National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-01-18
THE NATIONAL BALL CLUE.
IL Is Finally admitted TO the League
without Qualification Players that
the Club May Secure.


IL Is Finally admitted TO the League
without Qualification Players that
the Club May Secure.
The meeting ofthe Lcngue held In New York
Saturday settled two important questions The
first being that the League will consist Of eight
clubs, and the second that the Nationals of
this city arc undoubtedly In mu membership
In the League. The authorities Of the local
club have now nothing " do but to enter rs
speedily rs may be possible upon the work of
peffccting their organization and securing n
corps OF players that will wOrthlly represent
located at either Kansas City, Milwaukee, or
indianapolis but II is not n matter of great
concern here which Of the three points will
finally be selected. II Is enough 20 know that
the status of the home club in full membership
has been finally and auth)ritatlvcly settled be.
You'd recall.
Whatever differences Of opinion may have
existed In local base ball circles should now
be dropped and hearty support be awarded the
club on all hands. Local patrons of the game
arc mninly interested In seeing good games OF
ball, and II nine that can win games from all
comcrs can be secured the former advocates OF
inc American Association viii find their chief
desire subServCd and should be ready TO give
the managers OF the club, nc II Is now situated
al the moral and material announcement In
their power.
Interest win hereafter attach chiefly TO the
character and capabilities Of the men that Will
from time to time, be engaged as members OF
Washington's first League team. IL Is Ccr;ain
that the six elder clubs of the organization will
he very powerful aggregations of playing talent
TINS year, and all their managers expect that
our club, and such other new club rs may be
admitted, Will occupy the undesirable position
oithilenders. IL VIII stand the managers of
our club in hand to take such steps in the
selection ofplNyers as Will overthrow this con-
tdtnt expectation II will be money In their
pockets to do so, and II Is IN their power TO yet
gather team that will achieve an honorable
position in the race Nobody will expect
championship honors here this year, but, on
the other hand, nobody will be satisfied with
poortenm when II Is entirely possible to secure
good one.
In Barr first.cl pitcher is now available
at least for games on the home grounds. The
also be secured, with the certainty that no bat
terry In the League will rate as their superiors
The young Canadian pitcher, Wood Of the
Bunalos, Is one of the most promising In the
country and is n good batter, base runner, and
fielder In addition. With three such pitchers
the club could hold It's own with tho best
Myers, of the Butialos, Is an excellent catcher
and available. In fact, with n little care In
selection, three firstclass batteries can be un.
der engagement within few weeks.
The most important elements conducting to
the success of ball club are good base runners
and accurate, plucky reliable infelders. The
81. Louis Club is Dragging. about its unap.
prCachable inheld, and in McKinnon, Dunlap,
benny, and Glasscock II certainly possesses
four men PAST d whom II will DO no easy task to
bat n ball But 10 far rs fielding Is concerned
Ge 81 tSn o 6 9sr fln5 to present
some diplomacy Is exercised In negotiating
with the other clubs for their extra men. Phil
Baker Is already at hand, aud his superior as
| first baseman does not exist. Philadelphia
| Will play Farrell at second and Irwin ut short,
so that I'm all probability Bastian and Myers
will be on the market. The former Is a young
man, one Of the finest lelders ever seen, a good
batter and q fleet base runner If he should be
secured for second base II is safe TO assert that
| we should have no occasion to ask odds of any
He is good field captain, too. Gladmon at
| third is good enough, and player that with
announcement is liable to make great record
willing to release Esterbrook to us, nothing
| better could be asked, as he would fill the bill
admirably at shorttield. Baker, Bastian, Glad.
field fully up TO the st. Louis mark.
SO far as the outheld is concerned, no great
difficulty should be experienced in so filling
the positions that 4 viii compare favorably
| Hines, and Lucas Carroll, remains to be seen,
| but the chances are that they will not. II,
however, they are generous, and do so, the
| home club, with faithful Jim Knowles in the
right field, will have o great outfeld, com.
| posed Of men who are sure ny.catchers, strong
| batters, and good base runners.
All thnt can be said of players now Is merely
suggestive, but the assumption that the Ma
| tionals must necessarily be weak and downed
from the start, to bring up the tail of the pro
tetslOll, lS lOOllsn ana 1nuuo without regard &c
the notorious uncertainties Of the game. Clubs
| very formidable on paper often prove the
nous big four" that Detroit crows over SC
loudly could not keep Buffalo from the tai
end last year, while Harry Wright's 'eXperi
mental Philadelphia team, that all the
prophets early in the year sat down as having
an indefeasible right to come In last, finished
an honorable third. Bearing this in mind, thu
officials of the home team should go to worl
courngeously TO get the very best players nov
| available, and should make 1t a prime pon
TO secure no man who is not fleet and daring
| base runner.