Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-23

Detroit, you see, q the lead OF but two
games over Chicago, and lido not look for
change in this Of more than one game eithe,
way. We play Kan rs City to-day, and St.
Louis, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
winding up the week at Detroit with a game
next Saturday. st. Louis plays at Detroit
to-day, and Kansas City plays there Tues.
day, Wednesday and Thursday. Hook to
see Chicago win to-day's game and drop one
game to St. Louis. Hook to see Detroit
win to-day's game with s.. Louis, perhaps
drop a game to Kansas City, and lose a
close game with Chicago next Saturday,
although this victory may go either way.
As for New York, I do not, by any means,
agree with many writer's, that the giants
chances are settled for the season. They
are stayers, those fellows, and I look for q
squirt during July and August that may put
them plump into first place. New York
will, l fancy, prove somewhat in the nature
OF a surprise this year, as it did last only
that the surprise will come later on. The
Philies, l have always thought dangerous,
will prove my opinion pretty nearly cor
chances as good for winning as are those
of the three clubs o in advance
of them. I look to see Harry
Wright's boys prove more in the nature
OF q handicap to each OF the three crack
clubs than as real candidates for first hon.
ors. As for Boston and St. Louis, well, l
can only say that I am astonished, end
have been since the first fortnight OF tn.
championship race closed, at the perform
ance of these teams. They have in their
ranks some Of the best baseball talent in
the country, money has been spent upon
both, and particularly upon the st. Louis,
with q lavish hand, and yet both aret mo
good"-simply mo good" "Dubs OF the
first water" they have been called, and
they deserve the name. What the reason
is, l should not care to fathom, fun ther
than l know already, viz: Personal jeal-
ambition and professional pride in their
work. Were st. Louis to throw overheard
every man in it's ranks at the close of the
present season and take it's chances of
selecting q club from the young blood con,-
prising the Eastern, New England and
semi-proiessional teams of the East for
next year, / honestly believe they would
play better ball, draw larger crowds and
stand higher than they would with the
present ill-natured, selfish and ungrateful
lot of fellows they now have in their team.
Kansas City il just apt to beat both of these
teams and Washington, despite it's great
battery-Shaw and Gilligan--Ihardly expect
to see in other than last place.
NOTES.
Irwin of the Philadelphia has not made
a run since May Is, though he has played
in sixteen games since that date. In
twenty-five games he has made but three
runs.
The White Stockings are on exhibition
this week in A. G. Spalding & Brothers
show window. The photographs are very
fine and embrace the entire team as it now
stands.
During their Eastern tour, the Chicagos
won eight games. lost three; Detroits won
seven, lost three; st. Louis won two, lost
ten; Kansas City won three, lost seven.
The management of the disbanded Pro.
violence club is requiring all the men who
receive any cash to sign of all claims for
back salary
Casey of the Philadelphias has failed to
make q bit in every game he has played
this season-ten in n~umber-save one. He
made two hits May "a.
Dorgan, OF New York, has played twenty.
nine games, and twenty-eight Of them with.
out error. He has made but two errors
thus far, and both were made May 3.
Daily, Of Philadelphia, is still troubled
with q lame arm.
Camel, late of Philadelphia, will sign with
the Deiroits.
Gilligan has caught in nineteen games fol
the Washingtons. He is rivalling Bennett
at his work.
Dalrymple has made but one error at LEFT
field this season.
Garrison has made hut three runs in tht
games he has played. Con CREaAN.