Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-19
WORLD OF SPORTS.

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 Under their new management the Wash ingtons have won five successive games.
 The Norwalks will play here tomorrow, game called at o'clock. An interesting game is promised, and the boys should be encouraged by good attendance.
 Captain Anson says that Bufhnton is pitching the best game of any man in the league. Ans thinks he is more valuable man than even John Clarkson, as Buff is . better batsman and fully as good at back ing up.the bases.
 The happiest man in New England last Saturday night was Manager Walter Burn ham of the Worcesters. His team had just beaten the Lowells and takes the lead in the New England league for the first time this season.
 With Connor, Richarson, Whitney and Ward in the infeld, and Tierney, Slattery and Ewing or O'Rourke in the outfeld, the New York Star says there is no reason why the Giants should not winss sssix out of next eight games, at Boston and Phila- delphia.
 Henry Scranton of Seymour, says he will run any man from Waterbury to Bridgeport, 24 hours go-as-you- please race. A Birmingham man has posted Q forfeit of $25 to back "Old Sport" against him for $1OO, the race to be run within three weeks.
 "Old Sport' has issued challenge to the effect that he will give any man in Fairfield county ten miles start in forty eight hour walking match. Sport won the Danbury match and fig happy and rich. He covered 236 miles in seventy-two hours, and received $150 as his share of the poodle. The new railroad will be ready for busi- ness by July 4, and the Meriden Journal says: ''Now then, all aboard for the ball game at Waterbury the morning of July with the Resolutes. What a throng of Mer- idonites will enjoy the excursion to the Brass City, and how the Waterbury people will evacuate their city for the return game in the afternoon.
 There are but fourteen players i'll the league who have batting average of over 300, viz: Brouthers, 372; Kelly, 300; Con- nor, 365; McGuire, $50; Anson, 342; Mil Ter, 323; Herman, 322, Ryan, 322; Buckley, 322; Johnson, SIS; Wise, SIS; White, BIO; Ewing, 307; Thompson, 3O1. Connor has made nine home runs, leading the league in this respect. He also leads in total hits, having an average of 615.
 According to the New York Herald, De- troit leads the league ill both batting and fielding, with New York second in batting and Boston second ill fielding. Chicago, although ahead in the race for the pennant, is third in batting and fielding. In the Amerigan association, Louisville, the last in thdface for the penant, is first in bat ting; Brooklyn second and athletic third. l Herman, right field for New York, is the king hitter; White of Detroit second, Kel- ley of Boston third. The record of the pitchers places Krock of Chicago first; Burlington, Philadelphia, second; Welch, New York and Baldwin, Chicago, for the third place; Keefe, New York, fourth; | Gruber (formerly of Hartford, but now of Detroit), fifth
 Says dispatch from Pittsburg: Ar thur Whitney has many friends ill this city, and the majority of them regret ! his release from the club. Opinions are considerably divided as to whether or not the Pittsburg team has got the best of the deal. Experts here are of the opinion that there is very wide difference between Cleveland and Whitney, and it remains to be seen which of the two men does the better work under their new surroundings. Probably there is not more perfect gen. tleman in the base ball profession than Arthur Whitney. If New York has not secured a nrst-c1ass ball player It has signed an honest and geptlemanly little man. He is sensitive to the demonstrations of crowd, and noisy jeers can unnerve him considerably. As batter he hits the ball frequently. He is good one-base | hitter