St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-13

western league umpires, is now sporting ed
tor of the Cincinnati journal.
A daily paper, devoted exclusively to base
ball, win soon be published in Philadelphia
Quincy will have a strong semi-profes-
sional club to enter the Mississippi Valley
league.
Irwin is one of the few batters in the league
who believes in the fiat bat, and proposes to
use one.
The Trenton club has received the Eastern
league championship pennant.
At Columbus, Ga, ladies are admitted free
to all games.
In the game of April at Cincinnati the
Chicago team defeated the local American
club by score of to 1. Capt. Anson's
men outbatted and outplayed the home team,
and showed something like the oldinvincible
Chicago form.
The secret of the success Of the Boston
team lies in the remarkable uniformity OF
strength Of its players, the absence of clique
jealousy, and the very skillful administration
OF captain and manager, John Morrill,, who is
easily one of the most accomplished ball
players and capable field captains ever de-
veloped in base ball.
One of the tricks of players in the Ameri-
can association, which has been stopped by
President Mcknight, was where the batsman
purposely blocked the ball in order to allow
a runner to get around the bases. They
usually did this by putting out their hand
and stopping the ball instead of striking at
it. In this way the runner would get around
and generally score run, while the batsman
would be declared out Hereafter the run
ner will be declared out ms stead Of the bats
man under these circumstances.
President Young of the National league
gives the following Interpretation of the
newly-adopted pitching rules: s'The most
important and, Knight say, the all-important
thing for pitchers to practice, is to keep the
forward foot perfectly stationary while the
ball is being delivered. 1t cannot be raised
nor slid under the new rule, but the other
can if desired, and the umpire will pay no
attention to it, as he has nothing to decide
on the method of delivering the ball, only to
watch the movement of the feeto the pitcher
while in the act of pitching"
Capt. John Morrill, of the Boston team is
quoted as saying: 1.-The Chicagos are over
rated. They are not so strong as they are
made out to be. do not think that the new
batteries will brighten the clubs very much.
They certainly didn't do anything like phe-
nomenal work last season, and l think that
the clubs will measure them as handily this
year." To which the Mirror of American
Sports replies: ''For the enlighten ment of
Capt Morrill,, we might mention that last
year Chicago started the season with but one
pitcher, and was not in shape to play ball
until about the middle of September. After
that date Chicago won three out of every four
games played. This year there will be no
lack OF pitchers and catchers, and it is not
likely Boston and Providence will inca
sure them as handily' as they did last year. :"
Hankinson was signed by the Metropolitan
club April 6. Jack Lynch still refuses to
sign. He hopes to get more money in this
way. He says he will not play unless he gets
what he wants. His business will keep him
without playing ball.
Mirror of American Sports: The reinstate-
ment of ''Kid' Baldwin, so that he might
sign with the Cincinnati club, shows what a
glaring humbug the arbitration committee is
as a body and what an arrant and onniving
hipocrite Caylor is as an individual. Baldwin
first signed with the st. Louis Unions, and re-
ceived advance money from them. Then he
signed with the Quincy club. Last fall he
jumped from Quincy to Kansas City and
broke up the Quincy club, which expelled
him before disbanding. During the winter
he engaged with the Milwaukee club, receiv-
ing $500 advance money from Manager
Lotus. Well aware Of these facts, Caylor,
who opposes ''on prin ciple" the rein state
ment of Dunlap. Shaffer Gleason and others,
has been working to have Baldwin rein
stated.