Connecticut western news., 1888-07-04
THE BALL-PLAYERS,

"Bid' McPheo of the Cincinnati Club said the other day: q will never again undergo a winter campaign of base ball. do not know that my experience at San Francisco and New Orleans injured me, but I know it did me nc good. Next spring am going to Hot Springs before the season opens. The water there seems to put ginger into player"
 Kansas City's has entered formal protest against the purchase by Louisville of pitcher Ewing and catcher Vaughan from Memphis. The claim is that Kansas Citys had previously bought them of Memphis.
 John Ward, it seems, don't Say anything about the game of cOrnstalk in his book. Ward could have never played ball in Western Pennsylvania, in Butler County especially. Cornstalk was queer game. It was played almost generally in Butler, Pa., ten and twelve years ago. Unlike sock ball, ore had to throw the ball in front of the base runner to put him out.
 Robinson, short stop of Jackson, recently released, was paid $3.65. The rest of his sal ary was eaten up by fines. "Robbie" is still walking home.
 player on that team stealing the most bases, some one says. It would take cannon ball to make some of the Detrolts steal a base.
 It will be some time before Mark Baldwin will be able to pitch for Chicago. He is still i'll at his home ill Pittsburg. He is improv- ing, although he has lost ten pounds in weight.
 The alleged reason for laying off Mcclellan is that he is sick. The chances are ten to one that McGunnigle took that course b. cause he believes RadfoId to be better player.
 The Southern League has about gone under.
 After playing seventeen games, Tom Deasley succeeded in getting around the diamond once.
 That little plain talk between President Day and the New York players put some sand in the men.
 Dave Rowe has been released by the Kansas City Club. It is said that Sam Barkley will succeed Rowe as manager.
 It is not every club that is going to beat the Washingtons.
 President Wikoff mas notified the Association clubs not to adavnce any money to regular um- pires without an order from him.
 The Athletics will bear watching by the clubs that expect to come out near the top.
 Many of the Memphis players have already signed with other clubs. Nicholas goes to Kansas City, Reccius. Cline, Force, and Phe- Ian to Sioux City, McKeough and Peltz to Ro- chester, and Wally Andrews to Louisville.
 Every member of the regular Baltimore team Trott, Tucker and Greenwood were with the champion Newarks; Farrell helped Providence win the League flag; Shindle helped Utica win the International League pcnnant; Griffin was pennant winner for Utica; Purcell was in Atlanta when she captured first place, likewise Fulmer in Washington, Kiroy in Augusta and O'Brien in Philadelphia.
 Dalrymple was deprived of q home run at Indianapolis by tho peculiar circumstance of the ball hitting telegraph wire just outside the centre field fence and bounding back into tho lot.
 Tom Burns is not back number by any means.
 It is very likely that Charlie Jones will play ball no more
 Kansas City base ball lovers want Hankinson back on third base.
 Mike Bradley is covering centre field for Kansas City in place of Dave Rowe.
 The Hoosiers should brace up now that 8 favorite son has been nominated for the Presi- dency. They should strive to win.
 despatch from New Haven says: "Bates, Harvards pitcher, is to locate at Yale. He is disgusted with the treatment at Harvard"
 The heaviest batting game of the season was that between Manchester and Lynn, June 19 The two teams mado forty-eight hits between them, including six doubles, four triples, and six home runs-a total of eighty bases.
 There may be some trouble over that Doescher muddle of last season. Watkins wants the Detroit management to pay him the $500 which he loaned Umpire DoesSher last season and Detroit refuses. An investigation will be made.
 few people are raising the hue and cry that the Indianapolis club is doing no better than it did last year. The fact is that all the tail end clubs are stronger this season than last The Indianapolis team had but thirty victories last year the first week in July, and their per- centage was but 250. Now it is 326.