New-York tribune., 1885-09-13
FIELD SPORTS.
cgAyCEs FOB TIE PENNANT.
EXPECTATIONS FOR THE WESTERN ih1r
Of THE NEw-YORK CLUB.

oF THE NETWORK CLUB.
IT.. Naw.york baseball club finished its regular
....s, n this city at the Polo Grounds yesterday
snd last night large party Of local admirers Oh
a. ..no sax their favorites start Il the Wese'
svhere the nine finishes up the championship 1o
.on Although IL is not an assured Iact' ~ iS P.os
pbIe that the club may play one more chah'pio
ship game in this city on the 2lst ihso' p,ss
poned match with the Buffalo CLUB. RAINY ,",
In Detroit however. during the week '"'
,luhpIavs there may cause this plan to De aoNn
s"n.a The New-York club, to carry out TINS ar
,ancoment. must leave Detroit on the evening u
III 9th nick mn the Buffalo club on It's way oaoh'
.,ov here on the 21st, and then go back 10 bunaio
,~here H. ia scheduled to play the nrst Vi i's hn
sertes with the Buffalo nine on it's home ero"uuS o
Sentember %. The local managers IN oraer '" az
~o,,a the game here, have had to pay their bunaio
e,,snt., railroad fare here and return, besides
Giving them their regular percentage OF the ea'o
receipts ,s,. .ho Now.
After playing four games in Buffalo, the New
York PLAYERS will journey to Chicago ana the uos'
exciting games of the season will be playef Coz tSe
S1n leaders in the League race cross pals dUI wy
W. wv d;omond honors on September ~ ana oo anu
6ctober aud 3. These four games ougno w., S
probably will, settle the long 1esE %sPbN the New
nine In win three out of the four games as tney ou
r. The first three series. Enthusiasts; however ex
ct the local players sat e he Viii do lit 4 he has
make Welch pitch In all four games. In. ne Waicb's
players always had great trGase % iii Se msU games the
arcss are that he will win them ALL The Chlcago
sInb NAV Also take similar step and have LARK n.
IN the pitchers DOa Oat Sofsg Sothef the NewYork
..nnS as neonle here remember with relish the
Anal game at the Polo Grounds between dhese fsr
mines wns1 r1ns aSS the beat
en- nv the ignoble score of II to .. Ciarkson
pitched in all three games paycd IN soIs only S
wiciory was with Mccormick IN the pitcher
souSre, TRIBUNE reporter talked with sexera, vera
OF the New York men as they were .d aPou' "
"Our boys as You know, are hearty 9t OF 'a, a,n,
,ates and we will not despair until the last man
has been called out n the final nniSg & Vuf 10 tb;n
ana az ag' think that we will yet be in at the death
Chicago, Of course its lead to the games # has
that when the New-York, Boston and Philadelphia
cimhs strike Chicago, there will be great walllng
and gnashing of teeth The Proyideh,ce cruz ,,s Il
also likely to play soUa or fMo sane Well We'll eood,by
foId Won had that pennant in my pocket said tne @
manager, as he picked up his ssatcno' anu "
show II to YOU when come back
"Moye-up Joe" Gerhardt. the prince OF second
basemen was Drumming over with go0d nature, as ~
usual "Good-by TRiBUNE ne yeieo, nt as ne and SoI
aboard ave are going after that pennant ana
have got just about enough Dutch courage 10 get
Ward Ewing Connor and the rest Of the players
looked ANYTHING but a lot Of defeated athetes ano
Mi were hopeful and the majority conndent that
their club wond come nj in IN nerfact aasaf health
csoasG sad are irs trained fD down for hard fight.
Should an accident befall either Weich
or Keefe, Richardson will be on hand 10 ,a.s take
eithers place in the ptcahag saepap at st. hous
on October 10, the New-iork men start Iof nohe:
A stop for a day or two will be made howexerI a,
townsville and Cincinnati. where the nine VIII play
exhibition games with the representative clubs
of those cities. After arriving once more on nome
grounds series of games for the CITY fnspiiO ppi0
American ASSOCIATION mines: visit will be made
to BGos and aFE wth tine Brok Club
These latter games would be we'll attended; as
Brooklyn people stand up :, for their ci1D
he ulayed both at the Polo Grounds and
Washington Park until winters SHOWS anG frosts
drive the baseball players into their iorced seciu-
There has been considerable talk and many wild
rumors about the New-York club for 1856 Inc
present nine is strong enough 10 cope NC
with any other team in the country IN tle opinion
of many vet some followers OF the nine e1pect next
wear a club hch will never lose game All state
next season are wide Of the mark. manager can:
not approach players belonging to other clubs until
the season is closed. Many close observers OF the
New-YOrk nine claim that, as it is now made mp, it
IS all but impossible TO strengthen ~ a wei,
defined rumor says that Richardson. the heavy
batter of the Buffalo club and Denny OF the rroy roy
play with the New-York nine next year.
Should these men be engaged, 1t would be anything
but an easy task to make room Tor them on the
nine RumOr also says that Ward, the admirable
short stop, who received diploma as lawyer,
intends at the close of the present season to aban-
don baseball and adopt law as profession Base
ball men will greatly miss him. In Wards alb
sence Smith could, of course. take short stop.
Denny might be put on third base in place OF Es-
Textbook. The latter. however has many friends.
and should he be sheved, their anger would keep
them away from f M the Polo Grounds Richardson Is
an excellent outielder, but so also are DOrgan,
VRourke and Gillespie. Dorgan is batting so well
that il would be extremely uDwise to release him.
ORourke has no superior as centre fielder, while
Gillespie has played a remaI kable game all the
season. Manager Mutrie had much trouble plac-
ing this years nine. Should he attempt to make
sfit sfy changes next season ne WI" nave nara 'iD'
This energetic manager deserves more praise than
he has received He has brought baseball TO Its
present popularity in this city by the hardest kind
of work. Last season ne managed the Metropoli-
tan club. probably no other man could have
handled them, and captured the championship OF
the American Association. He was then made
manager of the New-York club, and his untiring
labors this season have made his name O familiar
and popular one ell over the country. This year
and the club holds last place in the pennant race.
1t is also promised that the Brooklyn club will be
greatly strengt hencd next year. This nine needs
one or two good pitchers something the club has
never had. Otherwise, the nine Is fairly good
ono, and most of the players are good batters aud
felders. The games that the Ncw-York club must
play before the end of the leagne season are as
follows:
September Is, l6 II and l9-NewYOrf VS.. Detroit De-
September 2l-New.YOrk Buffalo, Polo Grounds New.
seplenber 22. 2s "a and 20 -New.Yors vs. Buffalo
September 90 and So and october and s-Yew.York
October s. I, and lo-NswYOrk VS. st. LOuis st Louis
n T<fIr WI,