payne, who
pitched for Brooklyn last season
If there is any pennant- winning timber
in the new members OF the Cleveland
| team II wasn't developed 70 any extent
in Yesterdays game. Frank gets to hrst
| base cleyerly enough. but he does not APP
(
Schrecongost is a well-built young man,
| but he has a few points to learn be-
hind the bat-Pittsburg Times.
President Hart, of the Chicago ball
club who has been in poor health re-
| Gently. will leave for a vacation in Mex
leo after the league season closes. on
his way he may look over possible train
ing grounds in that quarter, but the
Southwest is not being taken seriously
as a place for spring practice. Manager
Burns is believed TO favor some place
in Georgia. not Waycross. Climate, i'm
proved grounds and fairly formidable
opponents are available there.
Hugh Jennings, Baltimore's famous
shortstop, will spend the coming winter
studying law at the Maryland University
He visited Judge Harlan, dean of the Law
school, Wednesday morning, and sat neal
the Judge during part of the proceedings
Jennings will begin his studies next week
as soon as the baseball season is over
and his friends hope he may make as
many hits in the courtroom as he has or
the diamond and be as formidable to hi:
legal opponents as he has always beer
to those of the national game.