New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-24
OPENING me BASEBALL Sc

OPENING THE B1SEB1LL SEASON.
The regular baseball season begins at the popular
baseball park in Harlem to-day. The games played
here so far tnis sea son have been merely prelimi
nary practice contests. They serve to put the
players IN good condition for the championship
fight, but of far less interest is felt IN them
than IN contests where a national pcnnant may de-
pend upon the result Of the game There eight
| clubs in the American Association and the
mines are so evenly matched that even the veteran
managers hesitate before giving their opinion upon
the coming championship
| The Netropoltans of this city now hold the
championship. and although the nine is hardly as
strong that of last year. still ii is sufficiently
strong TO insure a good position at the ending of the
season. The club. however. has one pitcher who
could well be spared. Begey was batted IN Tues
days game for fifteen hits with total of over
twenty while eleven earned runs were scored off
his delivery. Even the pitchers of the amateur
clubs in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. would blush at
this record
On May the National League championship
son will begin at the Polo Grounds. the Boston and
! Now-York nines playing the opening game. Even
the preliminary contests have been largely at
tended aud many thousands Of people VIII flock
TO the of the great contests for the pennants
| The elevated railway managers have acted with
praiseworthy promptness upon Tux TRIDrNE's
suggestion that trains should be run all night upon
the City Hall branch, IN order TO accommodate
| travellers wishing 20 use the Bridge The BRIDGE
aud the City Hall the natural terminus of the
East side elevated system. and the change to be
made in a few days will give general satisfaction.
| Nearly two months in power" said Ex-Governor
| Long in his Boston speech commenting on the new
Administration; the books in their hands and
| ia. find m frau ia
only one poor postmaster at Rome. n Y. mixed in
his accounts" 1t is wei to keep history accurate
| The Rome matter discovered in the Republican
| Administration, stated recently in The TRIBUNE
| by ex-Postmaster- General Hatton, but not in time
to change the Office before the 4th Of March, and
was passed over with all the facts disclosed.
Like n caught eel. in his efforts to escape, Bayard
only makes more knots in the net
The President has appointed q Democratic sue
ccssor to Postmaster Sperry, Of New-Haven Mr.
Sperry recognized of the most ID ,lent Of
| ncers the Department has ever possessed But ho
had no Mugwump lobbyists at Washington to plead
for his retention. His illustrates pretty clearly
the hoowness Of some of the reform pretensons of
tho Administration.
We regret t0 learn from our romantic contempt
rary The World that some outside irresponsible per-
sons have the power TO dictate its business policy
We offer il our most heartfelt sympathy.
The law of compensations has been strikingly
excmphfed IN the veal her of the last few weeks.
The temperature tor March, a. a whole. was Z" be-
low the normal temperature for that month in this
city; and away from the modifying influence of
the ocean, the disparity was even greater. Not
since Is72 has any March been cold The first
A,,t hgla tha cfu Lard
absut 40 but the remarkable warmth Of the last
week has brought the for the month thus far
fully 81 above the normal temperature for April.
And as for Tuesday aud Wednesday, whose
highest temperature was respectively $40 and
ST. they have no parallel in the records of either
the Signal Service HudnuPs observations for
fourteen years In only two years of this period
1872 and 1S77-has So been reached in April In
the former that figure was barely attained osco; in
the latter, for two consecutive days the thor
nometer registered S3e.
The discovery of piece of American clockwork
in the debris after the explosion in the British Adj
miraty Office yesterday will be accepted as con-
elusive evidence BY the average Engllshman that
the rascals who perpetrated the crime are Ameri-
cans. In all probability however. it is a subtle
trick of the real criminals to draw suspicion away
from themselves
There is q strange report in circulation that
Abram s. Hewitt Endorsed the appointment of Mr..
Pearson for Postmaster in order to pave the way
for the appointment of Hubert o. Thompson for
Collector. 1t will DO singular circumstance if the
appointment of good Republican is made the ex
cuse for the appointment of bad Democrat.
A Paris dispatch TO the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany gives a runner to the effect that "a powerful
Russian squadron has been ordered to cruise eff the
coast of Italy. for the purpose of overawing the
Italian Government In its suspected work of secretly
preparing to assist England in the event of an
f, Anglo Russian war" This is nonsense. Russia has
no war-ships capable Of overawing" Italy. The
irsnclads OF the latter Power the most formid-
able aloat. Two of them, the Duilio and Dan
dolo are capable Of sinking the whole Russian
navy. Russia has but one strong ironclad. tho