New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-29
BASEBALL sPECULAT1oNS.
WHAT THE OPENING GAMES INDICATE.


sons3 VIM the Brooklyn club do all the good things u"
beasttuI friends have said IL Wilt VIII the jersey cy
club accomplish the remarkable record oonndenty e&
peced by admirins niendsi wn tho local paseoai
grounds DO spacious enough 70 accommodate the thohss
that viii 90 70 see games this summeff WIN Living
discontinue trying play third base when No ousn 70 ue
behind the batf viii Wards head stop swelling Win
win the grand stand a. tho Polo erouhds
oor less bilious after the spectators have become accus
tomed TO the queer combination Of colorsf VIII picture
of the players Mt tho Polo Grounds ever DO taken oy
camera in which Mures high hat cream-eoiorsa over
coat ana k1ny mustache are not the central nguresf
wa, anybody try 20 tell why baseball is 80 contaEousf
VIII the New.York club ever win tho pennanti VIII
Brooidyns WIN the Columbia College nine ever win
baseball gamei VIII misguided mortas ever learn
how TO keep baseball score as 1t should be kcptf WIN
the I'm baseball next year be Just general it
is nowq win anybody try TO explain why our country
cousins who League or an Association game
take so much interest in the outcnme OF tho battles win
the batsq VIII anybody kindly try 70 teach george ana
C,a how 20 mitch and Cleveland Hatfield how TO play
third basel anybody hazard opinion how long IL
win DO before the Association clubs viii reduce their ad
mission tariff TO last years limit WIZ the eunoAy
games be permanent feature at Ridgewood Parki WIZ
Common and Foster ever make basehit sgaini VIII an
accurate likeness OF player ever be produced IN news
paper1 VIII who do not understand the teen
meal points Of the game please keep their Ignorance c
fully concealed until after they leave the grounosf WI"
a model umpire ever be borni Anybody who can snswer
all of the correctly is too smart for this word ana
ought to immigrate heavenwsrd at once.
The New-York club began the season at the Polo
Grounds this year in different way than that In woh ~
ever did before. The friends OF the CLUB nope a' 10
win also end the in an entirely onerehs manner
from the way IL has the last five years hero
tofore the always opened the season az inc
popular Harlem park with victory The club also ehoeo
tho place which carried no baseball honos WIN
f. Some people who believe in that old maxim FIRST
winners last taken great deal OF sod Gu
ioyment out defeat at the grounds On WEDNESDAY
Sensible people laugh at such nonsense Ihey say 'a'
the Giants beaten because tho nne played poorly
They also that playing of the same kind WIZ
bring more than it Will victories inc seooha
game was victory for the home club In spite OF the In
different work OF the local pisyers The New'fOrk cruz
to win the pennsnt must play decidedly better game hsh
e has done so far The players must make more base
| hits and fewer fielding errors
The praise Of the young players in the New.York nine
| is not sung loudly as some time nso THESE young
whose past deeds Of vaor In minor league uos wero
heralded oil the country have been s"sno"eo up
and some Of them almost sight Of month ago the
friends OF the local club telling stories about Cieve-
land the Denny I'D" He was said to be wonderful
third baseman and baserunner and yet up to yes
terday he had not played In single championship game
Gran. the pItche was said speedest pitcher In
the country and credited with such contro OF the
ball could the sphere around the corner OF
house and land 1t in tin cup OF the usual pint meas
urement Foster magician, and was going 70 make
homo runs twice a day. Slattery the peer OF all
players outside of the NewYok club The work OF these
youngsters tells entirely different tala They may all
DO those things In tme but that time has not arrived
Foster has good work In the field but has probably
basehs than any other regular player on the
nine says that he never batted 80 poorly before
But then he played in such fast company before
either Blsttery ought to be second Herman In ame
but that tme yet Crane has all the requirements
OF good pitcher except good control OF the ball. dc
may get better control Of the ball and discontinue muir
derng catchers, he may DO put on the smell win
George Hatfield IL earnest player with abundance Of
VIM but development The rest are the same old
| Giants they last year.
The story published on Thursday which charged lack
OF discipline the NewYork club and that at Washing
ton some Of the players INDUCED in orgies of
dsgraeeful nature is yehementiy denied by managers
players Said John D. Day, the president OF the club;
There is nothing In the story II there had been any
trouble among the players should certainly have heard
OF IT." Manager Mutre also emphatic in his denial,
ana said all friendly terms and that
| there had been no trouble among them. living, the
captain OF the nine says: That story is about true
as the. old yarn about the Troy clique in the club
The men ali behaved themselves Washington, and none
Of them wanted engage in fstic encounter" The
other players the club fully as sncerc In denying
the story. Said welchi Yes; knocked Conner out.
but it only out OF about S12 In little game OF
draw
Tho ruor Timothy Keefe the pitcher Of the local
nne shortly to be married TO Mrs Clara Helm the
sister Of Dauvrayward also created commotOn in
| baseball circles during the week Keefe denied tho
rumor yesterday, said that there word of
the story Ward, the brothernsw says that the story
was simply hoax started by somebody as Joke Tho
persons seemed 70 think that the joke lacked
1T said that when tho story was first published
Tuesday OF the NewYork players who were then
Washington sar that the story ala not surprise them
much as they had known OF 1T for some time
So much ha. been written about the players Brother
and the salary question that interview which
TRIBUNE reporter had with Ward. president OF the
organization might be of interest Said hc That is
s nonsense, TO claim that the Brotherhood has shown
its hand In the recent demands made BY players for higher
salaries. The Brotherhood had nothing 90 with it.
Why, did not know what salary Keefe demanding
] until the figures published, ana 1 he
equally ignorant about the salary wanted say
the brotherhood players had made combined EFFORT to
bull the salary market is simply preposterous Why,
about players In the League belong
hood while only halfdozen men or 50 held for
| crease In salary"
Tho Brooklyn club seems to have been unusually un
fortunate In releasing its players Many Of those
have since developed wonderful baseball manlprlaors
Orr one tme tried by the club and then let
consequence lie is now one OF the most valuable
| men on the Greenwood was sent sdrift ana Ia
now the highly priced Of
club Smith, the pitcher Of the same nne had trial
by Brooklyn club and was thon released Finally,
the shortop and captain OF the Cincinnati nine formerly
belonged 70 the Brooklyn club. Pitcher cunningham and
Catcher O'Bfien last fall by the Brooklyn
club yet In the Baltimore last week those
Gid defeat their old companions than all
| the rest OF the Baltimore players combined
The march OF civilization ana busy builders into the
suburban districts must close up the
baseball parks The Polo Grounds are being steadily
hened In by brick, and some Of tho Harlem property
already clamorlng for the drawing and quar-
terne OF the Polo erounds One hundred and eleventh..
st. eventually through the grounds and when
Il Is done field will be cut up In building lots Bone
people think that the city should purchase the ground put
high brick wall Il and then lot t out TO the high
est bidder baseball park each season. Many think
that this viii be the last for the gfounds Where
NevYork club VIII play two years hence seems TO be
matter Of concern To great many people. The Brook
Ign club grounds at Washington PARK are similarly threat
ened
HOW DANIEL BOONE DIED.
From The Paris CKyl citizen 1913.
| AS he lived SO lie died, with bis gun in bis hand