, 1877-07-15

e: SUNDAY. JULY l5, Il
bnanr vet tottel up its full averages. but its i'm
preston is that Burtis: the St. Louis umpire, has
games for We nine tha1 ny ~ any other foar
players, and that DeElnney, ot the Louisyll1es,
has put out the most men.
rbe Ac;mcs got away with the Dreadnaughts yes
teray, on the grounds ofthe latter club By score
Of Of y q @ % of
| thony and Driver.
Bechtel is trying to get his expulsion BY the
So for be na5 not met @ usa
around, but the result has not been nude public
The manufacture OF mines for Philadelphia con-
ttnucs with unabated y:osLin1 III ths pagers. me
latest idea il to take the whois Lousv'Ile " team
| but the engagement Of tWo OF them 1of 81 LOUIS
| viii hurt the plan somewhat
The Courier Journal heads It's account Of the Il
| to-o Boston game ''The Hitherto lnvulnerable
Bostons Severely Punished ny the Lou's''!ses. !, !!
mcu,bcrtd that the last score IN Chicago was IL 10
o-and the Hostons took thc :.
The St. Louis Clubs millionaire directors went
ronnd to tie several churches last week to ask
1 nreachers to hold special services Of prayer for
| lie succcss of their bats III the next games with
Chengos but the - aead e9dd Fen'ea
/ the nine as at present constituted
! uprod;r,l, asks why the Chicagos do not ar
| ran.e Tor u catcher whom be MINES and three
other men whom Nc wHulu IKE 70 see ensasESd;
vasr and ts throwing has been the worst in the
i,eaeue. liz isn't good enough for Chicaso Only
ono Of the other changes named would strengthen
the team.
Nichols. of last years Mutual team, las been
cnsaycd by the louisville Club. ~ is clever
Il ball eoGs hS GEht q At hlm h anu was
who pIayed the position. A. a batter he was pref
~ near ihe bottom Of the list. What the Louis,
ylss sne1 %ane .. aue @ or Gerlarot has been mads
| known.
correspondent who thoroughly believes In left
hand batting sends in the following team. made
Of them Held right handed. and asks il 1t wouldn't
be about as hard to get away with as any IN the
s'qn;tY Fe.Ssea wns; s: eGaf n ssa hsl q f
ssptany eata Would make The curve pitchers LOOK
sharp.
Some curiosity was felt here to know whether
the Louisyllles earned the eight runs which they got
off Lsrkin in the l4-to-4 Hartford game. In an
nccoruin. to the Courier Journals account Of the
:un,c, Dcvlin, Shaflcr, and Gcrhardt, the three
r=t hattsrs should AL a.l have been out ovtofs r.
informed that the olisyillcs earued the xix runs
in the second in.ins u the l4-to-9 Bos,"n gamc
The Enquirer has uuwittingly entered upon
very large hcla u dacss'"n when anMefa@n ~
well known that hc mas thirteen dt.rent delv-
cries. for he bus often owned y Up himself 10 ai-
msins crowds 1t !ooks. fron! ::!6 scoru nf seven-
Teen hits uut fifteen s1n4e ot[ him Thufsda}.
Il, II he vas probably pitching his - tanlaizing
SLOW curve or sAiriccnlM delivery that day
flats tl,c one he exh,ntel in Chicago Sept. =
list when the Whites ,lltle lwenty-four hits aud
earned thirteen runs oil him. Long live the thlr-
tecntl delivery!
rbe proyia.ncc Dlspa,eA says: "Remsen OF
the ST. LOUIS. hus played ihua fur this sensun with
out an error, which cnnot be said VI ahUt1cr play
er Ill the country" Nor YET ot Eetnscn. since ne
aud others in non leucuc contests. t;fcnn OF the
Chicasos, has two errors IN twenty-five naic!'rs
charged 10 hlnl. Holdsworth three IN twenty-tlfee
and Hall five in twenty y-six. Ecuiecn played
eighteen consecutive ganlcs without an error to h's
| chuske, and has made errors IN only 1ouf League
| ganes to uAtc.-B0st0H HeTdtu.
letter from Louisville received at this Office u1l-
dertaSes tu explain why the attendance Ut tue
games there has small but 1t Is hard to suy
Whetner The writer duly solemn or whether he
may not be trihin. with solemn matter. His ex
PLANTATION, briefly given, IL TINT the toHfier0nftd
reports of games are 80 inucn better e aho iomSe, @
% the pfo4ac mic ga,ue itssli There is no proof thai
the letter wAs written in the t0arterJ0ayaai Office,
nor % tat the ball editor dictated il to friend II
is puzzle all around
The New York World asks the League to meet
and decide upon the status Of the new Cincnnnt
Clup It propounus, an Its view Of tho equities oi
The case. that the games played by Kscks team b. be
ali thrown Ont Ut the record. The Cincinnati n"
es settles ths AtsF tSs future Ut i i.
cernrd, by saying that tho new clnb Il
| in the League. having been ''udmltted by mntlla
agreement A9U InlL lNE EAillCS IAtCA ~ ~ a.
League games, and will be 30 counted Il II no no
fair or respectable for the Enquirer to dccclve tn
= | Cincinnati people By this assertion. because
knows TOR ougat to know that the new CLUB Whti'
| carrying out the League schedule by ''nhtua
! agreement, is not, and cannot become, niemec
Of lhc League in the full SENSE of the word II l
was mcu.bcr the Enquirer would know that TN
game at Louisville, which it claims was an eahlnl
lion game. could be nothing Of the kna: sh r,,.
= | Leasue rules, which would govern II the linen
: nat, was n League club, expressly stpnlate -,
u Livery game played between two clubs from tn
commencement uf The championship season u Ill
:. complexion OF the championship series bctwee!
such clubs shall be game for the championship
SEC. 2, Art. Nil. ....-.-.
BKAn--s.Is it true that the Athletics have broke
M or ds!,snded::' Ansmer-Not formally tne' l<,
\ have lost III succession Weaver TO eslwauSee ~
y | mcr to pttsbury, Ryan to Cincinnati, Esslcf u
! thicago ana Mcycrle to Cincinnati, but they hav
il flied up the gaps and gone oa in tome shape.
i J. D-.Plea=c give tile standing Of the dllle5 /.
ent League Alliance clubs in table form us y"n q
7 l.eague clubs -dn<ues-No man can poss,o %s
b Know about than half Of luz Lensn: aanc
played tAis seaton oq1 M ~ q" ii
you might we'll have asked 1of tae seoses VI ~
: the games played this year.
i r. n. g., Milwaakee-''A A ball WIS hit up a an'
in falling struck fair, nnt bounded ioni a. ant W. W..
caught on ths rst bound ,n rnr ny I'D not out
- =, | was he righty" dnsHer-llc was NO poSslol
rc.son exists for giving an out on hit oa1l "h'c
takes u bound i'll fair ground.
j. C. Jr.-..What IL the fastest running tim
j. for one, two, three, and four miles, bT whom
d when. and where was It uladc:' A"sH<r-io
&C don't say whether you mean mans Or horss =
time, but if the former ths record Isl one ni1l ne
, A:UU, four strts c: Wcsthal', London; two milcs
u E.D:lln w Lung, Manchester, Eng, AUGUST l
J. lso3: three miles, II: So, ]. White, London, Ma
i. II, 1868; four miles, 1886, J. White. London
!, May II, 1868.
@. W. H,-t1) Why docs the Hartford Club p'a
j, | ,ts ratnes in B1ookiyn; they signed the LcaEu
agreements as the llartords q Hartford: e, w
- does not smith catch for the Chicagos! A"Suer-
IL Because the HarlIotas seeo!e
1t an advantageous arrangement for the .i ns
III Of the Union grounds n brooklyn and were thl ~
II cuabled 10 draw On nearly Q million people io
natruDase instead OF tho small population OF Hnf'
lord O. Because it is judged that either Ac'
!. or Anson would be more effective
f. o. H-'"You said in your report OF Friday
ramc that Spnldfng had not been 40 successful
McIcy against thllartfortls; can you tell the Dae
E. hits made OF escl last year ana the eafncu rum
!. they would show better than v1ctortes! HsMeF,
" in ihc efx games that Spaluing pitched the Hal
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