, 1877-10-21


!ost - and tied 5. 1t makes me mad to think ol
MOST SORTS.
,oKourke, OF Boston, hha signed for 1878 witt
the eamc Club.
The Utica Club OF next year has already joined
The League Alliance.
It IL announced that Nelson, OF last year's ALE
rheuies. will play short-stop Tor Indianapolis nc1
year, with Mack Ut hret
There is an elegant chance for row over the
Tccumkchs both claiming ii. The Cl.Dpe7 takel
Sides with tue latter.
The games announced for last week between the
.Mtiwaukee anu chtcaso Clubs in the former city
we're prevented by the weather. They may take
place this week If there is sunshine.
A correspondent signing himself @tS. "ask.
Inc fultlimcnt Of Tnr TusuSk's promise to give
'ts dca OF the teasou why The Chicago Club made
such holy show" Of themselves this year.
Will n. G. please wait until next Sunday:
A Danbury base. ball enthusiast is getting up .
bail Of i1un filled with uitro-glycerinc which will
explode ou being caught aad tcar the catcher asun-
aeT; TINS viii be more weasiue on club than the
lary 4tetcs.
The Hostons arc announced for ST Louis Tues-
day and Wednesday Of ths week. The St. Louis
e!uo announces tlat ii will present the following
forss 1'es peers a' Snyas Croft McGeaf
more than doubt about two Of these men.
It IL announced that Mir. c. Il. Morgan. the
catches and CAPTAIN OF the Yale University base
PAL niue has left college We suspect he couldn't
learn ANYTHING more about base-ball there, and
didn't think it worth while throwing his time and
money away On other studies.
The Courier Journal gives it out that Latham
has signed for Louisville next year, and that SHAFT
"a to stArt list Of '-ptaycts claimed by two
clnbs so early THIS bit surely it is stated in
large type thai sha1er had agreed TO 90 to Column
bus.
u
want TO manage nine. He adds, however, i'll a
monent Of fur.etfuIness. - All tiut have done is
to give my advice when solicited Plenty of
cases can be adduccl where MIR. {. has made him
se!f annoy1nsly conspicuous by giving what he
called advice, which was not ''solicited'' even
desired.
Among the tables which have tailed along after
those gwen " InE cM'rAco TE,EuNE none j.
lie hAlts between two opinions and compromises
by giving place to the first seventeen games played
hy the Cincinnati Club-which makes tic estimate
entirely worthless in both ways Ut looking at tde
matter.
Tic ball grounds in Cincinnati are rather further
from the CITY 1tlan IL Dexter Park from down town
here and one must take railroad train gel out
in any season. Now the Enquirer announces that
tho Club wifi next season st tickets ont aDd back
and info the ground for 80 cents. This arrange
mcnt is based on paving the railroad company Il,
cents passenger fur the ride 1oll ways. suppose.
for the sake OF argument, that thirty games next
season draw J, 500 rer game, 10. 0G0, then the
Eb+
rent, which is more than any club pay and
live.
The difference between tho newspaper and the
pirate ii: the press is nowhere better shown than in
the Syracuse fourier and the Philadelphia He
pH1tic- The former wanted some matter from
these columns, used IT, and credited The writer
with havin. performed the work which it ntcd.
The latter stole the same matter. even to the in
t1ndnct,un. and changed the name TElEtSE to
H<paLi1c. aa it occurred. The difference appears
to Dc that Mr. Sherlock. O: the Co"r'tr, is gen
tlensan who could not stoop to low action, while
the Repuoiic Is thief, infinitely below any
other sCouudrri in the busine5s-exctpting always
his cOnfrcrc, the Iprycr.
Some Of the gentlemen who are intrnsted with
the ball business on prominent papers are either
very new or very mrndacuus; to illustrate, the
St Louis KfDHdtlcan oilers column OF - per
centages Of games won to games played " and adds
tat i s ome'hn; never hs'oi;
Times invented, applied, and kept ~ that system
through 1s70-ionG before ST. Louis had any bet
1f5 na 1nan
ship taole 6y the tor|d which notes that such
thing had been before used. when rHE TRtnrSE
preceded the '1ords publication by fully month.
In the first case the trouble ignorance; in the
second, inbornc mendacity.
The baseball prospects in Chicago are not fiat
teTnr; the stories about men having BEEN engaged
turn ont pnfounded, and the club has no ground on
which to play il it had the men to play with. II
anything. the lookout is more dismal than ut any
time before. II is rumored. with what degree Ut
I5.lI
the Club officers have been in conference with the
controllers Of some excellent ground in the West
Division. and that proposition to move il being
considered. 1t should not be forgotten thai thu
Vest Division alone is largtr than Cincinnati or
and forms huge city or itself. 1t is
not likely thai any players will be ne@oiiated With
until the matter OF grounds be settled. E.rcn
if tut straiglt. there seems certainty that
tue money for pis club be found in moment.
So many ciups have smashed on al sides that the
prospect is not good by any means for 1875
1.n.
held game Of baseball at Chicago wroic thrill
lug description thereof to his paper. IN which he
sa,d that the players were paid vast sums by the
n,anacers OF the clubs, vino attended nosl aesidu-
pusly to their comfort the rnos1 minute particu
lars. '+Attendans> he said. <arr provided while
they in the field to- shield them from the annoy
plentiful in this country, butand this is streak
c9 true Yankee economy and far excmpiidcation
Of Puritan neutrality-suspicious. is only nude by
the number Of noxious insects TINS destroyed, thus
lpsuriug the diligence Of the attendants, thut
might be rela1tt were they ialareu o.
s ahsr o4 n.aSsiop sasa s and ~
i'll all the public prints Vi the Number Of flies
caught By each. So carctul too, are the managers
preserve them from uyercxcrtlon, that at the con
clusion Of each players inning ny-l ain glad 10
see that the gooa English word is preserved out
there and that the vehicle il not called hack =
il sent out to brin. him in. This will account for
the frequent recurrence in the reports Of such
otherwise meaningless phrases as he went out on
tcrest the ThundeEer takes American sports and
the intelligence with which II discusses them
QUESTIONS AN5NERED.
F. r. and II. s. "A bets that there will bemore
than ~ made IN game Of l1,t.nall The score
after Kick, the Cnnle was decided = to 0, Which
wtus?" fnsaeef-A wns; II runs were made fn the
sense in which the bet evidently offered and ac-
cepted.
pLAyrr-'.How can decide bet about my average
being higher than another man,s-l mean about cin-
cin.a1l games Lcinr they MAKE dinefc9ce
iu my casc?' AnNeer-You will have TO let tae bet
Wiling to leave the matter secretary Young. who
has alrcady decided it. Unless the League orders Air.
Young make new computations tile official reeoru
viii not include Cluc'nnat' ;:3ints-
Dwight iilf q Has inc s: LoIis So, lSnaa gone
ou u existence? ~ TO kettie bet Is tEIler over IS
years old? ~ Is ii true that spadinE s to !e1ifs:
M i ers any Ta n e stpo a1nts nac me nsan ~.
ruson, Halltnan Eeg1er, and Cassldy?'s AnsIe,-(}
No. (.} Yes: long ago: e? No. g. He says So ~
made for aoy nine or players in tails city
yet
II. c. F.. Waukcsha-'' u) Where will I'cmsen MAY
next year: t33 ,rc the 9ioxiat engaged @ fqr iS.s
e1 Il II aS1y @ ' xhaI CUP GST+e s yAxs a. Wa
salary did IcorEc Hall xct this ycar7 {> Where Goes
Ioacs. OF the c.nclanats !i'e:. AnsEer-{i} 10 ca
traslel with ST. Luais Boston papers claim Leonard as
engaged tllcr The Columbus tO.> Buckeyes clam
.;icr. N.,a:ng has b,tn annouecd about tue othcr
wo years. though the writer has vague ttrn tat he
lie iad Ia the wiuier OF 1876.
THE TURF.
THE SEASONS RESULTS.
The season uo,s closing has not. on the whole,