The times., 1898-08-17
DIAMOND DUST.

What the team needs is about eight more
Selbaehs
Messrs. Magnates: Enforce your laws or re-
peal thom.
Tommy Dowd would fill up one of the gaps
IN our outfeld.
How man without brains he eYnected
10 play brainy ball?
There is no use in talking Freedman. Won
have them on the run.
Honest failure is preferable 10 glarinp pre-
tense and incompetency
Our fine pitching staff has dwindled down to
one reliable and one untried.
Gettmans attempts to bunt would be amusing
II they were not so costly.
Walk right in, Mr.. Freedman; and, if you do
not see what you want, ask for it.
It's not in them. You can't get blood ont
OF turnip. They can't play ball.
The proposed punishment of Holmes savors
OF the work Of vigilance committee
The vindieation OF Freedman was ample and
complete, and his $1,000 is perfectly safe
A reduction OF players salaries will. IT is
said, be considered at the next annual meeting.
Mondays attendance. or rather want of at.
u-day.
Ten days notice is TOO long a time 10 give
them; pay them and get them out of sight
quick!
Steady work and determination to win are
and popular.
II the players XIII the goose that Laws the
golden egg. they viii have no one to blame
but themselves.
Poor play, poor pay" should be the motto
OF the magnates. The salary should be cornmen-
surate with the services performed.
One objection has been urged against Inn
pire Gaffney, and that is that he wastes too
much time allowing ball players to register
kicks
Some more ten-day notices are going 10 be
distributed around among the boys. j. Earl
SAYS ne wants 10 get into the game for an in
ming or two.
That gay and happy aggregation from ST
Louis known as the Browns have forgotten their
own miseries. and here to add to the hurnil-
i2tien cf the Senators.
The minor league clubs have furnished some
very interesting for The board Of discipIine
The outrageous assault on Umpire McGinfy at
Toledo Is n prominent case in point
Tom Burns has adopted StaIlines's tactics AMI
IS arranging TO let some OF his old veterans 90
and give places 10 minor. league talent Toms
hnish IS IN sight, il he persists in this course
Tim Hurst is fast wedding out the minor
league phenem element and substituting in
their places the old and tried veterans Jaek
field.
a., Two minor league artists are enough to in
hIct upon any one club-rnore than that wonId
be an expensive luxury. They have So much ont
side business TO attend to that they have no time
to play ball Besides, society functions must be
attended to-
One Of the old reliable fans said Yesterday
that the Washington club, outside Of the
catchers and possibly the pitchers has oniy two
players on the team-one infielder and ono
outtielder. The rest OF the gang are false
Two of our Senators are out of the game ON
account OF injuries: another one is recovering
from the effects OF a founder" caused bv over.
eating, and several more ought to be out of the
game on general principles
Oh. the moon shines bright along the Harlem
From the park there comes breath OF old
Rhine wine;
In the stiffness Andy smiles as he is saving.
can swamp those baseball Reubens every
time'
Freedman is the svengali of the push" and
me !i1 magnates dance to the music OF his lutte
ihey weep with delight when ANDY gives them
smile and they tremble with fear at his frown.' .
Uncle Nick, who is the Little Billie of the
combination, has a string tied to Ed Hanlon's
thousand dollars