, 1877-04-22

| travel hadn't ought to scare them when they ca
play to two towns Of over 4u.001 each, wit
scarcely any additional travelling exocnsc. Their
is big monep in it for them or any other club O
rusty b. reason Of 'fnactton they are mistaken
understand both St. Paul and N1inneapoli
| wall make reasonable guarantee to all well
KNOWN clubs contemplating visit to this SEE
ton, and two games can be played In each tow
| E1thsgood results. Anxious to do the honors O
the Northwest to the many clubs that have ont
lined an early trip to this vicinity, the Red Cap
| have postponed their contemplated Southern
trip, and how urge, nay insist, that every c1u
tlnx measures strength with Fairbanks, Milwau
reasons for which are obvious to the agerag
! base-balilst. - .'.
Saltwater, after many throes and much labor
has decided not to go beyond home talent thi
| year, and Birmingham, Of Philadelphia, tho nu
cleus Of the professional club that seds to BE- is
reported as teuth man on the Minneapolis nine,
aud tho writer labors under the impression tha
he Won't be tenth man all summer: ..,.::e.
| Wiuona likewise refuses to indulge lii ths
luxury Of "hired men,','-all reports to the con
| regrets. Again Through your courtesy ureing
! the Syracuse Stars to reconsider their decision
| l subscribe myself, RED CAr.
THE NEW DETROIT CLUB.
! Monday evening last the Detroit Base Bal
| Association was formed with D. O'Leary n
President and plenty Of other officers. A cor
respondent, who sends an account OF the move
mcnt, says that the. nine will be, O'leary, C.;
Taylor, p; Dickson, b. aud Captain; Tucllr.
3D.; McCatIrey, b. and change c.; Ross, J.. f.;
Bell, c. f.; johnson, t. I. 1t is expected thar
Stephens, Of Scranton, Pa, viii play short,
are from last years. Cass Club; Dickson, Ross,
Bell, and johnson, are from the Etnas OF 1876,
and McCafIfcy played last year with the Ithaca
Club. = B. G. Meddaugh, Of Milwaukee, is ex-
pected to act as manager. The new organiza-
ton hare started with The apparently foolish
maintain itself on such a basis. It
is expected that the Club will open
TIE season With the Tecumsehs Of London,
.*The Club will undoubtedly join the League
alliance as soon as all Of the players are en-.
gagged. We have opened correspondence With
all OF the leading professional and semi-profes-
sional clubs, and hope to get games With many
the country, and will give TO good clubs an
old-time crowd. Our object is 4 good one--to
build up the national game in Detroit, which
has been allowed to run to seed through poor,
i not crooked, management heretofore:
bail (Which, I am sure, we are capable
of doing) to turn out as large and re-
spectacle audiences as anywhere outside Of
League cities. All communications regarding
games should be addressed to II. II. Tuelle,
Secrctary, So Larued street ", Detroit, Mich.n
The TRIBUNE knows that Detroit is q good ball
city and favorably situated on lines Of road, aud
it wishes the new club we'll, but it cannot ap-
prove tho idea Of season tickets for s.. The
new club will find that visiting clubs will be SO
ers that they will not play except for guaran-
tee, and that feature Of baseball ought to be
abolished. The proper thing in al games would
be to pay the visitor small sum for every
spectator and abolish the guarantee system en-
tircly. That's applying business principles to
tho game
One OF the dangers which threaten the nation
al game is that it will be lifted upoT its feet BY
the use Of long-legged words in describing 1t.
For instance, when the Courier-}ou,ta! says Of
Craver, He could only cover the distance by
lence to the finer feelings Of that player's ra-
ture- Neither Bill Crayer nor any other player
in the Louisville team knows whether Il tra-
jectory" is handcart, or an animal, or somc-
jectory" class Of words may be appreciated by
reading the following little anecdote Of the old
Washington Ulympics: They had gone over to
Baltimore to play, and in the morning before
the game, when Nick Young, the manager, went
shor as rSS n n 'Fs and charged
q small bottle of brandy which was
on the table. a few moments aftcrward Leech.
the pitcher. particularly polite man, cane me- up
told him in no very choice words that he.
would sec him further first, until Mr. Young
came back. GVery we'll" said Lcecb, "neyer
mind; it's perfectly imInateria!.n And then up
rose Shorty, bis eyes sparkling With wrath aud
his fists doubled up as he made for Leech, say
Ing: "You call nc that asin and I'll bust you
wide open. want you to understand that
don't allow any man to call me thcm words
without a fight. You take. that baes,
or oil comes Jour ear" Leeeh d'd
explained to Shorty that no insult was intended,
aud went away fully convinced that "perfectlv
fmmaterial - wasn't as good an expression for
Shorty's use IS lit don't matter d-n." The
story got around, but Shorty was not twitted
THE NEW PHILADELPHIA CLUB.
Special Cbr7espoadence Qf 7he 1rf6uns
PHILADELPHIA, April 1S.-There has all along
been good deal oi talk about nine from this
city to represent it in the League, and was TO-
scGemc It will be entirely private enter
her cooperative affair, il fact and
under the control OF Fergy Malone, who is well
known in Chicago. He will be manager and
Club. as lar as organization goes. He has sold
ont his business, and proposes to give bis
whole attention to the Club. don't think he
knows yet what he will call it.; it would no
doubt be tic Fnflaucipnlh llup VI 1Hltauc1-
phia if be could get into the League; maybe he
will use that name anyway.
The nine which Malone proposes and expects
10 get together will be: Lomas, Of the Camp
bei1 Club. p.. Malone, c.; Baker, Of the Altoona
Club. | b.; Shetzline- Of the Phiadelphias, 3D.;
[3irchcll, Of the Wilmington Quicksteps, D.;
Dunlap, of the Kleius, $. g.; Tracy, OF the
MutuaIs, !. f.; Egglcr, OF the Athletics. C. l.; |
Beghtel, of the Louisville, (. T.; Connel1, sub.
This is without doubt q strong team, aud one !
which could easily win from the Athletics, and !
would therefore have better right than they |
o be called the representative teamo the city
am assured that Iomas is <'the coming !
pitcher" and that the niue are generally excel |
cnt hatters.
Malone is making an effort to get into the !
Icague> but l. am not OF the opinion that ne |
sill succeed. It would take unanimous vote |
o sssuspcnd the rules as it.were, and ! don't
Aink it can be done judge from what can !
lcar that it is doubtful whether Fergy will have
aith enough to 20 on unless he can get League
upport. Even If that body doesn't let him in,
he members might make special effort to |
ome over and give him game while they are /
i BrooElyn, and that would help him along:
he general feeling here is of goodwill toward
1n and. his enterprise, because he is bringing
ut q lot of new players who arc said to DC mol
My smart, nut Squire. Excepting the three
..: -, -, SPuD-
[NorE.-It seems as If the writer Of the
b1ye had been deceived; official notice IN an
sher column says that three OF Malone's pro-
osed team hare signcd with the Athlet1csl :