The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-30

10 be quite success despite the cfOak
Ing of tho croakers Fully 1900 peopl,
Witnessed the play. and nearly one-hali OF
them were ladies' The game was played
Al tho main building Of the State FAN
Grounds The diamond was about
twenty feet smaller than the regulation
size. the ball was less lively than the
league sphere, the players were allowed
To overrun the bases, and only one
fielder was used on a side Beyond these
changes the game was very much Ike
the ordinary The teams were the Down
Towns and the Up-TOwns, the Down.
Towns presenting the strongest aggrega-
ton Of talent. Smith and Clement, the bat
terv for the DOwn-TOwns, was eXtraOrdi-
narily strong, and was applauded gencr-
ously. Smith struck ont ten men. ony-
der was behind the bat for the Up
Towns. and did poor work, seriously
hampering Mat Kilroy, the Baltimore
pitcher. who was in the box. Neverthe-
less he struck out eleven men, and up to
the nth inning only two of his oppO-
tents had made safe hits. In the fourth
inning Burns, Of the Down-TOwns, was
on second and Fields, who was at the
bat. drove a terrific liner az kilrOY, who
gathered il in and doubling up on Burns,
who had started for third, sent him back
TO the bench amid the applause Of all the
enthusiasts who were there TO see the
first game OF baseball ever played in
doors. Very few Of the balls went to the
rafters, most of the hits being liners and
grOunders. The score was o to l in favor
of the Down-Towners. The games will
very likely be continued during the
winter, and there is a prospect that after
this the cranks will have a chance 70
crafty their passion for the fascinating
game all the year around
Presidents Krauthoh, Of the Columbus
club, and Stern, OF the Cncinnatis, are
in the city, and they, with President
ByTne, of the Brooklyns, compose the
Of the American Association
10 draft plan similar to that adopted by
the league for the grading of the sala-
ries Of the players. Their meeting has
been private, and the result of their de-
liberatons will be kept secret until the
spring meeting Of the association. IL is
said that this committee has found a
number Of flaws in the league plan, and
that they viii do away with the OBJ
iectional parts Of the league idea. They
will be as fair 10 the men as they posi-
bly can, they say, and this is more than
the league people have tried 10 be- Presi-
dent Day and Manager Mutrie are salts
fed with the league classification, and
think that the associations committee
cannot improve on their ideas. Next
spring will show whether they can OF
not. President Day, it is said, has
offered $4,000 for league grounds up
Town, TO take the place Of the Polo
grounds, but was unsuccessful, and IL il
not known where the next years games
will be played.
OTHER SPORTING NEWS.
The news from Cincinnati that Albert
Brandle had defeated Captain BOgardus
Al pigeon shooting was not surprise 90
many Of the people who have seen both
he Captain and Brandle shoot The
record made by the victor was a wonder
'ul one, he killing 100 birds straight TO Boz
gardus' %. The match was az 100 live birds,
80 yards rise, 80 yards boundary, Hurting
nam rules, from five grOund-traps. Bran
lie has a national reputation for shoot
ne at inanimate targets, but within the
past six weeks he has, i'm four trials at
i've birds made scores of SO, 81, 81, and
100. He is only 26 years old, and stands
/ good chance of becoming the worlds
champion
There is terror among the booksellers
u New York superintendent Murray
has begun to make arrangements for
losing an the pOOl-shOps in the city up,
md has called upon the District Attorney
o assist him. Some time ago a firm of
awycIs got up a ticket which the pool
ellers could dispose Of without fear of
rrest; or, if they were arrested, they
Ould not he held in court for violating
be law The ticket was an agreement
made by the booksellers to buy the tick
rs on the horses picked out by the buyer
N the race-tracks only. Hundreds of I
thousands Of dollars are spent every
ear i'm this city on pOOl-tickets, and If
he business is broken up there viii be /
more good game-sports in hard luck ihan
ou viii find in a days walk, as one Of |
he prominent sellers said 10 me the /
tier day, when | asked him what the 7
hances were, IF the Superintendent T
cts the bulge on us people you can pre- /.
are to see US paint our feet black and 4
axe to wearing uppers for this winter /
A party of Long Island farmers came /
yer 10 New York on Christmas day, /
nd, after pittlng their fowl against the .
rack birds Of this city, walked oil with .
3 600 of our good money in their jeans.
here were only seven battles fought .
nd the Hayseeds won six of them. Each
attic was $25, and there was 500 on
he main. The betting was lively, and
II the New York sports who went home
fter the battle had the corners Of their
louths hanging around the soles OF their
hoes. They had plain, every day, ten
ent hash for their Christmas dinner
hose of them who could rifle the ten
ents. 1t was a great Waterloo.
ANOTHER RICHMOND IL THE FIELD.
New YORK, December 29.-There is
mother candidate for either Sullivan
nd Kilrain. He Is Pete Jackson, the
who met and defeated Joe
IcAuliffe, the champion of the Pacific
.ope, last night before the members of
he California Athletic Club in San
rancisco. The result Of this fight Is a
reat surprise to everybody except the
sw who put their money on the Aus.
-alian at odds Of $50 and 800 to 800
rom the meagre reports Of the fight
Inch have reached New York at this
our, 3 A. NJ, il seems that il was a rat
ing affair all the way through, and that
he Australian whipped his man in the
round ! am unable To
i've any particulars, other than the re-
ilt, which is enough to show that the
1lored man has proved himself to be
nc of the cleverest men in the ring to-
ay, and that he will give either Sullivan
r Kilrain a much harder fight than any
Their Of the heavy weights lie has sent
good man TO grass, and naturally his
ock is away above par to-day Now
he California Club f. i'll do their level
est to have the new champion meet
Their Of the big ones, as il was their in
ntion TO have the winner Of last nights
attic meet one of the two for $4,000.
There is plan on foot to have
RIG BILLIARD MATCH