Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-11
SPORTS AND PASTIMES.
The End Of the Base Ball Season APP
proachipg--Some Timely Com
ments on the Result.
The Coming Games between the browns
and the white Stockings Chicago
Sure of Success,
Correspondents Of tho Gazette.

Correspondence Of the Gazette
CHICAGO, ILL, Oct. 4.--With the pres
ent week the base ball struggle for the
championship Of 1886 will have ended,and
nothing short OF miracle can now pre-
vent the pcnnant from waving over the
grounds OF the Chicago club when the
season OF 1887 opens. The battle has
been even a more memorable one than
that OF last year, In that during the
greater part OF the season the hight has
lain between three instead OF two clubs,
as was the case during the season OF
1885. and vet the season throughout has
been prolific of all that was unexpected
and remarkable in the line of victories
and defeats, and shows conclusively how
uncertain In its results is the
game Of base ball. Take for in
stance the three successive defeats sus-
tanned by the White Stockings at the
hands of the Giants during their second
Eastern tour, and then as counter argu-
ment to the assertion of the New York
ers' superiority as would seem TO have
been established by these victories, take
the four successive defeats sustained by
the latter at the hands OF the White
Stockings upon the Chicago grounds dur
ing the last Western tour OF the Eastern
clubs. Then after knocking out the Phila-
delphias upon our home grounds, the
White Stockings 20 down East and
are treated to their worst defeat
of the season, through losing four
straight games to the Philadelphia colts
upon the latter's stamping grounds. The
logic or argument that will explain away
the mystery Of such contradictory series
of occurrences as these has never existed,
and yet that they happen with each sea-
son, honestly, unpremeditatedly, aud 'as
the game goes" no fair-minded, patriotic
lover OF the sport will question. To
every one who has watched the fortunes
OF the clubs Ia championship race comes
desire to mentally review the 6ght as
he has observed 1t through It's different
stages, and such review In
connection with the league race
at the present time will disclose many in
teresting features To those given thus
to retrospective study, l would like TO
suggest the following points; First,
the Characteristic, unwavering steadiness
of the White Stockings work from the
beginning Of the season up to the present
time, meeting defeat with the same de-
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exhibited over victory, and showing by
their united efforts and strict attention to
the work before them, the effect of judi
cious and considerable management Sec
ond, that among all the stories of inter-
nal dissension, Jealousy and Ill feeling
that have found their way into
print concerning ball clubs and
players during the season, have
any such been connected with the Chicago
CLUB or its playersP Has 1t been neces'
sary TO release any man wearing the
White Stocking uniform because of hts
being a disturbing element in the clubs
ranks2 Have the names OF Chicago clut
directors, officers or managers appeared
in print under the title head OF "Dis
sensions Among the Directorate2n No
that | remember of. Third, that the
relations between players, captain and
president have been and are founded
upon thorough understanding OF eacl
others methods and value. The players
know the work cut out for them, anC
do not bubble over its execu
ton. Trifiing annoyances among them
selves are not magnifled into person
al differences. They know that dissen
sion impairs their effectiveness; that IL
their effectiveness and perfect unity o.
work lies their power as a winning team
and that as winning team they are eact
and every one of them just so much more
valuable as ball players. When, wonder
will ball.players ever learn the fact that
next TO their capability upon The bal
field, their success as team depends
upon perfect harmony among themselves
that they must play together to win. IL
proof of 1t, what broke the back Of the
st. Louis club, put their team among the
tail-enders, and resulted in the 1nancla
embarrassment of its moneyed patrons
and made "monkeys" of some of tn,
greatest individual players in thI
country? Dissension. What lost De
troit the pennantY An abuse OF authority
and subsequent ill-feeling and resent
ment; for had Getzein played the bali tina
Baldwin has played, the result Of the rae,
must surely have been different. III,
could have done so, and would have don,
so had not HanloD adopted the coursI
with him which he did. What has KEEP
the Boston team where 1t ISL The con
slant nagging of an injudicious manage
ment at its players; their public and un
favorable criticisms of its mems work
where, instead, kind and considerate en-
couragement should have been given--re
sulting, Of course, in resentment and sub
eequent lndinerences thus spolllnR th'
effectiveness OF as fine a lot OF players
as there is in the league to-day. Dissen
sion has not to any great degree
proven stumbling block in the path o
one other great team, but an equally
ruinous evil has, viz: Nlggardliness o.
its management. Had the management
of the New York club shown little o
the zeal and enterprise at the outset o.
the season they are now exhibiting in in
fusing new. strength and young blooC
into its ranks, New York would not now
. be struggling with plueky little Phlla
delphla for third place; II would not nov
find itself an unpopular organization IL
the metropolis, and il would not now flnC
itself confronted by the fact that unless
? it made some very radical changes In IL
policy Of management, 1t would
! find public favor and patronage trans
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