, 1879-05-25

Stear.f. a rising young amateur player, nj
accompany the Buffalo Club on Its Eastern trip.
james who plnyed right neld with the BnchamT
ton Csickets last year, has gone to Omaha, and be
come a member Of that city's team.
.Hawes, OF the Bo6tons, had his. watch smashe
| while in Cincinnati. It was in tho umpire'a pock
ct, and foul ball did the business. & s.
Remscn, centre fielder OF last years. White Stock
ines is Captain OF the Uticas aud seems to be bat
| ting much better than be did last season..
The Syracuse Stars are still figuring with sulli
! van fer. catcher. The young man IS attendin
school at Worcester, Mass, and cannot leage unti
| June 2V:' - :.
! Tho proprietors Of the mills near Utica have Or
dercd base-ba stopped, and announce that an,
c=ealoye caught twice at the game will be dis
| charged. -.
| Harry Wright confirms the general verdict regard
ing the Cincinnati grounds, and says they are tb.
worst in.the country. Clubs which have VISITED
CINCINNATI this year regard the audiences in mnct
the same light. - ::
Prntt, who pitched for the Forest Citys, ol
Cleveland, when that team incfnded Jim White.
Carleton Ktmbal1; Sutton, and Bass, seems to be
the only nmpire who has given satisfaction In
Cleveland this year. ,.
Tho Troy Citys may not win mother game this
scason but, whether they do or not, neither bank-
runtcY Nor dlsbandment will, follow. The Direct
summer" But the Troys will not be Inst in the
race. The present members Of tho nine who
dcmonstrate By their records thst they cannot OF
Will not play ball will be released expelled, as
the ex1gcncles of the case requife, and other and
more reliable players substituted. .-Trov Times.
Aa parting shot at the Bostons at Cleveland
lasE Monday the Leader OF that city says that at
the prior Saturday game Bond practiced little
Nolanlsm by hitting Phillips and Eden with pitched
balls, and it also eontemptibly insinuates that
Confined lg the med Of that
1t Is probable no harm would be done to Bond !;
bnt, as 1t may Be copied BY other Journals 1t may
ls false, and every one acquainted with Bond holds
the item in the same opinion. .-Bosfon Herald.
Flint and Lnrkin, the Chicago catcher and pitch
er, are said to have some mysterious signs, by
which Ia Larsin Is wholly reiSycd t,om watching
to throw to either first OF second and by the eame
elen notifies tho basemnn:. But not even the u,n:
nire can ind ont What the signs arc, and the puz-
closely. y.-Erehanqe: There is nothing at alf mys-
ter1ous about the signal: It consists simply in
ders sigma! TO- Bond is made By putting hfs hands
on hia Knees = r'; :. =.
Speaking of the awfnlly bad break made by the
Cleveland tenn, the Lfadsr Of. that city says:
":The people are wondering how long this kind OF
tinucs in its prtsent crippled condition. Who is
to blAn,e1 Not the management for they have put
forth every possible effort to secure good catcher
where. The Cleveland nine is peculiarly con-
structed, and 1t. is very unfortunate that it is
The loss of one man to the Club breaks them all up
and there. seems to be no other remedy than to
wait until that man is again able to play"
The row between Syracuse and Cleveland over
that unpiayed game, which WAS decided In favor OF
the Stars 8 to O. promises to be lively one.
Under the League rules there can be no such thing
az forfeited Esme, and Ill talk to the contrary IL
nonsense. Neither can the game be played off nt
the Syracuse and Cleveland Clubs The consent Of
the entire League must be obtained to any such
pjap. AZ the matter now stands the Cleveland
Club has forfeited Its mem mbership in the Leagne,
and if decisive action is NOT taken 4 will be be-
caufe nobody cares. enough about the matter to
bother nbout it. -t
: .Ctncinusti's tenn seems to be going down hill
about ns faat as it can, and parties who should
tarlced in the championship race, twill lose from
0G0 to $1D o00 on the seasons play. The larest
It's Of The players: soua M. whom, it
seems, hare bean induleine in TOO nnch:. dlasip4-
ton, "A Cincinnati paper ssya oF this point ::.:'It
Is ~ becrel to the public and might as Wea be put