Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-26
Seymour to Doyle: Wilson to Seymour. Umpire4-
Manassau and Mctiarr. Time hours.
Base Ball Briefs.


cnnau today
The Phillies are making their usual great
finish.
knepper, Sudhoff and Cuppy certainly
had their salary arms with them yesterday.
Ten hits in three games were their record
on the day.
One of these days Twirer Breitenstein
will be shifted into a field position and
prove wonder on account of his batting.
In recent game Brett hammered out
homer, three triples and a single
Mr. j. Earl Wagner is quoted saying:
Il placed the team before leaving Wash
ington. Mercer is to be in the outfield,
Barry at third and Jimmy Stafford at the
shortfeld." The question now is. Has
Manager Irwin been playing the part of
dummy all season?
The Cleveland club made nine hits yes
terday off Seymour OF this number Dowd,
Harley and Hemphill, the three outfielders,
made eight. Shortstop Lockhead getting the
other.
Still another outfielder has been signed
by the Cincinnati club. Barrett, the star
outfelder of the Detroit team. will likely
join the Cincinnati team in a few days.
Elberfed and F'risk cost the Cincinnati
club nearly, If not quite, 5000, Elberfeld
having been sold for $500 first The price
paid for Frisk was around $500 or 5000
Tom Lynch, the most capable umpire in
the league has resigned. He has a theatre
cal venture in Bridgeport Conn. which re-
quires his personal attention. Charles Sny-
der of Washington has been appointed in
Lynchs place. Lynch will umpire again
next season
In spite of denials. it is a fact that the
Cincinnati club has offered to exchange
Hawley for Lever or Sparks of the Pitts
burgs. There is a rumor that other play
ers are involved and that Watkins is try
ing to engineer the deal for Brush. All
President Kerr will say is that he has
received no communication from President
Brush Watkins. of course, denies that
he is working in the interest of the Gin
cinnad club.
The report that Milwaukee will be in
cluded in the proposed new base ball league
is verified in that city. Alderman Charles
Havenor has announced his intention of
taking half interest in the club and says
he will place either $4,000 $4,000 in
any bank as a guarantee of good faith on
his part. Parties have secured option
on the old base ball park, and II is under
stood that H. D. Quinn, the former owner
of the Milwaukee club, is not ayerse to
entering the field agair.-Sporting Life.
1t is noteworthy that center felders lead
off in the batting in most of the league
teams. Tuesdays scores showed such to
be the case with eleven teams-New York,
Philadelphia. Boston, Brooklyn, Cincinnati,
Pittsburg. st. Louis, Chicago. Louisville,
Cleveland and Washington, with these re-
Hamilton, Jones Mcbride. Beaumont, Don
Ion. Quinn, Hoy, Dowd and Slagie
Sheckard's injury in Louisville caused by
being hit in the head by pitched ball
Thursday, has worried him a good deal.
His head is swollen. but his chief trouble
IS weakness in the legs and nausea For
tunately he has not the dizziness from
which Doyle suffered. Louisville seems to
be ''hoodoo" town in the matter of visit
ing players being hit. Billy Nash was hit
there, and it practically put him out of
base ball, as he never was the same man
afterward Doyle was also hit III the head
there in 81. and it permanently injured his
work and has bothered him off and on ever
Mt thnC1a avid
also broke Thomas Days arm with a
pitched ball. Jennings was never quite
the ball player he was before after being
hit by Rusie in New York. 1t is danger
Gus business.
The work of recognizing the American
Base Ball Association is progressing salts
factorily to those Interested, and has pro-
ceeded far to warrant the statement
that the National League will have to face
the competition of a formidable rival in
1900
Another meeting of those interested in
the project is to be held next week. but the
place is being kept secret. 1t is known,
however that Scrappy Bill Joyce has been
engaged to captain the ST. Louis Browns
and at the same time cover first base. and
that the signatures of Marty Bergen of
Boston, Farrell of Brooklyn and Griffin of
Chicago have been obtained.
A representative of the Anheuser Busch
Brewing Company is said to be backing
the St. Louis club, while such men as Dr.
Starkloff, health commissioner; Charles
Higgins, license commissioner; George
Schafer, capitalist Chris Won der Abe, for
mer president of the Browns. and other
well-knoWn business men are Stockhold-
ers in the club.
Over $4,000 have been expended in the
preparatory work of fitting up Athletic
Park St. Louis. where the Browns put
up good ball for many years. and 1t Is the
intention to make it the best ball park in
the United States.-Sporting Life.
The purchase of Elberfeld by the Gin
cinnati club Is another evidence that the
days of some of the veterans in the game,
many of whom are bat veterans in point
of service, are numbered and that the
crop of young bloods in the league next
season will be extraordinarily large. 1t
also is worthy of note that more young
bloods are being tried out this fall than ever
before. And while the number of young
players who have broken into the league
in the past few months is extremely large,
it is not a circumstance to the number
that will be dumped into the big league
when the season in the various minor
leagues closes Not team In the big
league but has purchased two or more
players September delivery''-who will
have at least a months trial in the big
league With all this influx of new blood
there still seems to be room in the big
league for the veteran Of veterans, Bid
dy'' McPhee. The Cincinnats' second base
man just now is playing his position and
hitting better than any man in the same
place in other teams. There is no prospect
of McPhee being replaced by a young
blood at present