The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-03
And the Baseball Champion
ship Will be Won.
THE ERRORS OF THE SEASON
u,ng Ball for Dollars, Not Pen
rapts-The White Stockings
Eastern Diamond Notes.
CHICAGO, September 20.
nondence of TIE HERALp.

-enresentative base ball organizations OF
+bo country will have ended, and the
+ro nennants viii have been won by the
leading clubs of the National League
md the American Association. The
SESSION Just about drawing to a close has
v5tnessed some remarkable games. and
has by no means been without its sad
evnenences for club managers and
stockholders in both the great organiza-
fons. Some Of these experiences have
bsen costly, yeth the purchasers thereof
will only take the lessons they have
learned to heart and avoid next season
the mistakes they have made this. the
ii winds that have struck them this
wear may have blown somebody good
after sll. The mistakes to which l refer
are doubtless familiar to every lover of
the national game who has followed It's
affairs through the past few seasons or,
may say, through the present year.
Take first the New York Club. There
has unGuestionably been some very bad
Judgment, and q very great deal Of the
penny wise and pound foolish policy
shown in the handling of this club this
wear. and their bad luck, to which
has been attributed the let-Gown In the
climbs effectiveness, has been due S
much to this bad judgment, and TO the
leaning toward niggaTGliness by the
club managers as to ANYTHING else. Had
linn Nutrie provided himself at the out.
set of the season with one, yes two good
and Promising young batteries, taken
from some Of the minor organiza tons,
ne would have sailed ssrenely through
the trouble which overlook him when
Ewing vas disabled, and Deasley on the
sick list. Instead of fOrtifying himself
against SUCH e1igencieS, however. he
deliberately released Larry Corcoran,
who had never been anything more
than a sort Of pentiOned member of the
team anyway, and entered the season |
With Welch and Ewing, Keefe and
DeasIev as his only batteries. Ewing
strained the tendOns OF his thigh in the
carly part of the season, and Deasley
had his nett.e and his powers of endur- |
ance battered cut of him through double |
Guty, after which, instead Of securing |
the country, if need be for one or Two |
good cateaeFs, Mutfie takes Jim
o R0Erke, the teams splendid center |
fielder from his position and runs the |
T.sk Of disabling him for the season 5y !
playing him almost constantly behind |
the bat, while st the same time the /
change otfected the efficiency Of his out !
held. Never s move did he make TO |
crop onto any new material. AID Wheu /
tod the other day before he cane west /
70 play the last series vita Chicago.
that the teams chances for winning the I.
lennant seemed 10 bc on the shrink, he |
-eplied: remnants do not pay salaries.
We are playing ball to make money"
An, Jimmy, there where yOu missed |
s, and by adhering to that very same |
heOry you have knocked your club |
tOckhOlders out Of thousands Of dollars |
his season. You came out west with |
he strength of your team greatly
and your little goose was
]sked brown when you dropped those
cur straight games to the White Stock
ngs in Chicago. 1t was a dead open
md shut thing that Chicago would win
hat entire series with you.
DO not doubt but that, with Arson,
STe1er, Williamson, Burns, Kelly, Gore,
Flint, Clarkson, Mccormick
ma Sunday, Chicago could have gone
through the season, and still stood q
good chance for the championship. It is
good team as l have named it, but
a2son would take no such chances as
Autrie has taken. He found Ryan, he
ound Flynn, he found Noodle, and he
ound Hardie, al of whom Mr. Mutrie
night have had just as well as Arson,
but Arson was long headed, and Mutrie
vas blind with the estimate he had |
ormed OF his OWL judgment and the
leSlre he had acquired to play close TO
more and rake 1lOsaey. Arson will win,
,nd AF. h1trie VIII lose: see2 Had the
new foFSteall on its last western trip
mace the Showing Il was making this
Ime 5lSt year; had it gone back home,
.EJ}ylng the prospects OF a NECK 20 ]
ieck race with Chicago and Detroit to I
-ue nhlSh, the. New York polo grounds !
QUO scarcely have held the crowds
n would have focked TO see the +,
: .aiiI Is play ball. Enthusiasm would :
AVE prevailed probably to a degree
teyef kaoEn IN Gotham before IN con-
i'Io,IoL with the national game, aud the
-, oC ;.' which Mr.. Mutrie has stated !
e aS Paying ball for, would have rolled !
~. nc OoA Office st rate that would )
ave msae New York club STOCK not
.85 at any price. AS it il, well
ask Jim about il J
s,a ~ lot Detroit, the stockholders there ;
And PSSy y, dearly for their extravaganza,
6orI SEs'ore the season is over VIII have /
+ ~ s.' their experience at q good round
NM ~ Improbable figure. Where so
- s'u money was laid out as has been
hoTDv3S Se With this ub, there was tr
6oi Iill 70 come q time y hen stock Z
sn 9J+1 sL- Eould begin 10 grow anxious, O
ma. ''Ieuy panlc-Stricken at the uuayni- d
veD 1s " their investment IN SUCH q
ioII .-Ie as base ball Thousands OF c
zs,.atg-l should perhaps be laughed at
1e+.e 70 tell how manu thousand
~ oeen expended, and Teck}cSsIy
So srH;Geo, by the management OF ;hIs
,ra -. N getting together the club they
,Eo, 1oE playing, and in preventing 7
,ani.. Veans from strengthening their
y A = Success followed their ventures
he ~ SSsfee that has surprised some Of
h. O'uef heads in base ball affairs. and r
.sSs,S success has unquesiiouab'F pa~- I
49, d strong element Of oil il.t ,
.po,oa money was spent. greater Etray- ,
STroS INDUCED in; Dunlap WA :
V 80, NJ at good deal more m.nev than :, ;,
bs n1I worth, and at a good de moIe :.
M - " might have been secured !nT. 7
men presto. the luck Of the clr1 =
g'"StG. It began IN l0sa V t,s,,., II en-,