The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1883-05-07

clude the following games: Tomorrow at
Camden, with the Merritts; Wednesday at
Trenton; Thursday with the Brooklyns, on
the grounds at Newark, N. j.. Friday, at
Pottsville, Pa, with the Anthricites; Satur-
day, at Reading, Pa, with the Actives:
Monday, at Harrisburg, Pa, with the Har
risburgs. .r.'-
The next game played in Wilmington will
be on Wednesday, May 10Th, with the Mer-
ritt club, of Camden. an -,.l
To-day the Cleveland club will play In
Buffalo, the Detroit club I'm Chicago and
the Providence club in New York To-
morrow the Detroits will finish their series
In Chicago and the Cleveland theirs in
| Buffalo. On Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day Boston plays in Buf1o, Philadelphia
10 Chicago, Providence in Cleveland and
New York in Detroit. ) a
| The Athletic club will play To-Day In
Baltimore, the Metropolitan In Allegheny
and the Eclipse In Cincinnati The same
clubs will play to- morrow and in addition,
| the st. Louis club will play IN Columbus.
On. Thursday the Mets play the Athletics
and again on Friday. The Baltimores
play in Allegheny and again on Friday.
The st. Louis club goes to Louisville and
the Cincinnati to Columbus. Saturdays
schedule is this St. Louis at Louisville,
| Athletic at New York, Baltimore at
Allegheny and Cincinnati at Columbus.
Harrisburg is greatly excited over its pet
club. III
Cincinnati is looking askance at Bobby
Matthews.
Pete Browning is playing third base well
for the Louisville.
The defeat OF the champion Chicago nine
by Detroit, Saturday, was rather surprise.
II. M. Sturgeon of the Harrisburg Patriot
accompanies the club of that city on its
tour.
Two men were struck hard raps by balls
from the pitchers during Saturdays game,
and others made narrow escapes.
The Quicksteps have won two and lost
two games In the championship series. This
is not bad, but they might have done better
and won all four.
The Cleveland, Boston and Providence.
Chicago and Buffalo clubs did not lose a
game In April. New York lost one, Phila-
delphia three and Detroit four.
Kuehne, the second base man of tho
Columbus Club, turns up terrific slugger.
He has made several home runs already,
and any number Of two and three base hits.
Nearly million feet oflumber is annually
turned into base ball bats One firm alone
in Michigan uses half that amount, and en-
ploys about 100 men at the turning lath, g.
Sommers of the Cincinnati has recently
been playing behind the bat, owing to Sny-
der's disabled finger, and did SO well that
the great Charlie was not missed at ALL
Sommers is developing ability as a fine gen
eral player.
The Anthracite club did not make a barrel
OF money on its Western trip. When asked
last week in regard to the financial aspect
of 1t Manager Fielders remarked, "Well, we
didn't have to walk, but I'm mighty glad
we were near there"
The new League umpires, with the excep-
tion of Lane, are not giving satisfaction, and
it looks now as If the League experiments
would be failures, all of which must make
Mclean and the other needlessly disgraeed
umpires smile loudly.
The total expense of running the Chicago
this reason, including $4,000 expended in
improvements on the grounds, will be $60,-
600, requiring an average Of 1926 per game
as Chieago's share Of the gate s.,ir RECEIPTS for
Ward is supposed to get about the highest
salary in the profession. His performance
last week seems to justify this extravaganza,
as he made three home runs in two games,
winning both for New York In the last in
ming. Three home runs in one week off such
pitcher as Whitney is some pumpkins at
batting.
Some of the managers OF the Quickstep
club, disgusted at Saturdays defeat, are |
trying to lay the blame upon the decisions |
of the umpire, Harry Taylor, and talk of
refusing to allow him to act in this capacity
any longer. This, however, is all nonsense,
as yesterdays game was lost by errors and
was not In the least affected by the umpire's
decisions.
Depalger, the Californian, engaged for
the Detroit nine, is said to closely resemble
Calvin of the Buffalos, He is very broad In
the shoulders and hips, the model of a very
strong man. For so heavily built man he
is wonderfully active, SIRE aud easy
catcher, powerful and active thrower, aud
with muscle, pluck and endurance enough
to play all day.
Nearly $4,000 people in all have attended
the games of the preliminary season at the
Athletic Park. The largest crowd was at
the first game between the Athletics and
Philadelphias, when $4,000 crowded the
seats and swarmed around the fences.
Recreation Park games furnished fun and
excitement for about $4,000 spectators
during the same season.
The Merritt was to have played three
games in Albany under guarantee. But
one game was played on Tuesday. No
money being forthcoming from the Albany
club, the other two games were not played,
as the Merritts wished to see the cash first.
They returned home highly indignant and
out of pocket the expenses of the trip. The
Athletic club, on learning of the fact, at
once canceled the dates they had with
| Albany.
Commenting on the uniforms worn in
Tuesdays Cleveland Buffalo game the CleVe-
land Herald says: "The new suits arrived
yesterday morning, and all the men looked
well, in snowy white uniforms and caps and
dark blue belts and stockings. The Buffalos
were peculiarly uniformed, in the red, white
and blue suits that have been SO much ad-
Vertised. These suits make the men look
smaller, are unique, but hardly serviceable,
The shirts and pants are of dark navy blue,
the caps scarlet, with a broad white band
and tuft, and the stockings in broad, alter
nate bands of scarlet" The Leader advises
old gold as the proper color for the stock
ings