Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-28
RACE FOR THE PENNANT.
II Looks At Present as Though The Flag
Would go to ChIcago's Nine
Again this Year.
Some Criticisms as to New York and Detroit
clubs Management Notes of
the Game.


Correspondence OF the Gazette.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept, 20.--Only about
three more weeks now and the champion.
} ship seasons OF the two representative
baseball organizations Of the country
will have ended, and the two pennants
will have been won by the leading clubs
OF the National league and the American
association. The season just about
drawing TO close has witnessed some
remarkable games, ana has by no means
been without its sad experiences for club
managers and stockholders in both the
great organizations. Some OF these ex.
periences have been costly, yet II the pur-
chasers thereof will only take the lessons
they have learned TO heart and avoid next
season the mistakes they have made
this, the III winds that have
struck them this year may have blown
somebody good after all. The mistakes
to which refer are doubtless familiar to
every lover Of the national game who has
followed its affairs through the past fe
seasons, or, may say, through the pres
ent year. Take first the New York club.
There has unquestionably been some
very bad judgment, and very great deal
Of the penny-wise and pound-foollsh poll
cy shown IN the handling Of this club this
year, and their "b2d luck" to which has
been attributed the let-down In the
clubs effectiveness, has been due as
much to this tad judgment, and to the
leaning toward niggardliness by the club
managers as anything else. Had Jim
Mutrle provided himself ut the outset OF
the season with one, yes, two good and
promising young batteries, taken from
some OF the minor organizations, he
would have sailed serenely through the
trouble which overlook him when Ewing
was disabled and Deasley on the sick list.
Instead of foTtltying himself against
such exigencies, however, he de-
| liberately released Larry Cor
coran, who had never been anything
more than sort OF pensioned member of
the team, any way, and entered the sea
son with WEIGH and Ewing, Keefe aud
Deasley as his only batteries. Ewing
strained the tendons of bis thigh in the
early part of the season, and Deasley had
his mettle and his powers of endurance
battered out OF him through double duty,
after which, instead of securing the coun-
try, II need be, for one or two good catch
ers, Mutrie takes Jim O'Rourke, the
teams splendid center-H fielder, from his
him for the season by playing him almost
constantly behind the bat, while at the
same time the change affected the ell
cheney of his out-held. Never a move
| did he make to drop on to any new mate
rial, and when told the other day, before
he came West to play the last series with
Chicago, that the teams chance for win
ming the pennant seemed to be on the
shrink, he replied "Pennants do not paw
salaries. We are playing ball to make
money"
All, Jimmy, there's where you missed
1t, and by adhering to that very same the
DRY you have knocked your club stock
holders out of thousands of dollars this
season. q You came out West with the
strength Of your team greatly impaired,
and your little goose was cooked when you
dropped those four straight games to the
White Stockings in Chicago. 1t was a
dead open and shut thing that Chicago
would win that entire series with you.
| do not doubt but that, with Arson,
Pfeffer, Williamson, Burns, Kelly, Gore,
Dalrymple, Flint, GARRISON, Mccormick
and Sunday, Chicago could have gone
through the season, and still stood good
chance Tor the championship. 1t Is good
team as have named 1t, but Arson would
! Nuht nv SUN OuuuCtH us NluATlt uuH TAKEN.
| He found Ryan, he found Flynn, he found
Noodle, and he found Hardie, all Of whom
Mr.. mutrie might have had lust as well as
Arson, but Arson was long headed, and
Mutrie was blind with the estimate he
had formed of his own Judgment and the
desire he had acquired to play close to
shore and make money. Arson will
win, and Mr.. Mutrie will lose; see?
Had the New York team ON
Its last Western trip made the
showing IL was making this time last year;
had 1t gone back home, enjoying the pros
poets OF neck and neck race with Chi
cago and Detroit to the finish, the New
York polo grounds could scarcely ha 70
held the crowds that would have focked
to see the giants play ball. Enthusiasm
would have prevailed probably to degree
never known in Gotham before in connec-
ton with the national game, and the
"dollars" which Mr.. Mutrie stated he Is
playing ball for, would have rolled into
the box-ofilce alta rate that would have
made New York club stock not purchas.
able al any price. AS II is, well--ask jim
about II.
As for Detroit, the stockholders there
are paying dearly for their extravaganza
and before the season Is over will have
bought their experience at a good round
II not Improbable figure Where so much
money was laid out as has been the case
with this club, there was bound to come
a time when stockholders would begin TO
grow anxious, and finally panic-stricken
at the magnitude OF their Investment In
such venture as base ball Thousands
OF dollars--l should perhaps be laughed
AZ were TO tell how many thousands
have been expended, and recklessly ex.