Evening star., 1886-08-14
Stolen Bases.

Up 10 tle ISL OF August, Big BrOutnerS, Oh tne
Detroits, led the league in batting with an aver
age of 81; Kelly and Anson, of the Chicagos,
stood second, with average OF .352 each.
Paul Hines stood sixth, average 1886. Knowles
was the next best man on the Nationals, but he
stood number O..
The Nationals have but one man better than
the average league batter. This fact alone
would account for u good deal of the club S
failure.
Barr does not intend to play ball profession
offers since his release. The DetrOitS are among
those vino would like 10 secure him. The
trouble with his finger was not u felon, but 4
piece OF bone was broken Off and is gradually
working its way through the flesh.
Washington has by lar the uniuckiest club
in the league. 1t has lost twelve games in the
last inning, nearly all the extra inning
games and was beaten any number OF times by
but one run. Cincinnati occupies a like posi-
tiOn in the association.
Corcoran is at his home in Newark
The spectators at Capitol park are delighted
at Carrolrs return to the ball field.
Base ball alone is not to blame ter Lucas finan-
cia troubles, but it helped vastly.
Despite their low position, the BostOns have
drawn 10000 people TO their games at home.
Mike ScanlOn claims that Washington has
been umpired out OF no less than fourteen
Exchange.
The three oit-Boston games last week
were witnessed by 12,S people. The Chicagos
drew 1921 people in three days.
1t is said that the Washington CLUB is 5000
ahead of the seasOn.-Erchange. Hardly that,
but it has not done poorly as would natu-
rally be supposed.
James o. 'Kourke says that Finley is at present
one of the finest catchers OH the ball field, and
he is willing TO back him against any OF them.
FOgartys knee is again in Il bad way, and he
is still unable To play with the Phladeiphias.
1t is thought he used his injured leg too soon
Almost half of the Kansas Citys' victories
have been won from the Washingtons.
Every club in the League has lost game to
every other club except Kansas City to WASH
ington.
Carroll, the Washington left fielder, is about
the only man who can steal second base on
catchers like Bennett, OF Detroit and Ewing of
New York.-Erchonge. He can do better tiian
that. He can steal third on both OF them, and
has done it.
II New York can make any kind of showing
toward holding their own on their next western
trip they will have a bright prospect for the
pennant
Chicago and Detroit are both somewhat Grip
pied.
sunday, of the Chicago club, is undoubtedly
the fastest runner in the league, but he is not
the best base runner.
Nobody in Washingt ton, not even the report
ers, who generally know everything know who
is captain OF the Washington cub.-SpOrtinQ
Lie.
Forty games played at Sportsmans park, ST.
Louis, this season, yielded something over
$42, 900 to the management.
Twelve balls i'll one game is the record. This
number was used in a recent Philadelphia
Detroit game. Ten of the twelve were lost
AS very often it is a very difficult matter to
decide whether the batter has made a hit or
tho fielder an error, some one suggests that the
uihpitC uAhouhOO ~ Juot sio uC hO1lu IL StTlke or
a ball.
In their drubbing of the Bostons this year the
Phlladelphias are wiping out Old scores. The
BOstOns, in two successive seasons, won twenty
eight games from them.
Ii Washington had Il winning club it would
attract as many people to its games as any city
In the east. Fifteen hundred people attend the
games now, and the team has won less games
than any club in the league.-phitadeiphia
Press.
1t may not be generally known that Anson
has a lame shoulder, which he has beeI, un-
successfully doctOring for six seven years.
He can't throw across the diamond without
pain. That is the main reason why he Changed
his position to first base years ago.
The decline OF base ball pitchers is not so
Radbourn, Mccormick, Shaw, Hecker, Lynch
Mullane, Calvin, Matthews and Weidman
have all been tossing the sphere for years and
nearly every one OF them is good as ever.
Cook, of Louisville. has a strange way of bat
ting. He simply thrusts out the bat with IA sort
of a jerk and lines the ball just over the heads
of the baseman. No muscle is used, but con-
siderable science Cook is clean, safe batter.
So ne was when he played here last year.
The greatest number OF runs ever made in a
game is 209, scored June 8, 1869, by the
Niagara club of Buffalo against the Coluinbias,
also OF that city, the latter making only ten.
Niagaras made forty in their first inning and
hfty-eight in their eighth.
Kelly, the great base-runner, has made one
sixth OF all the runs scored by the Chicagos this
season, and has made almost one-half as many
runs as the Kansas CITY club.
Esterbrook, OF New York, leads the League
1hiiu oaseihoi, hicndIuson, Ol Detroit, the
second basemen, and Farrar, of Philauelphia.
the hrst DastInen. Anson, Pfeffer and Burns
tine Chicago basemeD, each rank almost at the
bottom OF the list.
When Mike Scanlon was in Boston he said he
thought Bob Barr one OF the best pitchers in the
League. Now this same Mike suspends Mr.
Barr, and at the same time he lays OFF Cliff
carroll. No man can be a successful manager
who is all the time fussing with his players
Boston Globe.
1t is expected that the sum to be divided
among the stock khOlders of the Boston club at
the end of the season will be in the neghbor-
hood of S65, 700.
Paul Hines father is regular attendant at
should Knock tue ball over the fence for "A home
run every time he goes to bat. The other dav
as his boy stepped up to the home plate,
when nobody could find the ball, he exclaimed:
NOW, raul SEND IL over the fence" He
watched hiru strike three times and retire. and
with look OF disgust remarked: "Ah! Paul
you're no good. You couldn't hit n balloon
He has made nine home ruus, though, this
year.
An exchange says an American base ball
player was in Belfast, and when during the
riots he saw clubs nourishing and heard pistols
popping, he began to grow homeSick. When
the excitement subsidized he asked a stranger if
the umpire had escaped.
Some of the League clubs are in favor of Or
ganiZlng twelve-ciub association for ne xt sea-
son, and would like to take st. Louis, Brooklyn,
metropolitan, Baltimore and PlttSburg from
the American association to complete the Cir
cult.
Affairs In West Washington.
REAL ESTATE SALEs.-John ]. Boyne real
estate agent, sold for Miss l.. Stephenson, to
George w Castelar, part of lot 4, Bealis addi-
tion, so 3S, irontlng on Gay street, improved,
Selby, part OF lot 81, Bealls addition, SO. ~,
fronting on Beall street, improved, for SO, 800