The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-30
SPORTING AFFAIRS.
Detroit's Chances for the Ma
tional League Pennant.
ASUDDEN RUSH TO THE FRONT.
the American Associations Clubs
Turf Notes.
CHICAGO. May 10th, 1886.

OhlCAtOs Nay 10Ln, 1850.
y From our Special CORES pendent.
Surprises have seemed the order o
things in this years race for the Ma
: tional League pennant. and not thu
] least of these has been the remarkable
rush to the front by the Detroit team
which now leads the remaining clubs
r and that with several games to spare
; That Detroit was strong at the bat wal
generally conceded before the season
commenced, but that the team would
thus early in the race develop such
uniform ard effective work In the field
was anticipated in no quarter, save
perhaps in Detroit itself. and the pre-
dictions of Detroiters were looked upon
more in the light OF pardonable en-
thusiasm than as possessing any likeli-
hood of ever bein fulfilled. To one
who had never seen the League teams
upon the field. first sight OF the De-
troit lads would prove a pleasing one.
New York must certainly relinquish
their title to 1.-The Giants" this season in
favor Of Detroit, for q finer looking lot
of fellows never crossed the diamond
than these same Detroiters. Two OF
the team, Dan Brouthers and Big
Thompson, are six feet two inches tall,
and weigh over 2l0 pounds. Bennett,
Baldwin, Richardson, White. Rowe and
Hanlon are all long-limbed, powerful
fellows, and the team, taken as q whole,
is without question as formidable
looking body of men as there IS engag-
ed in professional base ball to-day.
When the men played in Chicago. they
sranralainn ammo EhfraRfD-
ans in every way favorable, and when
they left here for Detroit 10 meet the
New Workers, many hearty wishes for
their success against the giants went
with them, We did not dream of such
a thing as their taking three straights
from "the Giants" and now with De-
troit three games ahead of us in the
race. we are not so much in favor of
their winning any more games, this
week at least. 1t is too early in the
season for our comfort here TO see De-
troit
WALKING TO THE FRONT
in such business-like style. for you
know if the pennant is coming west
again tits year, Chicago is just enough
of pork-packing centre to want that
rag. At New York we out here are
surprised, though there really seems to
be no marked let down in the play of
the Giants. New York played good
ball. but Detroit played better, and that
perhaps is all that need be said of those
games. To one familiar with the
strength of the respective teams il does
not seem probable that the Gothamites
will long remain under their present
cloud. The ability of the team seems
too great for that. WEIGH and Keefe
both seem to have retained their speed
and clevernes5 in the box. and with the
exception OF Philadelphia, which club
proved the bette noir of the Giants last
season, New York had made her usual
showing until she met Detroit. That
she will yet head Detroit in the race
seems a very reasonable thing to pre-
dict. and that Detroit may vet meet
Wellington in some one of the clubs she
has still to face. would seem ground
upon which to speculate. As for Chi
cago, our lads are playing their old
time steady game. with our old bat
teries as effective as of yore, and our
new one all and more than We could
have expected. Young Ryan is proving
a valuable find for the club, and is
proving himself born ball player, and
prettier fielding work was never seen in
centre upon the home grounds, and at
the bat he is as strong as he is fearless
and successful between bases. Kelly is
the same Kelly that has caused specta-i
tors 10 laugh and applaud at his base
running tricks for SO many years past,
and Gore. Arson and Dalrymple are
playing even better than last year.
Flint IS catching with his old time eff
fectiveneSs, but is weak at the bat, and
slow between bsses. Williamson is
playing at short stop this year and
Burns at third. Some costly errors
upon the part of both have resulted
from the change, but these have been
fewer than was expected, considering
the number of seasons that Burns had
covered short and Williamson third,
and had played no other positions.
Our grounds still remain the finest in
the country, and the public is support
ing the
GAME II CHICAGO
as generously, if not more so this year
than last. Il must gall New York bit
/ IN soc si0vE yoinC old 81 Ior,;a stan ova-