Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-11

soon as the Beaneaters learned that the re-
leased catcher was wanted ~ another club
he was pulled back into the champions
fold.
indianapolis won the championship OF tt z
Western League Saturday, defeating tue
Milwaukees in two games. Newton tv-jrled
both games, and. strange to gay, both were
won in the eighth inning. Kansas City and
Buffalo had it out for last place and as the
former won both games Saturday, these
two clubs are tied for last place. The new
men secured by Manager Manning from
Wilkesbarre and Washington have strength
ened the Blues wonderfully.
The latest batting averages out show Bar
ry as leading the Senaprs at the bat with
.31S. OBrien has crept upland is second
with BIB Freeman comes next with .3o7.
Mercer has .ov2 to his 4tedib while Padden
remains around POI. Slagle has advanced
to PSI, while Dineen has .26i. McGann s
average is .251; Roach, .233; weighing, pos,
and kittridge, .173
Pitcher 'Chummy'' Gray of the Buffalo
club was secured by Pittsburg Saturday,
President Kerr paying $1,oeo for his release.
Moran, the brilliant Georgetown player,
who has played such a sensational game ct
short for Atlantic City this year, ay Play
professional ball next season.
Bud Mahaffey, a crack local pitcher
from West Union, Ohio has signed a con
tract from the management Of The Phila-
delphia club to practice with them hcxt
spring, with view to being added To their
regular list of pitchers Wiley Pat the
Cliff Latimer of Cincinnati, who plays
with the Youngstown, Ohio, team, has been
secured by Louisville for next season. AL
though catcher. he has been playing in
the outfield and first base. John Farrell of
the Newcastle team has been sold to the
Boston club for 81. 900 He is a left fielder
and is speedy in his class. He will join the
BeaneaterS shortly.
A story is going the rounds of a proposed
deal of early spring which, if it had been
contaminated, might have PIT a somewhat
different aspect on the league race. The
tale which is somewhat tishy i'll !llvor, is
to the effect that before the teams went
south for practice Manager Watkins whc
then had charge of the Pitt 5burg team.
opened correspondence with Tebeau relative
to trading Williams, Beaumont and five
others of the Pirates buncn of newly Sc
cured talent for Lave Cross. third baSL nan.
Tebeau thought he vas wiser thdl Wet
kins and turned down the offer NUw he Is
sorry, for Williams has developed into Il
better man than Cross, and Beaumont is
quite as valuable as DurK 1T
Big Edward Delehanty has regaincd the
batting premiership of the league with .416,
and from now on to the close of che season
there will be a battle royal in the Ease- hit
line, with Delehanty and Jesse .'urllatt as
the fighters. Burkett, with 412, is so close
that couple of games might reverse the
lead any day, while nobody aside from Hck-
man, who has played in but few games, tut
has .413, is near enough to interfere W, tn
the mighty pair. The batting all along the
line shows better than last year, and up 20
the standard of 1896 Base hits are more
plentiful everywhere, and the leaiers are, VI
ANYTHING, improving, as is shown by the
difference between keeler's .379 last season
and the .416 now carried by Delehanty.
Jack Dunn leads the pitchers in fielding,
old Chief thinner the catcherS, Beckley the
first basemen, Reitz the second basemen.
Cross is far ahead of all at third, Davis
tops the shortstops and Hamilton has a
margin in the outfeld.