The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-03
DIAMOND DUST.

The Wilmington High School baseball
team will take trip to Port Deposit on
May 7, where the good to play the strong
Tome Institute team of that place.
"Unexpected things happen in base
ball and no mistake. Take the case of
Philadelphia. Stallings picks up three
men from the Mud Valley Leagues in
Dunkle, Duggleby and Plat. Dunkle is
Pennsylvania product. Dug" comes
from Auburn and Patt is from Ohio.
New York runs against Stallings' crew
and look at the result. Dunkle van
pushes Meekin, Duggleby overshadows
the touted wonder, Seymour, and then
the unknown platt opposes the great
Amos Rusie with similar result.
In letter to Joyce, Oliver Tebeau says:
Mig Cnppy's arm is still in the ranks
Of the living, and tie funeral will not
take place this season if 'Nig's' doctor is
telling the truth.
First base will be difficult position to
play on the new Brooklyn grounds, as
the sun will be in the eyes of the base
man. Tom Tucker will thus have good
chance to show his playing ability.
The question of captaincy OF the Plila-
del phia team has not yet been settled
The management seems to expect some
one to take the responsibility without
extra pay. That is foolish in the
extreme.
That garrulous magnate, Charley Eb-
bets, whom Comisky once dubbed the
champion twO-handed talker of the AS
ISOLATION, is charged with insinuating
his proboscis into the practical manage
ment of the team.
In his scent for short-hit groundlings,
Scout Sockalexis, of Tebeau's Cleveland
Indians, is as dull as hoe. But Socks
pedals are as mercuriSl as ever, and his
Hat-footed sprints around the bases al
most stand off his weakness in the field.
George Davis, of the Giants, will hold
down desk in one OF the municipal de-
partments of the Greater New York at
the close of the baseball season. This
position was secured for him by Presi-
dent Freedman.
Ed Cartwright, better known as "Piano
Legs" is negotiating for first baseman-
ship on the Omaha team for the season..
Now that the Decker deal has fallen
through it is quite likely that he may be
given a chance.
The Bostons, though champions of the
National League, have been defeated
more times by minor league clubs this
spring than any other organization.
Which merely goes to show that you
cannot always sometimes tell.
Chauncey Fisher, who is training with
the indianapolis club, still refuses to
consider the Omaha offer, and says that
unless it is raised he will remain home
this season or 60 to the coast and play
with an independent team.
Mccarthy, Of Pittsburg, will make
some of the would-be champion pitchers
look sick before the present season is
over He Yields that stick of his in a
manner that would do credit to an Irish
nan at the fair across the way.
First Baseman Rothfuss, who joined
;he Pittsburg Pirates recently, is to be
loaned to the Kansas City Club for a
jlme at least. Rothfuss is too valuable
! player to give up entirely, and Presi-
lent Watkins does well to keep a string
IN MN.
As Jack Doyle stepped to the bat in
he second inning of the first Washing.
jon-B Baltimore game he was astonished
% see the whole Baltimore nine streak
ing for the home plate. But they had
no evil designs, either upon him or the
umpire. They simply came in to pay
heir respects to their old first baseman
and to present him with diamond ring.
Jack blushed his acknowledgements,
ined out two-baser, hurt his finger in
! collision with Hughey Jennings at
second base and dropped out OF the
game.
Brush read his blacklist rule to the
players Of the Cincinnati Club and gave
hem each copy of it to sign. The
new rule will be posted in the grand
stand of the club and the patrons as we'll
IS the players will have to live up to it.