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VOLUME 27, NO. 12. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 13, 1896. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
The X-Rays Reveal Why Uncle Sam is Still Jovial Despite His Political, Financial and Foreign Troubles
Dexter is Dextrous. A Franchise Transfer. Base Ball Promises Like Lovers'Oaths A Ball Player Drowned. Dexter, tho sprightly young outfielder of tho Pittsbnrg, June 8. President C. B. Power, of President Freedman made a promise to give Bridgeport, Conn.. June 8. Philip Dooley, 22 years old. a well-known ball player, was drown Louisville team, is a newspaper reporter from the Interstate League, on Saturday, transferred each member of his team who batted 3SO or the franchise of the Saginaw Club from F. A, ed yesterday at Beards!ey Park by the capsizing TCvansville. Intl., and was employed on tin; Ilascli to George Ulack. The latt«f lias been .better this year a new suit of clothes. He of a boat in the presence of several thousand Bvansville "Tribune." He played on the Evans- the manager of the team and he now holds the made no stipulation about "$15. no more, oo people. The accident was wholly due to the reck- ville team in the- Southern League, and retired franchise in trust for the league. President less." but the price is scarcely likely to worry lessues of his companions in rocking the boat. to accept a position in the "brainery" depart I'ower said yesterday the transfer was made for him. He might with confidence have offered The others were saved with difficulty. Young purely business reasons. a house and lot. By the way. Captain Robinson Dooley had signed with Manager O'Hotirke on ment of the "Tribune." Last season he con Saturday, having been considered the best am ducted the base ball columns for his paper and The Test of Wit. of the Baltimore team, never received that ateur third baseman in the State. practiced with the players during off hours, lie house and lot promised him by Mr. Von der B-lobbs "Wigwag is something of n humorist, Horst for winning the championship in 1894. wzus signed by MeCloskey for the Colonels. Dex- isn't lie?" Slobbs "Yes; I heard him sav the How He Divided Them. t*r is a fast outfielder and quite reliable witii other day Ue UKHight the I'hillies would win the The captain will sell his claim for a bat bag. Teacher "Name the seasons." Bright Boy tils stick. peunaut." Boston ''Heralti." ' fall, wintei', sprint' and the base ball season." June 13-
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Passed balls—Kittridge. Wild pitch—Parker. Struck Washington...... 5 0003020 4—14 Meekin 2, by Hart 4. Umpire—Henderson. Time out—Lowe, Sullivan 2. Double pl*y—Sullivan, Louisville...... 0 0 0 10 0 33 0—7 —1.50. Lowfl, Tucker; Harrington,Tucker. Umpire—Lynch. Earned runs—Washington 5, Louisville 2. First BROOKLYN vs. CINCINNATI AT BROOKLYN JUNE G.— THE GREAT RAGE. Time-1.55. on errors—Washington 2,L.
Burned runs—Chicago 2. Two-base hit—Dahlen. lamed runs—St. Louis 5. Two-buss hits—Connor Mercer 2, by friend 4. Home runs—Lush, Dahlen. Home run—Pfeffer. Sacrifice bunt hits—Ansoii, 2. Three-base hit—Dnwd. Sacrifice bunt hit— Tliree base'J bit—Liisb. Two-base bits—Pfeffer, LOUISVILLE LINES. Decker, Danlen. Stolen haies—LSURH, Griffith, Ban- Tucker. Struck out—By Ureiteustein 3, by Sullivan Decker. Hit by pitcher-'-By Mercer 1, by Friend 1. Don. Struck out—By Griffith 1, by JSicUoli 3. First 1. Kirst on balls—By BreUenstoln 4, by Sullivan 2. Wild pitch—Mercer. Umpires—Keefo and Weidnian. The Team Now Going the Even Tenor on balls—B> Griffith 7, by Nichols 1. Passed balls— Donblo [ilays—Connor nnnesisted; Cross, Connor; Time—3.10. of Its Way—ALet-Down in Pitching Kittredge 2, 1'ennry. Umpire—Lynch. Time—2.05. Long, Lowe, Tucker 2. Umpire —Lynch. Time—1.45. lJUOOKLVN VS. PlTTSBURQ AT BROOKLYN JuNK 10. PHILADELPHIA vs. CLEVELAND AT PHILADKLPHIA —Haw ley pitched a fine game, holding the Brooklyus ResponsibJe For Recent Defeats. Games Played Monday, June 8. JUNE 9.—Cleveland again downed PbiU' eli.hia. Thn down lo one run. While Kennedy was not hit barj, Louisville, Ky., June 9.—Editor "Sporting NEW YORK vs. CINCINNATI AT NRW YORK JUNE 8,— visitors played all around the local club at the bat tho visitors were fortunate in cracking out hits Life:"—The oilicials of {lie club wuo are The CinciuuatU outplayed tlie New Yorks At every and lu tbe Held. MeAleer cot a double piay by work- when hit-i meant runs. The score: at home wheii you ask them for news this point. They put up an errorless fielding uiune, and, ins; Hie outfield trapped lly ball trick on the Philiies. PITTSBL'RQ.Al) R. B. P. A. E BROOKLYN. AH.R, B. P. A. B week tell you they don't know aiiy, and though they did not hit Clarke hard, tlieir sacrifice Tiie score: E.Suiith, If.. 4 0 0 3 0 (i Griffiu,cf....4 00 3 10 that Manager McGunnigle has not evidently hilling was moat skilllul. This, coupled with a tew CLKVEt/D. AB. R.B. P. A.E PHILA. AB.n.B. P. Ely, ss...... 401 2 5 (I Jones, rf.....4 02 0 had to engage the services of a. steno hits and some costly errors, gave them enough. runs Jinrkctt, If... 5 221 0 0 Iluien, of... 501 0 0 Stenzel, cf.. 4 11301 Lrtchan'e.lbS 0 0 14 grapher on account of having a great num to win easily. The score: CliildB, 2b... 5 H 3 5 4 0 Sullivan. If 4 0 1 0 0 lie.-kley, Ib3 1 0 13 00 Corcoran, ss3 0 1 4 ber of letters to write to Louisville; in KLW YOllK. AB.B. B. P. A. E iClNCINNA'I.AB.R B. P. A.* McKean. H«. 5 2 5 2 B 0 Cross, 81.....4 001 5 0 Brerb)iu'r,2b4 01 1 1 0 Sliindle, 3b 4 0 0 0 fact, it seems that he has not even sent the Vtiull.l'u.ci'a 1 1 I 0 o!Burke, It'.... 501 Tebeau, Ib.. 5 0 2 12,2 1 0 Tliompn'n,rf4 0 U 1 0 0 DonovHn, rf 4 00 1 0 (I McCarthy,If 3 001 scratch of a pen home, at least from the G.Uavis. 3b. 4 0 3 1 0 2 Hoy, of...... 4 -i 2 'i 0 Connor, c 6 0 I 0 0 il Urolith's, Ib4 0 2 10 0 0 J.Suiilu,3b.. 4 11 4 40 Shocli, 2b... 210 2 satisfaction some of the directors give one Tieruati, rf.. 'A 0 I 'A 0 0 Mliler,rf...... 2 0 0 1 McAleer.cf.. 5 0 1 5 1 1 Hallinau, 2b3 0 1 4 3 1 Merritt. c... 312 0 10 Grim, c...... 3 (I 1 3 is left with that impression. Business Man Qleiison, 2b 4 0 1 0 4 o iHcl'heOb.. 3103 Blalce, rf..... 4 120 0 (i Boyle,_...., <;...... a 0 1 1 1 0 Howley.p... 3 0 1 0 1 0 Kennedy, p 4 t) 0_ 0 3" ager Pulliam has been more thoughtful, but Counau'n,** 400 1 60 Kwing.lb... 4018 McGarr.Sb.. 5 11120 Sash, 3b...... 3 3^^ 0 Total...... 33 4 7" 27 12 T! Total...... 3~U T 4 !df Itf 1 his letters are full of one theme Clurk, Ib... 4 0 1 19 10 Smith, ES... 3101 WiUou, p.... 3 00 1 41 Oith, p...... 2 1 I 0 1 1 PltisburK...... 0 0022000 0—4 and that is the "robber umpire." H. DaVis, It H 1 i) I Irwin. 3b... 3 1 a 2 Total ..... 42
meeting of the directors will be held, as they of a second "Buck" Evring, but he takes lifa have all come to realize the importance of giv too easy. ing the matter due consideration. John T. Brush is- the happiest man in base ball SPORTING LIFE to-day. His club has come East and holds ita TORONTO TOPICS. own in third place. In fact, between Cleve A WEEKLY JOURNAL land and Cincinnati Ohio seems to ha.ve all the best of the deal. Devoted to Buckenberger's Team Fully Satisfies 'S BOYS CAUSING THEIR President Robison. of Cleveland, and President BASEBALLrBICYCLING, SHOOT. the Canucks. Brush, of Cincinnati, were iu New York to Toronto, Can., June 8.—E(L: tor ''Sporting! Life:" gether, and didn't hesitate to "rub it in" on any ING, BILLIARDS, Etc. —The Toroulos have completed their first homo FRIENDS MUCH GRIEF, body against whom they had a base ball grudge. series and have gone away for a few weeks. To Tom McCarthy is playing as pretty a gufiie say that Buckc-i,burger's tetm bas given satisfac in left as he ever played in his life. Toin Published by tion to the local enthusiasts is putting it mildly made a double play the other day that would indeed. The games are well patronized, and the Their Ill-Success Attributed to a Qnittin have lifted Chris Von der Ahe clear oub of hia THE SPORTING LIFE PUBLISHING CO. patrons make themselves heard every time .1 boots. chance presents itself. Al Ruckenburger is going Tendency—Recent Rumors Concern Hughey, of the Pittsburgs, doesn't seem a 34 South Third St., to do well in Toronto, and is doing his level best bit bad for a colt. Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A, to have a winning team. Toronto never had a "Jud" Smith, who was driven out of Cin team that played so well on the home grounds as ing toe Game in the Metropolitan cinnati by newspaper raillery, is doing well at the present one. We are now in third place in third for the Pittsburgs. JOHN B. FOSTKO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: the Bsstern and I confidently predict that we District—EM Jinks in to York, One Tear...... *2.00 won't be lower at the end of the season. Many PATERSON'S PJETS Six Months...... 1.85 think our team will win the pennant. i GOOD BATTERIES. , Mugle Copy...... — 5e. Brooklyn, N. Y:, June 11.—Editor "Sport Still Cutting Out the Pace in the Foreign 1'ostage, SI.04 Extra per Annum. We have a good staff of twirlers. D'jnne and ing Life"—The Brooklyn Club has been McPartluud have been meeiing with great suc belabored most unmercifully by all tin? Atlantic Race. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. cess, and from present appeances are among the Brooklyn newspapers for the last two or Paterson, N. J., June 9.—Edito.- "Sporting 'nest in the Eastern Lcagje this year. The East three days, anci all because the team lost Life:"—Since last writing the home team haa se readers of SPORTING LIFE -who ern League all through has a splendid lot of played seven gain is, winning five and losing two. pitchers ibis year. Harry Staley has been doing its grip after making a most successful be This is a remarkable record when it is consid have not facilities for reaching news well, so has Dineen. Moran has been wild, but ginning agaiiust the Western teams. ered that three games were played with WH- dealers should by all means subscribe, pitched a few gilt-edge ganres. Both catchers are OPEN CHARGES mington on the latter's grounds. One word thus assuring themselves regular arid doing well. Casty has Unproved wonderfully, and have been, made that a disposition, has been I want to say right here, and that is about the prompt delivery by mail direct from is very quick. He is fielding, batting and throw shown to quit. Now, if there is any one scoring. The boys are daily credited with er this office. ing well, and the little fellcw is a great favor thing that will sotir the public on a base rors that do not belong to them, and if the of ite with the people. ball team it is the fact that the team ficial scorer persists in holding them respon THE FIELDERS. shows no disposition to win, and the ques sible for every chance they take we must ex Cap. Lutenburg and Jud Smith, our last year's tion remains as .to whether the Brookiyiis pect to see the team take a slu:np in fielding. players, are both playing well. They are a gen I notice that tfleher, of Cincinnati, in hia tlemanly pair of rail players. Buck has har showed evidence of tint nature. game against the Bridegrooms, only allowed 24 PAGES 24 pooned a "beauty" in Delehauty. He is a clean Nothing, perhaps, stirred up the public i5) men to face him. On last Monday Sam M.C- player, and to a certain extent is a place hitter. more than the game of 'Saturday, in which Mackin pitched a game against Billie Barnie's Padden has no peer in the league on second the Brooklyus simply let the Uinciunatis tribe from Hartford, end he not only shut them INDEX TO CONTENTS. base. He is lively and snappy and plays to win. crawl upon them. Since the days of out, but he allowed only two hits, and but 23 O'Brien, Wright and Freeman are doing good the old American Association there men came to bat. How is that for a record? Base Ball News...... Pages 1 to work in the outneld, the latter is not batting as has been a tolerably popular notion in Brooklyn On third base we have Taylor, who is on* Shooting News...... Pages 18 to 22 well as last season, but is throwing well. Wright that Cincinnati was easy picking, and when of the most gentlemanly players I have ever is well thought of as an outfielder here. 1 have later on Buck Elwlng's braves tried to do some met. Taylor has been suffering from a sore Cycling News...... Pages 23 to 24 beard some say he likes the "grandstand" a: lit thing with Brooklyn they were defeated. Cou- finger, but when right this man is capable of tle, but peculiarities of that kind can be over sequently Saturday's game acted upon the pub holding his own with any of them. He, too, haa looked when a man is playing ball all the time, lic taste of Brooklyn like a dose of assafoetida been coming in for a lot of criticism, which as Wright has been doing. following a mouthful of honey. is entirely uncalled for. NEIWS NOTES. A CONUNDRUM. Fitch at short is playing a good, heady game, Captain Sippi's London team has not been play I don't know what to make of these Brook despite the fact that he makes a good many er THE RUSIE CASE. ing as well as expected. lyn chaps. Sometimes they play the fiercest rors; he goes after everything, and that is what Manager Addie Richardson is strengthening his kind of a game, and then they fall into the we want. The interest in the game here seems Hamilton team. dumps and act as though their food didn't agree to grow, and (he attendance is remarkable. The Syracuse team seems to be the cleanest with them. If they would stick religiously to Off last Monday big Mike Lehane, the first WHY THE BOARD OF ARBITRATION fielders in the League. the bracing gales of Jamaica Bay they "might baseman of the Hartfords, was badly spiked, Joe Knight, of Providence, is a great batter. get through the season all O. K., but it never and he is now here. He is unable to get Pig Ward, of Scranton, played well when here. will do to trifle with the enervating breezes around except on crutches, and it will no doubt) TOOK IT UP, Rochester has a good lot of batters. The old- of Coney Island. be some tune before he is again able to play. timers, Shannon, Beard and Mulvey have their Bert Abbey is pitching excellent ball at the All the pitchers are in good trim, and unless eye on the sphere. something unforeseen happens I see no reason why Dunn has been Toronto's most successful pitch present time. It is possible that he will yet The Matter Now Placed in Such Shape come into his good season and be as strong as we should not hold the lead throughout the sea er at home. it was predicted years ago he would be. AH son. Keep up the good work, boys. The writer The bleachers looked well after Fields, Buffa and the "Sporting I Ate" will do you justice. lo's long first baseman, when that team played in pitchers, unless they are wholly unable to pitch, ' That It Can be Acted Upon Speedily Toronto. ^7 ' XT D " AXT have their one good year. It is true there may Pitcher Smith is captain of the team since VAN BRAN. be other pitchers during that year who will be Torreyson was released. He is a very hard better, but the rule holds good, nevertheless. worker, and has the respect of the players, which, and Properly in Justice to All RISIJSG RICHMOND. THE BROOKLYN TEAM enables him to get out of them lots of work. is formidable enough if luck should turn fairly He is at present playing second, and in such a Wells' Team Now Going on a Steady its way, to give any club in the League a red- style that our infield appears to be a stone wall, Parties in Interest. Gait. hot race. Griffin is doing magnificent work this W. L. DILL. Richmond, Va., Jane 9.—Editor "Sporting year; young Jones has been a find, and a good New York, June 10.—Editor "Sporting Life:"—Jake Wells and his little baud of as one, too; Lachance everywhere has made a repu QUINCY'SHARD LUCK. Life"—The special meeting oJE the National piring pennant winners have been plugging along tation for his work at first base, and the other bravely the past month. Step by step they have members of the team are well enough known not lioard of Arbitration, held at the Hoffman to need any particular mention. There may be The Team in a Rut, But the Backers House, in this city, June 8, was convened advanced until now they are in second place with an outside chance tor first. a little wabbling on the part' of the pitchers, Not. Discouraged. no doubt to look particularly into the much but if the Brooldyns buckle fairly into syste discussed differences between the New Bolaud who has now fully recovered from his Quincy, 111., June 0.—Editor "Sporting Life:" recent indisposition, has been contributing a matic team work they will help the pitchers —Quincy is playing in hard luck, but if mouey York Club and Amos Kusie. There great game, and from all points comes well de out of many a bad hole. and energy count for anything we will havo has been so much misunderstanding served praise of his work. RUMORS OP ALL KINDS some good players inside of a week, and then and misrepresentation, surrounding the He is by far the best backstop in the League, have passed commonly in the Metropolitan Base the club is expected to get off the bottom of the Avhole matter, the position of the and this is not an idle boast either, but founded ball district the past week. The Brooklyn and list. Ever sine* the new management took hold National Board and the Board of Directors on fact, winch the records will substantiate. New York dubs have both been announced as in they have been keeping the wires hot in the of the League, that to all Interested It will ap Berte at short, has, true to expectation, round the market, and the Brooklyn Club has been effort to get good players to strengthen the team, pear to have been a wise move on the part ed to his old form, and the game he is putting quoted as a prospective buyer. How the story but so far unsuccessfully. Their telegraph bill of t-h,. Votional Board to take up the matter up is indeed sensational. For a steady play.er originated that Brooklyn and Cincinnati would for two weeks was over §80. They secured half and ascertain ,..._,_,„. little Berte will lead them all. He is not one purchase the Cleveland team and divide the a dozen men with big records, but they proved ITS EXACT STATUS. whose only desire is to shine before his audi players is a matter that I cannot discover. Of to be worthless. From the inception of the trouble much has ences as a grandstand player. His hitting also all rumored dials there was one least likely The management is not discouraged, however, been said by the adherents of the New York has picked up very much. to take place, and whoever evolved the thing and is still scouring the base ball world for Club, who believe that President Freednian Pinder, on second, while at times erratic, cbuld have known very little base ball politics players. President Jones said to-day that Quincy has acted properly, In severely disciplining his is giving perfect satisfaction to all. His playing and combinations. would probably get George; Tebeau, the man .pitcher, Mr. Rusie, and the latter's friends of this difficult position is very neat, and while Personally, if any change is made at any time ager of Fort Wayue, which is a sort of a farm have not been backward iu expressing their views Pod is now over seven, yet his work will com in Cleveland I scarcely look to see the team for Cleveland. Tebeau wants to come to Quincy us to the injustice which they claim has been pare with the youngsters at any time. His hit sold. The possibility that it will be transferred to accept the good offer that has been made done him. One man, however, has maintained ting has been strong and regular. to some other city is always a possibility. So him, but writes that he cannot give a definite and followed a wise course, and held his tongue, Ziinmerman, who has promised to take charge much talk has been made about Cleveland that answer to the proposition until Sunday, when that is Kusie himself, who doubtless is obeying of third, had the misfortune to dislocate his the chances are the team never will rest easy he will reach home. If he comes he will bring the orders of his able attorney. It appears that kneecap, which caused him to be benched for at home. One thing seems certain—Oliver Te- a number of good men with him, but if not Kusie made, through his lawyers, an appeal to a while. This is quite deplorable, as he had bcau is not letting any tricks get away from the offer of Haller. of St. Joe, will be accepted. the National Board to be released from reserva been playing a clean game and his retirement him on this trip. He is ready to come to Quincy with several tion by the New York Club, basing his claim came when it was not wanted. His place has Whether or rot some big syndicate of capital 2Tood men. on the grounds that under the provisions of the been filled by Kain, who, though not fast enough ists is being formed to purchase the New York In either event the Quincy Club will be ma National Agreement the club could not reserve in the position, has been giving satisfaction to and Brooklyn franchises deponent . saith not. terially strengthened. The club has good men him, as it had illegally, unjustly and arbitrarily the management. Rather deponent will say that the New York in it now. but is weak in spots: all it needs withheld his salary. The New York Club took Wells on first, like old wine, improves with Club would undoubtedly be bought from the is a fast infield, a good hitting outfield and one the ground that it was justified in inflicting cer age, and if he does not again lead in this posi present management if it could be secured at more, pitther. and it will be up with the best tain penalties on Kusie, and that as provided in tion then I will miss my guess. a. reasonable pric-e. The Brooklyn Club might of them. The weakest spot is at short. O'Obn- the League Constitution the Board of Directors The outfield is all that can be desired. Snnford, be bought, but the conditions surrounding Brook nell on second is one of the fastest men in the •was the proper tribunal to settle any dispute Groves and Wilson are a fast set of youngsters lyn are very different from those surrounding Association, and is playing phenomenal ball, New York. while Ulrich on third is all right, but there is between a club and its player or players. who rarely ever let a chance for a hit pass them, THE NEW YORK SITUATION. THE APPEAL and their work at times borders on the circus a weak spot between them which must be filled order. I think ix,ost people would like to see some up. The fans are patient, however, and will having been first made to the National Board thing done in New York. I don't know of any stand by the club just the same. in a regular and formal manner it was emi The pitchers are all in first-class trim, and de greater insult, that could be offered than to re nently -proper for the Bferd to take up the clare thnt their salary arms are in nerfect play fuse to accept the credentials of the National matter, and determine whether or not it had ing condition, and judging from .their work thus League, as I understand was done in the case CONDENSED DISPATCHES. far they are correct. Malarky, who was pur of I>e Wolf -Hopper and lien Stevens. Is the jurisdiction in the premises. In the meantime, chased from Washington, has been twirling acting on the position taken by the New National League what it pretends to be or a Special to "Sporting Life." York Club, Mr. President Young, declining to as games in this League that will do credit to the combination of units revolving in eccentric orbs sume the responsibility of calling the Board of best. He has indeed a bright future before him. and at will? The refusal to admit anyone bear Pitcher Frank Pears has signed with Grand Directors together in special meeting to pass The first half of the season will close the ing a National League pass at any park iu the Raj I ids. upon the dispute, communicated with the Indi last of this month, nnd while Lynclib'Tc; is now circuit places the entire organization, in a most The Springfield Club has released inflelder Wril- vidual members of the Board, asking them if they in first nlace the fans are led to think that profoundly ridiculous light. lie Shr-nnon. desired to hold a meeting to pass upon the Wells will take it from her. SIEGEL. 1HE LOGICAL RESULT. The Hartford Club has signed inflelder Hub- Itusie-New York matter, Imt gave them no state However, si range things are happening every land, late of Buffalo. ment of the case as filed with him. The mem BUFFAtiO BITS. day. The recent meeting of the National Boaxd Eac-infielder Charles Brady has been appointed bers of the Board were all of the opinion that of Arbitration, for instance, in New York, sim a New England League umpire. as it was merely a dispute between tho club Shortstop Jjewee's Retirement Not a ply paved the way for the announcement that Dan J. Clure, of Brooklyn, has succeeded Walter and a player they did not deem It necessary Popular Move. Rusie is absolved from reservation. It is bound Herrinpton ait Augusta'* oianager. at this time to have a special meeting about a to come, for there is a clear case of violation' matter which should be readily adjusted bv the Buffalo, N. Y., June 0.—The management of of the conspiracy law if this matter is not clear The Lancaster Club has released pitcher Camp the Buffalo Club certainly made a most unpop ed up in some way. The thing has been grad bell and signed pitcher Sheckard, of York. club and the player. The Board did not'pass ular move when it benched Little Leewe. The upon the question at issue at all, as no case was ually working to a head, and the New York man The Columbus (Ga.) Club has released pitch«» presented to them. club has been almost submerged by vehement pro agement will have to meet the enemy and be Broderick and second baseman Dick Phelan. tests. The tenor of them all is to the effect that 'his'n" unless all signs are misleading. A special meeting of the Texas League has j WHEN THE NATIONAL BOARD Leewe in the past has shown himself a good MR. BYRNE'S STATEMENT. met, however, it had the entire case before them pluyer and that his present poor form is merely been called by President Ward to meet at Aus- / as prepared up to date. After a thorough ex When the rumor fled, through the country that tin June 15. $ temporary. It is "told in Oath" that Leewe's Cincinnati and Brooklyn had purchased the Manager McGunnigle, of Louisville, has offered iU >'*:/ amination of the papers presented the Board release is to be sold by Syracuse. Cleveland franchise President Byrne met his came to the conclusion that as provided in the Wadsworth is pitening in great form these days, $10,000 and three players for short stop Jenniugs, 4 end of it in a usually characteristic way. "So of Baltimore. g regular contract the Board of Directors was the and before the season is much longer he will we have bought a club. I guess not. The Brook proper tribunal to pass upon an appeal of a make monkeys of some of the clubs. lyn company has just as much money invested The York team of the Pennsylvania League* player when suspended or disciplined by his Gremlnger is playing third as it has not been in base ball at the present time as it cares to disbanded on June 10. The League will proUt club, nnd that at the present time it had not played in a long time, and is improving every invest." Yet if the Brooklyn Base Ball Park ably reduce to sis clubs. jjT full jurisdiction to pass upon Kusie's appeal to day. was located in the vicinity of the old grounds The Athletic Club has released pitchers Whife be released from reservation. The matter was Leewe is on the sick order, but will be all on Fifth avenue the stands wouldn't hold the and Sommers, both left-handers, and borrowfd therefore, respectfully referred to the Board of right before long. ** _ crowds. The effort to draw the people out to pitcher Eyler from Philadelphia. f Directors, to pass upon the question as to Manager Rowe and Captain Wise' say that Eastern Park was commendable from a real es The stockholders of the Qniney Ease Iflll whether the penalties imnos-?d by the New Smith is the best catcher in the League, with tate point of view, but unfortunately a great Association have decided to keep the club in York Club were illegal, arbitrary and in viola Urquhart a good second, and in these two they many of the orthodox base ball cranks seem to the Wrestern Association race until JuneJ 17 tion of the terms of the contract signed bv have the best backstops in this league. live in the other direction. only. 1 R"sie. Stearns is simply a total failure as an um ODDS AND ENDS. The Interstate League Board of Directors Wive When this is determined the National Board pire, and any one can influence him any way they Grim nnd Burrell are holding up their end voted the Saginaw Club's franchise to of Arbitration will then determine what It wish by threats. behind the plate in fine style. At that Grim is company, organized in that city this shall do with the original appeal made to it. The Buffalo pitchers seem to be hitting the ball not catching as well as was anticipated three The former owner was dropped i'uc busiue There is now every probability that aa early < as hard as the fielders nowadays. rears ago. tJonae people saw iu him the making I sons. June 13- SPORTING I
interesting game, and was won by Hannivan's new first baseman, named Charles Zeidler, of and Peoria profited by the large atte»dance at drive in the eleventh inning. Hannivaii, whose Brooklyn. the other places. • foot had not healed enough to allow him to get —Beckley is always trying for home run drives, —The Washingtons are playing as fast a game into the game for keeps, was called from the with the result that he spoils his value as a as any team in the League. They are becoming bench to hit in place of Coughlin. Jim hit the br.tsman. line finishers, as their work in the Cleveland first ball pitched over the left field fence, winning and Louisville games will attest. the game. In this game the Pawtucket outfield —Director Abell gives it as his opinion that had sixteen put-outs. a man may have an open countenance and ye* be —Catcher Will Zimmer, of the Lancaster team, Dusty Rlioads has won eight games out of ten close-fisted. was arrested at Union Station, Harrisburg, Juno pitched. Hte batting average is .350. —Pitcher George Blackburn has resigned the 5, 'for crap shooting. He claimed that he was "MACQUE." management of the Austin team, and gone to only a spectator at the crap game. Minneapolis. —The harder Fisher is worked the better he —Old Jimmy Galvin still pitches occasionally pitches. This was expected by those who know NEWS AND COMMENT. for semi-professional clubs in the neighborhood the Andeison boy the best. He is tireless and. of Pittsburg. faithful and thrives on hard work. —President Von der Ahe denies any intention —When will Boston get a first-class catcher —Cedar Rapids has let out pitcher Gragg. again? One who can go in at any time and —Umpire McDonald is a ringer for actor Dan of superseding Manager Roger Connor with Larry O'Dea. stop base running. Boston's great Weakness for Sully. two years has been behind the plate. —Charles Farrell's throwing is below par this —Bill Joyce leads in a popular voting contest in Washington, with a big margin over Mercer, —The veteran McGarr has played ball longer season. than any player on the Cleveland team, and, —Dan Campbell is umpiring in the Atlantic the next man. —Pitcher Seeds keeps up his fine work for the there are four or five more years of ball playing League. Hartford team. Barnie seems to have discov in major league company for "Chippy." —Rockford has signed outfielder Newman, late of ered a wonder. —Charles Hammond, the fastest catcher in the Dubuque. —"Sporting Life" wants good live subscription Iron and Oil League, has been signed by the —Rockford has released third baseman Pat agents in every town. Big money in it. Write Hornells. of Hornellsville, N. Y.. Harlow, tb« OFFICIAL NEWS FROM LEAGUE Flalierty. us for particulars. present catcher, being used as a pitcher. —Columbus has turned the veteran Pete Brown —Manager Walter Burnhatn. of the Brockton, —Manager Tebeau has it all figured out that HEADQUARTERS. ing adrift. Mass.. Club, wants a first-class pitcher and the race and Temple Cup series lies again be —Augusta has released and Oil City signed tween Cleveland and Baltimore, and that third lirst-class outfielder. place will fall either to Boston or Philadelphia. pitcher Conroy. —The crack Western Association Club of Des —-The Roanoke Club has released second base- —During the Newark-New Haven game of Moines is figuring on entering the Western June 4 shortstop Slieehan, of New Haven, dis Secretary Young, ol the Board o! man WhitehiH. league next, season. located his kneecap. Centre fielder Walter, of —Hank O'Day has been appointed a Southern —Eddie Burke is reported as having filed suit New Bedford, is laid up from a similar accident. Arbitration, Promulgates Another League umpire. in New York for $600 against President Fretd- —President Van der Ahe has according to all —Oil City hns signed catcher Fred. Donovan, man for back salary. accounts become a philosopher. He no longer lato of Portland. —Mrs, James Turner, a sister of Manager Nic- rants and raves when his team takes a dive Big Baton ol Contracts, Releases —Lewiston lias released pitcher Stafford and ol. of the Rockfords, was trampled to dea-th by a for the bottom, but sits quietly down and thinka outfieldcr Friel. horse on the 4-th inst. it over. and Suspensions ol Ball Players, —The Brooklyns have not played an errorless —Brackinridge is the home-run, hitter of the New —Pitcher Thornton, of Grand Rapids, who game this season. England League. Up to Tuesday last toe had recently struck out thirteen men, has made —Sandy Griffin has been signed to play with made ten four-baggers. another season record. On June i! he held Mil Washington, D. C., June 6.—Headquar the Scra'nton Club. — "Buck" Ewing is certainly making the Cin waukee down to one safe hit in a full game, and ters National League and American Asso —Pitcher WhitehiH, of the Newark Club, is cinnati team play ball, but the pitchers are help shut them .out. ciation of Professional Base Ball Clubs: ill with pneumonia. ing him out amazingly. —The Mobile Club has signed first basemau. —Con Strouthers is negotiating to purchase —Manager Bosvvorth has signed pitchers Clark Paul Hines, and pitcher Wulsh, and released. CONTRACTS. and Nichols, of the Chicago University team outfielder Gifford. Pitcher Roach's terms were With St. Louis—M. B. Murphy. the St. Joseph Club. —Subscription agents are wanted in every town for his Cape May Club. accepted, but he signed instead with a Western With Chicago—N. F. I-'fetter, O. Dailey. —Walter Brodie's brother, Irvln, is pitching for Association club. With Washington—Lest ei1 German, Charles by "Sporting Life." —Eddie Boyle has been farmed to Grand the Youngstown Club of the Inter-state League, —President Freedman is reported to have re King. and pitching well, too. With Western Association—William Connors, Rapids by Pittsburg. fused to recognize Nick Young passes held by Da —The Botteuuses playing in Rochester and —Big Bill Lange has a collection of 200 pho Wolf Hopper and his: manager, Ben Stevens. F. Ward, C. Farrell, E. J. Cull. tographs of theatrical stars, 75 of which are the If this be true it is an affront to the League With Southern Association—N. Fisher, G. Hartford are brothers. likenesses, of soubrettes. itself. What next? Brookfield, H. Schmidt, J. Wiemau, William —Joe Corbett has been recalled from Norfolk Wittrock, C. Buschnmn, A. Gifford, S. Payu- —Pitcher Gillon and fielder O'Brien, late of —It must be a new and decidedly pleasant ex by the Baltimore Club. the Rochester Club, have been signed by the perience for Captain Joyce, of the Washingtons, - ter, F. Lohbeck, F. Hahn, G. Casey. J. Dobbs, —Pitcher Hawley has not won a game from J. Gond;rig, G. McGiunis, W. G. Bowman, J. Hornellsville, N. Y., Club. to find his team In the first division. He de Ilustou, John F. Houseman, A. Powell, William Baltimore in two years. —Breitcnstein declares that he doesn't want serves to enjoy it, for tothlrn. more than anybody York, J. Dowie, L. Smith, C. Carl, K. J. —The most persistent kicker in the Western his release from St. Louis now, as he is well else is the credit due. Knox. R. L. German, J. B. Wiley, E. H. League is Perry Werden. treated and. likes the town. —On Tuesday last, while at work at the Phil Deady, L. Bailoy, W. L. Pceples, Mike Kehoe, —Des Moines has released pitcher Harry Bur- —Goruiskey, of St. Paul, has loaned infielder adelphia City Hall, the once noted player, "Roar Edward I'abst, J. J. Meara, W. Kellum, Ed. J. rill, to reduce expenses. Hollingsworth to Burlington as a favor to his ing Bill" Harbridge, had his foot crushed by Sheeban, P. Dillard, K. J. Mangan, V. J. —Brodie is not batting in anywhere near the old chum, Bobby Caruthers. the fall of a heavy joist. He was» taken to hia Drinkwater, C. 1'cdroes Ed. Daniels, II. H. form that he did last year. —Pittsburg has recalled third baseman Jud home, at 4013 Wallace street. Hall. C. Hughes, F. Carroll, H. Phelan, L. —Bangor has released pitcher Gildea and Smith from the Toronto annex, and is playing —Tebeau says; "It's peculiar how uncertain, Williamson, H. Hunt, II. Miller, .T. Flournoy, Pawtucket has signed him. him in place of Lyons, injured. pitchers are as a rule. Take a young pitcher A. Gibson. B. S. Norton, F. Walker, F. A. —Pitcher Brown, of New Castle, is looming up —The Dubuque Club has signed three new with an arm of iron and train him up carefully, Cross. J. MoDade, J. Fields, Wm. H. Callihan, as a rising young twiiier, pitchers- named Do-lan-, of Rockford; Roach, of and by the time yon have built a good head, oil J. Wagner, M. Phillips, T. Taurney. —Chamberlain is keeping in trim by playing Des Moines, and Billy McGinley. his shoulders his arm is gone." With Texas-Southern League—Kohnle, Weber, with amateur clubs in Buffalo. —Now that Anson has seen all the League O'Conner, Clark, Quigg, Land, Valdois, Hughes, —Dick Cooley, the Browns' star outfielder, is teams he sizes them up as Baltimore the best, Creel ey, Mulkey, Callahan, Chamberlain, Country —Billy Keeler has developed a weakness in sick with typhoid fever. He will not be strong with Chicago and Cleveland' well up, followed by men, Sage, Jantzeu, Lynch, Van Dresser, Oswald, throwing in from the outfield. enough to play again this year. Cincinnati, and Boston not one-two-three. Phil Bailey, Neiss, Mencfee, Oonover, Minnehan, —Jack O'Connor lost an uncle in the St. Louis —Manager C. Hagan, of the Wolcott (N. Y.) adelphia is also left out of Anson's list. tornado. His name was Griffin. Gray, Prichai-d, Bastian, EUberfield, Kalkhoff. Club, would like to hear from a. left-handed —The Royalton Club, of Royalton, Dauphin Robinson. Ashenback, Ward, Carlo, Steinfeldt, —Pitcher Dolieny is undergoing electrical treat pitcher and some good infielders. County, Pa., is looking for dates with any club M'Allister, Nance, Isaacs, Meyers, Baramert, Wol- ment for his lame pitching arm. —New Bedford has dropped catcher Sharpe going that way. The manager is David Duna- over. Gear, Fabian, Starley,' Stapleton, Mackey, —Weyhing was knocked out in the very first and signed catcher Dan Burke, formerly of vau. He claims to have the strongest semi- Donabue, Zigler, Blackburn, Il.eydon, \Veikart, game he pitched for Rochester. Springfield, and pitcher Willie Day. professional team in that section of the State. Hoffman, Nies, Weilner, Dawkins, Slagle, Staf —Short stop "Shorty" Fuller on Saturday last fer. Cote, Reed, Rankin, Reagan, McGownn, ,f. —Wheeler, of Bangor, looks like the star pitch —The Augusta Club has released manager W. er of the New England League. received notice of release from New York, which C. Herrington to reduce expenses, by having a Roach. R. Roach, McCorruick. Leeson, McHenry, club has a superfluity of short stops. Brott. Sivearinger, Weckbc-cker, Koinmer, Belt, —Catcher Otten lias found his way to the playing manager. Any club in need of a capable Hoover, Watkins, Badger, Bun-is, Hardy, Page, San Antonio (Texas) League Club. —Brockton has signed a new third baseman in manager can address Mr. Herrington at Augusta Elsey. Douglas, Griffin, Kleman, Jones." Miller, — Frank Genius has been traded to Columbus by tlie person of James HeaJey, who was with the until June 17, and after that date at Sharon, Pa. Dwyer, Herbert, Parvln, Neyins. Crotty. Grand Kapids for Bobby Wheelock. Minneapolis team in the Western League. —Vice President Forster and Director Lihoa With Central Pennsylvania League—I'. Russell, —Pitcher Nicbols. of Chicago University, has —The Youngstown Club has added to its team have resigned from the directory of the St. P. J. Hurchinson, B. L. Beck. K. Kern. W. declined a liberal offer from Boston. infieldcr Billy Donovan and left-ha.nded pitcher Louis Club, giving as their reason that Von der Jamison, W. H. Nattress. D. Ryan, A. Cross, —Al. Reach says he has more respect for a Doc O'Comior aaid pitcher Harry Jordan. Ahe released Manager Diddlebock without giving F. Fleming. G. Hill, N. Grady. good old has-been than for a iievjr-was. —Frank Shannon, of the Louisvilles, has been him a chance to disprove the charges against With New Pacific I/eague—C. Van Gieson, G. —Williams, of Lewiston. is the best base steal- handicapped by malaria this season, but his him. Klopt. J. Hughes". J. Fanning. er of the New England League pitchers. work is showing marked improvement HOW. —Silver King narrowly escaped heavy loss With Now Pacific League—C. Van Gieson, G. —Anson sets a good example in hurrying the from the St. Louis tornado. He owns a row of Coyle, P. Radford, G. Henry, T. Methoff. — Baltimore has won and lost more games by game along. He keeps his men moving from first houses in Gratiot street. South St. Louis, situ With Atlantic, League—William Seeds, W. one run than any other League team. to last, and be is on the lines all the time. ated about two blocks from the scene of devasta Da vis. Edward Daly, J. A. Bannon. —Paul lladford lias a batting percentage of —John Handiboe. once a noted player, is tion. The property, worth about $9000, was but With Kastern League—J. Wright, T. Dsle- over .300 in the New England League. pitching for the GalliopolLs. O., team. He is partially insured. hanty. II. J. Enrle, J. M. Keeuau, W. —Silver King now weighs 1S5 pounds, which looking for a trial in the Western League. —The most noticeable thing about California VoilSht. is less than he has carried in ten years. —Catcher and outfielder George Lowe would ball players is their love for good clothes. What TERMS ACCEPTED. —Cleveland has done the steadiest playing iu like to secure a position on a professional team. players can compare with Jim Fogarty, Tom. With Chicago— W. J. McCormick. the League race from the start to date. Address 335 Bleecker street. Brooklyn. N. Y. Brown, Fred Carroll, Ed. Morris and Bill Langa With Southern Association—P. Boland, J. —Captain Joyce is firm in the belief that —Manager Shannon, of Rochester, has released when it comes down to tasty dress and disposi O'Connell. Cleveland will finish ahead of Baltimore. | pitcher Gillon. His staff of twirlers will now tion to enjoy the best in life? With New Pacific League—J. J. Nugent. —Cy. Young says he is using his slow ball j be McFarlan, Herman, Lovett and Weyhing. —There is a rumor going the rounds that the Gleason, Conrad. more than ever, so as to nurse his speed. 200 League players intend to chip in ami pay With New England Leagua—Ned Smith. —Grand Rapids has signed a Chicago City —All of the attachable property of the De- League catcher by the name of Hlckey, who Amos Rusie his salary for holding out against With Virginia League—Frank Hill. Freedman.—"Record." Bosh! League players With Texas-Southern—Luke- Welch. catur till.) Club lias been seized for debt. will be given a thorough trial behind the bat. —The Washington (Pa.) Club *has released are not built that way; besides, they have RELEASED. —On Friday, June 5, an Eastern League off- no personal interest in Rosie's case. By New York—N. F. Pfeffer. catcher Grant. Briggs to reduce expenses. day, Providence beat Newport 9 to 8, and Syra —-Lewiston has diopped pitchers Stafford and cuse beat Mark Baldwin's Auburn team 10 to 1. —The matter of tho Detroit Club playing Sun Bv St. Louis—J. II. MeDougal. day games at Mt. Clem ens has been taken into By Philadelphia—Bert Inks. Ferson, two veteran New England pl-iyers. —Jouett Meekin says his speed will have re the courts upon the application of a Mt. Cle- I5y Western Association—R. Thompson, J. —Tlie Richmond Club has purchased pitcher turned to him by the time tho horns of the Glor men Sabbatarian for an injunction. President Spratt. A. Maucks, J. Delaney, J. Trainer, Ben Mallarky outright from the Washington Club. ious Fourth begin to toot and the guns to belch. Vanderbeck, of the Detroit?, will tight the case to White. —The Paterson Club has suspended pitcher —Connaugr.ton appears to Lave recovered from the utmost and is confident of victory. By New Pacific League—F. W. Fowler, Wm. Viau for the season for alleged drunkenness. the stage fright with which he was afflicted —Yale's annual election of base ball officers Caverley. N. T. O'Neill, E. Pitt. —Eddie Burke is showing New Yorkers that he early in the season, and is putting up a fast was held June !), when the following men were By New England League—G. Garnie, J. Car- can play ball and behave when he wants to. game. chosen: President, George Brooke, Birdsboro, roll, N. M. Donovan, C. Gildeau, W. D. De —Yon can make money by securing subscrip —Bug Holliday announces that thus is his last Pa.; vice president. C. li. Bement, Terre Haute, laney, J. J. Nolan, J. J. McDerinott. J. Conroy. tions for "Sporting Life." Write for particulars. season iu base ball. He says he will accept an Iud.; secretary, W. L. Fenry, Albany; assis By Atlantic league—D. Dunkle, Otten. offer to enter the mercantile business in St. tant manager/F. H. Simmous, Brooklyn. By Virginia League—P. A. White, P. Jones, —The championship season of the Cum her la ml Valley League opened last Wednesday, June' 10. Louis. —Fred Pfeffer has instructed his attorney, John W. Vaught, E. Gallngher, E. Glenn. —Lackey, an amateur pitcher from Avoca, the By Eastern League—Samuels, Inks, Tierney, —Pitcher Newell, of Augvsta, has not lost a M. Ward, to bring suit against the New York full game in which he has pitched this season. native town of Hughey Jeuaings, the famous Base Ball Club (New York Amusement Com O'Callahan, W. A. Stuart: Baltinore short stop, seems to be Wilkesbarre's pany) for arrears of salary he claims is due. SUSPENDED. —Tobeau says Bosio i is weak in. catchers, not pitchers, and he is pretty nearly riglit, as usual. lucky pitcher. him. The amount claimed is four weeks' com By Central Pennsylvania League—William —FrsJik K. Doeshburg, an outfielder and a pensation and perhaps pay for the ten days be Jaiuison, A. Cross, D. Uynn. —Lewiston has released Pettee. McDonald is slated to take his place as player and captain. goal batter, late of the Canadian League, de sides. By New Pacific League—W. T. Pclham, C. T. sires an engagement. Address Frank Doeshburg, —"Ted" Sullivan was attacked by a mob in Black. —The Detroit Club lias unconditionally released Holland, Midi. returning from the grounds at New Haven ou By New England League—Stanley Yerkes. pitcher Pears, who recently refused to be farmed —During their stay at Washington last week Monday and had to return to his hotel under By Pennsylvania League—T. Dwyer, Wetzel, out. Manager McGunnigle and his Colonels went to police protection. The game was postponed on O'Hara, E. ' Young, McCoaeh. —Jimmy Manning hns been taking his nged the White House and were received by Presi account of rain, and the crowd wanted liauk; By-Atlantic League—W. C. Osbornc. father on a trip around the Western I on a soggy diamond, got a pretty clear idea of j game, especially during ths past ten days. why the Washington OUib was winning. It i The next man to go was William McCormicIs, rained before the game, 'and Aiison shook his ! the young third basemau who was farmed out head sadly aud said to Manager SchrueU: "Too CHICAGO GLEANINGS. 1 to New Orleans hist season, and whom Chicago bad. too bad. This will keep the Chicago Club I tried to get last fall. Before McCormick wits from winning three straight here." When U let go,, however, Frank tichiebecU was aecured was all over the Colts u-ad one run, presented to plav third base, and McCoraiick was traded by Selbacti. who did not exert Himself on the THE RESULT OF THE COLTS' TRIP to Chicago for D;bby F'lyun. the little outfielder, heavy footing to get. Audersou's easy tjy in the who had been playing with the Colts up to two ninth. The hitting of the Senators, King's weeks ago. With Schiebe playing third there great pitching and Joyce and De Moiitreville's & DISAPPOIKTMENT. was really no use for another inflelder, and .at llelding were features: likewise Ansou's repartee that time it was feared the outUeld was a lit with the umpire. I'feffer was tendered a great tle \veak. There has been a decided brace in ovation, and played good ball, making a clever the outfield during the past two weeks, and stop of a hot liner. Hopes For Pleifer's Rejuvenation— Flynn has not had an opportunity of showing MINOR MENTION. Hist' what he could do. He has been sick since Reilly and McBride at Home—Ama• joinine the team, but will be tried out just as It may be added to the statement that the soon as he is able to play. Chicago players are always domiciled at the Notwithstanding the fact that the club haa best hotels that they do not wear out their teurism at a Discount in Chicago- been playing gilt-edged ball, the team is in a welcome by wearing out carpets with spiked sadly crippled condition. Fred Roat is not fit to shoes. Each Chicagoan has an extra piiir Qf work. He is suffering from a strained side and light tan gaiters, which he dons immediately Is Base Running Becoming a Lost Art? a bruised leg. Blood poisoning was threatened CAPITAL. after a game. Consequently the "Chicago Club," this morning. Bob Woods has a bad leg, but is as Anson says, "enters, their hotel with fairy- forced to go into the game while Hoat. is laid like tread, where most other clubs come trooping Chicago. June 8.—Editor "Sporting up. George Cross has not been himself for two in the corridors like a squadron of cavalry." Life"—Still the weary days go on aud thu THE SENATORS NOW FLOATING IE A peculiar play was made !hore in the second weeks and Martin Hogan is very sore. Flynn Louisville game. Frazer hit a sharp drive to Colts get it in the neck with unremitting is sick and McCarthy lame. Still the boys will Cartwright. which struck, the big first baseman's persistency. There is just one rift iu the and win right along. When they all round to GOOD COMPANY, shin aud rebounded across the diamond to Rogers, darkness and thut is the two wallopings again they will set sail for the Detroit aggre who caught Warner on his way to third. the gang gave Boston. Well, Boston is gation, which lias l>een lucky enough to hold John Mallarkey has been released to the Rich easy, anyway. Griffith has one soft, easy the lead with but one break since the season thing from- year to year, a mark that he opened, and when that outfit it overhauled they Tlie Club Well Fortified in Pitchers mond Club, with the proviso that the Washing will be sent down the ladder at a lively rate. ton management is to have first call on his ser can nurs£ and have i'uh with and fatten The pitching find of the season seems to be vices after the close of the season. up his pitching record with, and that is Dan Monroe. who was secured from Newcastle, and Good Substitutes—Incidents ol Four o'clock shower* and threatening skies the Boston Club. That gang never could Pa., this spring. Monroe has been pitching re have played havoc with the attendance at Louis touch Griff, aud they made only about markable ball since .joining Indianapolis, and ville and Chicago games. half a dozen hits off him the other day. Recent Games and Comment Upon Algie McBride, the Washington player, ac has yet to lose a championship game. He is cording to Chicago players, was released not AS TO PFEFFEU, tho coolest man in the box in the Western because he cmildn't hit the ball, but on ac The reports of 1'feffer's playing are a bit League, and for a youngster shows remarkable the Visiting Western Teams, Etc, count of weak fielding. He objected to being more encouraging. It looked, when Fred judgment. In fact, Monroe has responded to farmed out. first joined the team, as if he was every call which has been made tipon him and Ed. Cartwrisht has now struck his gait, and is truly a has been, especially in the batting line. is ready for more. To say that be was popular Washington, D. C.. June 9.—Editor doing unexcelled work in all departments of the But he turned loose Saturday and made u home with the local cranks would be putting it mildly. "Spurting Life:"—Pretty comfortable feel- game. run. and now all is lovely for Freddie. Fred's Indianapolis has not got n poor pitcher on iujj this to breathe the rare zone of tho batting average so far this season is .120; field the staff. The two old men, Phillips and Cross, Of all Mie backstops who have performed he_re ing, .845—sad figures, indeed, for one who used have both done very creditable work, although lirst division, aud to mingle with clubs of this season Washington fans again pick Jim to be the king. I look for him to improve from the latter has been in bad shnpe for a week. championship timber. It's really enough to McGuire as the star of the Leaeue. And very now on right along. He ought to be iu shape Phillips is in his old '94 form, and pitching win a'ake the oldest inhabitants Ulzzy to see few of them hit the ball harder than "Mac." by this time. He is now accustomed to the ning ball. There has been much favorable the Washington Club cutting up among the •JOHN HEYDLER. other inflelders, and matters ought to be smooth comment over the work of Billy Dammnmi. and big six. Here it is June the Dili, witn and pleasant for him. It's a cinch he gets along it looks like, with a little more experience, j-earlv one-third of the season gone, and MOURNFUL MONTGOMERY. well Anson. That old breach is healed, prob IIP would prove the star left-hander of ^be uot one less than half a dozen -mighty good, ably never to be re-opened. Western league. He hns plenty of speed and bull clubs have been forced into the wake The Team on the Toboggan Slide IlEILLY AND M'BRIDE curves galore, but. he is off in his judgment at of the fast-sailing Senators. Whether they and the Fails Disgusted. are here, sent home from' the road. That must times, and it will tnke experience to make him will continue to take the wash of the Montgomery, Ala., June 7.—Editor "Sporting have been to save hotel bills, or else the old steady! Dnvls Is another popular idol, and h !s Senatorial crew, of course, is another Life:" —"Help, help help!" We are gone, aud man must think MeConnick is the real thing work' since he joined the club would tend to mutter, but so long as the club no mistake. We have lorgotteu tho game and and worth carrying as a substitute. The crowd make him such. plays in anything like its present how to hit. The past Week has fully demon here wore iu love with Reilly, and hated to Ace Rtpwart is playing the snm»» style of gnniff form, and the pitchers keep up their excellent strated the fact that the New Orleans players see him sent home, and McBride has a host of at second that he did when with Sioux City, nnd work it is no wild prediction thut we will finish are a class by themselves, and we can't handle admirers. Algernon, it is said, is one of those he is really the only second basetnan which In above four other clubs at least. Specifications them. unlucky youug players who can kill minor dianapolis tins had since joining the Western are reserved until that long wind-up stretch on Everybody expected we would get one at the league pitching, but lose themselves when they League. This fact does not lessen his popu tbe home grounds begins. lowest calculation, but what a surprise when get into the big League. I don't think so. larity here. Stewart hns the team well in STRONG IN ALL POINT'S. they put the fixings on us for the entire series Tils last few games that Algle played there was I'nnd and keeps them bnrd at work nil the time. In Mercer, Maul and King we now have a trio (and won three, all with ease, too). Next came nothing the matter with his stick work—nothing He is playing a. brilliant fielding game him ftf pitchers about as steady as that of any club Billy Wittrock'a Black Birds. We managed to but singles, doubles, triples and home runs— self and hitting the ball hard. in the League. Mercer has pitched iu twelve win the first one, but maybe they did not put and hi- was catching flies by the barrel. Frank Motz is nlayiicc a much better game winning games, lost two, and tied one. Could it, back on us in the second game, with Hahm AMATEURS DON'T INTEREST. than be did in '05. He snys that this is dun Kusie equal this'.' It is a pleasure to watch in the box. The kid had our men fanning the I saw Algie and Josh play yesterday. There to the fact that h<» captained the team last Mercer pitch. Everything is done easily and air, and -all the Gladiators could do was to get was a game to settle the question of which team season and t'>at interfered with his own work. gracefully, and he never loses his .temper or be four little scattering hits, and they shut us out was the best outside the Colts in Chicago, the Johnny McCarthy is doing the heavy execution comes discouraged with poor support. He is de (the first one, too. of the season). Speaking of old-time Whitings, or the Illinois Cycling Club, with the stick just now. He outclnsae.s an* liberate, but not quite to such an extent as the Mobile team I can't see why they are not a likely gang of bicyclists. The Whitings rung other left-fieVlpr in the league. Roth Boh when Manager Schiuelz introduced him here in up in the race, for they have as nice a team in McBride in left, which he played all right, Woods and Dick Buckley are doing excellent and all of them bard hitters, Wittrock and and Keilly on second, which he played very rot work behind th<-> lint. Tn fact, there can be no 1803. He was thought slower than Cuppy in complaint found with the way in which the those days. Fisher in particular. tenly. The young man who was pitching for the Washington now has so many good players There is but one thing the matter with our cyclists likewise fanned hinl out, and the crowd bovs nre r>lavinc hall up to the present time. that a change could be made in almost any team, and that is they have quit hitting al laughed themselves into hysterics. McBride. on George Hocriever hns fallen off in bi« bntfinc position without materially weakening the club, together. M.iughan, Peeples. Pabst, Dilliard, the other hand, went up four times, and made a nnd is richt now not playitrr as cood ball, nt aud this has proven a big factor in the stand Deadey and Merea seem to be the only ones double, a triple, and two singles. Rain came last season. There is no fear, however, but ing of the team. Captain Joyce's latest move that can hit any more. Dilliard is no doubt tho down in the eighth, when it was still anybody's that he will come round all Kelit 'n n short is the return of Abbey to right field, and tho best find of the season, for he is a fine hard game, with the Whitings ahead, S to 6. time. He is one of the best minor lentrue ball way the blonde fielder is cracking the bail hitting fielder and no mistake. The experiment of an electrical dummy game, players in the business and }«' n vlnnMp "inn •round the lot is a caution. Jack Crooks has by the way. has been tried here, and was a to any club. HAL W. REED. been sent to second, and Joyce took his old frost. The cranks paid no more attention to the (ttaud at third. It is tbe team of 1S95 as far as scheme than If it had never been heard of. Small HAPPY HARTFORD. the positions are concerned. The addition of a e s e est an surest twirer we ha crowds—very small—go to the amateur games pood shortstop and winning pitchers, however, wins oil the close and exciting games. around town. In fact, the enthusiasts of Chi Barnie's Boys Slowly But Surely means a great deal. To improve the club's field Kid Peeples, the best shortstop in the League, cago simply want National League hall, and Climbing up. ing is undoubtedly the aim of the latest change. is putting up the game of his life, and saves nothing else, and no substitute diversion will at SOME EXCITING CONTESTS. many runs. Old Reliable Ed. Pnbst cannot be tract them. Hartford, Conn.. Juno S.—Editor "Sporting Tiic ciub has won seven or the last tun games beaten on the initial bag. and is always in the A LOST ART. Life:"—For the tirst time since the opening of aud lied one. Two out oi' three were taken game. Tlint about completes the gang. The rest I hnve just completed my regular monthly table the Atlantic League season the Hartl'oids won a t'n.im tbe Pirates, an eveil split with the Spiders, of them are just tolerable and playing ordinarily. of League averages. I make McCreary. of' Louis Saturday game last week. Uu-ee straight from tho iii-i'ated Colonels, and •The Mobile team released outfielder Gifford ville, lead with a. percentage of .438. Really The Hartfo-rds are slowly but surely climbing one easy one from Uuele Ausou. There's a record while here, not through any inability of ball Uia.t boy is a slugging wonder. Our own Bill their way towards the top. and the more en as good as that of the. champions. playing, but .lust simply because they had too Lans?e is fifth, with .393. Miller, of Cincinnati, thusiastic fans are getting ready the pole from * all the trips with the New Yorks, and as he is week by Messrs. Henry Hesse and F. L. Bauer, smooth faced and usually wears a soft shirt, he to a stock company, composed of Henry Dye, is often mistaken for one of the players. Warren Cowles, Kobt. Frazier and W. T. Van "After the second defeat in Philadelphia, be Brunt. The price paid for the franchise was fore we started West," said Dryden, "the play very little, it ony being $500. ers entered the Hanover by the rear door. Short The only reason the former owners gave for ly after the return to the hotel I was standing their selling was that they were disgusted with. outside when two boys came along tossing a base FOREST CITY FAIS PROMISE TO SUP the showing made by the team, although tlu-y ball. One of the lads supposing I was one of were making money. The sale was completed the New York players said to me, as he of about 2.30 o'clock Thursday afternoon a week fered me the ball. 'Say, do you know what that PORT THE CLUB HEREAFTER. ago. As soon us the new men got hold of it tho is? What do they play with in New York?' Then boys looked pleased, • and that afternoon scalped as he tossed the ball up in the air and caught the Quincys. it. he added, 'Can you do that?' As he said that After the game they left for a long trip of 2-t he started to run as though he expected' a num That Sell-Out Fake Scared Them— games. At Quiucy they took two out of three ber nine shoe to be aimed at his anatomy." and took the series from Burlington, and the first If the boys ireet with many experiences of this Great fork of Tebeau and His Team game from Peoria, making it 6 out of the last kind in the sedate village of Philadelphia, we 9 games played. That is a pretty good record. feel for them, and say that they are justified in If the boys keep up their present gait when. entering their hotel by the rear gate—sometimes. in the East—Interesting Gossip they come home they will have a dead cinch on second place. ABOUND THE BASES. It is not Manager Haller now, he has been re NEW YORK NEWS. Harry Davis is wearing smoked glasses while About the Game and the Players, lieved of that responsible position by Mr. Dye. facing the sun in left field. He has not been released, however, and will Jedge Culloni made his first appearance of the continue to hold down first base. season at the 1*010 grounds last week. He re Cleveland, June1 9.—Editor "Sporting When the team gets home they will be mater GIANTS PLAYING WELL, BUT MAKING minds us of Andy Boswell, because he is so dif Life"—"Come home, boy&, and we'll show ially strengthened by the addition of Voix, a ferent. you whether we appreciate you or not" cracker-jack shortstop from the K. C. (Blues. LITTLE PROGRESS. Mike Tiernan leads the New Yorks in batting was the wording of a telegram sent the Jimmy Manning has loaned him to the St. Joe with a percentage of .392. Mike is hitting the Cleveland players by a lot of local en Club. N. EDWARDS. ball to both fields this year. Then talk about thusiasts alter the second victory in Bal young bloods! timore. That dispatch just about expresses MAD MILWAUKEE. Unable to Gather up the Necessary Breitenstein was knocked out of the box last Thursday. He is troubled with a sore finger. the sentiment of Cleveland fans at present. He says that he is satisfied with the treatment Maybe it's the magnificent work of Te Advantages Gained at Home Thrown Consecutive Run ol Yictories—Tae he is receiving, and. does not want his release. beau's team and maybe it's the scare Away on the Road. The Mets are now holding second place. in the ABOUT THE SELL OUT of the club that has aroused this sudden Milwaukee, June 9.—Editor "'Sporting Life:"— Atlantic League race, and they are a great card One of tiie first things vhe doctor does, with a Pitching Department Doing Well in every town on the Atlantic circuit. outburst of enthusiasm. patient is to find out "what's the matter." Th3 Frank Connaughton's fine work at short last Whichever it is, it's mighty welcome. army of base ball patrons in this vicinity, al and the Cripples All Bounding to, Friday contributed largely to the New Yorks' vic You can hear more base ball talk though not doctors, have, i-pvvever, for the past tory over the St. Louis team on that day. He on the streets nowadays than you two weeks been trying to find out "what's the threw three men out at third who tried to get could three weeks ago, when the matter" with Manager Twitchell's aggregation there from second on sharp grounders. Con- club was at home. I really believe New York, June 8.—Editor "Sporting ni-ighton's batting v,as also very good, and con of pJaycrs. Life"—Although Arthur Irvvin's men re the attendance will be much better when the To ihose watching tli<» Brewers play from afar sidering the way he has been si ifted around he boys come home. Goodness knows the grand there certainly seems to be sumathing very main iu tenth place, they have improved is putting up a fine game. stand, pavilion and bleachers can stand a raise in their percentage during the past teu days. mud. wrong. Going away with, a remarkable Jim Stafford is doing nicely and will soon be this direction, and if the boys do not deserve record of brilliant wirk on the local grounds, Tebeau's Spiders were the first of the in the ganv» again. Parko Wilson's finger is not good patronage then they will return Thursday with as remarkable a Western visitors, and with them the Mew badly injured, and he will be in line in a few NO CLUB EVER DID. record for poor work on foreign grounds. Out Yorks evened up, as the third game of days. The Cleveland papers devoted much space to of the last 13 games the Brewers have won 4 the series was prevented owing to rain. Should Philadelphia desire to part with Kid the silly rumor about the team having been sold games. With the team Manager Twitchell has Then came the Chicago aggregation of run Carsey, the local club would do well to talk out to Brush and Byrne for $100,000, but I did there should be no excuse for such a poor show away Colts, under the direction of that business. Carsey Ihes in this city, and was al not consider the report of sufficient worth to bur ing, vnlcss it was that, flushed with their many noted thespian, Captain Auson. alias Cap ways anxious to play here. den the wires with the ninny denials and expla victcrics at home, they became indifferent iu tain Adrian. The ex-actor dropped two Shorty Fuller has been given ten days noticje nations that were made. If the Cleveland team their playing abroad. games and pocketed one. Then came Koger of release, but it is not likely that the clever should ever bo sold In the recent games the base-hit and error little short stop will drop to a minor league as "SPORTING LIFE" WILL BE INFORMED columns certainly show that the Brewers have Connor's Browns, who shared the same his field work is of high order. If Shorty could as promptly as Mr. Sage's wires can bear the fare as Anson's white-legged Colts. I bat he would be one of the most valuable men not played the game they are capable of, espe almost forgot to mention that the Louis news to Philadelphia, but the present story was cially was this so in the Grand Rapids series, in the business. Another case of the tantalizing lacking in both probability and originality. and what a body blow the dropping of three out ville aspirants, under tha careful tutelage "if." WM. F. H. KOELSCH. WAS IT LOADED? of McG-unnigle, also succeeded in getting of four games to the Gold Bugs wa» to 113 A few of those who essay to know it all pro here! one game out of three. There is really no SULLIVAN'S STEERS. fess to believe . that the story was started for a Another game with Detroit and the Brewers reason why I should forget the Colonels, purpose, and that the purpose was to scare the will be home for a series of eight games with because they made a far better showing The New Havens Sadly in Need of life out of the Cleveland fans and make them St. Paul and Minneapolis. Let's hope after these than either the Ansonites or the Browns. rosolve by all that's good to go to every game are over that Twitcheil's players will, be some But perhaps you have noticed that the One More Good Pitcher. hereafter. where near the leaders instead of ia their New Yorks have not as yet succeeded in landing New Haven. June 3.—Editor "Sporting Life:"— If that was the purpose of the scheme it was present position—sixth place. three straight at any time this season. They The playing of the New Haven team during fairly successful, for it took three days, of hard Pitcher Clausen has so far showed up very have not been treated to a coat of whitewash the past two weeks would have been a conun work on the part of four daily newspapers to con poorly. The general opinion exists that unless by any club, and they are fast nearing the .500 drum which the most intelligent crank will fail vince the real rooters that the story was a fake. he greatly improves he will not do. Surely if mark. But Arthur Irwin and Kid Gleason have to solve. After taking two games from Hart A MORE PLAUSIBLE THEORY he was in any kind of form Ijouisville would been making every effort to break the three ford on Decoration Day it looked as though we is that some smart young writer in the East, who not have let him out, and I have always held straight hoodoo. had broken the bad spell, but during the past was aware that the paper first publishing the that a pitcher that will not do with tail-end ALL UPHILL. WORK. week we have won only two games, and those story was "new" and that its sporting editor was teams of the National League can hardly ex In order to reach the first division the team with Fry in the box. not'familiar with the moldy chestnut about Mr. pect to do with fast teams of the Western must win a run of games at home in addition Fry seems to ba our only stand-by, and a Robison selling his great team, a chestnut that League. ,,*.,. to at least holding its own on the road. For right good one he is, too. Out of 12 games ripens just about this time every year. Short stop Wetterer, the pronounced Western over a month the team has been playing fine won by the team he has pitched In 10 of the ITS EAR MARKS. league wonder, has been unable through illness ball, but tenth place has not been vacated, victories, and his work in each game has been The story had all the ear marks of improbabil to play in the last few games. Mrzena has been and as June is well under way it will require phenomenal. Garvan and Mackey, while at times ity. In the first place none of those who hasten taking his place. a good strong and steady pull to land the New pitching good ball, have been batted pretty freely ed to swallow the story stooped to consider that, -Stafford had 21 put-cuts in one of the Colum Yorks in the first division. If the boys rceet by the other teams, and their support has not desiring to get out of the. League was one thing bus games. He still continues to hit and with as much success in their games with the been of the best. What we need is a good and getting out was another; tbat $100,000 was field his position brilliantly. Eastern clubs as they did with the Western pitcher to help out Fry, .and no more experi a great price to pay in Rettger is still the club's winning pitcher. teams we will surely land in the first division. ments. THESE PIPING TIMES George is dealing out all kinds of curves this But while the New Yorks play good ball away Sheehan, our hard-working little short stop, of political excitement; that Cleveland at its season. from home it is the hardest work of the year was badly hurt in the Newark game on Thurs worst was infinitely superior to Indianapolis at Spear is easily holding his own with any to win games in Philadelphia find Boston, es day, and protiably will not be able to play for its best, and that if any such deal, as was spok catcher in the League. He is doing all the pecially in the Matter town, where the New several weeks. Thug the team has been weak en of, was on hand JohirT. Brush would sec to backstop work for the it-am at present. Yorks do well to win one game in three. Of ened again in the position where many games it that the Reds as well as the Bridegrooms were Nonamaker has been hit pretty hard in recent course things may be different this year, but were lost before we secured the Cleveland boy. helped out. games. He may do, however. Manager Sullivan has signed Leo Smith to fill But why discuss the story at all? It was ab 6 HARRY FRANCIS. we can only judge the future by the past. Be the- gap at short, and as far as fielding goes he surd on its face and was unworthy the attention cause even in the palmy days of 1888 and 1889 it received and the cost of telegraph tolls in ob the trips to the Hub never improved the New will do very well, but his batting has been la U LONG'S LONGING mentably weak, although in the last Newark taining denials. Yorks' standing. At Baltimore a formidable foe games played in this city he led his team in WONDER? will be waiting for the boys, and the Brooklvn batting. Wonder how much Freedman would be ahead For Better Players Not Being Grati team plays championship ball at Eastern Park. now if it was the Cleveland team or players that It will thus be seen that there is something With the boys on their own stamping ground fied to Any Extent. they should put up a good article of ball and was representing New York on the diamond in Wilmington, Del., June 10.—The Wilmingtoua more than sentiment in the effort to overcome stead of the present Giants? Ten to one, Freed the three straight hoodoo. encourage the cranks, who have been loyal to are playing in hard luck. Tup team is crippled them through their misfortune. New Haven man would feel so rich he would concede every and iuanager Long has had difficulty in get THE PITCHING CORPS. thing to Rusie and make all the cranks in Amos Rusie is still absent, and from present Is a good ball town, and will support in good ting new men. He tried repeatedly to get good shape a team that can win at least three games Gotham happy. men and when he was about sure of getting indications it is likely that we shall not see a week. MODERN BATTING. him in a New York uniform unless he comes a player of ability some hitch canie up. Last Young Lander is putting up a fine game both Day in and day out Jess Burkett continues to week he went to Philadelphia to secure Lucid, down to the club's terms. If the big Hoosier in the field and at the bat for the Edgewocds. poke "the ball far enough out of the reach of the holds out all season it is quite likely that he and was promised him, but the pitcher refused to With all due respect to the other catchers in fielders to get to one of the bases in safety. be farmed out. Catcher Welch has been released •will never regain his old form. If it turns out the League we will have.to place our "Ernie" What a contrast between his scientific, thought that way both the player and the management and gone to his home. Wise is filling his posi Hodge on top. Not one of them can equal him ful intelligent work and the old-time methods of tion in better style than the released man could •will be losers. But be that as it may, at present in any department of the game, and runners batters like Orr. Browning, Laridn. et. al, who the pitching staff of the local club is in fail- ever hope to do. Catching two left handed pitch on first have to wait to be batted around, as SLAMMED BLINDLY AT EVERYTHING ers has told on Wise, and his hands are in bad shape. Jouett Meekin is pitching fine ball, and it is sure death to play off the bag or attempt in their reach and trusted to good luck and many believe that he is not far behind his condition, but he still sticks behind the bat, to steal second. In either case he will always muscle for the ball to go safe. With the present making a good record for each game. Before 1894 form. Dad Clarke is also keeping up his find the ball waiting for him. stone wall infields and chain lightning outfields good work, but the Oswego boy does not act just such batters would now cut a very small figure the end of the present week Manager Long Boyle has improved greatly in his third base will have another catcher, and AVise can got right when his support is not of the best. When play. in the League's batting averages. It's scientific n few costly errors are made behind him he gets again in condition. Mills, formerly with Newark, has been signed, work at the bat, the all-work-topether plan on One reason Manager Long cannot secure good discouraged and then he is no longer Dad Olnrke. and will either cover second or play in the out the bases, adopted by Tebeau, Hanlon and Duffy, Pad Clarke should not become discouraged so field. the plnv-to-w:n-bother-the-record methods of the men is that he is not getting the proper sup readily, even if his sunport is not always as port from tho public. The attendance has been Gannon, a local player, has been putting up Cleveland. Baltimore and Boston teams that win small, average from 200 to 300 each game on the it should be. Krldie Doheny is steadily im a good game in the outfield, and greatly strength games when all other ways fail. home grounds. If the crowds were of better proving, and added a victory to his string at the ens the team in base running. EWING'S TEAM. size the team could be put on a better basis and expense of the Windy City crew last Monday, A. A. TANYANE. I am beginning to revise my estimate of Cincin and his work demonstrated that he has the nati's strength. If Uhlnes gets back into _the would draw money, but the Wilmington cranks making of a brilliant cotithnnw. As Doheny's WASHINGTON WHISPERS. game and pitches as he did before his injury do not want to go out and see the nine lose, Ewing ought to keep his team wit of the second and stay home. If the people only would go out arm troubled him somewhat, Ciimpfield, the raw- I believe that we could have a first-class team boned Texan. was given an opportunity to pitch Gossip About This Pennsylvania division The Reds are certainly playing good his first eonmletfl game. It was last Thursday ball I hoped they would win a game or two at here, and Manager Long, if assured of the ssrafnit- the St. T/ouis team that Campfield won Town's Ball Team. Baltimore although I can't say I really ex proper kind of support from the public, will get pected it. Winning games from Baltimore re- a winning club. his first game. He used nothing b"t a straight Washington, Pa., June 8.—Editor "Sporting Last Saturday McCafferty, a young twirler, who fpst ball, of -which he had excellent control. Life:"—The local club has in Riley, Beadle, quncb a GRADE OF BALTj PLAYING has been doing some good work ( among some T'IC score shows that only nine hits were made Dinsmore, MeOary and McOrainc a very good of the minor teams in Pennsylvania, was given off his delivery, hut the snppo'-*- (riven the Texan staff of pitchers, and with a little luck will be in which onlv two or three clubs are permitted to be classed Cleveland is one of them and Cin a trial and proved quite satisfactory, although twlrlor was sfmplv immense. What the new mr>n among the nochers before the season is very the game was not won by the locals. The fnn do ngainst the strong ohibs rwnins to be much older. cinnati is not one of the others. Still the Reds are entitled to great credit for their good work question of signing him Is still open and un ppon. The critics hoi i eve that, unless Camn- Jimmie Kuhn, our great little second baseman, decided, but if possible Manager Long will have fMd m'xra up a few curves, his speed will will come very near being the beat in the League, in other Eastern cities. In Fisher, Ehret, Dwyer, Rhines and Foreman Ewing has a quintette of him on the team. prove useless. for in IS games he has had but six errors, and Manager Long is learning to ride the bicycle BTT,L CLAT?TC TO THF, FRONT. three of them were made on the Wheeling twirlers of which he may well feel proud. THE WONDERFUL RACE. and intends to become a scorcher. TM11 nnrlv. our first bnso jmnrdi.-ivi. is not trrnop- grounds, and they are no doubt the worst ill The feature of every game is the fielding of this part of the country. What a magnificent race it is the leaders in f"l. hut he hfts won laurels s'noe h's return to the great race are making! Cleveland, Baltimore. Spratt, and he is a crackajack of the first water, t^n tonm. nnd we do the best game when those two particular teams ing fine work, now that he is with congenial are not playing together. company. And Baltimore will win the pennant. Those who figured it out that Cincinnati would That is not bra?. be weak in the box should "rigger" again. It It is an unprejudiced opinion, if that is pos isn't often that a team can stand the loss of sible. its three best, men and keep on winning with And we will make no excuses for accidents if the extra twirlers. • the prophecy does not pan out. The opinion THE REDS DOING GREAT WORK IH If only Pittsburg and Chicago would \vin a few is based on the relative strength of the two games it would l:e easier for the balance of teams, and tho handling of them by the owners the Western clubs. and managers. THE EAST The cashier. Mrs. Mary Sullivan, with Ground- WHISKY PUNCHES. keeper Schwab, are the only signs of life at the The team from Bourbonburg did not get in a ball park. game yesterday, but the floods did. There was And Compelling Recognition Even From Charley Irwin is being praised on all sides by more water around than the Lonisvilles would the Eastern press. His .work has been gilt- see at home in, six moiitns. edged on the trip. If whisky punches were to punch out it would Prejudiced Critics—Ewing's Suc At last accounts "D.usty" Miller is leading th» be an excellent thing. Three of them >Iid punch League in batting. His percentage is considerable oft this Hfirruoou in the first two innings, and over .400. F. E. GOODWIN. it was said to be a Hotfer day. But some cessful Methods—The Adaptability of the otht rs punched Hotter and" garnered four ATLANTA AFFAIRS. runs as the result of that, and some lultsjudg- meiit of Baltimore plfijvris. Baltimore hud but o! the Team as a Factor in Success. Good Words For the Local Team one run. and the rain was coming fast. The Bout-bens raced with the storm to get the game. and General Gossip. in, but the storm king beat, and fortunately Cincinnati, O., June. 0.—Editor "Sporting Atlanta, Ga., June 6.—Editor ''Sporting Life:" for Baltimore,, it was no game. Lite"—What a seru.on might be preache-a --The home scries just ended with tho Columbus Happy Baltimore. ALBERT MOTT. upon the jealousies' that"- exist among the and Montgomery clubs shows conclusively to the WHAT HANLON'S TEAM DOES FOR THE base ball scribes toward a team that is Atlanta enthusiasts that the Atlanta team will PETERSBURG PICKINGS. showing surprising farm in a pennant race. do. We easily took four games of the six, and MONUMENTAL CITY, 1 myself have been g.uilty, for I never but. for unforeseen circumstances woul 1 have nab could see any good In that Baltimore team bed another. Unremitting Efforts to Make the when it was tearing the League wide open Columbus and Montgomery are two strong or Team a, Winner. with its well earned victories. Playing ganisations, wr.h tlie uiM-i considerably in favor The Team Out For a "Third Term" Petersburg, Va., Jim? S. —Kditor ''Sporting beyond their strength was the plaintive of the hitur. Trie former is somewhat weak in Life:"—-The team has been iu a crippled condition cry of the subscriber, and there are otnei's. the box and don't hit :;s savagely as might be for the past two weeks. Sholta's abstuce from Just now the spleen of every writer in wished, but as a wiicle it i.; a wholesome, aggre Despite Cleveland's Powerful Coun second has weakened the infield materially. His gation and ibvl c to lick iUelf into winning shape linger is rapidly improving and the "scrappy" the land is turned against the Cincinnati without a formal inn oduction. Montgomery is collegian will soon be in the game again and team. All are jealous of the Kod«' strong in every uoi-arlinent, with the possible ter Bid—The Two Leading Teams oh, what u difference it will make! suece-ss and, de-.pil'.> the mauy pre exception of Its corps of pitchers, which is rather James Mulligan, who was given a trial by the dictions, liuek Swing's braves continue to of an erratic quality and liable to do phenome ol the Big League Contrasted, New Yorks, lu;s been signed, and will play centre pursue the even tenor of their ways. nal work one day and slump surprisingly the licld. He comes with a goed indorsement for a Wherever the Reus have played iu the next, as a consequence unsettling the conlidence minor league player. Bast the scrib«5 and J'harasees have learned of the balance of the team and acting as a lever Baltimore, June 6.—Editor "Sporting Otis Stockdale has been secured from the "Ori to respect their prowess, but those vvlio yet in raising the hopes of the opposition. Sheehan Life"—"Hanlon overlooked," eh! Well, oles." and will take his tarn in the box as soon remain to be visited still throw mud at the red seems to be the best man they have, and his not ou your life. Ho was there as big as as he shapes up. It is to be hoped he will do ns legs, tnd howl that they are playing lucky ball, only fault is his inexperience, which only needs ever, only, my dear boy. 'you overlooked gtxxi service, ii* in the box we are awfully weak, beyond their proper speed, t-t cetera. a year or two's seasoning to round him into a none of our pitchers having come up to expecta Perhaps they are, but they an- winning just comer of star brilliancy. him. The trouble la, dear Frank, you are tion. Armstrong's work so far has been the best the same, and in the same way that Baltimore Woods' work in left and with the stick has not used to our pet names and consequent of the corps. won the pennant for the last two years—play• been very much ail-American, and he is a fast ly there is one on the editor. Didn't you Kane has been playing the initial bag this ing the game and taking advantage of. every favorite already with the fans. Some novice in notice that it was stated that the "mother week, and his work has b«en of such a gratifying thing. the stand remarked of him: "Wouldn't ho make bird" had rescued a naturally sweet dis character that ho is likely to remain there. THE BEDS a slugger, though, if he had another year's ex position from New York? It is a ease of Gus Dundon continues to play short to the hftfro six more games to play before they return perience in the business." history repeating itself. You know the entire satisfaction of the "cranks." His work to their own fireside. And two tough arguments Shortstop was never better covered for A1 bint a drummer and his old gray mare that he merits all the honors that are bestowed upon they will have to rim up against. Peruaps by than it is at present with Callahan in the JH>S',- used to get in every bill for traveling ex him. this time the scribes of New Y.ork and Boston tion. He is the quickest recoverer and thrower penses, and how the firm kicked and said it Manager Breed's work at third is all that could have a better opinion of Cincinnati, for I see in the business down this section of tho globe. must not appear ayai'i, and how the be desired. His playing Saturday was simply a bit of praise in the journals of those two cities. Van Dyke has impressed everybody who has Drummer said be couldn't get along without it, marvelousi. He having 1(> chances and accepting If we bii-ak even at these two cit.es the cranks seen his 'pretty work in centre, and he has de and how, when he presented the next bill, the all without an error. He became a member of will ttt- more" than happy, and the little band veloped into a steady and safe hitter, besides. firm saw the Hem was missing and said: "Then? the Petersburg Ijodge of Elks last Wednesday of red legs will be met with a brass baud when The l:ox work of Norton this year surpasses —you see you can get along without tin; old •tight. .Tim is very popular and has a host of they come back home pext week. even his great work of last season. Sechrist and gray man1." And you know, dear Frank., the friends here. For a gang of cripples 1 think Cincinnati has Walker are a!so doing well. wily Drummer replied: "You don't sec her, The "fans" are very much gratified to know done most remarkable work on the trip. Man McDade's third base play is a surprise to even but' she is there, all the same." that Sandy McDermott will once more hold the ager lowing said just hefoie the team's depart his most fanguiue admirers, and he has shown Dear old Ned Hanlon I The idea of overlooking indicator on the Virginia diamond. Ho is consid ure for the effete K;i«> that he would be ntUis- that steadiness which, combined with his well- him in a Baltimore letter to.the "Sporting Life" ered one of the best umpires that ever officiated fied to win eight games out of the 1.8. And so known brilliancy, proves him to be a comer at is simply preposterous. And lie deserves it. too. here. would everyone. Six of those eight have been his difficult position. Think of what he has done (or the city. Why, Harry Kecfer and Bob Quinn have been given won, and still there are six games in which to Knowles has not let down one iota with his in looking at a Chicago paper the other day their release. The former has signed with Koan- win the other two.-' It will Ive a bad slump heavy stick work, and will coroo near leading the head line or catch words in an advertise oUe. Va., the latter has secured a berth with indeed thai will prevent the boys from doing the Association hitters, if he keeps up the pace ment appeared rather familiar. It wiis "Get Norfolk. that. he has set. AL. WTOINFELD. at 'em." and reading farther it proved to be an The "farmers" lead the League in batting. MUCH CREDIT advertisement of a Baltimore manufacturing but. ou the bases they are very s»'ow. is di.'p to Manager ICwlng for the way he is HAPPY HOUSTON. house. Adam Stanhope has been given his release. He handling ihe present team. He has schooled the Why. man dear, if you should go to any big is a fairly good backstop, but has been afflicted team up to feeling that they can win unuer any The Team's Fine Playinsf Appre oity in the United States and shout "Got at with the'same malady that souitf others of the and all circumstances, and the spirit that he ciated by the Public. 'em" in the streets you would stand a chance team have been victims to of late—that is has shown has been imbued by the players. of being mobbed, and If it was in Cincinnati with taking proper care of himself. His work No louser do the players walk up to the plate, Houston, Tex.. Juno S.—Editor "Sporting yon would be hung under the riot act. has been everything but satisfactory. There hit weakly at the ball and sit down. The tirst Life:"—Out of 12 games played with Galveston Ned Hanlon overlooked!! N'ot much in this are others who pitiless they conform to Manager man up tries for his base, if he gets it the next the Houston team has won nine, but there are year of the f^awd. Breen's rules better in the future than in the sacrifices his- own "chance to make a base hit others to come later on. The two leaders. Hous CLEVELAND AND THIRD TERM. past will certainly find seme of their salaVy ill an endeavor to ad> anco that man. The ton and Fort Worth got the throw down last, That may be for the Temple Cup, but Balti missing on pay-day. pitcher becomes worried, and it. is all over for Thursday by Galveston and Dallas, and on Fri more is the only club in line for a third term Chief of Umpires M. Botts hns tendered his the opposing team. The Keds are fielding ad day both won by the same, score, 12 to 1—queer for the championship. resignation, to take effect at once. His umpiring mirably, batting well and playing a game iu coincidence! What's that'.' this season has been-subjected to sonic very which team work is C\' here that Fred's failing was simply lack of encouragement. He made a line home run way over the left-tieid feiiw. in the last game. In the previous game Jimmy Ryau sent a couple over. Strangely enough, not a Bostonian has succeeded in accomplishing that feat up to date, aud thereby winning a box of Prank Norton's Invincihles. Frank did the handsome thing, DISASTER OVERTAKES THE PIRATES however, by presenting each member of the team with a box of his tine snickers. When Long gets back in the game ag-un, and IN THE EAST, the mi n play in their regular position, an im provement can be looked for in all departments. In each of the two Louisville games two men were caught napping in the first two innings. In Seyen Straight Knock-Oats Cause a tbe Chicago series they seemed to lack the cour age for even a trv. Lot ol Trouble—Singular Let- IN THE NEW* ENGLAND FIELD. With the Maine clubs down this way the Paw- tuckets have been pressing the Fall Kiver cham DOIDS in the Ninth Inaing- pions closely. Bangor has been a tine third and will make things hum when the scene of action is transferred to its territory. I'awtucket has ol News and Gossip, played strong ball, despite the fact that it has been deprived of the services of its strong hit ting shortstop, Hannivan, who had been hurt. Pittsburg, June 8.—Editor "Sporting He got in the game again last Friday, however. Life"—I am half afraid to speak to you described THINGS NOT SO ROSY HOW FOR making a home run in the llth inning in the about the Pirates. The club that prom game with Bangor, thus winning the contest. ised so well has gone completely to pieces in an artistically illustrated book The Pawtuckets had made 33 home runs in 30 and is being lambasted any in and day THE BOSTONS. games, this being largely title to the short "Min out in the "East. The team which Con let, sent free on application. neapolis" fence. New Bedford has not had that nie Mack said six weeks ago might lose success its followers would like, and is not as near to Fall Kiver as would he most interesting. three and four games in succession, but A Prolonged Batting Slump Playing A good spurt would accoiuplis-h wonders, however. wouldn't do the toboggan act, has dropped W, M. CLAFLIN, 831 Chestnut St., Philadelphia That club has been without its strong hitting left seven games right oil: the reel. Worst of bander. Walters, who has been nursing injuries. all, it had a dead open and shut chance Havoc With Pennant Prospects- His absence has handicapped the club not a lit of winning three out of these seven, con tle. tests. Tire cry "same old gang" resounds Incidents ol Recent Games—New SPOX.KS FROM. THE HUB. WILL INSTANTLY RELIEVE Slater, of the Portlands, is considered the best throughout the places wherein, base ball is fh-st Upcinan in the League. He is a tine, gen talked here. People have their views of the Soreuess and Stiffness in tlie Muscle* slump and what a wide range they coyer. Ideas, aud Uheunmlie Fains. England League News, Etc, tlemanly fellow, a cracking good fielder, gcoJ bats Athletes, Baseball and Football man tiud excellent base runner. Portland finds suggestions spread from new faces, new iniield, Players, Cyclists, Boxers, this; man ,1 tower of strength. down to a purchase c;f Kusle. In between there Boston, June 10.—Editor "Sporting Life:" Oarsmen and Golf Players Portland row has Tobcau and O'Tlmirke buck in are dozens of claims that the club has too many SHOTILD USE IT. Last week was r.ot a hitting week for our line, and should be vastly more formidable than easily-discouraged players—quitters, as the em Heals rapifilr abrasion of the skin, boys. In fact the Boston Club has not had at Hie outset. phatic call theci. People who spring this belief burns or slight \vouuds. Quick iu its batting clothes on this season. After Digby Bell finished his season at New Haven name their men, and will endeavor to show action. Clean and pleasant to use. At the exceptional record the boys made the night before the Chicago series, and took in you that at least two new lufielders are need Druggists and Sporting Woods Dealers. ou the Western trip brilliant work all three games here, -'.mong other theatrical ed aud one or two changes in the outfield, a Price 2Se.,39n.hx.Tr»lner'usiie?l.ia Avas e.xpected. it remained for Chicago to people who have been attending the games are catcher who has both a head and arm. E. FOUQERA & CO., riiid the Boston Club the first one in the Joseph Herbert, of the >krry Co Round Coninany. A singular feature about the club's defeats 30 North Williams St. ftew York. East from which it could take two games and "''Boh" Roberts, the stage manager of the last week was that Wednesday, Thursday and out of three. Terry and Griffith did the "Sporting Duchess."' Friday's games all escaped from their grasp work and they fairiy earned their victories The vtteran John Morrill attends the games in the ninth inning. The Pittsburg team might lieves this scheme is a better one than ball play frequently. Ho contributes, a weekly letter to have broken a tie in their half, but then the ing. by excellent pitching. Griffith has always the " Sunday Journal." opposition would go right in and make enough The Caramel Club boys are wjld with delight been a hard nut for not only the Bostons "Jack" O'Brlen, of the Louisville, is a pair to win before anything like three hanchs were over the showing of their fellow members. to crack. This season he has not met with of shoos in for that home run he cracked hero out. These beatingu gave the quitter clan a lot Messrs. McCreery and Dexter, of the Lc-uisvilles. that measure of success he did last season, over the rlsjht field fence. McGunnigle promised to work on, and they redoubled their cries and The first mimed is one of the original members but judging by his work here he will a pair to the one of his boys who succeeded in as game after game slipped away along would of the, club. He was initiated last winter ano5 ' lie heard from from this out in a most knocking the ball out of the lot. Then "Mac" come that exasperating lemark of "1 told you he bought a half dollar's Worth of the sweet decided manner than \vaa the ease earlier in made the offer to Tom Tucker ir. the ninth. KO." blocks of taffy. the season. In the game he pitched here last Pitcher Mike .Sullivan has, offers from Portland Correspondents with the team told the hard Eddie Boyle has an "easy money" time. Ha Saturday he had magnificent judgment and con and Bangor. How about Boston'; luck, beaten by umpire, bad fielding, bad pitch docs not indulge in much practice for fear of in trol, and fooled his opponents completely. He Lange Hid clinrioy-liorse here in both legs, ing and other stories. juring his weak ankle. He wants the wound to gave seven bases on tolls, hut so weakly did but put up a great game at the bat and in the HE .WAS UNDER. COVER. be thoroughly knit before he goes in the game the Bostons hit that hut live hit's were made. field. But for the published information few President Kerr escaped a great deal of pester again. Eddie has made some friends here, and The only four halls were hatted to the outfield. would have surmised he was more lit for the hos ing by a shrewd move. Early in the week he puts in some time, promenading our main streets. A PECULIAR F MATURE pital than for t'ie ball flo'.d. took a train for Cambridgeboro, a lithia springs I met Charley Hastings on the street the other of the game was that in two successive innings Ansou made an attempt to secure pitcher Dowd. place situated about eight miles from Meadville, day. "Ah, yes." said he, "I am satisfied to stay five of the Bostons were forced at second. In of the Newton Athletic team, and formerly of Pa. It is not exactly isolated, but was out of at home. I get more practice here than what I Friday's game Hamilton four times got lirst on Georgetown College, though when asked he pro range of tickers, telephones, etc., and the papers would if I was with the team. 1 pitch over the halls, and on Saturday Ix>we got there three fessed the greatest ignorance. Sly fellow, with scares ia them do not arrive until almost plate twice a day." "Likely if you had not been times in the same manner. In the seventh in "Anse" was willing to' bet his team would win a d-'-y late. hit by the Wesleyan College team you would have ning of Saturday's game the Chicagos made three more games than Boston from the time IIP was Perhaps Mr. Kerr anticipated a storm. Any been with the club the whole trip." "Ah, I here up to the end of the season, but found few don't know," replied the Parkersbm'g boy. "I hits in succession after two were out, but did way, he could not have chosen a better place thought I had an easy thing with those young fel not score, Anson being caught at the plate on takers. to elude growls aud attendant head fretting. The a beautiful throw of 1'annon to Tenney. Nichols In one of the '."xniisjvilJe games McGunnigle had local reporters were like a man at a banquet lows. You cannot tell what you ure going to also pitched good hall, hut could not pull out as his guests Mayor Court ney and ex-Mayor Pal rim up against in base ball." mer, of Lowell. Mac. formerly managed the without a dress suit. They couldn't get near One thing which pleased the Pirates during the single-handed unless tr.ere was a little hitting Mr. Kerr and ask him what he was going to do week was tbe fact that they drove Charley E:<- behind him. Lowell Club, and when Hugh Duffy was one of to stem the tide. They had to interview them On Tuesday of last week Louisville came the players. selves and a few of the prominent enthusiasts. per to the stable. They reasoned he had worried Manager Tom Burns paid us another visit last them long enough. within an ace of shutting Boston out, the home A story became current that Mr. Kerr never Pink Hawley's run of ill-luck sticks to him. He team sewing twice in the last Inning, after two week, sitting on the Boston bench Friday and learned the scores, and had no idea that the taking in the team with which he won so many has become decidedly unreliable, and one doesn't pxen were out and none on the bases. Cunning- club was losing. It was hard for this yarn to need to hunt any distance if he wants to find ham was in the box, and it pu/.xled the specta triumphs (Chicago). He was after "Billy find believers. It was just getting a hand hold Mains, but Boston wanted the sum paid for him— angry fans who believe the club ought to, trade tors that he was not hit harder than was the when a telegraph operator sprang a surprise. Pink. Think of this. A pitcher wilh an arm as case. $500— but Tom wasn't buying "t Hint figure. A brother of catcher Tim Donahue. of the Chi- WAS' THERE A KICK? good as it ever was. Base ball attendants are Duffy lias not been hitting in the style of On Saturday Official Scorer Gruber, two tele a fickle, inconsistent lot of folks. In Thursday's 1894 by a good deal. He does not seem to have cagos, a six-footer, is anxious to catch on as catch er Tim invites correspondence on the subject. graph operators and the writer were standing game bad good ball been played in tho ninth ir.- the method of hitting he had then. Hamilton ning Emerson might not have lost himself. Good; and txnve have been doing the best betting for Harvard has fooled 'em all. Two victories in on Fifth avenue discussing tho club's miserable the club by far, with Tucker third, hut as a Providence over the Brown team that beat It ale showing. It was agreed that the club was in fielding makes good pitching. three times was great wo*. But for Harvard urgent need of a first-class heady catcher who A correspondent with the team tells me th.it whole the stick work of the team has been won Brown would have a phenomenal record this year, could work 'the batsmen, etc., something after the Philadelphia people took a great fancy to derfully weak. J. C, MORt^E. the style of Mack. Wonder was expressed as to Jim Hughey's pitching fin Saturday, and applaud LONG MISSED. why Connie didn't go in. ed almost every time he pitched- the ball. Then the club has been sadly handicapped in NAUGATUCK VALLEY. Suddenly, the operator startled the assemblage It is understood that Mack told a friend he the absence of Herman Long. Acting under by saying: "I am sorry to hear that Mr. Kerr didn't know what to make of Hawley lately. medical instructions he laid off most of last and Mack are quarreling. If you only knew A morning paper prints a stoiy that .Ind week. He was still affected by the collision Bits of News About This League and what was' go-ing over the wires." The key-tapper Smith, third baseman of the Toronto farm team, With Hamilton in Cleveland. A weakness came Its Flayers. here evidently concluded that he had told a tale has been ordered to join the Pirates and piny over him every day about 2 in the afternoon Winsted, Conn., June 0. -Editor "Sporting out of shop and closed up tighter than a Pitts third base until Lyons is all right. Thus is the which he could not shake off. First Harrington Life:"— Tue Naugatuck Valley League is meet burg saloon on Sunday. He couldn't be induced farm drawn upon again. was tried at short and Collins at third, hut this ing with good success. Good games are being to say anything more. All sorts of probes, jol .Tames M. Nollis, who will be recalled as one of did not work, and resulted in the shifting of played and the enthusiasm and interest is in lies., etc., wouldn't, land the news. The clue the old-time base ball writers, has taken charge Harrington to third and Collins to short. The creasing as well as the attendance. All the had to he laid in camphor for safe keeping of the column of the "Commercial Gazette," latter was unable to field tails that hugged clubs are putting up a strong game and the race until some way of getting at the inside, if there Nellis' last work in that line was done during the ground on account of his had leg, and plainly is close and exciting. was any. A Sunday paper printed a few lines the days of Horace Phillips. CIRCLE. Was not in form to play the position as he A tine of twenty-five dollars has been im about leaks in a telegraph service nnd told of would like to. -Bounding balls gave him no posed . upon the W lusted Club for leaving the lively telegrams passing between President Kerr STAR SCINTILLATIONS. trouble. Then Bergen has not yet got into grounds in Torrington. The League also voted and 'Manager Mack, but that was all. shape, and of coinse his failure to da so was a that these teams play a free exhibition game, The writer hastened to President Kerr's office News and Gossip About the Oracle great disappointme-it. Tenney had to do roost in order that those who paid to see the Mem fully expecting to find him home from his shady of the catching. His work on Saturday was orial Day game might have something for their dell. "He is not here." was the reply given, Syracuse Team. positively brilliant. He handled a sharp foul money. The Wiusted Club is to pay its own ex and in support the writer was shown a bundle Syracuse N. Y., June 8.—Eiditor "Sporting tip low and away from him in a way that de pense's and half of Torrington's expense of the of unopened mail. Life: "—The Wilkesbarrc team, with Manager lighted the sjwctators, and again took a foul game, hut the Memorial Day receipts are to be MEBBE HE DID. Jack Chapman in command, have come and Imckward running, close to the grand stand. gone. Our ball cranks are at, a loss to under He puts lots of life into the game, and is a equally divided. Two minutes later the undersigned ran across stand why it is that Chapman's club is not up great worker. He goes for everything, and is O'Rourke. of Bridgeport, and Houhlian, of An- a base ball patrol1 who is an intimate of the sonia, are in favor of going under protection of among the leaders. The Wilkesbarre team la a wonder on difficult foul balls. Sullivan pitched Pittsbnrg club owner. a good one, aud your Uncle Jack Chapman will another great game against Chicago, and is now the National Agreement, but no action has been "Well," said he, "around to see what caused land them up among the leaders, never fear. one of the mainstays of the club in the box. taken by the League as yet. By so doing there that baby play of the team last week." Catcher John Kyan, late of the Bostons, ar TALK OF THE COLONELS. is nothing to gain. \as some of the clubs would The reporter was compelled to admit that he rived here last week and made bis bow in The first appearance of the Louisvilles was lose many good players who are under reserve wanted to do a little quizzing about the tele the last Wilkesbarre game. Ryan's work is of very much of a field day on account of the popu by Agreement clubs, but are playing in this graph operator's story. "I wouldn't be surprised the all-wool variety, and if there is any better larity of Manager McGunnigle in his native League. if Mr. Kerr did send some severe message to catchers in the big League than "Happy Jack' . city and the fact that Frank Shannon is a Bos Osborne is foremost in the hearts of Winsted Mr. Mflck." retorted the friend. "Why, to my they must be more than wonders. Kyau's pres ton boy, as is pitcher Smith. Shannon's friends cranks, and well he should be, as his work mind Mack was to blame for at least three or ence on the team is having a good effect all ma da themselves heard when he lirst came to since lie joined the team has been first-class in four of thosp defeats lost week. You can't see around, as it inspires confidence in every man. bat to receive a fine open-faced gold watch with three games against the teams of Bridgeport, where? Well, I can, Mr. Mack is responsible He worked several little jokes during Friday's Its accompaniment of a charm and chain, the Torrington and Shelton. He h'as struck out for thp conduct of those men. and he""should game that are new to Syracuse. gift of the North End Fishing Club, and one thirty-seven men. not allow them to trifle with him. They ought To say that local fans are pleased with the of the finest baskets of choice flowers one. would Ed. Weeden pitched four innings for the Win to be called down once In a while, and they work of our team as against Rochester is ne'-'d- care to see, which came from Mr. Joseph A. sted Athletics and but twelve men came to haven't been. Mack is a nice man, hut ha less. Delaney was in the game Sunday, and Fitzgerald, the brother of Congressman Fitz bat, ten striking out and two batting grounders hasn't been a good manager this season. The in his old winning form. With. Kyan behind gerald. Shannon did not acknowledge this with to pitcher and were retired at first. Louisville people didn't trifle with MeCloskev the plate the team is most formidable, as Tommy the proverbial strike-out, but made a nice single. Moore, of Norwich, is again with the Torring when they found he couldn't manage their club." Hess will not be called on to do the brunt of the, He nehled beautifully in the game, far bet ton team, and is pitching good hall. The listener was thunderstruck, and walked work, as has been the case for the past two ter than Eustace, who bungled badly in the PeJUiney, of Waterhury, was given a trial by away, wondering whether there was any other seasons. last contest. Calliope Miller put up his usual Winsted as shortstop. mnn holding the same views. He found that Catcher Barber was released by President bustling, hustling game, and made some great Shelton now leads the rnce in the Naugatuck such wns thf cnse. Kuntzsch to make way for Kyan. This young plays. Tom Smith did not last his game out, Valley League, with New Haven a close second, It's tho old storv. People sown hard to please catcher is well thought of by Manager Reilly being wild. That youngster Hill made a very Shelton has a great team, and the vim with in Pittsbur?. This timn last ypar Connie WIP and the players of the home team, and would good impression. Ciingman's playing took the which they play goes to show that they are in the dnddv of the lot. Now the samp people -who have been retained under other circumstances. town by storm. It was positively fast, and of the game to win. Brennan, their catcher, is a raved about hi° strategy, etc.. declare ho won't Minnehan is now playing left Held. Pitcher the highest merit. Little Dexter fielded grandly hard worker, and do«>s much to steady the teain. do. The bnil club manager's life is full of dis "Willis is out again after a tough light with. and hit in great style in the first t'-vo innings, Torrinorton received two defeats at the hands appointments. diphtheria, but will do no work for some time. making a triple in each and a double in the of the Bridgeports last > week, th** scores being SAEVGETCFESTS. He has been sadly missed from the team. second. 12 to 0. 7 to 0. President C. B. Power, of the Interstate Several cranks in the grand stand seem to ANSON Shelton and Winsted broke even, although League, has been on desk duty lately and is right take delight in getting at Charley Keilly. Some received the usual ovation he gets in Boston, and Shelton has the majority so far in th» series. on hand when the dozens of protests against um people say that a man of Reilly's reputation did splendidly, hitting well and fielding his posi W. C. KEMP. pires are received. This kind of work keeps a should break the ball every time he cornrs tion for all it was worth, in one game making president of a small league busv. Some club to the plate. People with a knowledge of the & fine assist at home on Bannon, a fast man Costly Seal Skins. managers imagine that all they have to do in game know that the manager is not hitting up who tried to score on an out. The hitting of the Tommy—"Pop, do the base ball players make order to effect a chnrute is to wire a kick. And to the mark as yet. but overlook this and recog veteran wns strong and timely. Then there furs'.'" Tommy's Pop—"No. my 1>oy. What put they are nearly always sent "collect." nize the effect' of 1he team wo;-k that the •was Fred Pfeffer. 'who nut 'iip.ii strong game that idea into your head?" Tommy— •'! re !<1 Brvan Robertron. onco one of this section's boys are doing under Keilly's coaching. Charley e.t second, and gii' : o the !'° io those who s "' Games Played June 3. SYRACUSE vs. ROCHESTER AT SYRACUSE JUNE 4: Wilkesbarre...... 30204141 x—15 Buffalo...... 0001 00000—1 WlLKESBAURK VS. SCRANTON AT WlL*E JuNB 3: EOCUKSTKK.AB.R. B. P. A.E 81'KAC'USE. ABB.B. P. A.E G 0 Earned runs—Willienbarre 10, Buffalo 1. Fint ou WILKEg'B. AB.R B. P. 8CUANTON. AK.R.B. P. A.B Botteiuu, 1(411 1 Eugun, iib... 413 6 Shannon, 2b 5 013 Garry. cf... 511 0 0 errors—Wilkesbarre 2. Buffalo 2. Lett on base*— Lyile. If..... 4 I) 1 0 Lt»th»in,3b..5 02 1 10 Wilkesbarre 8. Buffalo 11. First ou balls—By Luckey Lezotte.rt... 400 2 Hntchi'n,2t> 401 2 21 Daly, rf...... 5 110 Minne'n, If 5 0 2 0 0 Heard, es.... ft 0 3 5 Shenron.rf.. 500 0 0 1, by Wiidswoith 3. Struck out—By Luckey 2. Two- lietts, cf..... 4023 Metmey, cf 4 1 1 4 00 base hits—Lezotte 2, Betls 2, Bonner, Lytle, Karl. Bonner, 2b...4 01 3 Ward, "lb..... 3 1 2 13 00 Mnlvey,-3b. 5112 Moss, as...... 5 1 0 2 2 2 Dooley,lb... 4 a :i 13 Onrey. lb... 4 0 3 11 1 0 Stolen bases—Belts 2, Stahl. Clymer. Double plays — Eaile, Ib... 4 1 1 10 Easan, If.... 4223 0" 0' Bonner, McMahon, Earl; Greminger, Field, llit by Smith, 3h... 3 0 '2 liafierty, c.. 400 (i 1 Johnson, cf 4 0 I 4 Hess, c...... 4 01 5 10 Boyd,, c...... 402 2 Keilly, 3b.... 500 2 51 pitcher—By Wadsworth 1. Passed ball — H. Smith. McMali'u,ss4 002 Maguire, ss 422 1 2 0 Utuoires—fjrquhart and Keen. Time—1 50. Weute, c..... 400 4 Harper, p.. 411 0 4 0 McFarl d, p 4^ 0^ 0 0 2 " Mason, p,.... 411 1_ 30 Kefimn, p... 300 0 1 ( Ilorner, if.. 4 o 0 2 00 Total...',... 40513 SOltiS Total...... 41411 30183 SCRANTON vs. TORONTO AT SCRANTON JUNE 8: Total...... 341 7 27 12 6 Total...... 307 U 27 9 2 Rochester...... 1 10100100 1—5 SCRANTON. AB.R.B. P. A. El TORONTO* AB.R.B. P. A. B Wilkesbarre...... 10000000 0—I Syracuse ...... 0 00300010 0—4 Latham, 3b5 11040 Deleba'y, ss 4 01021 Scrauton ...... 01002310 0—7 Earned runs—Syracuse 2, Rochester 3. Two-base Hntchi'u,2b5 00260 freeman, if4 0 0 1 00 Earned runs—Scrnnlon 2. Two-base hits—Lytle. hits—EagHu, Carey, Bottenus, Mulvey. Three-base Meaney. rf.. 4 23 0 00 I'ndden, 2b.. 301 3 20 Kagan. Stolen buses—Karle 2, Struck out—B.v Kee- hits—Carey, Uooley. Sacrifice hit—Shannon. Stolen Ward, lb... 5 1 3 13 0 0 Wright, cf.. 401 5 02 IIHII 2. Lett on bases—Willieslmrre 7. ecranton 4. bases—Eagan, Carry, Daly, Benid. Double plays— Griffin, cf... 500 0 00 LnteVg, lb 4 0 0 8 00 Double tilnys—Earle, McMalion, Earle; Lathum, Eagan, Carey; Reillv, Eagan, Carey; Beard, Dooley. UiiHt.n.lf..... 513 1 00 Casey, c..... 300 7 10 EASTERN LEAGUE Hiitchitison. First on errors—Wilkesbarre 1, Scran First on balls—By McFarlaud 3. "llit by pitcher— McGuire. ss5 1 2 4 4 (I O'Brien.lf... 300 2 01 ton 3. First on balls—By Harper 2. Passed ball— Bottenus. Struck out—By MHSOU 1. by McFarlund 2. Merger, c... 5 GO 6 3 0 Dowse, 3D.. 300 1 10 Rafferty. Umpire—Guffuey. Tims—1.45. Umpire—Doescher. Time—2.15. Brown, p..... 4 2212 OJDunti.p...... 200 0 00 Total'..... 4J 8 li 27 18 u Dinueen, p.. 1_ 00 0 20 Games to be Played. SPRINGFIELD vs. PROVIDENCE AT SPII'D JUNE 3: TORONTO vs. BUFFALO AT TORONTO JUNE 4: TORONTO. AB.R.B. P. A.E BUFFALO. AB.n. II. P. A.E I Total ...... 31 0 3 27 84 June 15, 1&— Rochester at Scranton. Syracuse PKOVID'E. AB.U. B. P. A.'E SPRINGFl D. ill.lt.B. P. A. E at Wilkesbarre, Toronto at Springfield, Buffalo Deleha'y, ss 4 1 3 3 21 Stabl, rf..... 501 4 00 Scranton...... 4 2000011 0—8 Lyons, cf... 602 8 01 Leahy, c..... 500 4 0 0 Toronto...... 0 0000000 0—0 at Providence. 0 1 Freeman, rf 4 0 2 2 01 Gooden'h. If 4 00 0 0 0 Juno 17. 18. 20—Syracuse at Scranton. Roches Bassett, 3b.. 401 0 30 Sweenev, cf 511 4 Padden, 2b.. 4 1 1 4 3 1 Clyraer, cf.. 4 00 3 0 0 Earned runs—Scrautoii 5. First on error—Scran Knigdt, If.. 4 00 3 o 0 Lynch, ss... 421 2 3 ton. Lett ou bases—Scranton 7, Toronto 2. First ter at Wilkesbarre, Buffalo at Springfield, To- 0 1 Wri.-.„...,Kht, cf.... 4014.... - 01 Wise, 2b..... 4 00 1 31 tonto at Providence. D'rauby, lb.. 5 2 2 12 01 Smith, If..... 421 Luteiib'u,lb4 00 8 0 0 Field, lb... 4 0 0 13 00 ou balls—By Brown 1, I y Dunn 1, by Dinneen 2. Cooney. s*... 5 0115 0 Gilbert,3b... 424 4 1 Struck out—Brown 4, Dunu 1, Dinneen 4, Two-bnsa Canavan,2b 6225 0 0 Smith, 3b... 301 3 00 Greiniu'r.2b 412 1 20 3 Schtflk-r, rf 5 1 2 5 O'Brien, If.. 3 10 1 00 Smith, c..... 4 00 I I 0 bits—Maguire, Delehanty. Stolen bases—Ward 2, The Record. 0 0 OooKan, lt>.. 4 0 1 10 0 1 Murray, if.. 5 1 1 1 Casey, c..... 3 11 2 11 Ritchie. ss... 4 12171 Meauey, Eitn«u, Delehauty, Padden. Double play— DIXOD.C...... 5 221 0 1 McDon'd,2b 4 0 0 2 A 1 The record of the Eastern League to June Stale'y, p..... 4 0 1 0 2 0 Wadswo'l],p4 o_ 1_ 0 20 PaUdeu, Luteubertr. Wild pilch—Dunn. Passed 10, inclusive, is as follows: Rtiuder'm.p 412 1 1 0 Easton, p... 401 0 20 balls—Casey 2. Umpire—Doesclier. Time—2h. *Fr;el ...... 1 I 0 0 00 Total...... 33 4 1027 8 5 Total...... 37 2 S 24 15 2 Total .....38 8 1112611 Toronto ...... 00121000 x—4 NOTE.—Rain prevented ttie Spriugfiold-liocbeatet Total...... 44 a 13 'J? 123 Buffalo...... 00001000 1—2 and l'rovideuce-Syracu»e games. *I5atted for Rmidaihaui in ninth. Earned runs—Buffalo 2, Toronto 3. Two-base hits twinning run scored with two out. — Wadsworth. Three-base hit— Greminger. Stolen Providence...... 0 0011002 5—9 bases—Delehanty. Casey 2, Wriuht, Double plays- A GLEAM OF LIGHT. Springfield...... 10000330 1—8 Wise. Ritchie, Field; Wadsworth, Wise, Field. Buffalo...... 500 Earned run — Providence 2, Springfield 1. Sacri First on balls—By Wadsworth 3, by Staley 2. Struck Scraiiton's Team Being: Moulded fice hits— Bitssett, Knight. Stolen bases — Lyons, out—By Staley 2. Lett on bases—Toronto 8, Buffalo Providence ...... (Jatiavan, Dixon, Sweeney, Lynch 2, Smith 2, Gilbert, Into Winning Form. Kochester...... 8. Wild pitch—Wadsworth. Umpire—Stearns. Springfield ...... Schettler, Coogan. Two-base hits — Draubv, Gilbert. Scranlon. Pa., June ',).—Editor "Sporting Life:" Scrantoo...... 844 Three-base hit — Cooney, First on balls — By Rudder- Games Played June 6. —The result of last, week's jjaines lias isi'tcii tbe Syracuse...... 515 ham 3. First on errors — 1'rovideuco 7. Springfield 2. Scrantons out of lust place, but what especially .559 Left on bases — Provideuce 11, Springfield (i. Struck WILKESBARRE vs. BUFFALO AT WIL'E JUNE 6: Toronto ...... BUFFALO. AH. R. B. P. A. E j WII.KESD'E.AB.U. B. P. A. F. pltases the local fans is iliat they won three Wilkesbarre...... out — By Eaeton 2. Hit by pitcher — Bassett. Double of the five games played with AVilkosbai-ru, and play — Coouey, Canavan, Drauby. Passed bull — Dix Stahl, rf.....4 1 1 1 0 t'Lytle, If.... 4 0 1 3 00 are now one notch higher in 1he race than on. Umpire — Swaitwoocl. Time — 2h. Gooden'h.lf 4 0 0 2 0 0 Lezotle, rf.. 4 0 0 0 00 "the ancient enemy," rnd this, too. despite the 9J13J24J21 Iti 15 22 139 Clvmer.cf... 3020 0 0; Betls, cf..... 4 12 1 0 U SYRACUSE vs. ROCHESTER AT SYRACUSE JUNE 3: fact that Umpire Gaffney gave thorn a trame Won.Loat. J'ct. Won.Lost. Pet. W'se, 2b...... 4 1102 2 Bonner. 2b.. 4 0 1 3 0 by forfeit on Tuesday. Scranton will, of course, Providence ... 21 9 .727 Buffalo...... —.„...... -_ 19 19 .500 SYRACUSE. AB.R. B. P. A. F j ROCHESTER. AB.R.B. P. A.K Field, lb..... 4 2 1 10 0 1 Earle, lb..... 4 107 0 0 Kagau. 2b...4 0024 lIBottenus, U4 10 1 00 appeal from Gaffs decision, but whether it will Kocbester..... 25 13 .G^slWilkesl'arre.. 12 22 .353 Gremiu'r,3b 4 1 2 2 2 0 Smith. 3b.... 4 0 1 4 1 0 avail remains to be seen. Toronto...... 19 15 .559'Scruntoo...... 11 21 .344 Gany, cf...... 5 0040 (ijslnionou, 2b 6 22 150 Ritchey. ss.. 4 02 4 10 0 McMah'u.ss 401 2 3 0 Mmneh'n.ifa 1330 IjUaly, if..... 4 42 3 00 The trouble was this: Manager MePenuott Syracuse...... 17 16 .515|Sprinsfiel Games Played June 3. hits—Pickett, Wilson. Thrte-baso hits—Butler 2, Grand Rapids...... 0 00000432—9 DETROIT vs. KANSAS CITY AT DETROIT JUNE 2: JlcGtee\y, Denzer. Home runs—Wilson, Cantillion, Milwaukee...... 00221300 2—10 I'ickett. Stolen bases—Wheelock 2. Double pluys— Earned runs—Grand Rapids 5, Milwaukee 5. Two- DETROIT. AB.K. 8. P. A.S|KA3. PITY. AB.tt. B. P. A E Wboelock, Suarp, C»mpbi-l); McCoroiick, Sharp, base hite—Camp. Smiuk, Hartman, Twitchell. Three- Nicliol'u,2b 5 0021 OjM«nning,2b 4 1 0 4 base hit—Smink. Stolen bases—C«rup, Mills, Suiiuk, Knoll, cf..... 5 0 2 4 0 0 Menefee.cf.. 5 0 3 2 Campbell 2, ir'husart, Fickelt, Glasscock. First on balls—By Denzer 3, by-fflcGreevy 4. Struck out—By Parrott, Weaver. Hnrtman. Stafford. Speer. Sacrifice Dnniran, rf.. 410 1 Nvc«. ss...... 5 112 hils— Twitchell, Taylor. Djublejplav—Parrott, 0»r- BmneU, If.. 3113 Klusman.lt) 5 1 2 10 Dcuzer 4, by McGreevy 1. Sacrifice hits—McCor- Wnistler, Ib5 2 2 lo 0 1 mlck, Hernon. Left on bases—St. Paul 6, Columbus ney. Firrt on balls—By Waiters 2. Struck out—By KlinE, If.... 4 210 Walters 5, by Baker "2. First on errors—Grand Corcoian, ss 5 0 2 3 81 Hines, rf..... 5104 7. Umpire—Snyder. Tinte—2.15. Gillen. 3b... 4 3 2 3 0 1 DETROIT vs. KANSAS CITY AT DETROIT JUNE 3: Rapids 1. Milwaukee 2. Left on bases—Grand Bap- Hatfleld,3b.. 5032 id« 9, Milwaukee G. Umoire—O'Day. Time—2.08." Twinebam,c3 201 10 Lake, c...... 5 1 3 1 DETROIT. AB,R. B. P. A. E KAS. CITY. AB.R. B. P. A. K Fifield, p.... 422 0 20 Bevis, p...... 401 2 Nichol'n,2b 3 21 3 20 Manuinir,2b4 10 0 22 COLUMBUS v?. ST. PAUL AT COLUMBUS JUNK 5: Knoll, cf.... 5 01 6 00 Meuefee.cf.. 4212 o 0 LUMBU8. AB.R B. P. A.E! ST. PAUL. AC.R.B. P. A. B Total..... 3iS 11 U H7123 Tola 1 ...... 42 7 14 27174 Butler, cf.... 411 2 4 0 Detroit...... 00020420 3—11 Dmiftan, rf.. 6 0 2301 Nvce. ss..... 511 I 60 lvr»iH, Ub... 501 1 Burnett. II 4 1 2 4 00 Kinsman.Ib 5 3311 0 0 Cantilli n,rf 4 003 Meitvs,cf.... 5121 0 0 Kunsai City...... 4 00002001—7 0 0 Earned runs—Detroit 1, Kansas City 2. Two-base Whimler.lb 4 00 5 10 Klin*, H.....4 10 0 00 Sliarpe, 2b.. 402 3 5 OjGeorge, If... 5341 Corcoran, ss 4 00 0 11 Kines, rf..... 4 03 2 00 Hernou. If.. 400 1 01 Burns, rf.... 534 0 0 1 bits—Knoll, Blent fee. Three-bine hits—Lake, Kling. 1 0 Dbiible P'BVS—Nyce, Manning, Kinsman 2; Coicoran, Gillun, 3b... 400 2 33 Ilatfield, 3b 5 1 1 " ' " Campbe'l,lb4 0 I 8 0 0 Pickett, 2b.. 4 0 I 4" 3 0 Gillen. Hit b; pitcher—By Be VPS 1. First on balls— Twineli'm.c 321 1 00 Lake, c...... 401 1 0 Wilson, c... 200 1 0 0 Glassco'k.lb 5 1 1 12 00 Ely. p...... 4 11 0 01 Cailahan.p.. 3 0 1 1 0 Wneel'k, ss 3 0 0 5 11 Shujjart, »e..5 02 3 10 By Fifield 2, by Bevis 9. fctolen bases—Nicbolson, Crtllopy, 3b3 0 0 I 13 Whistler, Nyce, Kinsman. Struck out—By Fifield 1. *Fifield...... (^^0^ 0 00 Total..... 38 if ll 27 ll" 2 Spies, c...... 410 5 o 0 First on errors--I'clroit 3, Kansas City 3. Left on Total...... 37 U 8 24 7 0 Jones.p...... 300 0 30 Mullane, p.. 4 1 1 0 4 0 bases—Detroit 10, Kansas City 10. Umpire—McDon •Batted for Ely iu ninth. Total...... 31 14 24107 Total..... 42 101627 12 l Games to be Played. ald. Time—2.15. Detroit...... 0 3 020000 1—6 Columbus...... 0 0100000 0— 1 June 14—Detroit at Grand Rapids, Columbus INDIANAPOLIS vs. MINNEAPOLIS AT I's JUNE 2: Kansan City...... 5 1020100 x—9 St. Paul...... 10302220 x—10 at Indianapolis, Minneapolis at • Kansas City, Earned runs—Detroit 1, Kansas Cily 1. Two-base Earued runs—St. Jfaul 4. Two-base hils—Meite*, INDIANA? g.AB.H B. P. A. B .MINNKAP'S AR. II. B. P. A. B Glasicock. Sacrifice hit—Pickett. Stolen baeu— St. Paul at Milwaukee. llogriev'r.rf 5 0210 olOonnom, 2b 401 3 10 hits—Nyce. Lake. Three b-tse hit—Twineham. Double plays—Kicholsou, Whistler; Gillen, Whistler. Merles Double plays—Wheelock, Campbell; Sharp, June 15, 1C, 17—lnuia.na.polis at Detroit, Co- flout, ss...... 4 02 2 41 Laliv, If..... 410 0 00 Imnbus at Grand Rapids. St. Paul at Kansas BlcCart'y, If 5 0 2 Hit by pitclier— By Callahau 3. First on bulls—By Cumpbell; Krau', Pickett, Giusscock. First on 41 Wilmot, cf.. 4 11712 Kly 5, by Callahau 8. Stolen bases—Nicbolson, balls—By Jones 1, by Mullane 1. Struck out—IJy City, Minneapolis at Milwaukee. Sti'vvart, 2b., 5 1 I 1 0 Werden. lb.4 1 1 10 June 19, 2l>. 21, 22—Columbus at Detroit, In 0 2 Knoll, DunRan, Burnett. Manning, Menefee, Kins Jones 1, by Mullauo 3. Umpire—Suyder. Time dianapolis at Grand Rapids. Milwaukee at Minne Motz, Ib..... 411 0 1 Kmnk. rf... 4 1 1 man. Struck out—By Kly 1, by Callahau 8. First on —1.50. Wooil.c...... 4 1 1 0 0 Scliriver. c.. 5 0 2 1 0 errors—Dutroit 1. Kansas City 5. Lett on buses— apolis, Kansas City at St. Paul. Ilo/an.cf.... 400 0 0 Kiiehue,3b..4 0 2 2 2 DETROIT vs. KANSAS CITY AT DETROIT JUNE 5: 1 1 Detroit 15, Kansas City 10. Umpire—McDonald. DETROIT. AB.R. B. P. A. E| KANS* CI'fY.AB.R. B. P. A. K Slnebe'k, 3b 4 2 2 2 2 0 Ball, ss...... 4 0 1 Time—2.25. Phillips, p. 4 \ 2 0 II Uutchis'u,p4 0 0 1^ 101 0 Trost. If...... 3 0 0 5 n 0|Manuing,2b4 2 1 4 10 The Record. Knoll, cf... 5220 1 0 Total..:... 390 1327 ~"Total..... " 37~ 4 U 27~ ~"3 7 0 0 Meuefee, cf 4 1 2 The record of tho Western League teams up Games Played June 4. Dnngan, rf. 4 02 2 0 0 Nyce, ss...... 3 1 0 2 0 IndiaunpolU...... 0 1120200 0—6 Buruett.2ii.. 412 3 20 00 to June 9, inclusive, 5s .is follow.-: Minneapolis...... 10000003 0—4 Kiusmun.lb4 00 INDIANAPOLIS vs. MINNEAPOLIS AT IN'S JUNE 4: WbieUer.lb 300 8 10 Kling, If.. ...3 20 1 00 Jiained runs—Indianapolis 2, Minneapolis 2. Two- HlNNEAP'S.AB.n. Ii. P. A. ElINDIANAS AB.B.K. P. A. E Corcorau, ss 4 0 2 3 22 10 base hits—McCarthy, Wood, Shiebeck, Werden. Hines. if..... 3003 Coi.nore, 2b 512 3 9 Ojllo»:riev'r,rf3 1 1 4 0 0 Gillen,3b..... 3 0 0 0 31 Hatfield.Sb.. 4 0 2 3 G 0 Three-base hit—Scliriver. Sacrifice hit—Ko:.t Lally, ll..... 401 I 0 1 Klynn. ss... I 1 1 1 0 0 Twiueh'm,c3 01300 00 Sti'len buses—Motz. Ball, Connors. Double play— Lake. c...... 3 114 Wilmot, cf.. 400 3 20 McCart'y, It 4 1 1 0 0 0 Fifleld, p..... 4 01 040__ Cailahan.p.. 4 01^ 020 Sieuart. Motz. LcU uii bases—Indianapolis 7, Min Werdwii. lb..4 1 1 11 11 Stewart, 2b.. 312 0 5 0 neapolis 11. Struck out—By Phillips 2. t v Hutchi- Frank, rf .. 3 2 I 0 0 0 Motz. Ib...., 4 0 2 13 1 0 Total...... 3a 5 10 2~4 12 a| Total...... 3a 7 7 27 1-3 0 HI n 1. First on bails—By Phillips 5. Passed ball— Schriver,c.... 3 223 Bnck'y,c,3b 4 0 0 2 1 0 Detroit...... 0 1 I 0 0 0 0 1 0—3 'Columbus...... Kansas City...... 4 0020001 x—7 Detroit...... Wood. Umpire—Clark. Time—2h. Kuehne. 30.4 132 Ho«an, cf... 4021 0 0 GllAND llAI'lDS VS. MlLWAUKKE AT G.R. JUNE 2: Ball. ss...... 4 I 2 3 5 1 Shio'k,3b,ss4 121 i 0 iiarned runs — Detroit 3, Kansas City 2. Two-base Grand Kapids...... hils — Knoll, Dungan. Three-base hits — Bnrnett. Indianapolis ...... Q'D.HAPI) S.AB.R. B. P. A. B IMILWAU'E. AB.R. B. P. A K Hcaly, p..... 2110 0 0 0 llntch'u-u.p 2 0012 OJDnmroun, p 3 0 0 0 Manning. Sucrlfice hit — Hines. Stolen bases — Cor Kansas City...... Genin.1. cf... 4 01 2 00 Nicol.cf...... 5 231 0 0 coran, Nyce. First on bails — By Fifield 3. by Callahnu Gilus. If...... 5 1 1 0 0 Weav If.. 4 0 1 2 0 0 Total..... 35 U 13 27 lu I Wood, c.'.... 1001 10 Minneapolis ...... Davis, p...... 1^ 0 0_ 0 00 5. Fir»t on errors — Kansas City 2. Left on bast's — Milwaukee...... Ciiruey, Ib.. 5 I 2 12 0 0 Hartiimn.obS Oil 5 1 Detroit 7, Kansas City 5. Struck out — By Fifield 1, St. Paul...... Gitiii,k'cr,rlo 122 0 OjTwitchell.ri 501 2 1, 1. Total...... 30610 2l 10 0 by Callahun 3. Double plays-- Hatfield, Kinsman; JMiils, 2b..... 510 1 3 l|Stan*,.rd, lb..4 0 0 12 22 Minneanolia...... 7 0001001 x—9 Manning, Klusman. " Cnaplre — McDonald, Time — Lust...... 27 i:; 28 13J18 I9j21ji7 156 S/nink, c.... 5 1 0 2 1 U|Taylor,2b... 400 2 41 ludianauolis...... 2 0 0020 0 0 1--5 1.45. Nilnn, 31...... 4 1 2 Won.Lost. Pet. I Won.Lost.Pct. 1 3 llSpear. c...... 400 1 30 Karued runs—luiliauap"lis 3, Minneapolis 7. Two- Parrott. ss.. 4 1144 OjUames, p... 4 2 3 2 2 0 bane bits—Frank, Kiu line 2, Connors. Three-base INDIANAPOLIS vs. MINNEAPOLIS AT I's JUNE 5: Detroit...... 24 13 .019: Minneapolis.. 21 19 .525 Walters, p.. 4 !_ 2 n 3 I Wetiertr, at 4_ 1_ 0_ 3 52 hits—McC*rthy, Stewart, Molz, Connors. Saciifice INDIANAP'S.AB. n.B. P. A.E MINNKAP'S AB.R. B. P. A. B Indianapolis,. 2i 13 .629 BliiwuuKoe... 20 21 .188 HoKriav'r.rfa 1030 0 Connors, 2t> 5 01 8 42 Tolal...... 4~1 » U 1:7 ll 3 Total...... 37 u \)*M 22 7 hit—Flynn. Stolen bases—Stewart, Kuehne. Double Kama, Citv. 22 18 .55 ATLANTA vs. MOBILE AT ATLANTA JUNK 1: ATLANTA. AB.U.B. P. MOBILE. ABB. B. P. A. K VanDyke.ct 401 3 D.,bbH, cf, ss 400 2 Knowles. lb 400 9 liusch'u, 3b2 00 0 Callahau, as 4 0 0 0 1 Wiaemat), If 3 00 0 Fields, c..... 400 5 1 0 Fisher, ss... 1 1 0 Wood, If..... 3 02 1 0 Oi Casey, lb... 2 0 0 11 McDade,3b..S 00 1 2 0 Wittrock, rf 3 1 I 2 She«,2b...... 200 1 4 1 l'ayuter,2l).. all I Norton, rf... 300 1 Kine, c..... 3 0 I Sechrist, p.. 3 0 0 0 Halm, p.... .300 U Total...... injt)"5 21 Mi Total 24 3 Tj 2l Mobile...... 0 3 0 0 0 Atlanta...... ,*...... 0 0 000 Earned runs—Mobile 2. Homu run--Payntt>r. First on balls—By gechrist 2. Hit by pltcl.er—By Halm 1, by .-fechiist 1. S:ruck out—By Habu 5, by ^echri8t 6. Umpire—Clark. Time—1.15. Games Playert June 2. ATLANTA vs. MOBILE AT ATLANTA JUNE 2: ATLANTA. AB.K.B. P. A. B| MOBILE. AB.R.B. P. A. K Games to be Played. VauDyke.cf 4 2 0 7 OOjDobb*. cf... 5 0 2 2 June 15, 1C, 17—Birmingham at Atlanta. Co Kuovvles.lb 412 8 I) OlBusch'n. 31) 4 1 1 1 lumbus at New Orleans, Montgomery at Ifobik'. Callahan.ss 51121 21 Weisem'n.lf 5 11 2 HAS BEEN ADOPTED BY THE June 18, 19, 20-CoH.mbus at Montgomery. At Wood, If.... 2 1120 OlFisber, ss... 501 3 lanta at New Orleans. Birmingham at Mobile. Norton, rf... 5 0 0 0 0 OjCas.'y. lb..... 5 0 0 7 Kields, c..... 201 4 0 0 Gittord, if.. 4 U 1 2 The Kecord. Shea, 2b..... 400 1 4 1 Pay uter, 2b 4 1 2 MuDitde, 3b4 0 0 2 King. c...... :i I 1 The record of the Southern League ap to Walker, p... 4 1 1_ I 2 0 Schmidt. p.. 4 1 0 2 3 i June 8, inclusive, is as follows: Total...... 34 6" 8 27 9 B Total...... 395 U'26 U 2 £ s s i ? *Kuowle« hit by batted ball. a § b Atlanta...... 00010002 3—6 3 3 ~ s- ?• Mobile...... 0 0000012 2—5 rr - Eiirned runt—Atlanta 2, Mobile 1. Homo runs— ' S i a Callahau, 1'avntur. Siruck out—By Walker 4, by Schmidt 4. First on balls—Bv Schmidt 7. Hit by Atlanta n fi 4 pitcher—By Walker 2. Left on bases—Atlanta 6, Birmin ^ 7 O 1 19 Mt bile 9. Stolon bases—Walker, Buschman, Kiux, OF PROFESSIONAL^^ Oolumt * 13 ,310 Schmidt, Double plays—Sclimidt, Paynter, Casey Mobile, 4 17 .405 Fisher, Paynter, Caiey. Umiiire— Clark. Time—1.25. Bio 9 5 4 28 .OHO COLUMBUS vs. BIKMI.NGHAN AT COLV'S JUNE 2: BASE BALL, CLUBS Ne ft 7 5 31 .738 COLUMBUS. AE.R.B. P. A. KiBIUMIN'M. AB R. B. P. A.E Pediose, cf.. 4 2110 OJTrainor, 2b 4 0 1 2 2 0 Lost rM "H 16 11 Carroll, 3b.. 4 00 0 5 2! Fuller, rf... 321 1 0 U Won. Lost. Pet. Won. Loot. Pet. McFad'n, lb 4 1 4 14 0 0 Katz, If...... 401 3 00 N Orleans.. 31 11 .738 Birming'm.. 15 * 24 .442 Hall, 88...... 4 0 1 1 2 1 liyan, lb..... 3 0 0 11 01 Sloutgoni'y 28 16 Mobile . 17 .405 Dobbins. If.. 3 0 0 1 00 Beecher, ss.. 401 Wherever it is a question of Atlanta..... 21 24 .467 [Columbus... 13 .310 Broden'k,rf3 0 0 1 0 0;Godar, 3b... 4 0 0 Wright, c... 3 0 0 5 1 OJ Kappoid, c.. 3 1 0 Piiehiu,?,b....3 0122 1 Gorton. cf.... 3 1 0 merit, and leagues are not Games Played May 30. Wiliiam'ii.p 3 000 G o S[arks, ».... 1 0 \ o 7 0 COLUMBUS vs. NEW ORLEANS AT COL'S MAY 30: Total..... 31 3 3 25 104 Total...... 32 4 5 27 153 <:OL1'MBU8. AB.B.B P. A El N. ORLKAN8.AB.K. B. P. A.E Columbus...... 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0—3 bound by a "National Agreement," Pedrose, cf.. 4 0220 1 iHoiuem'n.cf f> 13100 Birmingham ...... 0 0010110 1—4 •jMrroll, 3b.. 5 0 1 3 0 11 I'owell. If.... 6 12 3 00 Double play«—Williamson, 1'helan; RicFadden, McFad'n, Ib3 00 7 01 Hustou, SB... 4 1 2 3 5 0 Beecher; Truiuor. lijan. Stiuckmu—By William- f&SJKB Hail, ss...... 413 5 0 2 Knox, 2b..... 3 22 1 20 son o, by Sparks 5. First 011 lialls—^Birininglixm 4. Dobbins, if.. 3 10 3 0 2)Bowmaii, lb 5 00 9 00 Passed ball—Birmingham I, Uuipiro—Keeie. Time THE* WriRlit. c... 4 1103 Oj Vork,rf,...... 4 1200 0 —1.40. Broderick,if4 0111 olDowie, 3b... 4 2 2 2 0 2 Phelan,2b... 4102 (iondiug, c.. 4128 BloNTGOMERY VS. NEW OtlMJANS AT M. JONR 2: Daniels, p... 4101 McGinriia, p4 1 2 0 MONTGOM'Y An.R.B. P. A. B Meura, If.... 5 0 2 5 0 0 House'n, cf.. 4 2 1 1 1 Total...... 35 5 8 24105 Total..... 38 10 17 27 15 2 i) Columbus...... 0 2 0 0 tl 0 0 3 0— 5 Peeples, ss.. 5 0011 2 I) I'owell. If.... 4 1 a o Wney, c...... 411 3 1 o Iluaton, ss.. 4 0 1 3 7 Kew Orleans...... 0 0010030 x—10 •i Enrueii run—New Orleans. Two-base hits—Bro- Deady, cf..... 412 3 0 0 Knox, 2b..... 4 1 2 5 derii-k, Hall, Powell, Huston 2, Dowie, McGinnis. Pubst. lb..... 1221111 0 0 Bowman, Hi 2 0 \ 8 (1 •Ibree-base hit—Knox. Stolen basen—Pedrose. Gonuau.Sb.. 3 0 0 3 0 0 McUiuuip,lb2 0 0 2 0 Houseman. Powell. Double plays—Hall, McFiuldeii; Morgan, ib.. 4 0 2 1 5 0 York. rf..... 4 1 1 2 0 II II 1'helan, McFuddeu; Broderick, McFadden; Knox, Dillard, rf.. 3 0 1 3 Uowie, 3U... 4 0 0 2 1 Bailey, p.... 401 n0 d 1 It K A Iltislou, Bowman, Firut on balls—Columbus 3, New i 1 ^""d'ugi c.. 3 0 0 6 0 0 Orleans 3. Struck out—By McGinnis 7. Umjuire— Total...... 35 410*25 1~2 IjCurl, p...... 2 1_*1_ 1_ !_ 0 Keefe. Time—1.45. | Total ..... 3;55 8 27 150 BIRMINGHAM vs. MOBILE AT BIRM'M MAY 30: *0ne man out when winning run was made. Montgomery...... 0 2 0 0000 » 0—4 BIBMINO'M. AB.U. B. P. A.I',! MOBILE AB.R.B. P. A.E New Oi leans...... 1 0300000 1—5 Trainer, 2b4 1 2, 1 3 (ll Dobbs. cf.... 4 (114 Earned runs—Montgomery 3, New Orleans 2. Fuller, c... 2 1130 OJBusch'u, 3b 4 1 0 1 Two-base bit-—Meara, Wiley, Deady, Bowman. Ktppold,c... 2 1 0 4 1 01 Wiseman, If 1 1 1 Three-base bit—Huston. Stolen bases—Whey, Kutz, if...... 502 2 0 0 Fisher, ss... 402 Deady, Pabst. Double plays—Kuox, llimon. Bow Ryan, lb... 4 0 1 9 0 0 Casey, lb... 401 McKen'e. rt 3 0 1 2 man. First on balls—Bailey 1, Carl 3. Hi; by 0 0 Wittri-ck, p 4 0 0 Ditcher—DiUard. Struck out—Bailey 3, Carl 6. Beecher, s*.. 5 0 0 IS 3 1 Schmidt, rf 3 0 0 Godar.Sb..... 300 1 42 Gifford,2b.... 300 3 01 First on error—New Orleans. Time—1.00. MAKERS OF VICTOR BICYCLES, Norton, cf.... 412 2 00 King, C...... 4 002 Frickeu, p.. 401 0 10 Total..... 34 2 5 27 Games Played June 3. Total...... 36 4~ 1(1 'll 123 MONTGOMERY vs. NEW ORLEANS AT M. JUNE 3: NEW YORK. BOSTON. DETROIT. Blobile...... 1 0000001 0—2 N. ORLEANS.AB.R. B. f. A. El MONTOO Y. AB.K.B. P. Birmincham...... 20000010 1—4 House'n, of* 1021 0 Meara, If'.... 4 0 I 2 SAN FRANCISCO. LOS ANGELES. PORTLAND, ORE. , Earned run—Birminzham 1. Two-base bit—Kut/. Powell, If... 401 3 0 0 Peeples, es.. 400 1 First on balls—Fricken 2, Wittrock 1. Three-huge Hiistou, as.. 3 112 1 0 Deady, cf... 401 1 I I bits—Oorton, Fuller. Stolen buses—Trainor, Wise- Knox, 2b... 4121 0 1 Pabst, lb..... 4016 man, Gitt'ora, Schmidt. Passed balls—Fuller 2. Wild Bowman'; ll>4 0 0 5 Mangan. 2b 401 2 pitch—FricKen, Struck out—By Wittrock 2, by York, rf.. ..411 1 00 Gormaii, 3b4 0 0 1 Fricken 2. Sacrifice hit—Trainor. Hit bv pitcher— Dowie, 3b.... 301 -1 2 0 Dillarcl, rf... 3 1 2 Godar, Rappold. Umpire—McFarland. time—1.45. Gondiue.c... 300 9 i 0 Wiley, c...... 300 6 ATLANTA vs. MONTGOMERY AT ATLA'A MAY 30: McGiniiis, p 2 0 o o 2 Sheehan, p.. 3 0 0 0 Atlanta ...... 0 0000020 0—2 Total... .. all e 27 7 I Total...... ;« I" 0 'It 8 Montgomery...... ! 0000040 x—5 New Orleans...... 0 1100002 x— 4 ATLANTA vs. NEW ORLEANS AT ATLA'A JUNE 4: Atlanta...... 1 3010003 0—8 Hits—Atlanta 6, Montgomery 10. Errors—Atlanta Montgomery ...... 00000100 0 _ 1 ATLANTA. AB.R.B. P. A.E N. ORLEANS. AB.R. R. P. A. K New Orleans...... 20201121 x—9 3. Montgomery 2. Batteries--Sheehan and Kelioe; Earned runs — New Orleans 'i, Montgomery 1. VauDybe.cf 5 11200 11 nisnmn.ci 4 0 0 „ 2 0 Earned runs—Atlanta 4, New Orleans 3. Two- Norton and Fields. Earned runs—Atlanta 2. Two- Two-base bits — Knox. Dowie. Throe-bant) bit — Kuowtes. Ib5 1 1 10 10 Powell. If... i 0 0 3 0 0 bass hits—Shea, Sechrist, Norton, Curl, Powell. base bit—Peeples. Three-base hit—Wood. Home York. First on balls— Sheehun 2. Struck out— Wood,If...... 4 33 15 00 Hns,ton,*s... 4 012 2 2 Home run—Sechrist. First on balls—By Carl 6, bv run—Shea. Struck out—By Norton 4, by Shee- McGinnis 7, Sheehiin 4. Double play — Murigau, Cullaban, ss 5 0 1 2 3 1 Knox, 2b... 3 o 0 2 0 1 Sechrist 2. Struck out—By Curl o, by Sechrist 5. han 7. First on balls—By Sheebau 1. Hit by pitCli- Wiley. Passed ball — Wiley. Umpire — McFarlund' Norton, p... 522 1 2 0 Bowman.lb 4008 1 0 Stolen base*—Kuox. Houseman, Huston, York, «>r—By Norton 1, by Sheeiian 1. Left on bases- Time— 1.35. Fields, c..... 422 5 00 York. rf...... J, 1100 Powell 2. Cmpire—Day. Time—21). Atlanta 7, Montgomery 0. Double play—Petplej Shea. 2b..... 502 0 (i Dowie, 3b... 3 00 1 1 0 BIRMINGHAM vs. COLUMBUS AT BIRMI'M JUNE 5: Maugan, Pabst. Umpire—Clark. Time—1.20. MoDade, 3D. 5 11 0 3 0 Gonditig, c.. 3 01 63 2 Games Played June 4. BIUMIN'M. AB n. B. p A.F. [UOI-VMBUS. AB.R. B. p. A.-K Walker.rf.... 3 0 2 I 0 (J Smith, p.... 2 0_ 0 1 0 Trainor,2b.. 5 '2 2 3 2 01 Pedrose, If.. 3 0 0 2 1 1 Games Played June 1. MONTGOMERY vs. MOBILE AT MONTG'Y JCNE 4: Total...... 41 KM 5 27 1 Total...... 30.1 3 27 lT Fuller, rf.... 5 3 2 0 0 0 Carrol], 3b... 4 002 1 1 MONTQOM'Y.AB.B.B. P. A.E MOBILE. ABR.8. P. A B Atlanta...... 5 I 1 1 0 2 0 0— Kill:'., If...... 5 2'4 2 0 olHens.c...... 4 1 1 5 1-0 MONTGOMERY vs. NEW ORLEANS AT M. JUNE 1: Meara, If..... 512 5 00 Wiseuiao, If 4 0 2 3 00 New Orleans ...... 0 000000 Ryan, lb... 0 0 2 10 5 01 McI'Wn, Ib3 005 21 MONTGO'Y. AB.E. B. P. A. K N.ORI.KANS. AB.R. B. P. A. K Peeples, ss... 411 3 20 Dobbs, cf..... 4 00 3 01 Earned runs—Atlanta 3. Two-b»oe hits—Knowles, Beecher, ss.. 5 1 I G OJHall, S3...... 4 Oil 2 0 Meara, rf..... 5 134 0 2 House')). cf4 2 1 1 00 Deady, cf... 4 122 Wood, Shea, Gondiujr. Three-base hit—Norton. G-wlar. 3b... 5211 4 2lo-0ouu'),2b4 015 1 I Peeples.es.... 400 4 2 1 Powel], If.... 5 11 0 00 Pnbst, lb.... 400 7 Double plays—Norton, Knowles; Houseman, Dowie; Kappold.c... G 1 2 4 0 0 K'»ilk. cf...... 302 0.0 Keuoe, c..... 511 3 11 iluston, ss.. 4 13 2 01 Mangaii, 2b 321 2 HO UifiW, if.... 413 Houseman. Knox. Struck out—By Norton 4, by Gort'on.cf.... 4 21 1 00 VVright, rf.. 3 0 1 4 0 0 Deady, cf..... 511 1 11 Knox, 2b.... 502 32 German, 3b4 1 1 1 1 1 Casey, lb....4 009 Smith 4. Wild pitches—Norton 2. Crnpira—Clark. Sparks, p.... 1 1 1 0 0 o Lnmout, p.. 3 °_ °_ !. M Pabst, lb..... 4109 0 2 Bowen.lb ...4 007 0 0 Dillard, rf.... 4 012 1 1 Wittrock, p4 1 2 1 Time—1.50. Adams, p... 4^ 1_ 2^ 1_ 20 GorniHii,3b.. 412 2 Total...... 3114 27 9,5 1 0 York, rf..... 2 1030 0 Wiley, c..... 3 03511 Payuter.'Jb.. 4 01 Total...... 46 15 18 27 14 2 JMaiiyau. 2t>4 1 2 0 4 0 l)uwie,3b.....4 12 0 21 Kellum, p.. 400 0 3 0 R, c...... 4 0 0 Games Played June 5. Dillard. II.... 4 0 1 Birmingham...... 9 1120002 0-T5 0 1 Gomiinjr, c.. 4 1 1 6 10 Total...... 35 611 27 if 3 Total..... 33 a 8 27 12 ii MONTGOMERY" vs. MOBILE AT MONTGO'V JUNE 5: Columbus ...... 10000000 0— 1 Driukwa'r.p4 00 o 01 Smith, p..... 4 1 2 o Montgomery...... 30010200 0— 0 MOMTGO'Y. AB.R. B. P. A.B| MOBILE. AB.B.B. P. A.E F.arned runs—Birmingham 8. Two base hits— Total..... 37 610 24 9 9 Total...... 37 8 12 *7 7 4 Mobile...... 01010000 0— ? Meara, 11..... 4 01 1 Dobbs. cf..... 3 102 Katz 2, Sparks, Fuller, Hyau, Gnrton, Adams. First Montgomery. 0 0—6 Eiirned runs — Montgomery 1, Mobile 1, Two-base PeepU-s, ss.. 2 0 02 Wiseman, If 4 121 on balls—By Adams 2, by Lamout2. Hit by pitcher— New Orleans. 0 x—8 hit— Maugau. Stolen bases— Mungan. Goiman.WlHy Deady, cf....i 00 3 Busbm n,3b 401 Godar. Struck out—By Aiiamu 4, by Lainont 4. Earned runs—Montgomery 2, New Orleans 3. Two- Wiseman, inischman. Gifford. Sacrifice bit — Wilev Pabsf, lb....3 00 8 rchmidt.rf.. 3 0 1 Double plays—Adams. Beicber. Hyan; Beecher, Ry»u. base hits—Huston, Gonding 2. Three-base hit—Hu- Double plays— Helium, Peeples, Pabst 2. First o"n Manual), 2b 300 2 02 Citr-ey, lb... 4 0 0 11 Stolen bases—Godar, Bappold, Trainor. Time—2.10, tni). First, on errors—Montgomery 1, New Orleans 2 balls— Kellnrn 3, Wittrock. Hit by pitcher _ By Gormao, 3b3 02 0 10 Wm, SB...... 3 00 1 01 First on balls—By Drinkwater 3, by Smith 2. Stolen Peeples 1. Struck out — Kellum 4, Wittrock 1. First IMllard.rf.... 3 002 00 Paynter,2D.. 3 00 3 10 ba-es—Meara, Gorman, Maiigni). Wild pitch—Smith on errors— Montgomery 1, Mobile 2. Umpire— Wiley, c..... 300 6 10 Hahn, p..... 300 3 00 A NOVEL DECISION. Siruck out—Bv Drinkwater 3, by Si-.)itb 3. Umpire— McFarlaud. Time— 1.50. Drinkwr, p3 0 1_ 0_ 0 1 King. c...... 3 0072 0 filcFarland. Time—2h. BIRMINGHAM vs. COLCMBUS AT Biroi'jr JUNE 4: Total..... 28 "u 1 2~4 7 4 Total...... 30 2 3 27 The Score Card Man Has Rights in COLUMBUS vs. BIRMINGHAM AT COLU'S JUNE 1: BIRMIN M. AB.B.B. P. A. KICOLDMIiUS. AB.K B f A F Mobile...... 1010000C 0—2 West Virginia. OiiI.VMBL'8. AB.R.B. p. A.F.!EIIiMtN M. ABH.B. P A. K Trsiiur, 2b 5 3 1 2 1 Oll'edrose.cf... 4 0 0 5 do Montgomery...... 0 0000000 0—0 Wheeling, W. Va.. .Tune S.—A decidedly r.-rel Pedrose. cf.. 4 0 0 1 0 OJTuiinor. 2b 5 0 0 1 3 1 Fuller, rf.... 5 1110 OiCarroll, 31).. 4 00 3 22 Earned run — Mobile. Two-base hits — Wiseman 2. Carrol),3b.... 3 1 1 1 3 Oj Fuller rf..... 4 0 2 1 case, which is intended to establish au urusuul 0 1 Katz. If...... 503 4 00 McFud'n.lb 4 11811 First on errors— Montgomery 1, Mobile 1. First on contention, is on here. A clothing lu.usc has McFad'u, Ib4 I 1 12 0 OiMetz, If...... 4002 0 0 l(yau,lb.....5 0 0 13 0 0 Hall, ss...... 4 1 2 2 51 balls — By Driukwater 1. Hit by pitcher — By Drink- been printing score cards for rhe local ball Hall. ss...... 41225 olltyaii, lb.... 4 029 0 1 Beecher, ss4 0 1 1 1 1 jU'Cuunell.lf 4 0 0 3 00 \vater 1, Habu 4. Wild pitch — Drinkwater. Struck games of the Interstate League loams plsyed Dobbins, If.. 400 1 o OJIiereher. SB.. 301 1 4 1 God»r, 3b.... 3 0126 OjBroder'k, rf 3 01 1 00 out — By Driukwater 5, by Hahn 7. Double pla.v — here, with their advertisement on the hick. Broden'k,rI4 0 0 2 0 OjfJodar, ...... 3b... 411^ 4 1 0 Kappola, c.. 4 0 0 4 111 Phelan. 2b.. 200-3 10 1'ayater, Casey. Umpire — McFarland. Time — 1.55. These cards contain the names of the players, Wriuht, c'.... 4 0 I 5 1 oiKapi.-o'ld","c" 2 6 1 G 1 0 Gortou, cf... 411 0 0 OJWrieht, c... 300 1 o 0 ATLANTA vs. NEW ORLEANS AT ATL'A JUNE 5: and are given away. The ;.ian.i..??'_nent if the Phelan, 2b.. 301 3 2 OlG.irton, cf... 3 013 0 0 Frickeu.p... 3 0 2 0 2 OjDaniels, p... 3 0 0 1 00 bell club at the "beginning of tl.e season told Lamosit.p... 3 0 0 o o (i Adams, p... 4 0 0 0 ATLANTA AB.tt. B. P. A. BIN. ORLEA'S.AB.R. B. P. A.E 6 0 Total...... 38 5 10 'Zl ll 2| Total ...... 3l~24 27 9 4 VanDyke.ct'5 1040 ][ House'n, cf 5 1 2 1 0 tho right to sell score cards, but ihe free W'tda Total...... 333 6 27 16ij| Total...... 33 f 8 27 15 4 Biriuii'Kham...... 20000020 1—5 Knowles, bs5 0 1 8 0 l]l'owel], If.... 5 2 2 0 0 of the advertisers have knocked out the Vusiprss Columbn 0—3 Columbus...... 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0—2 Wood,lf...... 3 1 It 0 0 0!Hustoi)-,ns... 422 3 1 of the concession holder. iccovli.i^ly ]Mj rulger Birmingham.... 0—I Earned IUIJB — Uiimiuuhum 3, Columbus 1. Struck Walker, lb.. 0 o 0 1 0 0,Knox, ^ 3 1 Uelaplaiu, of the Wheeling Club, Iroight tuit Earned runs—Columbus 1, Birmingham 1. Two- out— By Fiickeu 4, by Daniels 1. First on balls— By Cailahan, ss 4 0 0 2 0 Bowman,lb 502 « 1 1 against the manager of the clothing house,., for bane li!ts--<;olumburt 1, Birmingham 5. First on balls Kricken 1. Passed ba 1 — Ruppold. Three-base hit— Norton, If... 402 1 0 Oi York, rt...... 5120 0 0 $10 for each clay the score .'.i.rds wrc given, —C Illinium 1, Birmintrbam 4. Hit by pitcher— Katz. Two-base hits — Fricken, Katz, Tiainor, Hall. awny, before ."lustice Phillips. The verdict %-as Fields, c..... 5 0170 0| Dowie, Hb... 3 112 1 2 given to the plaintiff. Defendant sri'iaied to the 1! rmincham 1. PBB-.-. d ball—Birmitielmm. Struck .Sacrifice hits— Fr ck< n, Oodur Srolen bases — Ful Shea, 2b..... 5 2 - 0 !( OjGondiujf, c. 4 0 0 G 0 0 < i) - By I .iino!it4, by AomnsO. O.-nM.. i-lny— l>h — Circuit Court. The law under wii':h ilie riec'sion ler, Goilnr, Gor.,,11 .'. ; -H.ii.or, H«r- . Hall.. Double McIJade, 3b 4 1111 1 W1LMING N.AB.R.B. P. A. E PATEttSON. AB.R. B. P. A. £ SwHtt, Cf... 410 2 00 Armour, cf.. 5110 0 0 Gallagh'r.ss 3 1 o I 20 Killackey, c 5125 2 0 Newell, 3b.. 4 U 1 1 41 Smith, 2b... 5133 2 1 Drew, rf..... 411 1 00 Taylor, 3b.... 5 0 0 2 0 0 U.'irjh'l,lb3 0 0 10 01 Cofcan, rf... 5114 2 0 McJm'e, 2b 4 1 2 2 2 0 Wagner. Ib 5 1 2 7 0 0 Moutfu'y.lf 2 01 11 0 (i Fitch, ss..... 4 132 0 0 Wise, c...... 300 7 20 Ueidrick, If 4 0 0 4 0 0 J.NOJ.S, p..... s oo o oo MoMac'n. p4 0 0 0 2 1 Amole, If,.. 100 0 00 Total..... 42 6 1227 82 Total..... 31 4 5 24 10 2 Wilmin^tou...... 21000001 0—4 Pat'TKon...... 6 0000000 x— 6 E i ed rni;s—Wiliu ngtnri 2, Putersou 4. Twu-hi sa hit*—Armour, Killackev. Three base hits—Drew, Wagner. Houitrins—Copan, Fitch, Mclutyre. Loft, on bases—Wiliniiij-ion 4, Pateisjn 0. Struck om — By Nops 7, bv McMacliin 5. Fust on balla—By Mc- Ma.kin 4. S (1-n b* e—Spr«t , Klllnckey. First on Games to be Flaved. eirort—Wilmington 1, P.i(er=on 2. Wild pilch—Nnps. Un.pit-en—Maco, MouUomerv, liain, Huey. Time— June 14—AViluiington at Paterson, Metropoli 1.50. tan at Newark. •June 15, 10—Hartford at New Haven, Newark HARTFORD vs. METEOPOL'N AT H. JUNE4: at Paterson. SIETKOP'N. AB.B.B. P. A. K 11AKTFOKD. AB.ti. B. f. A.E June 10, 17—Paterson at New York, Wilrning- IJ.tnuon, If.. 410 3 00 M»cli,2b..... * 1 1 2 12 * Price $1.50 ton nt Newark. Cavelle. cf.. 422 C 11 Pettit, 3b..... 3003 6 2 June 17, 20—New Haven at Hartford. Foster.'c..... 322 3 0 0 Gunslia'n, It 311 1 0 0 * June 19, 20—Paterson at Newark. Battam, 3b.. 420 0 2 0 Bottenuc.tb 4 1 2 13 1 0 • June IS, IS), 20—Wilmington at New York. Hicliinan, ss 3 1 0 0 2 1 Smith, c..... 401 G 0 0 June 21—Hartford at Newark, New Haven at Irwiu.lb..... ;-! 1 1 G 2 0 Houle, rf..... 301 0 0 0 «« Pateraon. • L'ul er, 2b.... 4121 1 0 Soharf. ss.... 302 1 2 1 The Record. Uoheu.rf..... 400 0 00 Muckey, cf..4 010 0 0 :1 used by the National League Siaudinb, p.. 3 10211 Vickery, p.. 3 0 0 0 31 for the past 19 years. Each ball The record of the Atlantic Association up to Total..... 32 11 7 27 9 3 Total..... 313 9*26 13 6 Juno 9, ino'usivf, is ns follows: *Fullcr out oil bunt bit. is wrapped in tinfoil, put in a Metropolitan...... 0 0030800 0—11 box and sealed in Hartford...... 0 00120000—3 accor(iance with the regu- I'arnnd r.Ui—Hartford 2. Two-base hits—Botte- nus, Scliuri. Tbiee-bnse hit—Filter. Fir«t on balls of the National — Uy Viclcery 3. bv SUndUh 3. Hit by pitcher—By Leagtie. Warrant Standi»h 2. Passed ball—Foster. Struck out—By ed to last a Hartford ...... Vickery 7, bv Stanciish 1. Stolen babes—Guiisltan- Metropolitan ...... n >n. Bottanus2, S:iiitn 2, S.'.harf, Baonon. IJattain 2, full game. New Haven...... Irwir. Sncr fice hit—Foster. Left on bases— Hart Newark...... ford 11, MeuopolitHii 4. Double play—Cavelle, Ful Pater-sun ...... '... ler. Uujpiie-Lambert. Time—1.55. NEWARK vs. N. HAVEN AT NEW'K JUNE 4: NEWAItK. AB.ll.B. P. A.E N.IIA VEN. A B R. I). P. A.B Lost...... 21 18 25 22'l5 22 W.ight. rf.. 5 1 2 1 0 0 O'Hn'ii, rf,-s:i 11311 "lorreys'n.lf 4 1 2 1 0 1 Ilodeo, c.... 512 1 10 Wcm.L.Ht.l'.-t.l VVDn.f-08l.Pct. Hass;im'r,2b 3 2102 l-Sheehan. ss.. 5 00 Oi 0 0 Patprson...... 27 13 .64:!'Hartford...... 22 2t .500 *> Also the adopted ball Metropolitan 22 18 .550 Wilmiiiatou. 19 22 .46:i Burns, cf..... 5 3 1 2 0 U Frye, sc.rf... 422 1 1 1 Newark...... 25 22 .532 New Uaven.. 9 25 .265 Sluart, es... 434 5 4 2|Thoiut'n,lu 401 7 1 0 ffr of all the important J.Uotbf'a.lb 324 8 00 Gilman, 2b ft 1 2 6 3 2 ^ minor leagues, college l)aly,3b..'.... 301 0 10 Boyle, 3b.... 3 0 2 2 0 2 Games Played June 2, A.Uotlif's, c5 0 0 4 10 Sherer, cf... 401 6 2 0 *? associations, athletic WILMINGTON vs. N. HAVEN AT W. JUNE 3: Hriitow, p.. 2 0 0 Cannon, If.. 500 1 0 0 *i and amateur associa- Wll.MI.V.N. A U.K. B. P. A.K N. HAVEN. AB.!! 11. P. A. K :etley, p..... 210 0 10 Mackie, p... 2 0 1 0 1 0 tions. Si r«tt, cf... 421 2 0 0 Ho'ige, C...... 4 11*5 10 Total..... 36 13 1527 94 Simnuais.n.. i 0 0 0 00 Gulla-hfr,««4 12 1 2 (I Oilman, ib.. 4 00 3 31 Total.... 38512 27 106 Newell,3b... 311 1 00 0'IJngen, rl ;! 0 1 0 0 0 Newark...... 12204100 3—13 * OTHER BALLS, 5c. to $1.00 Drew, If..... 400 1 Sheehaij,«f>.. 411 320 New Haven...... 1 01111000—5 Jierryh,ll,li>4 0 0 10 I horuf n. Ib 4 0 'i 901 Earned runs—Newark 6, New Haven 1. Two-base Ilclnty'e.2b4 0 0 G Gnu non, If.. 4 0 0 1 0 (' hits—IVrrwyson, Stuart, J. llotbfuss, Boyle, Bume BATS, MITS, MASK5, Ainule, if.. 312 1 B>ole,3b..... 3 0 0 3 4 4 mns—J, Kutht'us', Hodge. First on balls—By Bris- V isc, c...... 4105 Scherer, cf... 3 001 0 0 low 2. by Setley' 6, by Mackey 2, by Sinimom 3. GLOVES, BODY PROTECTORS, J. N-..J.S, p... 301 0 20 Garvin.p..... 3001 3 0 Hit by pitcher—By Mackey 1. StrucK out—By Bris- Total...... '43 0 7 27 5 0. Total...... 32 5 6*20 13 6 t ivv 2, by Setley 2. Left 01 base.—-Newark 4, New TOE PLATES, BAGS AND UNIFORMS *Gnilai:ijer out foi interfering witn but ed bull. Havcu 9. Double play—Stuart, Holhfuss 2; Boyle, \Vilmington...... 0 0 201011 1—6 Thoruton, O'Hag^u. Umpire—Jonos. Tiiue—2.25. New Haven...... 10000100 0—2 Spring's €ra& mark on wftat you purchase is Earned runs --New Haven 2. Two-base hit* — Thorntuii 2. Three-base bit— O'llu&ran. Stolen Games Played June 5. tbat tftc goods are ffoe »e$t ^ liasi's— Sprat t. Newell, Wise. Sacrifice hits — Neweli, WILMINGTON vs. PATEUSON AT W. JUNE 5: SPALDINQ'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE for 1896 contains the M ise, O'liimn. Struck out — By Nops 5, by Garvin 3. WILMIN'N. AB.H.B. P. A. * i PATKKSON. AB.H.I!. P. A.K playing rules, averages and over 470 portraits of ball players. 10 cents. First on bulls— By Nops 1. by Garviu 1. Hit by Newell, 3b... 4 02 1 60 Armour, cf.. 5 1 1 1 00 Ditcher — Amo'e. Double play — Qurvin, Gilnian. Drew.rf...... 5 01 1 01 Killack'y, c 4 12 7 0 0 Base Ball Catalogue Free Passed bail — Iloduo. Left on bases — Wilminjjton 4, Berryhill,lb5 0111 20 Smith, 20...4 12 1 31 New lid Ten 4. Wild pitch — Gaiviu. Umpire — Gullagh'r.8s4 01 1 31 Taylor,3b... 511 2 40 Aluco. Tims— 1.30. Spratr, 3f..... 5 0 1 2 2 0 Eltou.rf...... 5 1 2 0 00 PATERSON vs. HARTFORD ATPAT'N,JuNE2: Mclnty'e,2b4 0040 1| Wanner, Ib. 4 0 1 13 0 0 A. G. SPALDING & BROS. PATEKSO.N. AB u. B. p. A. K IIAICTFOKD.AH.HI!. P. Amole, p.... 4 01 0 1 1! Fitch, ss...... 5 01 2 40 NEW YORK CHICAGO PHILADELPHIA Armour, cf'.. 402 2 0 0 Muck. 2b.... 4 '.) 0 1 2 0 Montgo'y, If 3 1 2 1 0 0 lleidrick, if 4 0 1 1 00 Killackev, c 4 u () 5 0 0 Peitit, 3b... 311 1 1 0 Wise, C...... 4 0120 0|Cogan, p..... 4 11 0 1 0 Sinitn, 2b... 301 2 C 0 Gunsha'ii, It 4 0 t 0 0 0 Total...... 38 1 l«*2:i 13 41 Total..... 40 ti 12 27 12 1 Tavlor.lib... 400 1 2 1 llonle, rf... 3 000 0 0 *HeiJrick out for running out of line. Wagner, Ib 4 0 2 15 0 0 Seed-, cf'..... 4 110 0 1 Wilmington...... 01 000000 0—1 Flicll. 98..... 3001 5 0 l!oit«nus, c. 4 0 1 5 1 0 I'aterson ...... :...... 4 0 0 0 1 1 u 0 x—G NEWARK vs. N. HA VEN AT NEW'K JUNE G: Earned runs—Newark 1, New Karen 1. Two-base Heidrick, If 3 0 0 0 0 0 Schiirf.ss.... 400 2 3 0 Earned runs—I'aterson 3, Wilmington I. Two- NEWARK. AB.B. B. P. A. E N. HAVEN. AB. U.K. P. A.K hits—Stewart, Mills 2, Boyle. Home runs—Burns. Cogau,|i...... 4 lit) 4 I' L-hane, lt>l 0 0 4 0 0 base bits—Newell, Spiatt. Eltou 2. Three-base hit— Wright.rf... 512 2 1 OiO'Hagan, ss 4 2 1 5 61 A. Rotbfnss. Thornton. Wild pitch—Fry. First on Vi«u, rf...... 2 0 0 0 0 0 Vickery.p...... 301 2 4 <> Killuckey. Passed bulls—Killackey 1, Wise 2. Wild Toney'n. If 3 2 0 0 00 Hodge, c...... 210 4 balls—By Fry 5, by McCloskey 3, by Bristow 6. Hit Eltou, rf..... 100 0 OjlJlemeuis,!b2 0 0 12 01 pitch— AmOle. First on balls—By Cogan 2. by Amole Hassaui'r 2l> i I I G 21 Thornt'o,lb2 129 by pitcher—By Fry 3, by Bristow 1. Struck cut- Total..... 321 6*26 17 l[ Total..... 322 27 11 2 I. Hit by pitcher—Wagner, JCillackey. Struck out Burns, cf... 5121 1 0 Gilman, 2b 400 By Fry 4, by Bristow 2. Left on bases—Newark 10, *lwo out when winning r »n was scored. —By Oogan 5, by Amole 2. Left on buses—Wilniing- Stiiart.ss..... 522 1 5 0 Gannon. If 400 1 New Haven 13. Double plays—Stuart, Hassamer, J. Patergon...... 0 0 0 0 0 010 0—1 lou t>, Pwtejson 9. Double play—Amolo, Gallauher, J.Rotbf'8,lb5 239 Boyle, 3b... 4000 Rothfuss; Duly, HaHsamer; Scherer, Gilman. Stolen Hartford...... 0 0000100 1—2 Beriybill. Stolen lase»—Newell, Cogan. Sacrifice Duly, 3b..... 413 3 30 Sherer, cf.... 3000 bases—Torreyson, Wright, Hodue, Oilman. Firet on E*rued runs —Puttnson 1. Hartford 1. Two base hit—lleidrick. Umpire—Mace. Time—1.50. A Kothf's, c f> 0 2 3 00 Frye, rf...... 4003 errors—Newark 2, New Haven 2. Umpire—Jones. hits— smith, Pettit. Three-base bit — \Vaitnnr. Stolen HARTFORD vs. METROPOL'NAT H. JUNE 5: Setley, p... 502 1 2 0 Garvin, p.... 300 1 Time—2.35. ___ Bristow. cf.. 000 1 00 liftses—Arinoui 2, Vickery. Botierius. Double play— HAUTFOUD. AB. U. B. P. A.K MM'ROPo'N. AB.ll. B. P. A.K Total...... 30 4 3*26 19 7 Games Played June 8. Fitch, Smith, Wagner. First on balls—By Cogan 2, Muck, 2b.... 4 22 4 0 Bannon, If... 3 11321 Total...... 41 101727 153 by Victory 3. Struck out—By Oogtn 5. t>y Vickery Pettit, 3b.... 3 1 0 3 5 1 Cavelle.cf... 300 3 11 *Setley out, hit by batted ball. WILMINGTON vs. NEWARK AT W.JtJNE 8. 4. Pass.d ball—Kilbsckey. litfton baeeg— Patensou Newark...... 00006130 0—10 —In the seventh inning, with the score 1 to 1, and Giinsba'u.U 4001 0 0 Foster, c..... 401 7 10 Newark at the but, witn two men out, Hassamer hit 8, Hartford 5. Umpiie—Burns. Time—1.45. Honle, rt... 3111 0 0 Battam, 3n.. 400 2 41 New Haven...... 00011020 0— 4 Karned runs — Newark 6. Two-baso bite — Hassi- tne bail over right field fence for a home home. Smith, c..... 302 0 0 flickinan.ss 300 0 1 2 Manager Long, of Wilmington claimed Hassmuer Games Played June ". Bottenus, Ib4 1 0 15 0 o Irwin. Ib... 3 016 1 0 mer, Stdart, J, llothfnss, A. Kothfuas, Thornton. Home runs — J. Rotlifus32. Stolen bases — Torreyson, fulled to touch second, ami Amole, who was umpir Scharf. ss... 402 1 3 2 Kuller, 2b... 400 2 3 0 ing, culled him out. Burns objected, and alter five WILMINGTON vs. N. HAVEN AT W.JUNE 3: Vickery, cf.. 101 1 0 1 Coben, rf... 200 0 0 0 Stuart, Wriplit. Struck out — By Setley 2. by Garvin WILMIN'N. AII.B. B. p. A.E NEW HAN.AB.B. B. p. A. B 1. Hit bv pitcher — by Setley '.',. First on balls — By minutes' dispute, Amole forfeited the game to Wil- Seeds, p...... 200 0 3 0 Bowen. p... 300 1 1 0 niineton. Score 0,1 played: Siiratt, cf... 300 1 01 0 llagan, rf'4 021 Total ..... 32 5 8 27 154 Seymour," rf 100 0 Setley 4, by Garvin 4, Wild pitch— Setley. Passed «*llajjli'r,ssl 1122 a! Hodge, c.... 5017 0 0 WILMING'N. AB.R. B. P. A. F. NEWARK. AB. U.K. P. A.B Totil...... 30 1 3 24 14 6 ball— Hod^e. Double plays— Daly, J. Rothfns*; Newell, 3b.. 300 1 2 OiSteetou, BH.. 401 2 Hod$r«, Gilman, Hodge; O'Hagan, Gilman; 0'H»- Newell, 3b.. 2 1 a 1 00 WriKbt, of.. 3 11200 Drew, 1C... 401 1 01 Thorut'u.lb 4 0 1 11 Hixitford ...... 0 1102010 x—r, sran, Gihnau, Thoruton. First on errors — Newark 4, Drew, rf...... 200 I 00 Torreyg'u.lf 2 00 I 00 i5errybill.il) \ 1 2 11 01 Gilnian. 2b.. 5 213 Melropoiitan ...... 001 00000 o—1 Berryhi'l,lb3 007 11 Ua*sam'r,2b3 01 1 20 Earned runs—Hartford 2, Metropolitan 1. Two-bane Now Haven 2. Loft on bases — Newark 8, New Ha 31clnty'e,i!b 3 010 Boyle, 3b... 5 1 1 ven 6. Umpire — Jones. Time — 1.55. Gallagh'r.ss 300 0 20 Burns, rf... 300 1 0 0 Aaiole, p... 3 O 1 0 2 IJGanuon, If..4 1 i hit—Smith. Throe-hahehits—B.mnon, Foster. First Spratt. cf.... 3 0 0 0 0 0 Stewart, as 2 0 0 4 1 0 AViee. c...... 3 0 0 10 1 OlSberer, of.... 3 1 2 on balls—By Seeds 4, by Bowen 4. Hit by pitcher— McIntvV,2t>2 01 4 10 J.Rothf'i,lbl 0 0 (i 0 0 J. Nops.rf.... 400 1 00 Fry, p...... 4 1 1 By Bowen 1. Struck out—By Seeds 4. by Bowen 5. Games Played June 7. Montgo'y. If 1 00 2 00 Da ley. 3b.... 2 000 0 1 Total..... 31 26 27 107 Total...... 3861227193 Stolen bases—Mack, Houle, Scharf, Battam, Irwin. Wise, c...... 2 00320"''A.Uo"tUfu'«,c2 -•••-- 00 3 20 Sacrifice hits—Gunsbanou, dvelle. Lelt on bases— PATERSON vs. HARTFORD AT PAT'N JUNE 7: J. Nops, p... 200 0 10 Setlei-.p...... 2 00010 •Wilminston ...... 0 0 0 ] 0 0 0 0 1—2 PATKRSuN. AB.K.D. P. A. B HARTFORD. AB.Ii.B. P. A.K llaittoril 6, Metropolitan 7. Umpire—Lambert. Total...... 20 I 1 18 71 Total...... 201 2 18 G I New Haven ...... 03001011 x—6 Time—1.50. Armour, cf 4 1020 OJMajk, 2l».... 3 0 1 6 2 0 Eiin"d runs—Wiiminitton 1, New Haven 3. Two- KillacUey, c.'i 0061 OjIVttll.Sb..... 3 0 0 120 Wilmiuijton...... 10000 0—1 bose hits—Berryuill, Scherer Mclntvre. Tlnee-buse G.Snntb, 2t>4 1 1 5 2 0 Gunsha'n, If 4 001 0 0 Newark...... 10000 0—1 hits—Steeton, Scherer. First on hails—By Auiole 3, Games Played June 6. Eltou, rf..... 4 0 1 0 0 0 Houle. rf..... 4 1 1 2 00 Earned run—Newark. Two buse hit—Wright. by Fry 4. Stolen ba«s-Gal higher, O'llafinn, Can WILMINGTON vs. PATERSON AT W.JUNE 6: Taylor,3b... 3 11 0 2 OjB.itteuus, 11)3 01 9 10 Stolen base—Newell. Left on buses— Wilminulou non. Sacrifice hitri—Spratt, Newell, Wise, O'Hairan, WILMI.N'N. AB.K.B. p. A. E.PATEBSON. AB.B.II. p. A.K Wagner, Ib 3 1190 0| A.Sniitti, c.. 4 0 2 1 0 5, Newark 2. Struck out—By Nops 4, bv Soiley 3. Soberer. Passi-d ball —WISP. Li/ft on buses—Wil- Newoll, 3b.. 4 1311 OjArmour, cf.. 5 1 1 2 Kitcli, as..... 401 2 0 OiScharf, ea.... 401 1 4 1 First on error—Wilmington. First on bull*—By mingtou 6, New Haven 9. Umpire—Mace. Time— Drew, rf...... 5 1111 11 Killackey,c 522 4 lleidrick, If 4 1 2 3 01 Vickery, cf.. 401 1 (I 0 Nops 1, by Setlcy 3. Hit by pitcher—Newoll, Drew. 2.15. Berryh'l.lb 5 0 1 10 0 OjSmilh.2b.....4 0 1 I McMac'n, p 3 0 0 0 1 0 Ciements.p.. 3000 2 1 Passed ball—Wise. Umpires—Amole ana Bristow, PATERSON vs. HARTFORD AT PAT'N JUNE 3: Gallagb'r.sg 3 01 0 41 Taylor.3b... 5 111 Total..... 32 57 27 12 1 Total ...... 32 1 7 27 12 2 Time—1.35. H Aim-Oil D. AB.R.B. P. A.E PATERSON. AB.It.B. P. A.K Spratt. cf..... 4 0 11"2 4' 0 0 Elton,~ rf.... 4111 Paterson ...... 4 0000010 0—5 Mack, 2b... 3 1 1 4 2 0-Armonr, cf.. 4 0 0 200 Mclnt'e, 2b 4 0 0 4 1 Wagner, Ib4 0 0 14 Hartford ...... 0 0000010 0—1 DUBUQUE DOINGS. Pettit, 3b..... 4 2 1 5 0 0 Killacky.c.. 4 1 1 3 00 Montgo-y.lf 3 211 Fitch, ss..... 5122 Earned runs—Pntersou 2, Hartforl 1. Two-biise Gunsha'n, If 4 01 1 0 0 G.Smith, 2b 3 1 0 4 30 Wise, c...... 3 \ 0 5 1 0 Ueidrick. If 502 2 bite—G. Smith, Wagner, lleidrick, Vickery. Stolen Harry Raymond Still Striving to Houle, rf..... 3 1 1 2 0 11 Taylor, 3b... 3 0 0 2 34 McC«ftV.v,p4 12010 Viau, p...... 4 1 1 0 base—Arrnonr. Double plays—Fiu-h, Smith, Wagner; Strengthen His Team. A.Smith, c.. 4 0 0 3 30 Wagner, Ib 4 2 1 9 00 Total..... 356 9 24 12 3 Total.....' 41 711 27 142 Fitch, Smith, Killackey; Smith, Fitch. Wanner. First Dulmque, June 8.—Editor "Sporting Life:" — Batten's. Ib '} 1 0 11 0 OJFitc'h.s-"...... 4 12222 Wilmington ...... 20020002 0—6 on hall?—I3y McMackin 3, by Clements 4, Struck out The base ball public have been satisfied, as the Scharf, ss... 310 1 3 2 lleidrick, If 3 2 1 2 0 0 PHterson...... 20101120 x—7 —By McMackiu 3, liy Ciements 3. Umpire—Burns. local club have secured ue\v pitchers. Ctirr and Vickery, rf.. 3 '23 0 0 OJCogan.cf.rf.. 3 23 2 01 Earned runs—Wilminpton 'A. Paterson 4. Two base Timp--1.40. Taylor have been released, and Roach, of Des- Seed-, p..... 321 0 40 Vmu, p...... 3 00 0 40 hits—Gallagher, Killackey 2, Smith, Tiiylor, Fitch, NEWARK vs. NEW HAVEN AT NE'K JUNE T. Moiries "1)5, and Dolan, who started the. season, Total...... 3010 8 27123 Total..... 31 9 8 26127 tleidrlck. Three-has*! nits—Newell 2, Fitch. Sacri NEWARK. AB U. B. P. A. E MEW HAVKN.AB.11, B. P. A. B with Chicago, have been signed. Hartford ...... 0 2 0 0 u 3 0 4 1—10 fice tnt-i—Gallngher, Wise. Stolen bases— Montome- \Vrigh', rf. :i 0 0 »Kan. if 2 0 0 0 0 0 Dubuque lost two games to Quincy last week. Pfttt-rson...... , ...... 00031201 2— 9 ery, Wif p, Armour 2, Taylor. F CAP, SHIRT, PANTS HH5YLY1 LEAGUE. STOCKINGS AND B1$I is as necessary to an OUTF!ELDER as a good eye™«sBMsss™aThe - - - - - REACH GLOVE - Games to be Played. Meets all requirements- June 10, 17, IS—Dubuque at Ilockford, Cedar Rapids at Peoria, Des Moines at Burlington, St. •In fact it is Joseph at Quiucy. June 10, 20, 21—Cedar Rapids at Rockford, Dub'.iquo at Peoria, Quincy at St. Joseph, Burling >. J. REACH CO., Tulip and Palmer Sts., ton at Des Moines. Catalogue Free. • • • PHI LAD1 A, PA. The Record. The forfeited St. Joseph-Des Moines game of May 12 has been decided by President Hickey as standing against Des Moine?, and our table is corrected accordingly. The record Dtibuque...... 0 0300011 2—7 Cedar Rapids 1, Burlington 5. Batleriea—Risley and WJLiKESBABRE'S WAIL.. to June 8 is as follows: Quincy...... 02000331 x—9 Sullivan; Nichots and Grim. Earned runs—Duhiique », Quincv 3. Two-base PEOKIA vs. DBS Moi's AT P'A JUNB 4(lsT G'E): The Team's Poor Showing Attributed B c; C C1 c" hits—Newman, Laroqne, Farrell, Luthrop. Tliree- § r o' PKORIA. AB 11. B. P. A. E|D.MOINES. AB.fl. B. P. A. IS to Indifference. 2 r: base bits—Raymond, McFarlam!. lloiaa run—Som- 0 0 — v r ^r* Gilmure, If.. 5 It ll 4 0 0 Letcher, rf.. 501 ^ ^ 5. sr p uiei-H. Stolen buse-H—Hear, Soinmers, O'Connell. Fisher, 20... 400 0 1 OjMohler. 21).. 2 1 2 1 0 WilUestarro, Pa., Juno 9.— Editor "Sporting '•* Life:" What is the matter with the ball team? K. I | Double play—Graver, Deveuev. Vir.it on halls—By Connors, ct 4 I 1 6 0 OJJVeatpii.cf... 4 1 1 0 0 | 1 i Carr 6, by Lathroj) 5. Hit bv pitcher—By Curr 2, by Snhauh, 3b.. 4122 0 ()|McKibb'n,lf4 0 0 0 0 That question is in the mouths or minds of all — - •^ Lathrop 1. Struck out—By CHIT 2, by Latlirop 1. Oollins, Ib.. 402 4 0 Hurvie, Ib... 3108 0 1 the patrons of the home club. .Pnrlincton ...... 3 0 1 0 2 13 Passed ball—Graver. Wild pitch—Lathrop. Umpire Burke, ss.... 401 0 2 0 Lohmari, c.. 3 218 2 0 The only cause to which one can attribute the 0 4 —Viiimr. Time—1.45. failure of the team to win gomes, without giving Cedar Rapids...... 3 0 2 2 1 12 Souders.rf... 401 2 0 0 Uickev, 3b.. 4 0 0 2 0 offense to the playars, the rLanager, or the di Des Monies...... fi 4 4 3 2 5 4 27 ROCKFOKD vs. ST. JOSEPH AT ROCKFOKD JUNE 2: Seisier, c.... 4 116 0 0 McCreaV, KS 4 1 2 2 0 2 rectors of the club, is that of indifference. To Dubuque...... 4 5 0 3 3 5 22 KOCKFORD. All.B. B. P. A ST JOSE'H. AB.lt. B. P. A.R Gr^ory,p....4 1 1 0 1 0 Figgeme'r,p 3 01 1 3 1 say that the players cannot play better ball J'eoria...... 5 2 1 2 4 2 5 21 O'C'ounor. If G 0 3 0 0 0 Mcliale,2b.. 411 2 20 Total..... 4U 4 U 24 4 0 Total...... 32 U 8 27 10 2 would mortally offend the players; to say that the Quincy ...... ] 4 0 3 0 1 1 10 Kerguson,3b3 10 0 20 Haller, Ib... 4 0 0 12 1 0. Peoria...... 0 04000000 0—4 fault lies in the lack of (Helpline, or tlie peeper Kockford ...... 4 2 1 4 2 4 4 21 Kreig, Ib... 532 9 0 0 McVicker,cf4 01 2 01 Dos Moines ...... 0 2000040 x—ti disposition of the players, would naturally offend St. Joseph...... 3 3 1 0 1 3 2 13 UiKlerw'd.cf 6 131 1 2_ Kiterqii't,3b3 01 1 20 Earned nin—Des Moines. Two-base hit—Mohler. Manager Chapman; and one would hardly be Dillon, rt... 512 0 000 0 Ward, If..... 400 0 01 Tbree-biise hit—Collins. Home rum*—McCreadie, safe in saying that the directors are to blame Lost...... 25 23 3 15 12 23 16 22 139 Warner, 2b . 5 34 4 440 0 KOBS. se...... 401 1 11 Lohmau. Stolen bases—Lohman, Seisler, Gregory, for that, or for letting better players go and Won Lost. 1'ct. I Won. Lost. IVt. Holland, ss.. 4 2 0 2 4 4 Coiidou.rf... 4 0 0 400 McCreadie, Souders. Double plays—McCrendia, retaining poorer ones, for the directors .have an Des Moines.. 27 3 .OOO'St. Jofeph... 13 22 .:J71 Suyder, c.... 4 3 1 10 1 0 Parker, c... 401 1? 1 i Blohlei. Struck out—By Gregory 5, by Fig^emeier nounced that they now have a capable manager Peoria...... 21 12 .fiselCedar Kapi's 1:2 2IJ .343 Hortou, p... 5 3 3 1 1 0 Uolburu, p.. 3 1_ 1 040 1. First on bails—By Gregory 4- Hit by pitcher— who has full and absolute charge aud command Pul'iique...... 22 15 .5951 Burlington.. 13 25 .I-J42 Total...... 43 17 18 27 13 6 Total...... 34 it 0 27 ll 4 By Gregory 1, by Flpgeineier 1, Passed balls—Lou- of the players. Rockford .... 21 10 .568jyuiucy...... 10 23 .30:3 Rockford ...... 13501105 1—17 m»n 2. Umpire—Hall. Time—2.05. That there is a very large sized colored indi St. Josoph...... 00000000 2— 2 PEORIA vs. DBS MOINES AT P'A JUNE 4(2n G'E): vidual somewhere in the woodpile is made mani Earned runs—Kockford 4. Two base hit—Kreitr. fest to every one by the failure of the team to Games Played May 31. PEoniA. AB.n.B. P. A. E|DE8 MOINES.AB.R.B. P. A. E win games. The batting is simply weak as PEORIA vs. ST. JOSEPH AT PEOKIA MAY 31: Home run—Snyder. Passed balls—1'aiker 2. First Gilmore, If.. 4 3 2 4 0 o| Letcher, rf. 4 3 2 4 1 1 compared with the stickwork of the other teams on balln—By Colbnrn 8, by Horton 3. Hit by pitcher Fisher.2b... 0 1 2 3 0 Mohler, 2b. 2002 1 0 of the league. The tielrting, which was passably VKORIA. AB.R.H. P. A, E ST. JOSEPH. AB.R. B. P. A.B — V* arner. Struck out—By Horton 9, by Colbnrn 2. 0 0 0 0 Gilmure, IfiOl 2 0 1 i|Hi H»le,2b.. 4 0 0 5 Connors, cf.. 543 1 Preston, cf.. 4001 good for a time, has not averaged mediocrity Left on banes—Rockford 10, St. Joseph 0. Double S, haub, 3b.. 6352 ttclvib'n, If 4 021 1 1 during the past two or three weeks. Fisher, 2b.. 400 2 40 Hall«r, Hi.. •! 1 1 10 plays—Underwood, Warner, Kreis; Holland, Warner, 1 0 foiinorB, cf;5 2 I 2 0 OjMcVick'r.cf 4 Oil Collins.lb... 222 5 Pin vis, Ib... 4 018 The team is undoubtedly stronger, with the Kreip. Stolen bases—Rockford 10, St. Joseph 1. Burke, ss..... 5124 I 0 Lohman, c.. 3 0 0 6 1 1 exception of an outfield position, than it was last Solinnu, 3b.. 4 1202 liKstcrq't, 31)4 '.> 2 0 facriflca hit—Dillon. Umpire—Alien. llickey, 3b.. 411 1 1 0 Colliug, ID.. 3 3 1 11 0 OiWiird, If...... 4 0 0 3 Seisler, rf..... 4 1 1 year, and should do better work. The playing CKDAR RAPIDS vs. BURLING'N AT C. R. JUNK 2- Dugdal«,c... 512 9 20 McCrea'e.Si 401 3 3 1 last year, up to July 4, was all that could be Uurlie, 88... 4101 ,r> o' BOPS, e>...... 400 2 2 0 Souders, rf.. 4 01 3 0 ulWilbur. if.. 4 120 Burlington ...... 1101301 0 x—7 Thomas, p... 4_ 2_ 2_ 0 00 Bonier, p..... 401 1 desired; after that it went to pieces, until near Se sler, c... 403 5 2 1 ; Parker, c... 4 0 U 3 Cedar lUnidn...... 0 1 000200 0—3 Total..... 4.5" 18 !il 27 7 0 Total...... 33 4 8 27 H 4 the-close of the season The falling off then wan Tliomau, p... 4 0 !_ o M) 1 Johnson, p.. 4 0 2 0 Hit*—Burlington 10, Ced;>r Rapids 7. Errors— Peoria ...... 30003235 2—18 attributed to careless and incompetent manage Burlington o. Cedar Kapids 4. Batteries—Mahaffey, Des Moines...... 100001011—4 ment. Total. ... 3l7~io*!i« 14 3J Total..... 36'I (T 2l 8 2 Grimm; Currish, Sullivan, Donovan. .Earned runs—i'e^ria 6, Des Sloiue.4 1. Two-base There are rumors and rumors ns to the cause *Knnuer out fcr interfering with fielder. NOTE.—Rain prevented the Peoria-Des Moines hils—Letcher, Connors, Collins, Thomas, Seisler. of the poor work of the team. The managing P. 01 in...... 00211 0 0 3 x—7 game. Three-base hits—Burke 2, Scliaub ?, Letcher, Mc- directors claim that there is no truth in any of St. Joseph...... I 0 0 u 0 0 0 1 0—2 Kibbeo. Home run—Gilmore. Umpire—Hall. these rumors, and, while they admit tbut the Em ned ruus— I'ooria 3, St. Joseph 1. Two-base hit team's work is not rip to the standard of its •—CA>HIIIS. Three-bate iiit—tichnub. Homo run— Games Played June 3. RyCKFotiD vs. ST. JOSEPH AT ROCKF'D JUNB 4: collective ability, they state frankly, when Connors. Double plays—Burke, Fisher. Collins; Koos, DUBUQUE vs. QUINCY AT DUBUQUE JUNE 3: Rockford...... 0 0020243 3-14 asked what the cause is, that they do not know, BlcIlnU; JolniMOn, I'arker, Haller. Struck out—liy DUBUQIJB. AB.R.T!. P. A. E QUINCY. AB.K.B. P. A.E St. Joseuh ...... 001010000—2 and can give no reason for it. Tlumms 5, l>y Jwhusun 2. First 0:1 balls—Bv Johnson Bear, rt...... 400 2 00 Ulrich, 3b... 301 G 12 iiits—Eockfor.l 17, St. Joseph 5. Errors—Rockford In the face of their denials of the truth of the 3. Hit by pitcher—Johusuu 1. Wild pitch—John T'uho.lb..... 5 2 3 12 1 0 Phillips. If. 4 0 0 1 00 3, St. Joseph 4. Batteries—Moleswoi tb. and bnyder; several rumors, and in the absence of any knowl B n. Uuiirire—Hnrter. llaymond,3t>5 2 0 0 1 0 McFarl'd, rf 3 0 0 0 00 Slagie and Parker. edge on their part of the real cause of the DUBUQUE vs. BURLINGTON AT DCB'K MAY 31: I'onjr, If..... 5 02 2 00 F*rr»ll, cf.. 4 01 2 01 Games Played June 5. team's poor work, it is just possible that dame Larnqup, 2b 400 3 40 S.immers.lb 401 C rumor is correct. At least the meddlesome flame DUBUQUE. AH.n B. P. A. E IllJIiLINQ'N.AB.R. B. P. A. E CUDAR RAPIDS vs. DES MOINES AT C.R. J0NK5: has the advantage of the situation, inasmuch B.-HI-, rf..... 402 2 0 0 J.\V(iite,2h.. 4 0 3 0 5 U Newniau, cf 4 00 01 0 Richter.ss... 401 1 DKSMOIN S. AB.U B. P. A. CKDAB R'S. AB.B.B. P. A. E as she gives a cause, whi-ch is more than the New man cf 4 0 1 0 0 lilt. \V)me,cf Dwveney, ^s 1 1 0 2 42 O'Coiin'l, 2b 401 2 4 0 0 I Li-toner, rt'.. 432 2 dill, 3b...... 411 1 2 1 directors seem able or willing to do. "Causa Long, If...... 4 0 0 I i.i oiCarmh's, Ib 4 I 2 19 Zahner,'c.....4 11 fi 0 2 Quiun, c..... 4 019 Diamond, p. 400 0 30 Ueidy, p.... 3_ 0_ 1_ 0 Mohler. 2b.. 5 114 Kiaierer, p.. 1 1 2 0 3 0 latet, vis est notissima." Laroque, 2b4 0 0 3 4 0| Armstr'g, c 4 1 (J g Pivs!on,cf... 512 1 0 3 Uouovau, rf I 2 0 1 0 1 Sandy Griffin has been sold to Scranton for Tiiihe,! b. ... 4 1 1 8 2 1 liichter, if.. 4 0 1 0 Total...... 300'e 27 144 Total...... 330 7 27 6 ti MoKib'u, If4 I 2 2 0 0 VauBu'n, If 3 2 1 1 0 1 $200. Scranton is to be congratulated, ever* if Ra> moLt ,3b 4 1 1 3 2 0 Holling'h,-s 4 0 0 0 nubuque...... 0 0200220 0—0 Purvis.lb.... 4 0 i 12 01 Ebriuht, is.. 401 C 4 0 they do agree to pay Sandy $75 more per month Doveney, es4 0 1 0 1 (J Ilanson, c.. 2 2 0 2 Quiucy...... 00000000 0—0 Lohman.c... 411 4 20 Marcuui, Ib 4 01 13 0 0 than he received at Wilkesbarre. The Scranton. Zibucr, c... 4 0 0 4 1 0 Nultoii,3b... 3 1 I 2 Eained run—Dubuque. Two-base hit*—Tlghe 2, Hickey, 3b.. 4 0 0 2 1 OJ Barnes, cf... 2 0 0 2 0 I Club has secured what the local management did jsmiih, p. ... 3 1 1 1 0 " Nicholf, p.. 3 0 0 1 Sommern. Three-base hit—Loiiir. Stolen bases— not appreciate, "optimumique est aliens insauia •A? •A ~t n~ McCrea'e.ss 4 200 S 0 Breen, c... 3111 2 0 T.,tol V'l i7 Tufa 1 27 ESTABLISHED 1858. Games to be Playerl. June 15. 16, 17—Richmond at Portsmouth, Nor folk at Lynchburg, Petersburg at Koanoke. June 18, 19, SO—Norfolk at Portsmouth. Peters HIGHEST GRADE ..... burg at Richmond. Lynch burg at Roaaoke. The Recortl. Unsurpassed in Workmanship and Durability The record of the Virginia League up to Half Section League Bail. June 9, inclusive, is as follows: WRITE FOR SPECIAL RATES TO CLUBS. hits—Tannenlll. Wrigley, Whitehill, Tivta. Three- PETERS'GVS. LYN'GAT P. JUNE runs— Smith 2, Dolan 2, McFarlanti. Stolen bases— b»se tiit—Stanford. Stolen busex—Sanf«r ble plays—Brady, Lung. Bieckonridjje; MnrpTiv, Fnll River...... 0 0045201 5—17 Birmingham; Doe, Stoere, liiimiusilsani. First on Portland ...... 0 0 0 U 0 0 2 7 2—11 balls—By Nobiitt 5, by llallowell 5." Hit by pitcher Kurned runs—Fall Kiver 12. Portland 4. Three- —Sharp. StrncK tut—liy Nobliti 1, byUallowillj. base hits— Lnjoie 2, Reilly. Two-base hits—Lnj.«ie, Umpire—Biadley. Geier, Kennedy 2. Lyoui, Klobedanz. Dnncnn. Sac rifice, hit—Goier. Stolen bases—Keilly 2, SUter. Eight. Mysterious Combinations of Beautiful Colors Games FJayecl June 2. First on l,all-.—— By McCoy 1, by Klobedanz 4. First Effected by Roentgen, Edison, Crookes, on errors—Fall Iliver 4, Portland 2. Hit by pitcher Cathode, Tesla, Lenard, Hertz, Salviom. NEW BEDFOUD vs. LEWJSTO.V AT N. B. JUNE 2: — McDermott, McCoy. Stiuck out—By McCoy ;;, by Consists of thirteen colored disks, fastened on N. BEBFU'D AB.B.B. P. A. E j I.EWISTON. AB.H.n. P. A.E Klobedanz 1. Double plays—McD^rmott. Kenned); a common axis, each revolving independent of Murphy, rf.. 3 2 0 1 0 U Fitzmor's.cf 4 0 1 1 Lyons, Kennedy; Wood, Musser. Uin;>ire—Counelly. the other in an eccentric manner, the operation steero, ss... 312 3 I.ipl-crt.rf... 401 2 0 0 Time—2.20. of which creates a most mysteriously interesting Birmi'm, Ib 4 0 0 12 0 OJShen.3b...... 4 0 1 0 1 1 puzzle. I'ri«'«, 25c.— fr»ost|.>ai any matches. Budd is in fine form and 7, Miller 13, Yeomans 15. Geoffrey 12, Dawsoa capable of holding his own with any of 10, Fisher 12, Van Dvke 14, Drake 14, E. Sick- the cracks. ley 14, lledden 12, Tillou 10, Thomas 13, Brieut- uall 10. Banks 14. D. A. TJpson, of Cleveland, was wrongly Event No. 4, 15 targets—Drake 14, E. Sickley marked at the Hazard tournament through 15, Colquitt 12, Fisher 13, A. Sick-ley 13, Mil an error in the percentage, which was ler 15. KOT TOO PERSONAL BUT JUST PER IS THE NAME OF THE IEI STAR OF Event No. 5. 15 targets—W. Smith 14, Henry doubtless due to the large amount of fig 12, Gray 12, Yeomans 15, Giles 10, Warden 7, uring necessary at such a gathering and Geoffrey 12, Van Dyke 14, Young 13, Laing 9, SONAL ENOUGH. the limited time allowed. Mr. Upson's TRAP SHOOTERS. Runyon 1.4, Detainer 9. average on the first day was 83 per cent., Event No. 6, 15 targets—W. Smith 14, Dawson on the second, 89 per cent., and on the 8. A. Sickley 13, Yeomans 12, Fisher 11, Laing third, 92 per cent, which gave him second 12. Henry 11, Van Iderstlne 11, Colquitt 9, Bits ol News and Gossip About Men average on the third day. He got a piece Some Facts About the Modest Mil Miller 14, Geoffrey 13, Drake 14, Van Dyke 15t of the "ten high guns" on two days, a part E. Sickley 14. Whom Ail Lovers ol Shooting Know of seventh prize in the Hazard event and waukee Man Who Defeated the Event No. 7, 5 pair—E. Miller 6, Drake 9, W. one-half of twelfth prize for best general Smith 10, Strader 5, Van Dyke 9, Yeomans 7. average. Event No. 8, 10.targets, unknown angles—Ed• in Person or Through the Medium Famous Fred Gilbert at Chicago wards 9, Drake 8, Van Dyke 10, Y'eomans 9, We heard a certain shooting man remark Strader 6, W. Smith 8, Miller 10, Jackson 5. Event No. 9, 10 targets, expert rules—Miller of General Fame. that he would like to back Charles Budd, Last Week, 8, Ftlwards 7, Yeomans 6, W. Smith 9, Dallett Fred Gilbert, Chauncey Powers, C. W. 6, Van Dyke 10, Strader 5, Hobart 3, Drake 10, Grimm. Richard Merrill and Thomas Mar O'Reilly 6, Brientnall 4, Young 7, Hedden <3, Harvey MeMurchy. of the r,. C. Smith shall against any six men in the- country. The new champion trap shot, Mr. George Thomas 7. Dawson 7. gun. has just returned from, a very suc Bach team to shoot at 100 live birds and Deiter, of Milwaukee, who last week de Ervent No. 10, 15 targets—W. Smith 13, A. cessful trip to the Paoitio coast. "Mac" 100 inanimate targets to a man, for $200 feated Fred Gilbert, as fully described in Sickley 10, Van Dyke 13, Y'eomans 9, Geoffrey says that the Smith gun is the favorite apiece, or $1200 a team. This would make our last week's issue, was bom in Juneau, 14. E'. Sickley 13, Dawson 11 Henry 14, Van there and he had an excellent trade. He a great race 'and we think a team of six Dodge County, Wis., about 45 years ago. Iderstine 13. Colquitt 14, Laiug 14, Grey 12, stopped off in Kansas and shot in the open men selected front Heikes, Dickey, Mc- When a boy he took to the rifle and Runyon 14, Giles 8, Fisher 7. events of the State shoot and put up a Murchy, Parmelee, Upsou, Redwing, to squirrel shooting. Then he went after g»od race. He also participated at In Glover. Rike, Young. Fulford, Ruble, El large game and wa.s considered a good dianapolis with most excellent score*? un liott, Bartlett, Wheeler. Leroy, Whitney man at deer. About eleven years ago HERE _MD>THEBE. der a hard handicap. The Smith gun is and a few others would make it warm he began duck hunting and always got bound to lead with such a mail to repre for the Western experts. his share of the game. About this time Among other articles of incorporation sent it. he began entering in matches at rifle filed last week at Albany with the Secre J. M. George is postmaster at San An shooting at his old home. tary of New York State was one for the "Biily" Iline«, the crack twirler of the tonio. Texas, but is not president of the Mr. Deiter soon led all who went against Bouito Rod and Gun Club—Trustees: John Cincinnati Base Ball Club, is an expert San Antonio Gun Club, as stated in a him and then came tile trap shooting, at Boscher, J. D. Cordes, Lester Doctor, Ern trap shot and 'ndulges in that sport when recent issue of "Sporting I/ife." Mr. which, however, he has been perfecting est Meyer and Joseph Silk. ever he has an opportunity. George is good enough to be president of himself for but a few years. In the old any gun club in Ihe State of Texas, but Cream City Club, now a matter of his he hardly aspires for the position which tory, he killed 91 out of a possible According to a reliable statistician the John Parker, of Detroit, had the mis we credited to him. amount sp?nt on trap shooting in England fortune to slip and turn his aiikle, which is £5,750,000, or $28,750,000 yearly. may keep him. home for a few days at Wirt, of Cincinnati, shot through the least. "Jack" will not tay there long Hazard shoot and got a place in the A gun club has been organized In Mio if he can help it, and is booked to look Hazard average prizes, but through an sedate old town of Schenectady, N. \'. 'Die after the arrangement of traps at the oversight his name was omitted from the leading spirits in the venture are the engi New York State shoot, at Buffalo, on list of winners. neers of the general electric works. Suit June 8 to 13. able grounds will be selected and equipp ed, and a season of practice at the traps Ohauncey M. Powers, of Deeatur, 111., PITTSBURG GUN CLUD. will be entered upon. is one of the best shots in that State, either on live birds or targets. Elaborate Programme For the Coin The annual shooting festival of the Ho- Mr. Powers is a very popular fellow and ing Three Days' Tourney. the kind that are always welcomed at bcken Independent Sehuetzen Corps was every shooting ground. He never quits The annual tournament of the Pittsburg Gun brought to a close at Schuetzen Park', the .game and can be found among Club will be given June 23, 24, 25 at Exposition Union Hill, on May 29, Will Forkel defeat 1'ark, Allegheny City. It will be under the ed all competitors on the honor target the top men at the end of each day. Mr. immediate supervision of Elmer R Shauer, Powers has invented a handy cleaning "Old Hoss" llostetter and "Jim Crow" Dicksou, by scoring tiO out of a possible 75 points. rod for shotguns that is the best article which is to say that everything will be done He captured the prize three years ago, of the kind that we have ever seen. It ami handled iu first-class style. All communi and under the rules of the competition he is of seamless brass tubing- and, besides cations relative to the tournament should be is not entitled to it agin. H. W. Schtnidt, being a jointed cleaning rod, has a screw addressed "Elmer E. Shaner, secretary i'ittsburg who was next in order with 59 points, driver and oil can combined, 'which is Gun Club, I'ittsburg, 1'a." secured the prize, and was crowned kins placed in the handle. A wire scratch On the first day, June 23, there will be ten of the fest by Miss Lillie Basse. brush is easily connected and all the events at Blue Hocks and $150 added money, cracks are recommending it highly. We entrance $2 and $2.50. Five sets of traps will be The Upper Montclair Gun Club held a congratulate Mr. Powers on his inventing used. While these events are contested No. 2 live-bird shoot at Montclair, N. J., May set of traps will be used for shooting off the 30. Each contestant nad 10 birds. The such a neat article for the sportsmen, I'ittsburg Club annual handicap target race, and wish him success with it. 100 to 115 targets, 1C yards' rise, known trap, result was: H. G. Brand, 9; P. Speer, 9; unknown angles, live moneys. In addition to W. Brown, 7; E. K. l«efliugwell, S. In the John J. Sumpter, Jr., writes us that first money—30 per cent.—the winner will be shoot-off Speer won. the sixth annual tournan.ent of the Arkan presented with a silver cup, presented by the sas State Sportsmen's Association will American E. C. Powder Company. Entrance $5, The Herron Hill Gun Club last week be held at Hot Springs, Ark., July 3 and targets extra, $50 added to the purse. made the final payment on their new 4; $200 in casto added and a> fine pro Oil the second day, June 24, there will be grounds, at Davis Island darn, and the gramme will be arranged. ten events at Blue Rocks for $10 and $20 purses, title and deed of the property have been with $150 added money. During these events GEORGE L. DEITKE. turned over to the club. The plot secured T. E. Riley and Dr. Wittier, both of there will also be shot off five extra events at 100. He took the South Side Gun Club consists of 10 acres of land and is well Kansas City, tied for the Kansas City Blue Rocks under the expert rule. The shooter tournament medals two years in succession located, being only five miles from Pitts Star cup at the recent Missouri State making the highest total in these four extra burg. A club house will be erected at shoot. In the shoot-off of tie Riley won. events will receive a silver berry spoon by the in 1892 and 1808. He is a member of the once, the shooting grounds laid out and The match was at 25 live birds; |25 en Pittsburg Gun Club. South Side Gun Club, the National Gun a line range built. In addition to this trance. Riley killed straight. The third day, June 25, will be a repetition of Club and the Milwaukee Sharpshooters' the second day's programme. The highest shooter Club. In a tournament arranged by the it is the intention to have base ball and in the four expert events will be presented by Sharpshooters' Club he won the cham other athletic grounds. It is expected that Charlie Raymond's name appears in the the Pittsburg Gun Club with a solid silver pionship in 1889, for which he holds a the new club house will be ready for oc amateur class at the recent Hazard shoot, cold meat fork. handsome medal. He also has a medal cupancy in about two mouths. but it is an error. It should have been All 15 target events will be divided into four for first in the Green Bay liifle Club. in the expert class, as Charlie is too good, moneys, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. All 20 He also took first in the Milwau The Schmelzer Arms Co.'s third annual a shot to be classed as an amateur, but target events will be divided into rive moneys, kee Sharpshooters' Club in 1895. Mr. shooting tournament will be held ,at Kan always enters in the expert class when 30, 25, 20, 15 and 10 per cent. Price of targets Deiter was a competitor in the rifle sas City, Mo., September 15, 16, 17 and ever there is such a division of shooters. is included in all entrances, except handicap $750 cash guaranteed. Mr. Raymond icsides in Dayton, O.. where target race. All ties divide. match at South Chicago during the such crack shots as Heikes, Hike and All shells forwarded to Elmer E. Shaner, 122 World's Fair and was awarded a hand At Mprristown, N. J., June 4. a shoot McDonald come from, and is a good Diamond Market, Pittsburg, Pa., will be deliv some gold medal for his work with the ing match between Frank Class and James sportsman. ered to the shooting grounds free of' charge. rifle on that occasion. It is inscribed as C. Tinmions, of that city, and Fern Coop Blue Rook traps and Blue Rock targets will be the Columbian sharpshooters' medal, is er, of Mahanoy, Pa., and John Kehig. of used exclusively at this tournament. about the size and weight of a $20 goid Shooters desiring photographs of the piece and oruitely engraved. Lehightou, Pa., resulted iu q draw. The different sqr.ods or one of the general The gun is a mere matter of recrea match was for $200 a side, 50 birds each, group of shooters should write to Mr. WISCONSIN GUN CLiUB. tion for :Mr. Deiter. For many years he 30 yards- rise, and 5O yards boundary. R. S. Watfdell. First National Bank has been a conductor on the Wisconsin The score: Cooper, 24; Tiimnous, 23; Kehig, Building, Cincinnati, O. The price of Programme of Their Tournament 23; Class, 24. general group 4s 50 cents., and of the branch of the Chicago and Northwestern .squads, 25 cents. The pictures are finely Now Ready. Railroad t'ud his vacations are spent in There is talk of a match between Cap finished and very handsome. We have received the programme of the tour the woods or marshes adjacent to the tain George W. Coulston, inspector of rifle nament which will be given by the Wisconsin city. practice in the Twenty-third Regiment, and "Sporting Life" wants good live sub Gun Club at Milwaukee, Wis., on July 4 and 5. Targets will be two cents each, and the com Charles, the Count of Lenone, of Passaie, scription agents in every town. Big money mittee reserves the right to handicap profes AT ORANGE. N. J., and formerly of Taos, New Mexico. in it. Write us for particulars. sionals. The progmnmie consists of 10 Blue Rocks, $1; .15 Blue Rocks, $1.50; 20 Blue Rocks, The New Jersey Trap Shooters' At the Rochester, N. Y., Rod and Gun We had the pleasure while in Chicago $2; a miss-and-out event at 50 cents, and a League Has a Day. Club's annual meeting, June 5, H. M. Stew- of meeting Frank EL Butler, manager two-men team race. In all the programme calls art was chosen president; E. C. Meyer, of Annie Oakley, the shooting attraction for 12 events, having a total of 145 targets for A large number of trap shooters assembled on vice president; J. B. Mullan, secretary, and of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. During the the day, with a total entrance of $17. the grounds of the Muplewood Gun Club, at S. B. Williams, treasurer. The selection of conversation Mr. Butler related the strange The programme for the second day is about Maplewood, at Orange, N. J., May 30, to partici a shooting master and executive committee manner in which Annie recently broke her the same as for the first. In 10-bird events pate in the programme of events arranged by was postponed until the next regular meet collar bone, it seems that she was shoot the purses will be divided into three moneys, the club, and also the fourth contest of the sea ing of the club. Mr. Stewart should make ing at a pair of composition balls, which and in the 15 and 20-bird events into four son of the New Jersey Trap Shooters' League. an admirable chief officer of the club. He moneys. The team of the Maplewood Gun Club came she threw up by hand. One of the balls out victorious iu the league contest, the sec has always been one of the most active The' committee In charge consists of ,T. A. members and is qualified to run things in was wet and slipped from, her hand just Parber, John Meunier, P. Himmelstein, J. Fisher, ond time this season, with a score of 13i>. The as she exerted the grentc-st effort to J. Fuchs and G. Ruggaber, and these gentlemen conditions of the league shoot were six men to proper style. throw them in the air. She felt a sharp will endeavor to give nil visitors a good time a team, each man to shoot at 25 targets, and pain in her shoulder, but it was only a and lots of shooting. The grounds are on the but three clubs entered teams. The scores in THE HAZELiWOOD SHOOT. strain and did not give up a single per Wauv,atosa Electric line. full follow: formance, although suffering considerable South Side Gun Club, of Newark—Thomas 15, Some Very Good Scores Made at pain for some time. A few days ago a Young 19, Dawson 19, Hedden 24, Brieiitnall 17, doctor, who had professional duties at the THE STAR TOURNAMENT. Geoffrey 21. Total. 118. Blue Rock Targets. show, examined Annie's shoulder and said liunellen Gun' Club, of Dunellen—Henry 22, Hp.Kelwood Gun Club members are an active that the collar bone had been broken, but A State Championship to toe Decided Giles 12, Grey 18, Warden 13, Runyon 21, Laing lot of men, and are fast becoming very good 21. Total 107. shooters. They bad another target sh.iot at Pitts as it had now grown together he could at Aurora. Maplewood Gun Club, of Maplewood—Drake 25, burg, June 0, at. unknown angles and traps. The do nothing for her. Just think of it. a The Star target tournament will be held at W. Smith 24. B. Sickley 23, Yeomaus 24, A. scores made were in many instances very good woman with a broken collar bone giving Aurora. 111., on June 23 and 24. Every one in Sickley 2O, Van Dyke 23. Total 139. indeed. two performances daily with a shot gun. vited but paid experts, and 90 per cent, of the The programme of sweepstake events attracted First event. 25 Blue Rooks—Crossland 22, Ak- There's grit for you. nen will be handicapped. The programme calls a large number of contestants. The events and ernian 20, Suvch 21, McCann 19. for 10 targets, ft; 15, at ?1,50; 6 pair, §1.50; the scores made were as follows: Second event, 25 Blue Roeks— Grassland1 24. J. A. R. Elliott, made a run of 105 15 targets reversed ard 30 targets, $3. Some Event No. 1. 15 targets—Thomas 12, Hobart I'urchtield 23, Akerman and Sutch 19 each, P. straight at Milwaukee and was less than events will be at known angles and some at 0, Miller 15, Yeomaus 13, Van Dyke 15, Strader O'Brien 10. $r» ahead. These fellows who think that inknown; some will be shot under the Pnmpbrey 4, Edwards 15, Brieiitnall 11, O'JReillv 10, Dal- Third event, 25 Blue Rooks—BurcbfleM 23, Wat there is a fortune in trap shooting had bet iystem. some under the Jackass Rabbit system lett 11. W. Smith 13, Dr. Fisher 11, Hedden son and Parsons each 21. ter figure this out. and some allow the use of both barrels. The 12, Drake 13, Geoffrey 14. Fourth event, 15 Blue Rock—Crossland 15, second day is about the same, excepting that Event No. 2, 15 targets—Brientnall 13, W. Burchneld 13, Bessemer 12, Parsons, Watson and Charlie Rudd !s willing to make a match he "Star" State championship will be decided Smith 13. Edwards 13, Yeomans 13, Miller 1?,, O'Brien each 11, Dr. O'Brien 10. with Dr. Carver at live birds, but Carver nd a team match of four men to a team. W. Thomas 15, Geoffrey 15, Drake 14, Dawson 12 Fifth event, 15 Blue Rooks—Parsons 14, Besse Tramp Irwin and P. Crego will manage the Darby 11, Jackson 11, Van Dyke 15. mer and Grassland 13 each, Dr. O'Brien 10, P« i» too busy at the present time to slioot shoot and try and give ail a good time. Event No. 3, 15 targets—W. Smith 13. Strader O. O'Brien 3. Ruble ...... 12221 21112 21021 22022—IS After men had oiled their guns and put them Grimm, Gilbert, Powers, McMurcby, Cook, linker away the bonorous voice ot "Tramp" would IN THE WEST. and Carver, and these men made an average of T. Marshall ...... 22122 22212 012*2 22122—Is 00 per cent, or better, still some of them -were H. DuDiM'll ...... 2112221211 20212 21210—IS float through the cJub house in "Here you are (Continued from Nineteenth Page) hardly even w4th the game. In one ten-bird F Gilbert ...... 12222 12110 22222 22022—18 now, ten targets tor a dollar, everything race the first-place men on clear scores got K. Heikes ...... 2.J202 22222 212*2 22222—18 known." and mey woald put the gun together, go out and break nine out of ten, perhaps miss 7 811 their entrance back, while the other • places K . Cook ...... 21122 *2212 20222 22222—18 T>e Wolf. ... lust money, or the charge of three cents each Frothingham ...... 22222 21222 02202 20211-17 ing the next to the last one, and then draw- Murphy ..... 0 11 . . A . Kleinman ...... 11202 11221 *2121 1201.2-17 out 35 to 45 cents. Oh, yes, everything was Lansdon .... 8 12 . . for targets--, and nearly everyway in for the money, there was little left to divide among H McMurchy ...... 12121 22221 20-220 10211—17 known, all but the amount of money you McCarthy .... n lot of ties. The events were mostly at un • Smith • • • •"• ...... 22111 12121 22221 21000—17 would get on a 90 per cent. gait. Atwater ...... 4 10 10 J. Elliott ...... *2222 22*21 20222 22222—17 Charley Grmaia, of Clear Lake, Iowa, was R. A. Turtle known targets, and entrance $1.50 .in 15-bir*J events, .$1 in 10 aad $2.50 in 20. • The big A DuBra.v ...... 20(223 21022 22220 11222—17 much in evidence, in the twenty .live bird event T. Parker .. ! '.'. .'. '.. '.'. 10 13 G with his Smith gun and his U. M. C. factory ...... 5 8 . . event for the Chsbmore. s»un- wis started with Dr. Carver ...... 0211022202*222221222—16 1'etrie ...... SO entries, 33 being entered to the sweep at $20. •Nish ...... 11122'21212 22222 OlOw —16 load of Schultze powder. Charley is shooting Maloncy ...... ' '.'. '.. '.'. !.' lu is 9 and the balance for tke gun. which was a 5300 S Palmer ...... 11111 10120 02011 11112—10 botli targets and live birds well now, and will Cowaii ...... Ctisbmore. The meet was open to Uie world, IHH T Ilicks ...... 12011 11111 20100 21111—10 doubtless be in some big matches this fall. Suort ...... W. "Wirt," and his side partner, "Bill" Set ...... 4 .... thy gun could only be won by a resident of the Dilg ...... 22220 22101 02222 02210—15 F.vaiis ...... t'«tnte or a men>ber of tUe association. Charles E. Bingharu ...... 22022 02022 02122 21202—15 tle, of Cincinnati, took part iu the open sweeps W. G. Wood...... 9 .. .. with great pleasure, bill it was not because ...... !>.... Grimm, of Clear Lake. la., a noted live-bird M Bich ...... 21111 21*22 11120 02*10—15 Broadway ... shot, winner of the big event OB these grounds Brsice ...... 20221 11121 02021 22020—15 they did not get rich when they broke ninety Pitzen ...... 7 .... p«r" cent, of targets. Wirt is ;ua amateur at the ...... 0 .... during the World's Fair, and Dick Merrill, of Wirt ...... 22102 *2220 *2022 21102—14 Place ...... Milwaukee. Wis.. a very popular young man. G Deiter ...... 22200 00222 22222 22200—14 traps, but is shooting a great clip for a new Niison ...... 7 5 . . Cuiamings ...... 11010211002111120020—13 one. He tried his hand on live birds and made '.' .'.' .*.' .'.' .'.' 5 14 10 who has shown himself a pood one on both live Bocci ...... birds and targets, were the only men entered ».l Kleirimao ...... 21222 01121 1110 w —12 several long second barrel kills. He will bear Oarter ...... o 13 n for the money who succeeded in killing the B Smith ...... 20110 11220 02220 22w —12 watching later on live birds. Kobbius ...... 9 10 11 20 birds straight. They divided first money. R Kuss ...... 20021 21201 22202 00020—12 Albert Bacon, of Henry. 111., now wears tho Hollester ...... o .. $148.50. Bert ' DuniiPll, of Nippersink. [11., a W Palmer ...... 22001 20021 22212 Ow —11 Board of Trade diamond badge. Mr. Bacon is Joseph ...... young man who shovmj considerable skill as a •Doe ...... 21221 12021 20w —10 no relation of "Shorty" Bacon, of Miarnsburg,' 1.. O- Willard ...... 14 10 ...... 11 12 live-bird shot, also killed 20 straight, but as he •Steck ...... 22211 12021 w - 9 O.. but is just as good a shot. Mr. Bacon often Keeves ..... was not entered in the swspp he was satisfied" • Ha rbaugh ...... 12222 21 * 12 OW - 9 kiils a few hundred ducks in the fall when the Frotliinghaui...... H 13 ...... 5 • • with the gun. he being eligible to win it as a •Ambcrg ...... 21102 11122 w -9 night is on, and this is where he gets his prac Sbephard .... member of the State Association. This race •Girtf.r ...... 11121 22102 \v —9 tice for the summer meeting of trap shooters in Hicks ...... 9 '.'. 54 45 39 35 57 51 ?A lasted all of this day. and was not completed •T Parker ...... 22121 11110 w —9 Chicago. John Watson was manager and refrreed all CUib team" championship, open to teams of until nearly noon on the next day. Following •L. Willard ...... 12221 10111 Ivr - 9 four men from any club member of Association. are the target scores of the day: •Barto ...... 22022 12111 l*w - 9 live bird events. Ike Watson and George W«t- Rvents ...... 1 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 9 Franklin ...... 20222 11020 200\V — 8 son were cashiers, Dr. Wolf oflicial scoresman, Entrance, price of bin's: Targets ...... 20 15 20 10 25 10 15 20 15 •A. K. Henry ...... 21222 21120 w . -8 and Dick Deadeye referee on targets. EVANSTON GUN CLUB. •.I. linker ...... 12110 11110 w , —8 H. B. Meyers, secretary and treasurer of the Beck ...... ,. .21111 11121—10 18 13 18 S 20 9 14 17 30 . . 20222 22220 vv State Association, had his hands full of busi '.'...... 12212 12011— U Dui-no ...... A. Bacon Franklin G. T. Hall .. 18 15 17 S 17 .. .. 17 10 •Holden ...... 21110 121* w ness, but managed to find time to assist the .T. Smith .. .. .1*221 11112- 9 9 13 ...... 01112 00212 OOW pesky newspaper reporters. '.'.'. .'.' ...... 12*21 12210— 8-36 Blliott ...... 19 15 18 9 24 G. Kleinman .. Dilg ..... Cuker ... .. 20 14 17 10 20 8 14 19 10 •Pitzen ..... , ...122210120 w "Dicky" Merrill won a purse of $26 all alone DIXON GUN CLUB. \Virt ..... , 18 13 IS 8 . . . . 10 I'J . . •M ,rris ...... 21222 1020 w in a 15-target reversed angle match. Dick shot B. Smith ...... 2212211111-10 Cook ..... 18 14 20 .. -5 10 11 17 9 • Forest ..... , . . .22202 210w a good, steady match all through the tournament, Pitrkburst ...... 01121 12112— bany, 101, 84.1 per cent., won fifth; Peg- iiim, Cauajoharie, 10O, 83.3 per ceiu., won sixth. made by SHOOTING AT WAUPACA. J. E. Farber, lof Milwaukee, Among tlie Uiygcst Money Winners. Waupaca, Wis., June 5.— There was a large attendance at tue closing day's shoot of the Waupaea. Gun Club here to-day. The weather was favorable to good shooting, and the scores were accepctible. J. IS. Jb'arber, of Milwaukee, was among the participants, and he- was the biggest winner for both days. The shooting was fair on Thursday, the opening day. The scores Wonderful Velocity. Little Strain on Gun. for the two days were as follows: FIRST DAY. GREAT PENETRATION. BEAUTIFUL PATTERN* QTT7BN Sweepstake No. 1, at 10 Blue Rocks— Frank MSI Mil Stout "I, A. R. Lee G, P. Brown 7, T. Cook 9, Our SMOKELESS METALLIC AMMUNITION Now Ready. Ask for it. J. Ward 5, A. H. Petersou 6, C. Sawyer 9, J. E. Far be r 8. Sweepstake No. 2, at 10 Blue Rocks— Browne • 5, Farber 10, Ward 0, Lea 4, Hoilenbeck 6, Peter- SHOOTERS HAYE A SUCCESSFUL son 7, Sawyer 7, Cook 8. Tliird and Main Streets, Sweepstake No. 3, at 15 Blue Rocks— Farber TOURMim. 14, Stout 11, Browne 12, Ward 11, Cook 13, Dwyer 10, Lea 13, Peterson 9. THE DEDHAM Sweepstake No. 4, at 20 Blue Rocks— Peterson 12, Stout 14, Browue 17, Lea 12, ' Cook 18, Faber 10. Has an Excellent Shoot on Memorial The Canajoharie Tourney Oas o! tie Sweepstake, miss and out— Farber 11, Browne Day. 10, Hollenbach 1, Cook 0, Stout 0, Lea 0. The Dedham Sportsmen's Club, Dedham, Mass., Finest of Its Kind Ever Held—Ex• Event No. G, 10 targets, double rise-JLea 4, held its v. etkly shoot on Memorial Ihiy, there Cook 5, Browne 5, Stout 5, Farber 8. being 36 participants and a large crowd of spec El vent No. 7, at 12 Blue Rocks — Farber 10, tators. During the afternoon a ' team match An American Invention of High Merit. cellent Display o! Skill at the Traps Peterson 6, Lea 8, Cook 9, Stout S, Browne 12. was shot by eight members'of the Hopedale and Event No. 8, at 20 Blue Rocks, 10 singles and Dedham Gun Clubs, the Dedham Gun Club win Will not Pit or Rust the Barrels. 10 double rise— Stout 10, Lea 14, Browne 11, ning by a score of 113 to 85. Blinii, Leverett, —Details o! the fork, Etc. Cook 14, Farber 16. Greener. Cole. Herbert, Gordon, B. Smith and When ordering shells, insist that Event No. 9, at 10 Blue Rocks— Cook 9, Lea 9, Agor comprised the team representing the Ded- Browne 8, Stout 5, Peters G, Harriaburg 6, Far ham Gun Club; Dudley, Egleston, • Arob, Prentice, they be loaded with The annual tournament of the Cana- ber 9. Wright, C. Whitney, Moron and (Jt. Whitney joharie Gun Club was held this year as Event No. 10, at 10 Blue Rocks—Farber 7, representing the Hopedale Gun Club. By refer usual on. Memorial day. The attendance Cook C, Lea 5, Harrisburg G, Browne 8, Stout 5. ring to events Nos. 8 and 9 the individual shoot "was large, a number of Albany shooters; Event No. 11, at 15 targets, unknown traps — ing of ea6h member of the teams will be found taking part, together with experts from Cook 13, Ward 9, Harrisburg 8, Lea 7, Sawyer scored. Match No. 7 was shot for a gold medal, Troy, Cohoes, Saratoga and Rupert, Vt., 9, Farber 14, Peterson 10, Browne 12. which was tied for between B. Smith and Her making a pretty fast crowd. There were Event No. 12, $25 guaranteed, at 15 Blue bert, and shot off on the next event, and finally Du Font's Rifle. ten events on the programme, all 15-bird Rocks, 5 at unknown traps— Cook 12, Lea 8, Har won by Herbert. Over 5000 targets were thrown, Unequalled for general use in Rifle or Shot sweeps, entrance in each $1.50; the purse risburg 8, Stout 8, Ward 6, Browne 13, Farber and a very enjoyable time was spent by every gun. 11. one present. Scores: divided 30, 25, 20, 15 and 10 per cent. H*Mt-iH^>-*)-*h5 l-^MHi h-ij-l M^M^ Event No. 13 at 10 Blue Rocks, double rise- ooooooo ooo oo oooo A special prize of a box of Peters' iiitro Cook 5, Farber 7, Ward 8, Browne 7. Stout 4. "** Du Font's Choke Bore. shells was awarded to the "high gun" in Event No. 14, at 10 Blue Rocks— Cook 10, Shoots clean and strong. Especially adapt* every event. The birds were kingbird Ward 5, Farber 10, Browne 8, Hollenbach 6, ed for Prairie and Upland Shooting. targets. Score: Stout 4. TIIE EVENTS. Erent No. 15, 10 Blue Rocks?, double rise- Du Font's Trap Powder. Ward 4, Cook 7. Hollenbach 8, Stout G, Farber Contest Xo. 1—Fifteen kingbirds, $1.50 entry. Marked V. G. P. Something new for Trap 8, Browne 8, Churchill G. Shooters. Strong, Clean, and Quick. Weeks 15, won first money; Valentine, Le-vengs- Event No. 10, at 10 Blue Rocks, unknown ton and Swiveller 14, divided second; Sanders 13, traps— Cook 9, Stout 8, Ward 6, Farber 8, won third; Stone, Roberts, Fult'ord and Paul liU Browne 7, Hollenbach 7, Peterson 3. Du Font's Eagle Ducking. divided fourth; Betts and Partiss 11, divided Prepared especially for Seaside and Field fifth; Weasels and 1'egnim 10, McClure and Camp SECOND DAY. oocoo I-* M cctf-i.no Shooting. bell 0. Event No. 17, at 10 Blue Rocks— Cook 8, Lea Contest No. 2—Fifteen kingbirds, $1.50 entry. 5 Hay 6, Farber 9. Stout 8. Blinn . . ,88 78 75 17 5 97 7 10 574. Valentine and Fulford 15, divided ikst money; Event No. 18. at 10 Blue Rocks— Farber 7, Lea Leverett 78 7 9 5 7 17 7 98 9 6 89.. Du Font's Crystal Grain. l^eveugston and Belts 1-1, divided second; San 8, Hay 8. Stout 7, Cook 9, Hollenbach 4. Greener . ,67 74 G815 7 67 6 7 9 . . 2 The Highest Grade of Powder Manufactured; ders, Stone and Weeks 13, divided third: Me- Event No. 19. flt 15 Blue Rocks — Stout 5, Lea Cole .. , . 8 8 7 7 5 5 18 10 9 8 8 8 10 8 6 6 Clure and Pegnim 12, divided fourth; Roberts, 12. Farbor 15. Hollenbach 10, Cook 12. Herbert • , 8 9 10 7 10 9 19 10 8 8 10 ..776 Paul and Wessels 11, divided fifth; Swiveller and Even" No. 20, miss and out — Farber 3, Peter- Gordon . 99 78 S 8 13 10 66 9 ..947 E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. 1'artiss 10, Campbell 9. son 3. Cook 4. Lea 0. Stout 0. Hollenbach 0. Mason .. ..106 0 7 6 4 18 6 78 7 ..642 Contest No. 3—Fifteen kingbirds, $1.50 entry. Event No. 17, at 20 Blue Rocks— Cook 16, Far Martin . 88 8 4 G 8 16 7 10 6 9 ..843 Weeks, Fulford, Betts and Barker 14, divided first ber 19, Lea 14. Hollenhnch 14, Peterson 14. Hastings 8586 6 4 11 10 90 8 .. 8 . . Wilmington, Delaware. money;.Valentine, Sanders, Stone, Wessels and Event No. 21, at 20 Blue Rocks— Farber 15, Elder ... 86 91 9 7 14 .. 6 . . Fail-child 13, divided second; Ijevengston, Rob Lea 11, Cook 16, Hay 32. Noon .. 84 5 6 10 6 . . ..43. erts, Swiveller, Paid, Campbell, Pegnim and Bor Event No. 22, at 15 Blue Rocks—Farber 13, Colburn . 8 1 68 66 .. .. 7 . . SEND POSTAL. FOR CATAL.OQUB. land 12, divided third; McClure and Partiss 11, Hollenbach 6, Len 11, Cook 11, Hay 9, Peter- Brown . 67 9 5 11 65 ..7.5 divided fourth. There was no claimant for fifth son 8, Stout G. Vodder 12. Warren . 8657 7 9 15 6 ..9.4 money and it w,as added to the purse. Event No. 2-°>. at 10 Blue Rocks— Hay 8, Hol Owen .. 4434 35 8 3 65 5 ..632 Contest No. 4—Fifteen kingbirds, $1.50 entry. lenbach 4, Vedder 9, Fnrber 7, Cook 9, Lea 4. Soule .. 94 68 8 4 16 2 2 ... ..75. Betts 15, won first money; Sanders, Levengston, Event. No. 24. at 10 Blue Rocks— Cook 8, Far 8 . 9 . . . . 18 . . . . 7 86.5 Paul and Wessels 14, divided s-jcotid; McClure, ber 9. Lea G, Hay 3, Stout 7, Hollenbach 5. Allison ... 77 7 3 13 3 8 7 10 ... 4 4 Weeks, Fulford and Barker 13, divided third; Event No. 25. at 10 Bine Ro^s— Farber 9, Steele .... 8 6 74.. 5 5 6 7 4.56 Valentine, Roberts and Swiveller 12, divided Co-Ms S. I>n 5. Drynt 5. Bner 4, Hisy 4. Gifford .. . 1 4 5484 3 . 1 fourth; Stone and Pegnim 11, divided fifth; Camp Event No. 2fi, at 10 Blue Hocks— Farber 8, Hol Dudley . . . 5 2 32.. 4 3 ... '. '. '. . 0 bell and Partiss 10, Borland and Fairchild 0. lenbach 4. Lea 9. Cook 9, H>iy P. Stout 8. Egleston .. 8 . 97.. 6 47 .. ... 1 4 Contest No. 5—Fifteen kingbirds, $1.50 entry. The winners, of the onenins day w>re handi- Aron . . ... 2 6 74.. caped to shoot over unknown traps yesterday. Prentice .. 57 6C 4 ... .. '. '. 3 "Weeks and Fulford 15, divided first money; Stone, -1 l which became his personal property. Under a new rule a majority of the members- shot troui Smokeless, _ the thirty yard mark, with Michel among the number, and although he scored but eight kills Ciean,______lie knocked over every one of his allotment of tea birds, two dropping dead out of bounds. The • Very Quick and score: CLUB SHOOT—TEN BIRDS. == Reliable. William Michel, 30yds...... 21*111*111—8 George Roenig, 30yds...... 001*1 11112—7 William Soil, 30vd»...... 111010*022—0 Philip Xeusch. 30yds...... ,01*00 10011—4 P. Waimemacber,' 30yds...... 00010 01101—4 Adam Gtith, 30yds...... 010000011*—8 Conrad Pfaff, 25yds...... 0101000000—2 is made especially for small loads from 2% to 3 drs. ; for heavier HIVE A FIRST-CUSS TRAFSHOOTMG *JDead out of bounds. charges, from 3 to 4 drs., use our ordinary "K. C." No. i. FINAL SHOOT. The new " K. C." No. ® gives high velocities, with iaarctly The Bergen Rod and Gun Clul) any recoil. CJoses Its Season. The final shcot of the season given by the "E. C." No. 2 is packed in Yellow cans, "E. C." No. i The National Gun Club ol foe Cream Bergen Rod uud Gun Club, of Brooklyn, was de cided on May 30, near Flatlands, L. I. Robert in " J. Valentine, who has maintained a high av City Holds Its First Annual Tourna erage for the season in all the shoots of the club, captured the handsome trophy known as the champion's prize, with a clean score, of six ment—Many Snots From All Over teen birds. In the extra events winch comprised AMERICAN "E.G." POWDER CO. Ltd., the programme of shooting the money was very the State Participate. evenly divided. The summary: OAKLAND, BERGEN CO., N. J. First event—Second competition for the cham pion's trophy at ten live birds per man—Robert The first annual tournament of the Na .7. Valentine, 29yds., 10; James W. Reynolds, 23 tional Gun Club v'as held at. National yds 10; Patrick J. O'Brien, 27yds., 10; Thomas Park May 22, 23, and there was a large T. Williamson, 26yds.. 9; Richard W. O'Brien, number of sportsmen in attendance be 25yds., 7; David G. Murray. 27yds., 0; Charles fore the programme of. 11 events was de A. Richardson. 28yds., 8; Robert J. Frazar, 20 cided. Members of the National, Wiscon yds., 2; Nelson T. Ellery, 27yds.. 5. Second event—Shoot off of the tie for the sin, North Side, Jolly and South Side Gun trophy, miai and out—Robert J. Valentine, 29 clubs of Milwaukee, and of the WauUesha yds., G; James W. Reynolds, 28yds., 5; Patrick Gun Club, were among those present. JT O'Brien, 27yds.. 4. Third event—A niiss-andout sweepstakes racs at First Day, May 22. live birds—Valentine. 4; Reynolds, 3; Ellery, 4; On the opening day the wind was rather Murray. 0: Berginane, 5; R. W. O'Brien, 3; high for good shooting, but good scores P. J. O'Brien, 1. DURING were made in nearly all events. lie-suits: Fourth event—Same conditions—Richardson, 0; Ellery, 2: Valentine. 4; Williamson. 4: P. J. At 10 Bine liocks, known angles—Bush 10, O'Brien, 3; R. W. O'Brien. 1: T. T. Williamson, Dr. Schoop 7, BraiHit 8. Gumz 7, Johnson 9, 2: Murray, 0; Frazer, 1; Morgan, 1; Winsted, 3; Esthers 10, Lewis 10, Stein 9. Chu-ke, 1. of the E. C. Powder Tournament, Guttenburg, N. J., May 5th, Cth, 7th and 8th. At 10 Blue liocks, known angles—Lewis 7, Fifth event—Same conditions—Murray. 3; Rich, Schoop (i, Ifiatberg !', Brandt 6, Bush 9, Guiuz ardson, 3; Valentine, 0: Reynolds, 2; P. J. SCHUI Jenney fell at the tape, breaking his right ami. One J4i!Q Oysn.-Amateur—Won by I. A. Powell, New York; O. W. Davis, Buffalo, second; J. F. Barry, Syracuse, third. Time, 2.16 3-5. One Mile, Handicap, Amateur—Won by C. W. Davis, Buffalo; F. B. Denniston, Buffalo, second; A. E. Ixmgrieckcr. Buffalo, third. Time, 2.30. LATEST BULLETIN OF THE L, A. I, Two Miles, Handicap, Profesioual—Won by Torn We append a list of some of the wonderfully low priced Cooper, Detroit, scratch; Otto Mayas, Erie, 110yds., second; W. J. Ilelfert, Utica, 130yds., goods we sell, and which may safely be ordered by mail. RACING BOARD, third. Time 4.36 2-5. Five Miles, Handicap, Amateur—Won by Hay Dawson, New York, scratch; W. M. Peckham, A leek's fork on the Track—A Buffalo, 175yds., second; liay Ducrr, Buffalo, BICYCLING SHIRTS—well made and perfect fitting: 200yds. third. Time, 12.43. CHEVIOT SHIRTS, at 50, 75 cents, $1.00 and $1.50. World's Record Broken—Alleged AT BAMMONTON. MADRAS SHIRTS, at 75 csnts, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00. FLANNEL SHIRTS, at $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50. Dishonest Work in Texas—News Opening Race Meet of the Local Athletic Association. BICYCLING CAPS—golf style, in plain and mixed cloths, at 25, 50, 75 cents and $1.1 Hammoutori, N. J., June 6.—The opening LEATHER BELTS—in every desirable style, at 25, 50 and 75 cents and $i,co. and Gossip About the Racers, Etc, meet of the Hammontou Athletic Associa tion, held he;v this afternoon, was one THE "CANTSLIP" BELT—good leather, at 50 cents. Philadelphia, Fa., June 10.—Following is of the finest ever held in South Jersey. MEN'S WOOL SWEATERS, at $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00. the usual weekly bulletin of the L. A. W. A. K. Bernshouse, paced by Joseph Lind- MEN'S WOOL SWEATERS—with sailor collar, at $1.50 and $2.00. Kiiciiig Board: ley and Joe Viuicr, on a Fowler tandem, BOYS' WOOL SWEATERS, at 95 cents, $1.50 and $2.00. State of Wyoming is transferred, from Handi broke the track record for a half mile BOYS' WOOL SWEATERS,—with sailor collar, at $1.25 and $1.75. cap District No. 11 to Dleirict No. :3. from 1.06 to 3.03 2-5. In. the five-mile O.MCAXaF-'KliUUiD TO PU'OFESSlONAJj CLASS. handicap W. J. Slack fell, severely cutting GOLF STOCKINGS, at 50, 75 cents, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00. i'bil Nickel. Milwaukee, Wls., on ro.juf:st; liis leg and arm. The one mile handicap W. J. Sh ruder, Milwaukee, Wls., clause a; E. J. resulted in a dead heat for third place L:.fi,Vr(y, Milwaukee, Wis.. clause a; Hoss Pat- between H. Treat and J. B. Gorser, and Money refunded if goods are not satisfactory* terson, Philadelphia, Pa., clause a; Edw. fc>. each was awarded a prize. Five hundred Acker, Philadelphia, I'a., clause a; Frank J. people were present. Summaries: I'jlc, Wilmlugton, Del., clause a; C. A. Church, One mile novice—Albert Bateman first, Ben CLester, I'a., clause a; 10. P. Thompson, Phila jamin Clark second, B. E. Crowell third. Time, delphia, Pa., clause a; A. Buszard, Chester, Pa., 3.03. GLOTHIER. clause a; H. II. Maddox, Asbury Park, N. J., One mile handicap—Joseph Harrison first, H. clause a; James Brown, Philadelphia, Pa., clause W. Hackett second, H. Treat and J. B. Corser PHILADELPHIA. a; William Broomtield. Philadelphia, Pa., clause third, L. Leffersou, fourth, Charles Henzel fifth. a; J. G Smith. Philadelphia, Pa., clause a; Time, 2.10. tins B. Walliit, POcatfcllo, Idaho, elaiisc u; H. B. Oue mile open—Joseph Harrison first, B. Fiveiaan, San Franc''sco, Cal., clause a; JauifeS B. Stevens second. L. Lefferson third, William Tracfy, &in Luis Obispo, Cal., clause a; JU'rdy M. Trott fourth, lime, 2.37 2-5. Downing, Sun J(«e, Cal., own request; W. B. Five mile handicap—L. Lefferson first, B. Gibson, LJttUi Kock, Ark., clause i; A. H. MitcVi- W. Grouse second, B. B. Stevens, third, C. ell, Williamsport, Pa., own request; K. B. Henzel, fourth, A. K. Bernshouse fifth. Time, Stlnnidt, Utica, N. Y., own request; C. F. Wil- 12.17. locghby, Philadelphia, Pa., under clause b; Edw, A Page, Boston, Mass., under clause b; Louis P. Callahan, Waltluini, Mass., clause b; \V. B. NEW WORLD'S RECORD. fchecer, Manchester, N. II., clauw a; C. H. Graigiio, Springfield, Vt.. clause a; J. II. Benvjn, Arthur Gardner Places the Time Manchaster, N. II., clause a; J. H. Fitzgerald, Gotf's Falls. N. .H.. clause a; John Nose-on, Min For the Mile Open at 2.11 2-5. neapolis, Miun., clause a: IIolKs A. Adams. Lured o, Tex., June 8.—The •world's rec Worcester, Muss., own request; \ViJlinro F. Buse, ord for eingle paced races at a mile is Buffalo, N. Y., own request; T. F. Rockwell, now 2.11 2-5, which was made by Arthur Qiicago, 111., own request; H. A. Kernel, Mil Garcliuer, when he won the uii!e open waukee, Wis., own reqiwst; W. J. Gonzenbacli, at the national circuit meet to-day. He Chicago, 111., own iTijUest: G. .S. Smith, Savaii- was pushed to the tape by Bob Terrell, Bah, Ga., own request- J. K. Mumterlyii, Jr., who finished barely a half length back. Jacksonville, Fin., own request; A. E. -Smith, Coulter was third of a length behind. Pine Bluff, Ark., own request; Ed.£ur P-oren, The fastest single paced race heretofore Dallas Tex., cl.iuse a; L. U. Johnson, Waco, Tejc., clause a. was iu 2.12, at Montreal, last August. For competing1 under the jurisdiction of the The heat was intense to-day, being 130 Canadian Wheelmen's Association, and under such degrees in the suu and over 100 iu the conditions as renders him a professional by their sshr.do'. mles. J. C. Sampson, Calais, Me., is hereby Zelgler rode an unpaced quarter iu 23 2-5 declared a professional in accordance with the seconds, breaking the State ami track agreement between the two countries. unpaced marks. Orlaudo Stevens' win of W. A. Elkes, Jacksonville, Fia., clause a. the mile handicap from 30 yards in 2.10 SUSPEXSIONS REDUCED. was remarkable, as he shot to the lead Suspensions placed on the following have been, on the last bank from the rear of the reduced to expire Jnnc 13: A. L. McMurtrii1, R. field. The summaries: 1>. Oakford, ——— Brevoort, Hill School, Potts- Mile open (professional)—Gerfliner won, Twer- town. Pi). ril seetud,' Coulter third. Time. 2m. 11 2-5s. Suspension placed upon W. F. Gard'ner. St. Mile handicap (professional)—Stevens, Of tun)- Louis, Mo., has l>ee.ii reduced to expire June 2}). •wn. Iowa (30yds.). won; L. M. Johnson, Waco They made a try for records, but tbe road —At Denver, Col., May 27, A. B. Hugbes rodn All cities in Missouri, west of Boonville, de (l!?0yds.1, second; MacFarlund, San Jose (35yds.), was so .filled with touring wheelmen that the a mile un.pu.ced in 2.04 1-5, making a new world's siring races handicapped will please send blanks third. Time, 2m. 10s. men. could not ride their best. amateur bicycle record. The best previous record to Mr. E. P. Mcriarity. Kansas City, Mo., and Ziegler, unpaced quarter, 2S 2-5s.; State rec was 2.05 !-!>, wade by Harry C. Clark, in Denver. toose east to W. M. Rosborougb, St. Louis, Mo. ord uupaced. A lioacl Race. —George A. Banker, the I'ittaburg rider, who ia SUSPENDED. Boston, June 7.—C. S. Bolting, of Providence, i (AV convalescent abroad, after a severe illness, For competing in unsiinetionod races the fol- DISHONEST WORK. from ihe one-minute mark, won the East Boston will not. race this season, but return to the lowlng are suspended from all track racer; for twelve-mile road race yesterday. Bolting won United States as soon as he is able to stand GO days from May 30: James Brown. Philadel A Race Declared Off at the San Aii- the Hhode Island fifteen-mile roud race at Prov tiie journey. phia, Pa.; William Broomiield, Philadelphia, Pa.; toiiio Meet. idence two weeks ago. Dave Turner, of Taun- —Morgan & Wright, of Cbicago, offer the follow J, O. Smith, Philadelphia, Pa. ton, from the same mark, followed Bolting close ing prizes for road u ce records en the "good For competing in unsanctioned races John San Antonio, Texas, June 6.—The Na ly through the race yesterday, and was only tires" luring ISUO: First, prize, cost \alue $2.", Nilsson, Minneapolis, Minu.. is suspended fronj tional L. A. W. race meet was held here one-fifth of a second behind. The time prize for best time, distance 10 miles; second prize, all track racing for 30 days front,June 1. yesterday, with a large attendance of na was won by It. B. Unjuhart, of Boston. Ho cost value ?2o, for best time, distance 25 miles. For emering handicap rnco at "Buffalo. N. Y., tional circuit riders. The track was fast, started from the twenty seconds mark and —A. B. McDonnell, of Rochester, broke the 10, and refusing to ride, following are suspended but a strong wind was blowing down the came in twenty-third in 32.45. The second and from nil track racing for 10 days from June 0: 15 and 20-mile road records May 26 on the G.?.fu Fred VutPrson. Buffalo. N. Y.; F. Simpson, Buf back stretch which made the time rather third time prizes went to Bolting and Turner, course. The time made was: Five miles, 8.21; slow. The last race, a five mile open pro the first two men in. W. H. Senter, of Brock 10 inilwf. 21.25; 15 miles. 34.32, and 20 miks. falo, N. Y.; W. M. ItaiKlall, Buffalo. N. Y.; F. ton, from the thirty-seconds mark, followed II. Alien, Buffalo. N. Y.; II. K. Steenson, Buf fessional, was declared off by the referee, •10.01. McDounell now holds all the road records on the ground of alleged jockeys. The Urqubart all the way in, and finished close be up to 100 miles. falo, N. Y. matter will be appealed to the National hind him, winning fourth time. A. W. Cham- For entering races nt Buffalo, X, Y.. and fail berlin, another 30-seccnd man, won fifth time —A niatch has been made between A. A. Chase ing (o appear, A. W. Hue-lies, Buffalo, \. Y., Racing Board. Following are the sum prize; T. A. Barnaby. from the 1.10 mark, was and Michael?, the noted foreign crack, for au is suspended from all track racing for 30 days maries: seventh. The race was over a three-lap course. hour race. Chase rec?iitly made a new record from June t;. Half-mile professional, 1.05 class—Dr. Park There were 100 starters. for 50 miles, and is said lo be in rare form, •Fin- false entry at. Buffalo. N. Y., Clarence er, Detroit, first; O. L. Steveus, Ottuiiiwa, la.. while Michaels is a bit off color. The race is for V. IJoran, Buffalo. N. Y.. is suspended from second; W. A. Terrell, San Francisco, third. a purse of £200 and will bo a struggle to the end. all track racing for «0 d--iys. Time, 1,»3 1-2. Gnnn Wins a Ten-Mile Road Race. —A special match race has been arranged be , ... . . ;. GEORGE \V. GIDEON, Chairman. One mile, professional—^A. Gardiner, Chicago. Grange, June G.—Nine riders started in the tween Walter Sauger, "of Milwaukee; "Tom ' first; Otto Zeigler. San Jose. Cal., second: Glint ten-mile road race of the E,-ist Orange Ramblers C<,oper. of Detroit, and Eddie Bald, of Buffalo, COOPEU DEFEATS BALD. Coulter, Mansfield. O., third. Time, 2.15 3-5. this afternoon. Two fell by the wayside in the to take place at. the Herald Charity tournament, Two mile handicap, professional. L. W. John- first mile, and only five survived the entire dis. nt Manhattan Beach. July 25. Otto Xeigler, of sou, Waco. Tex., 220yds., first; S. C. Cox, New tance, C. T. Gnno was the winner, riding tha California, und W. W. Hamilton, of Colorado, The Buffalo Rider Falls in the Two, Vorli. 125yds., second: C. I>. Stevens, Ottumwa, ten miles in 20m. 5s. His handicap was 30s. have also been invited to compete. The liieu will Mile Race—-Jenny Breaks an Ann. la.. UOyds., third. Time 4.4$ 2-5. The other four finished as follows: O. B. Miteh- race for a purse of $500. Fmloiiia, June 7.—Eddie Bald and Tom Five-mile scratch. professional—Ptto Zeig- *11. SOS;. 20m, and 6s; H. T.-Hall, SOs., 2!)m. —The Canadian Wheelmen's Association l-.ns de Cooper came together yesterday at the San Jose, Cal., lirst: Dr. Parker, Detroit, sec and 7s.: -John Mills, 1m.. 20m. and 38s.; A- J. cided to enforce new rules in relation to rec irmet of the J^. A,. W. at Fred'oui;!. and ond; H. C. Clarke, Denver, third. Time. 12-52. M. KdwnrdK, scratch, 2!)m. and 15s. The race ords this year. Records will only be recognized Declared uo race on account of alleged jockeying. was held over the Central avenue course, and Cooper oamt> out tbe best man. I« the was witnessed by crowds all along the line. for tin; quarter, hall', three-quarters, one mile, pue-mile race Bald slowed up at the fin The officials were F. L.. Fieger. referee; F. M. and all .complete miles from this distance upward. ish, declaring that lie had been pocketed THE NATIONAL MEET. Bemiett jintl E. H. Wiswell, judges; C. C. Foi'bes, All competition records irust be made at ope:( by two ridtra In the two-mile race he V. G. Brown and C. II. Deas, timers. meetings. The time for trials against time is re fall on the last half and was bruised The List of Frizes Completed by the stricted from May 30 to Sept. 1. slightly. It was the general opinion that Committee. —What is likely to prove the first charge of un Cooper was too much 'for him. In the Louisville, Ky., June 10.—M. J. Fleck, BITS OF RAGING KEWS, fair riding among professional wheelmen thil 20-mile roa-1 race C. IT. Whitely. n dark year is made by Otto Zeigler, Jr., the old clas.i chairman of the race committee of the —>rTlie two-mile bicycle record was broken nt I! man. Zeigler alleges that George Grant an4 Lorse. of Erie. Pn., won. Adolph Goehlei, '!>G Meet Club, has completed a list of Tom Cooper purposely ran him off the track in of Bijffalo. won the time prize, lowering prizes that will be given in the races dur Cat ford, Kngland. June 3, by F. Poye. who cov the course record two miantes and a half. ered (he distance in 3m. -17 l-5s. the f>ii'»-mi!o professional rnce at Cincinnati on ing the National L. A. W. meqt. — "Sporting Life" wants good, live subscription May 2G. and he intends to lodge a complaint witu Ray Dawson. of the New York A. C.. won For the amateur races u total of agents everywhere; good money in it. Write the Kacinff Uonrrt about the matter. All thrc» the five-mile race and open amateur race. $910 will be distributed and iu the pro "Sporting Life" for particulars. riders were in class B last season. Frank A. Jenny, of Utica, broke his right fessional races $158:-! in cash will be arm and dislocated His left shoulder, tiv.m- —At Catford. England, June 1, J. W. Stocks given. In the national championships beat the bicycle records for from three to seven The Usual Rural Proceeding. maries: medals from official dies of L. A. W. are miles. The latter distance he covered in 13m. Twenty-mile Road Race--Won by C. II. Whit< the only permissible prizes. Amateurs and 31 4-5s. The Town Board of Hempstead, L. I., has ask I.r, Knel 4m.. time 55.0 H. Kenyon, ed the Highway Commissioners to pass an ordi professionals cau ride together in these —-Class B has been dead but a few months, but. nance making it a. misdemeanor for any person Buffalo, 4m.. second, t.ims 56,32, Addison Pill-:e\ races. A is de.ul sure enough, and so far it looks ns if Buffalo. 4m., 30s.. third, time, 57.05. Time win The programmes for the three racing to ride a bicycle on any sidewalk or footpath iu ners—Won by Adolph Goehler, Buffalo, scratch. it would never be missed from tbe race meet tbe town, and that after sundown and before sun time'53.31; John C. Penseyres Buffalo scratch, days, August 13, 14 and 15, provide for prcgrammes. rise lights must be carried on all wheels. Rid second, time 53.40; Kdward F. Leonert, Buffalo, nine events each day, embracing.-contests —Arrangements are being irnde for a !5-track ers must not go faster than eight miles an hour scratch, third, time 53.45. at all distances from the quarter to five nice between Monte Scott and A. MncDcnnell, through any unincorporated village, an alarm One Mile, Novice—Won by T. T. Mack. Buffalo: miles for both amateurs and professionals. the well-known road riders, to take plaje on June must be sounded at all crossings, and in. racing H. W. Watson, Buffalo, second; Malcolm Moore, 27 at Syracuse. on the highway not more than two can ride Buffalo third. Time. 2.3!> 4-5. Elizabeth A. C. Cyclers Win. —Many of tbe features iptrodi ccd at. race rncetg abreast. Any violation of the proposed ordinance Half a Mile, Handicap. Amateur—Won by .7. Elizabeth, June 6.— The fifth and final team bi e< uld be done away with. The public wauln to will subject the offender to a fine of from $1 to Fred Barry, Syracuse, 10 yards: Ray Dawson, cycle road race for the championship of Union see racing and not exhibition work, and a little $50 or thirty days in jail. New York, scratch, second: C. V. Horan. Buffa county was ridden this afternoon over the Eliz- of the latter goes a great way. lo. 20>-ds.. third. Time. 1.04. arx'th-SpHngfield course, distance ton miles!. The —The Century Itoad Club of America has lately Are You Tired Also? One Mile. Open Professional—Won by Tom only entry was the six men of the Elizabeth awarded the California 25-mile State road lecord "I feel tired about the arms," remarked the Cooper, Detroit; L. A. Callahan, Buffalo, second; Athletic Cyclers, who had a walk-over for the to C. S. Wells, of the Syracuse team, his time blacksmith. "That's noth'ng. I feel tired all franb J. Jenney, Utica, third. Time, 2.15 2-5. championship cup, winning it for Uie third tiaie. was 1.10 30 '2-5. This is also Pacific coast record. around." retorted tiie wheel. LIFE. June 13. The Brunswick-Balke-Colleiider Company, Manufacturers of Billiard, Pool and Combination Tables. Importei'R of ami Wholesale and Retail Dealers in BILLIARD MATERIAL OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. MAIN OFl'MCES: SCO Broadway, New York; Nos. 4, 6, 8, 10 anil 13 \Y. 6th St., Cinciuiiatt; 29. the following housese being represent Kos. 263 and Si>.~> Wabasli Ave., Chicago; No. 113 S. 4th St., St. Louis. ed: Boston Woven Hose aud Rubber Com pany, Pope Manufacturing Company, Mor gan & Wrijrht. B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, Hartford Rubber Works Com offices ami salesrooms in all principal cities. H. J. BERGMAN, Agent. pany, Gorroully & JeiTery Manufacturing Company, Hartford Cycle Company. New CYCLING AFFAIRS IB EUROPE AND ton Rubber Works, Hodgman Rubber Com pany, Columbia lUibber Works Company, AUSTRALIA^ New York Tire Company, Mechanical Fab- rio Company, American D-unlop T"ire Com pany, New York Bolting and Packing Com pany, Kpko-nio Rubber Company aud Martin Carrying All Before Him at the the American Wringer Company. A permanent organization was formed Antipodes—Our Lads Not Faring with Colonel Theodore A. Dodge, of the FineTables, Carom, Combination anrt Pool Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Com ol the Brunswick•ifalke-Collencler Make. pany, as president, and Kirk Brown, of Orders Iron) all parts of the world promptly attendedo Very Well in-France, Etc, the American Duralop Tire Company, as Over l tOOO,OOO Noise Subdwera Sold. secretary. The question of the formu lation of a standard form of manufac JOHN CKEAllAN,Continental llotel,Agent,Piiila.P» IN THE ANTIPODES. turers' guarantee was discussed and sub mitted to a special committee, who were GARNO'S GLEANINGS. from Paris, and then the cry went up that. Martin Carrying All Before Him in instructed to draft such a form, of guar we should cease our four-ball twos and threes Australia. antee and report same at a future date, New York, June 0.—Reform is ofteuer in and live only for "high art." It was argued Vancouver, B. C., June 6.-—Latest ad The meeting adjcurnecl subject fo the call effective than at all lacking iu sturdy zeal that no man of good judgment could tell how vices from Australia report continued suc of the chairman. After adjournment the or exalted effort. Probably it is its tireless any match would go. Time and again I wrote cess of the New York cyclist, Martin, gentlemen present were the guests of persistency that wearies the common ear. it. being an ass. The change was wrought in aud renewed activity in fistic circles. At Colonel Dodge at dinner. It must be so at least when it is coupled 1809. and one result is that every man without; the Melbourne K3xb..bii:iou Building cycle as too often in billiards with reform as any judgment nt all can now tell how no match grounds Maruiin again reaped high honors. SPADDING STANDS FIRM. a plea for opening the little front window will go, so few there are. of the box office. Not five per cent, of The American rode in fast company in Next, our tables were too large, and stood the cue inile open, such experts as Har No Reduction- in the Price of cueists, whether high priests or only lay men are anchored inexorably to the rock too high for the evolution of skill. It was not ris, the Kuglisb champion; Rice, Porta, Spaldings. explained how abstract skill could be altered by the Italian champion; McL/enn. Lewis and of "high art," like Prometheus with his size and height, which would simply make others being entered. Martin, however, Mr. A. G. Spakling, who has recently bowels loose; but the din of trumpet feats easier, but the tables were altered any won the trial heat and the final In 2 min arrived in New York from Chicago, was ing crotches goes on just the same. how, in spite of my not being an ass as to this utes i:.i seconds. seen the other day relative to the danger It baa long been noisy. The elder John Roberts saiall-table-three-ball "fad." Except to room- At the same meeting the New Yorker of price cutting. He stated emphatically summed up his brief tour in the country iu 1868 keepers there was money in changing tobies. •was entered as scratch man in the mile that there was no cause for alarm. Of In the pithy saying that Americans were al "The Governor," God rest him, sold tables, but handicap and won easily, though in fast course he could not state with authority ways cutting one another's throats in their he put his foot on the neck of this scheme. He company, in 2 minutes !•> seconds. In the for the others, but so far as the price of rage for improved methods of play. had not been dead eighteen months before his eight-hour sports ra'* Martin was scratch, the- Spalding bicycle is concerned there As the style of play of which the chunky son-in-law and partner, with the aid of seven but won his trial beat, two miles, in 4 will be no deviation whatever from the players—five of them foreigners, but one not list price, $100. He further stated that if dark-eyed Englishman was the chosen apostle playing cue in the games—made 5x10 the stan minutes 55 3-5 seconds. The second heat was reintroduced last week at Maurice Ualy's, dard, and officially stamped the three-ball game was captured ty W. B. March, 110 yards, he did make any reduction he would feel the Roberts campaign, with its darning-needle in honor bound to send a rebate check to as the sole model of excellence. The two Ameri in 4 minutes 53 8-5 seconds; third heat for cue and its tiny triplicate balls, attains to can players are still living, nobody knows why. was won by M. J. McLesiii. 75 yards, in 4 every purchaser who had bought pre newer interest. Two factors operated against minutes 55 1-3 -seconds; fourth heat was viously at a higher price. Yesterday he it. Several times, when challenged from, this Oulv two of the foreign ones are alive, aud one- won by G. "VV. Davis. I'.K) yards, in 4.niiu- scut to all hia agents the following com side to prove his skill in the sole orthodox way is crazy, only God knowing why. ues 40 seconds; fifth heat was won by munication: of that period among Americans, he declined An outcry was raised against the push-shot, \V, Hickox. ISO yards, iii 4- minutes 53 3-5 New York, June 1, 1896.—Gentlemen: We either to come 'here or to allow his opponent latrely because the French experts were HO have lisd several inquiries from our agents as to to go there. It was not forgotten that these seconds. The final he-it, which captured repeated challenges would not have been issued j longer playing it. Jt was either little known or the stakes, was landed by Martin, scratch, whether we intended to make any reduction iu not remembered that it had been foul with us, the price of the Spalding Bicycle this season, had not Roberts played often with another in 4 minutes 53 seconds, amid great ap- American professional in England and defeated I and at last made legitimate by no law, but by l
1 R. Merrill ...... 15 15 19 25 . . 10 13 Attorney T. S. Baird made a report on the 11 out of 15. Bacon 14 out of 15. E. Short 13 Van Vleck ....11111 nm 11111 00101 imo-'.>i 'U'owers ...... 15 14 20 25 . . 14 . . progress cf the famous Henry Clay Merritt case out of 15. Woods 10 out of 15. S. J. Gilbert 8 Rflrto ...... 11111 01111 O1111 11111 11001—?1 Hilrbaugb ...... 10 12 ...... of Kewanee, which has gone up to the Appellate out of 15, Dr. Bean 15 out of 15. Goodrich 9 W. Palmer ....11111 11101 11011 10101 inn—pi Garret ...... 11 .. . . Court and will soon be decided. Mr. Baird be out of 15. F. Bfirr 3 out of 10, Bell 7 out of 10, M. Kich ...... 10111 11111 11110 11 (111 noil— "1 Humphrey ...... 13 .. 10 .. . . lieved the question would be settled once for Beck, 5 out of 10, Bissell 8 out of 10. Ix>ue Jack T/icklo ...... 1111 o 01011 mill 11111 11011 —"o Barto ...... 13 .. 9 11 . . all as to whether it is legal to keep game in 7 out of 10. Fahenstock 10 out of 10. 3. J. Smith A. Kloinniin ..1111011111 01001 11011 iim_"o Peterman ....'...... 13 . .18 •old storage during the close season. 12 out of 15. J. Hoff 14 out, of 15. Parkhurst 13 W. Dunnell ...10111 1011001111 11111 11011—if» B. Smith...... 1-1 12 . . .. i i .. The annual election of officers was then held. out of 15. Bacon 13 out of 15, Murphy 11 out of Wirt ...... 11001 11111 11110 11101 01110—10 (1. Beimustcr ...... 10 .. . . 10 13 .. W. L. Shepard. who has served the association 15. Jones 9 out of 15. Cumin ings 7 out of 15. Dei Tom Hall .....O1011 10111 10101 11101 11110—is W. Peters ...... 13 .. . . 9 11 .. for twelve years as president, refused to accept ter 22 out of 25. Humphrey 23 out of 25. Fettle ...... nm 0-1010 ion 1 10101 11111—is Hindert ...... 11 13 ...... the re-election and Colonel C. E. Felton, of Chi The scores of the contest for the Board of Alexander ....11101 11101 11010 01,101 11110—is Lee ...... S ...... cago, was elected president. The other officers Trade Iwulge are given in full, and ties which de TToffmnn ...... 01111 001O1 1ml 11101 0"11 ll_is C. J. DeRue...... 12 . . 17 ...... are as follows* : cided the merchandise prizes in the next five Karnaugh .....1O111 101. OO 00111 11111 10111—17 G. Kleinman...... 14 15 15 21 10 9 12 Vice-president, Dr. James Parkhurst, Dixon places. PtlWllcy "...... 00011 111O1 11111 10101 11001—17 E. E. Baker...... 11 13 15 23 1012 .. Club. The birds were a very good lot. containing some F. Baker .....10H1 11101 11110 10000 10101— Ifi A. Henry...... 14 13 2020 .... 13 Second vice-president, George Franklin, Erans- regular "corkers," and many of the crncks fell Cl)"reh ...... 11111 10003 C0300 11011 10110—14 Heikes...... 15 14 1'J 19 . . 15 15 ton Gun Club. down on these kind of birds. Albert Bacon, of Shoot-of nf ties on 10: Church ...... 10 .... 7 .... Secretary and treasurer, Frank Bissel, Garden Henry. 111., won the badge, after shooting out Merrill. 11311 11111 —101 Kint; ..0011111101—7 H. Dunnel!...... 18 23 .. 14 13 City Gun Club. 12 others in the ties. He used a Parker gun. 3VJ. Hflik.cs. 0,1111 mil— ftiPntterson 01011 1110— 7 .. 11 ...... The next, annual convention will be held June drams cf Du Pont. I'/s Xo. 7Vi. in metal lined Fr'th'hm 10111 01111 8| Simonette ...... 2 in Chicago. shells. Following are the scores: Richard Merrill, of Milwaukee. Wis.. using a Kuss...... 12 18 22 io 13 11 R-rard of Trade badge contest. 10 live birds, Greener trim. 45 grains K. C.. I'-i 7% in. Smoke- Bean ...... 11 ...... 30yds. rise. $10 entrance. Winner this year to leas shell, won the c.nn by shooting out four men Thompson ...... 12 20 ...... take proceeds of next year's contest: in the tic. Mr. Ma rill is a very popular trap Thompson ...... 12 20 ...... L. Wiliard .21222 12211-10 ^hot, and his many friends were glnd to see B. Dunnell ...... 19 ...... A. Bacon .. . .22222 22222—10 him capture tins handsome trophy In such a C Woods...... 17 20 20 5 .... Roll ...... 22112 11212—10 field of crack shots. C. W, K...... 19 ...... Biujrr/: in ...... 22222 12222—10 L. C. Smith cup event for State championship Du Bray ...... 10 12 10 G. Kleinman . .22211 12122—10 on targets, winner to receive fiO per c?nt. and Cumiuings...... 1 .... C. Power's . . . .22222 22222—10 the club of which he is a member 40 per cent. Fahnstocli ... ..12222 21112-10 of entries at next year's inanimate target events, (Continued on Twentieth Page) LIFE. June 13«