Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-24
ime OF Camel hour, 45 minutes.

Time OF Camel hOur, 45 minutes.
Points Of tho Game.
Since the IrOnsidss have been organized
they have not had a man on second base
who was allowed to remain there, and it
has always been tho weakest point in the
nine. If they continue to fill it as they
have they may expect to be the losers, and
can only blame themselves. A man who
knows something about the position
should be placed and kept there at once if
they wish good results. Plenty of fine
players can be secured, but it looks as
though the club has made no efforts to
fill it.
The small boy saved his money yester-
day to see the minstrels and viewed the
baseball match from elevated positions.
The usual crowd of mon stole their view
of it. The majority of the these had
money to get in, but were too mean to pay
and would rather show their littleness by
crawling on tho top of freight cars or
trees. In this crowd could be seen many
faces that have become familiar. 1t in
c!udes number who would never pay
anything that they could possibly beat
themselves into, and baseball club can
expect little encouragement from them.
The Altoona club arrived in town from
Philadelphia this morning, and are playing
the 1ronsides this afternoon. For the
latter club HoffOrd and Sixsmith are the
battery.
The Christiana people think they have a
nine which is able to beat the Dauntless,
of Mt. Joy. The Mt. Joy, boys arc not
slow at .he game and will give any club
in the county, outside of this city, lively
shaking up.
Miller, who has been playing first base
with the Mantua club, camo to this city
this morning and has been engaged by the
Ironsides. He will play second base this
afternoon and it is to be hoped that he will
prove success, SO that he can be kept
there.
EOn Saturday game will be played be-
tween the Star boys and Columbia club,
on the grounds of the former, and on Sept.
l they will play the Quicksteps of Lancas-
ter. Good games may be expected, as the
clubs arc evenly matched.-Mount joy
Star.
n. Y. Clipper.
1t might surprise some of the managers
of baseball clubs could they get at the
inside Of the professional players work
and see how many batsmen have this sea
son sacrificed the interests of their club by
efforts to play for an individual record.
The rules of baseball are to blame and 80
is the system of press reporting. The
former gives official prominence to the
records Of total base hits and ignores
sacrifice hits. The reporters, as q general
rule, see nothing worthy of special praise
aside from two baggers," "three bag
gers and "home runs" The custom of
singing out for publication the names of
batsmen who make these hits and runs is
responsible for their striving more for this
sort of glory than for the best
interests of tho club they represent.
Alike in the field aud at the bat,
man may do the most effective work in
that branch of baseball technically called
" sacrifice play" and yet not receive q
word of credit for it at the hands of
many of the reporters. Only let him get
in home run, even though it bo off the
weakest kind of pitching, and down will
60 his name in tho score, and laudatOry
press reports will follow. All this is
hindrance to the policy of "playing for
the side," which is the great essential of
success, and the only way for players to
render a club the most effective service.
We're the recording of two and three base.
hits and home runs abandoned as feature
of scoring, and the recording of sacrifice
hits and other points of play incidental to
earnest and honest cooperative work
there would be much less of
" playing for a record" regardless of the
club as u unit, than there now is. The
publishing Of weekly aud monthly averages
at the bat also tends strongly to induce the
batsmen to go for individual records and
it is pertinent to remark just here that
the seasons averages as far as published
exhibit very plainly the utter uselessnsss
Of attempting to estimate players value
to his team by tho figures of his batting.
averages. The record of tho average of
association thus far published
and these averages, by the way should not
be made up until the close of the season
show that the batsmen who lead in this |