The evening times., 1898-07-16
SPORTING SPLINTERS.

President Muckinfuss states positively
that the st. Louis club has not been sold.
Jaap Eden. the champion of Holland
and Belgium, has decided to leave for
Europe before the end of the month.
Ladd. the star outfielder of the disband-
ed New England League. and Cronin, an
outfielder. may be given "a trial by Pitts
burg.
The trotting mare. Ollie H.. 2:24 Ia,
was sold at the William Penn stables
for 500 to Joseph Bader. who purchased
her for the Austrian government.
Tim Murnane Is firing early in the
game. He says the season is too long.
Thus far 1t is red-hot enough TO promise
peppery time clear to the finish.
What are the Brush-Hart rules good
for, anyhow? And do they apply to the
Cincinnati and Chicago clubs, or were
they meant only to cripple other teams?
That story that Frank Selee offered
Fred Tenney $500 II ne got Collegian
LADDERS autograph TO contract is
about the loveliest fairy tale since Jack
the Giant Killer" was written.
The next attraction at the Lenox Ath-
letic Club. New York will be a twenty
round contest between Joe Bernstein. of
that city, and Eddie Santry. of Chicago,
which will be decided on July p.
day. That doesn't look as II the Queen
City of the Lakes has much of a hunch
over Cleveland as a retreat for ball
cranks.
Tom O'Rourke Is managing Tom Shar-
key now, and as he don't want to keep
him Idle. and none of the big pugilistic
stars want to fight the sailor. O'Rourke
will probably match him against Joe
Goddard.
Walter johnson. the colored heavy
weight, who whipped Bob Armstrong in
Boston, and Frank P. Slavin and Dave
O'DonneIl In Philadelphia, wants to
meet either Peter Maher or Joe God
dard.
1t has been definitely settled that the
Baltimore-Cleveland series, scheduled Tor
the Forest City on July 30 and 81. and Au-
gust 1 will be played in Philadelphia July
81 falls on a Sunday, and the game will be
played on July g.
AL. Herford, the popular Baltimore
sporting man. has posted $50 in New York
on behalf of Joe Cans to fight Spike Sui
Ivan, Frank Erne Jack DAILY or any otner
l33-pound man. But none of them will
want much Of Joe's game.
Jack McGeever writes that he would
like to flight the winner of the Strauss
Smyrna bout McGeever would not prove
a drawing CdTu ItEc, Dui s<aeNs'
that he would be glad to box McGeever
II any club will offer a purse.
Flick, of the Philadelphia team, made
four hits. including three three-baggers.
a total of ten bases, the other day. This
is within one OF Sheckard's total for
Brooklyn. made early in May. Four hits
for eleven bases was his record, which
stands for the season.
Chairman Mott of the racing board of
the l.. A. W.. believes in ruling bicyclists
off for life If they turn up their noses at
the judges. This Baltimorean is an apol-
ogist for the old disgraceful methods of
spectacle of inconsistency.
Money must be plentiful in the Pitts
burg club. according TO the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. Watkins has it to burn.
He has made St. Louis a generous offer
for Jack Taylor Dick Harley and Jack
Clements. The St. Louis management
would not entertain any Of the offers.
"Uncie' Nick Young has requested the
magnates to give list of the best UNI
pires in the major league-that is, the
best in their opinion. Uncle Nick could
have lightened the task by asking the
Order Of Twelve for their opinion as to
who are the worst" says Frank Rich
ter in Sporting Life.
.
st. Louis meeting last Spring when he
was pleading for quiet on the baseball
field, to deal severely with any player of
his who might be put out of a game by
an umpire. Now the question arises, what
punishment will he inflict on Manager
Buck Ewing and Dammann and Hill?
New York wants clean bill and moth
ing else. Umpire Hunt should be warm
ly applauded by President Young for
suspending Gleason. The punishment,
however. was hardly seve enough to At
the crime. About a years suspension and
six mouths pay would have been the
proper thing.-New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
Adolph Topperwein the noted rifle shot
of San Antonio, who has a record of
breaking 97S clay birds out of LOCO with
a rifle, can draw or rather shoot a per-
feet head of Uncle Sam with a Winches-
ter repeating rifle at distance of 80
feet without a mark or outline to guide
him. He uses manila paper for targets,
and he performs the trick with wonder
full precision.
If the team becomes a transforming
aggregation, that jumps where a few
extra dollars are in sight, 1t will lose
its identity as the Cleveland club. The
PLAYERS may still be called the Cleve-
lands and may still be in charge of the
Cleveland Baseball Company. but to the
local fans they will be no longer the
Clevelands, no longer the much admired
Indians but simply the Vagrants.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The work of Swartwood and Wood Is
extremely bad. The former either has
no idea of what constitutes a ball and a
strike. or else his eyesight is lamentably
deficient. Wood, contrary to the rules,
always favors the fielder instead Of the
runner. when the play Is close. The
worst feature Of their work, however,
is their failure to maintain discipline.
The amount Of abuse which they will
take without word of rebuke is mar
veious.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The New York Tribune says OF the
attack Of Gleason on Umpire Hunt Sat
urday: "Law-abfding citizens who were
present were Of the opinion that the
nearest station house ought to have