, 1879-06-15

j anoInef W e6lcfn IT'D,
President Hulburt, OF the Chicago Club couldn't
victories in this city inst week he packed M rs
Saturday night, and arrived in Boston Monday
| morning With his face wreathed III smiles. The
Worcester Chicago game hadn't been played, d,-Bos
| ton Herald.
=. Tne Syracuse tenn says that 1t is more afraid o.
me hoatons than the Chicagos. The White Stock.
ings ray they arg atrnid Of nothing in the shape o
ball club. feeling sure thar they can win major.
ity Of games ircm any organization now In The
the boys nerves. N~~'~~
swsazys second baseman Of the famous Cincin-
1 nah Req STOCKINGS, who has been playing outside
tae LEAGUE 1or several seaaous is doing remarkably
Hel! tals rear With the MauchesterB. In fourteen
GSnnamplonshap games he made but two errors. Fred
| y guarded second. is playing bail in Nebraska.
:, II the same sort OF logic applied to base ball
tnat governs most everything else there might be
some consolation to Cleveland lovers OF the gam;
- n proposition like this: Providence has beatea
Gh'caso: Cleveland got away with Providence;
therefore, Cleveland can wax Chicago. Or, sysa-
] Suse cleaned out Cincinnati; Cleveland belted
Syracuse I'LL TO pieces; therefore, Clevelund can
| scoop cincinnati. Or. again, Troy whooped 1t up
| 70 bnhaloi Cleveland socked 1t to Troy; there
fore. etc. But somehow or other this logic don't
| Seem to Work.-Cleceidnd Leader.
! e Roaming somewhere around In the Eastern
alales ike an animal without keeper ia an Orean-
cation claiming TO represent the base ball talent
Cincinnati, the Paris Of America. Occasionally a
tSlestAM u received from some city OF the third
casa IN regard to the team announcing that It has
had the temerty to contest with the home nine for
victory and oeen desersedly whipped for it. Gin
ID 10 IL the, are
thu club returns from it, Eastern tour it will alight
from the train at midnight Ut some point outside
nents By different routes ore. the hill tops, i is
reported that disguises have been purchased by 1he
Individual players for use on arrival. Cincinnati
games in Providence, the Syracuse Courier, which
Is one OF the few papers in the country whose ball
WITH the Chicagos still IN full possession Of what
bears a striking resemblance to winning lcad.
So fa, the proyidence niue has been tue only club
aole to capture ball from them. On all sides it
whispered that the good fortune OF the Chicagos
cannot last forever md that they begin to 20
down the hill 1t wilt need no one to kick them to
he 9s 1S,s No We are not
pluyug the game too we'll. There defeat in store
for them all along The line. perhaps, and probably
head them or"
The following, from the Brooklyn Eagle. IL
sennible and true: 1.-THE abuse of umpircs, not
Only oJ 10" partisan crowds, but also By reporters
who bet Oh the game, md pitch into the umpire
When they lose, has been carried to excess this
season already. 1t WIS oad enough last year, but
i Is getting to be WORSE this .Year. The Buffalo
this respect " his insulting reference to Mr..
Charles $. Wilbur, gentleman whose integrity Of
chAracter and position ut ouce refute the charges
made against him 1t ought to BE- stopped. II an
umpire does well, praise hin. II be shows lack
Of judgment, keep silent The higher the standard
Of umpires the better for the game; and IT this
Qbnse IL Kept up there will soon be no gentleman to
be had to umpire in Il professional CONTEST
The individual members Of the Cincinnati Tenn
contlnue to receive delicate little personal notices
from tue papers OF cities which they visit. The
rcads Us follows: There Is one one thing We very 10 30
parent In the otherwise formidable Cincinnati team
They have sprung leak ut second base. Modern
ball playing Is = lost art to the venerable Ross
Barnes II his performances in the three games in
Syracuse are faic samples Of his style. Yesterday
the Stars bowled down 10 second time aud time
again, knowing that It even Jim White threw with
old TIME Accuracy the e1-klnE Of second base
could not hold the BAIL sprain his spine in stoop
lug to put out the sliding runner: Poor Barnes has
only one redeeniny feature III his play, and hat is
his llghtning-llkc thrown. to bases. Where the
Cincinnats are weak the stnrs arc strong. Not q
BIT o ap eaht
runners were nut out while in transit on hasea,
which is proof positive that there Was some grand
M " Nea, President Of toe cinclnaati Club, who
came on to this city to drop q silent tear or two
over the result OF the game yesterday, looked On
sueh inacld playing: DE avowed, he had never
before seen in all his born days."
Now that the White Stockings are sure Of WIN
nlug the championship unless some OF the men
lice OF predicting. Some unzaltea young Nan In
Cincinnati is the arst to break loose, and ta.ls
Contained in the remars relative to he ability Of
Cincinnati's nine to fight up hlll' will be appre
csaled: - The Chicagos are strong club SO long
to drop II few games. This they are liable to do
the present week. an writing this on Thursday
morning; from this period till Saturday night tue
Chicagos- delayed by rain-wtll have three games
to play with PfoSidence. Taen they 80 to Troy,
next to syrocnse. and hnally to Cincinnati These
ana o m
face. II they 60 through successfully and return |
TO Chcnso with victory unbr6keu, their chances for
the championship will ne almost unoounded. But |
the chances in THESE four weeks are three to one
a:uust them. They are liable to trip In Prosl~
dence, in Troy. in Syracuse, and in Cincinnati.
md light up hill like the Bostons Providence Gin
clunati. or Syracuse teams The Bostons to-day !
are . more % asngeloas cao against championship
discovered that there is game called oase- bull.
and in . recent Issue perpetrared the following
editorial paragraph on the subject, which contains
about; as much ignorance as could possibly be
htrclinss for pelf IL good: '.The once popular
and truly national game Of base: ball, which At
experienced perceptibe reriva! tnis season. In !
the place of the single ''league OF hnif dozen |
are this year two leagues and some twenty profess
slonal md scml prot essonal clubs in the eld. It
costs money and good deal Of It to keep up the /
organization OF paid club. 4 pitcher who can |
curve ball several horizontal inches Within the !
regulation distance OF forty tive feet or castiron
catcher who can endure Il scason's pounding, are |
two uxuries which base ball managers can scarcely
secure nowadays for less than from ST. 600 TO |
S. 900 season, and the salaries Of other players
range downward from 81, 5U0 to q few hundred dol
lars. We believe it In fact that the gate receipts
OF even the best managed clubs have never paid
SEASONS expenses, ann the mystery Of the why I
and wherefore OF the existence at all Of profess
sionol all-playing tinds its solution in only one
bud way-betting. Another and more cheering
aspect of baac ball this season is the revived in
terest in it at colleges, only places where
the game is kept pure and where 1t lnaiutains IN
honest character as an e1hilarating, mAuful, and
really cumulative sport Already our college mines
have played some forty games, und six colleges
have teanls in the field c6ntestlug for the cnam- |
pionship. College faculties, too, are showing
generous toleratton OF the game, which will not
be misplaced long students play it in gentle
manly way, do not let 1t infringe on the higher
dutea Of academic life, and preserve noble sport
from the stigma which it always will incur when
played by hlre1lngs for pelf."
THE TURF.
TEE CHICAGO MEETING.
Merit SATURDAY. will berin what prorniree tn he the