, 1877-10-28
Reca anitulation Of the Games Of the Thir-
teen Teams in the League
Alliance.
Ia Extraordinary English Description sf Base-
Ball--Disbanding Of the Nhlts Stock.
ings, Etc., Etc.
When Judges Should and Should Not
Declare OF Pools on Horse
Races.
crooked Work at Fleetwood--
The Case OF Lady
Grant.



THE SEASON
ot 1877 at the bottom, instead 0! the top. Of the
h.~,D;onshp LIST are asked for by many friends of
,hr organization. 1t is not difficult to give an
onnion based on presence at more than half the
c,uh.a eamea and q careful examination OF its
scores:
J. second base, the KEY Of the field. has been
neglected. OF rather abused, by every player but
spaldinc. List year it Was played with an average
Of .olo. This year Barnes opened with five games
in which be Vas mani1estly unir to play, and in
which he made record OF only $40. Then
1Isrr; Smith took hold and made only .So7, lower
ire even tne invalid Barnes average. Then Hines
vas SLOWED to make awful exhibition Of him
self, and dropped down to .774, worse than Smith,
and not near as good as Jimmy Wood would be
with his cork leg. The depressing effect Of these
changes on the spirit OF the team may be said be
eombined with the loss in play the greatest OF all
the causes which led to the loss Of those impor-
t.us games in the carly part Of the season
which determined tho fate OF the campaign. Not
on1y did the team n,lss Barnes beautiful batting
Of the previous year. but they were bcwildercd
By the rapid chnnge from bad to worse, and from
xo:sc to worst, shown In Barnes, Smith, and
Hines II second
@ Mcvey was not, IL not, and never can be .
catcher, especially for such man as Bradley.
Mac is q cool-headed, sure, frst-c'ass first base-
ESD; an effective pitcher for score Of games in
sse.sun; aud splendid and scientific batsman !;
but he is not catcher, because Of his aptitude to
ret sore hands and to weaken his pitcher By making
him pitch ove1 the platc too mucn.
3 Bradley was heavily handicapped By the change
o. the ball this year, well as by the failure Of
Xcyey to support him properly. With i ''soft''
ba]l on which the cover wonid loosen mp
little, Bradley was the best pitcher in the
country; with hard ball he was not
by any means so good. In 1876 he
NJ. given BY Clapp's efforts great lccway in his
xprH aud no man used strategy more; but in 1877
ercircc by the necessity Of always thinking about
h.: catcher, md pitching 10 nim- There is unqucs-
nonaby much truth in this; bradley never could
70 hali the work before McVcy that ht could be-
fore Clapp. Another thing GROWING out of this
general subject had to do with loss Of games. and
int was the utter impossi5illty Of Bradley and
kSey pulling tefsthse The end former is
70 a degree; the latter has also q tenn
a,de comment Wac sent it hack win interest:
mo important men. Each had his cotegie OF ad-
nrers, and there WIS not remask or 4 hint
t:o?ped By one put came to the Other Bnt both
iant give wsy to each Others failings, and cs-
pscia!y is that true of McEey-
(which "a often laughed at was entirely wanting
.o.Ae chicagos' p1ay.. Before the season vas we'll
Inn Spaa$ had lost two games nj hy uns
tie season was splendid. and he. played game
ttcs game Withour an error, but that indcdnah.e
fend, bad luck SEEMED to follow him right
Trough. In the second Boston game he made
oa!E The sixteen chances, but that lost
tue game; in the thirteen-1nning Louisville game
+ acain made only one error IN sixteen chances.
t1t ta1t again lost the game. At least tw" other
canes went precisely the same way, until it came
ode understood that ii Spalcins made slip the
szne IVES gone. OF course, this was all oosh, but
hpai arc you going to make the player believe it:
The writer firmly believes that in not more than
three games for the flag did the luck favor the Chi
csos> That element had mol little effect IN dis
cear11iug the men IS well as in losing games.
s The experiments of the Chica:os with new
Etn were uniformly disastrous, and that was IN
other po,nt- Waitt was not apparently of any
not 10 very much better, Eden didn't hold out
and Quinn's record was IL" I. Not one OF them
h1sed Is we'll as BiclaskI> who sas SO useless at
the stick in 1876 that he was allowed 10 60 IT
rn dismal and damaging series OF experiments
with kids: and, more extraordinary than ali, The
other club. that TOOK IN outsiders got good servcc
OFT Of them; instance Dcrgau. Crowley, Snafer,
Latham, Larkin, Croft etc More oad luck
&. Wig the white legged team did not bat better
the writer doesn't know and makes no guess at
It is simply to be recurded that not man Of the
team came up to last years record. though the
ball was much better one and the batsman had
more advantage than ever before
!. lhsa Dul upL lclslr InG tl11EA~p AluU VEEE
robbed outright Of not few games BY the superior
Sharpness OF tho Louisville und st. Louis manage
men1s. They perceived tue Immense advantage
sbey might have by adopting robbery instead Of
tmputng, and they used it without a blush Of
shame. The writer saw the Chicagos play two
games in Louisville which they Could not hare won
miracles. Dcvinney stole those gaines, and some
othe!s, clean and clear. Again. two games were
lost in st. Louis by the dishonesty Of Buriis who
mtsFward turned on, to be tue ernploye OF low
mt hfpF sho 10 rln AUH
tae writer cannot be accused Of having
any purposc OF ginning any advantage when he ex-
Dresses his conrtction that Busus and Derinncy
9eFes intended to umpire fair zane aud never
aa. The writer may be pardoned for digrcssin.
!vns enough 10 saT that be never saw such Infinite
usgnef and amazement Denoted on mans
nn1tchance as on Durtls when, in game May
he had called two strikes on fines, and vas
.tgolng to call hin, out when Panl reached out
70 n punched wide ball safely for an awfu! scratch
H. w'nninSthe game. lie made it up tho next
., aaes, however, and gave the Whites ont on any
Fe1ext and no prete11.
Anr one OF these troubles would have discour-
aeatened lt.-sll Of them together were too much.
.nu Inc strongest team In the country went tu the
II the eitv should have team in ISIS, let US
nave as few Of these troubles IS possible; let
nase no TeaEeners in damaging positions Or the |
o.u team the only onea who have not signed are An
''n, oa'nes Glenn, and Bfndiey.
, NOTES. |
lncinnatis, ).
81 uae Manchester &. r.. team is announced as |
1u,9~e: ra,' Kelley, Kowen, sngg. Leary, Cogs-
"e14' DALEY, aud Hawkes..
ae noble politician and his dones eugross the
49, OF the reader far to-day that basebawl
es1' u the wall until the campaign is over.
me Boston Herald says that OF the present Fall
pn,e pes Clun, Libby and Mackwill go to Buffalo. !
Asu*ea 70 Manchester, and Hanlon TO Rochester.
...e ne New England championship. for which the !
p1.ues ph were Lowell. Manchester. Fall River,
n.m rasae Island, and Live Oak ended in the order
-aea' Lowell losing but seven games out OF forty.
toa ahese m has been great rivalry between Blooming
~, reos'a, and Springfield this eeason, and the
fs.s. nancd clsy has arranged for professional
~ nam 1of next year. and hns raised 81, 900 az
Eaa'safee-fuud alreadY.
NJ. Post estimates the losings Of different clubs
- n - 600; uartfords. So 500; Louisviles,
o1a1; boston. 81, 800; Stars So, 600: Indian
IS ttyas1 " Sa+o00; Tccumseh, So, 600: Milwaukee.
, 4, appears from the St Lonie Republican that in
- sfnSut nut game 'Uevlin and Snyder won the hearts
'ns1 y ~ present Yes. OH. yes. it is the same old
Tcn Il ask s dadeulan The younger and he viii tell
Months
,os Gssles and Bradley. the ball players, are an
unee4 10 play best two n three games Of rackets
5s.nst herAty and Caleu, at O'Aa.leys Court, on
.s.as asenuc, this afternoon, 70. stake Of Sloo
srea us Us game Fearon and O'Malley. will piay
sue u hand-nal against Carmody and Heraty.
..n ne Shcago's returned from Milwaukee ycs'er-
- e NltnouI having plaTed the game announced
r;m 10 60" vii! he disbandiug day. when matters
az az oe straiehtene1 cut and the business OF the
~ c!osed+ after which the team viii 60 home
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