Evening star., 1899-04-10
LATE SPORTING NEWS
Senators Will Return to the City
Wednesday Morning.
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE UMPlRES
interesting Games by the College
Mines.
SIZING UP THE r. E A M S


tors, at Hampton Va. out of g days prac
tice but other clubs in the south also suf-
fered. Yesterday the boys took long walks
and several attended church. Reports from
the hospital list indicate that Gettman and
Davis are once more in good condition,
their slight attacks of malaria being driven
away. Jack O'Brien's long rest will be
brought to a close today. He has been
nursing his injured limb very carefully for
the past ten days. and it is now thought to
be in first-class condition once more.
This afternoon the Regulars and Yani-
gans will line up once more, probably the
last regular game of the practice season,
as the team leaves for home tomorrow
night, and thorough course of base run
ming and working together will be gone
through with. Dunkie, Mercer, Dineea,
Baker and weighing will be on the rubber
for the two teams, and every effort will be
made to make the contest fast and excit-
ing.
Jim Mcclure returned here from Hamp-
ton Saturday. on account of his wifes i'll
ness, and will meet the boys here on their
return. Mac Is in first-clasS condition,
hard as nails and down to lighting weight.
He will probably catch the first game of
the season in Philadelphia next Friday.
The entire Washington team will arrive
in this city Wednesday morning on the
Norfolk steamer, and at 10 o'clock will
line up for their usual mornings practice
at National Park. In the afternoon the
Senators will have the Georgetown aggre-
CATION as opponents, and it is no "cinch''
that they will have an easy time of it.
Georgetown is in frst-class condition all
around. It's pitchers especially being in ex
celleut shape and working their curves and
drops over the home plate like clockwork.
The game will be called at 4:15, as to
allow the department people time to get
to the grounds, and also time to finish the
lgaF, rN.a rfyn- i=
little cool in the evenings at present, and
it will not do to take too many chances
for knock out from rheumatic complaints.
Centerfelder Mike Griffin is evidently
bent upon making good his bluff. Mike has
demanded a part of the money paid to
Brooklyn by Cleveland for his release. If
he refuses to play. Manager HanlOn. of
course, gets nothing. and for this reason
there is fair probability that the rlayer
will come out on top, A special from Syra-
cuse. dated last night, says:
Mike Griffin, captain of last years Brook
lyn base ball team, has decided to retire
from the diamond. Only d few days ago
Griffin became part owner of a brewery
in this city.
Grlffins friends say that he has 10 feel
ing against Hanlon or any other base ball
man connected with the 1eai by which he
was sold for 5000 to the Cleveland team
which is to be transferred to ST. Louis. He
has refused to sign Il contract with the
Cleveland team, and preferred not to go to
St. Louis. but it is said that this has roth
ing to do with his determination 20 quit
base ball
He an opportunity to embark in a
business enterprise and grasped it, realiZ-
ing. perhaps. that his base ball days soon
would be numl cred.
John b. Foster, the sporting editor of the
New York Evening Telegram, has sent out
numerous letters to the sporting editors of
the country asking their opinion to how
ali .iIl
finish. The BCstons have the call by a
good majority, with Brooklyn a good sec
ond choice. st. Louis is placed third and
Cincinnati fourth, Chicago and Philadel-
phia being the favorites for the NTH and
sixth position. Two guassers placed Gin
cirnati first, and one guesser hammered the
BOStOnS down to fourth place, Washington
and Louisville getting into the first divs-
ion only once Several interest ting reasons
for opinions expressed are given the chief
among which is that brains and working
together have carried tha beaneaters to the
front. and viii again. Several agree that
HdnlOn has the material in the raw" but
that IT Will b. the middle of the season be-
fore he has his n working in winning
harmony. st. Louis is placed as tha dark
horse, and Cincinnati more than = pOssi-
bli1ty. The battle for championship hon
OrS unquestiOnably belong to these four
clubs, taking form and regulations as a
guide, but base ball is a hard game to fig
ure on, and a team away back in thnse
front and nose out an apparently safe vim
ner- New York, Philadelphia, louisville
and Washington can be safely placed
among these possibilities but it should he
rem mhered that there is a wide differ
ence between possibility and probability.
Cincinnati enthusiasts are stiI guessing
over the third base proposition the same
old hOodoO that has been Worrying then,
all winter. CHARLEY Irwin is a first-class
Ieider but rarely bats over the $50 mark
Lave Cross IS his equal as fielder loves
the game and has always been a hard hit
ter. A special from indianapolis saws that
Cross was in that city Saturday and that
1t was surmised that he and President
Brush had been in consultation. With
cross added to the Reds there will Doubt
less be several hedges made when it comes
to placing teams one two, three
Frank Hough, the entertaining writer of
the Philadelphia Inquirer has the follow
ing to say about the Senators in today's
paper:
The clubs in the second division that are
almost certain TO win more games are
Washington and Louisville Irwin has got
ten a speedy set of youngsters together
and as he goes on the theory that the game
is played from the plate back again they
Will be given plenty of opportunity to show
their ability. There is not a manager in
the country who better knows how base
ball should be played than the same Irwin
Added to that. he has the ability or the
knack to get out of his players all or near
| ly all that there is in them. The Senators
promise TO make it very entertaining for
the other second-division clubs
That tantalizing balk rule is under dis
| cussion in the west. The chief point dis
cussed is whether the penalty attached
to the pitcher when he turns toward first
base will apply to second and third Man
aSer Ewing thinks not and he wired Pres
ident Young on the subjest. and the latter
has written to President Hart, chairman of
the rules committee, on the subject The
| latter's opinion will be awaited with con-
siderable interest, as he has given it out
In the most emphatic manner that the balk
rule as at present constituted will be main
tained throughout the coming season, pro-.
tests or no protests.
UMPIRES INSTRUCTED
A Circular of Good Advice From
President Young.
nf he Natl ID,